[360] Official XBLA thread. Complain about the new price points but buy the garbage anyway!

Turn-based tactical strategy game? SHIT I hope they don't fuck this up, I love that style of game.

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How do you guys up there actually ENJOY Space Giraffe? I'm not saying the game is bad, but... it's just so weird. Like, incredibly weird. Incomprehensibly weird. I mean, even Katamari was accessible, but something about Space Giraffe makes me feel like there's this colossal joke that I'm not getting.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Holy SHIT. This is one of the best weeks ever. Between Puzzle Fighter and the SURPRISE RELEASE of Streets of Rage 2, my wallet is going to be raped this week.

I like SURPRISE RELEASES, Microsoft, do more of them.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Dig Dug would be good for 200 points, but Zuma has about 80 billion free flash versions.

Small Arms was a disappointment. Like Smash Brothers except impossible to follow and you spent way too much time getting ammo.

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Well, if you want Zuma achievements, they're not easy. Most of them are for going through the "story mode", but those levels get really hard really fucking fast.

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Originally Posted by Dennis Franz

Without online vs mode it'd be a pretty pointless release, surely? I don't think the lure of achievement points would be enough to make up for having to pay for it again and the slightly dubious d-pad on the 360 controller.

I can see there being a lot of people who have a 360 who didn't have a Dreamcast for a number of reasons, and having a way to legitimately play the game would be a good sell for people who, say, grew up playing SCIII.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Shin

Why they don't just sort their lives out and release Powerstone 2 and Chu-chu Rocket I will never know. If I had those on XBLA I might never buy another game again (Therefore possibly answering my own question).

These are both games that clearly need to be released last year.

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Actually, the best part about RROD is that you go to service.xbox.com now. No Indian call center required!

In fact, if you use the call center like I did not knowing about that site, they tell you to go there instead.

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Originally Posted by RYU

lol hax

Who's to say they won't ban you from the service outright forever on the 19th? Do you REALLY need to be using it 2 weeks early?

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Unfortunately Skills, when you cry wolf enough times, eventually everyone stops listening and just assumes you have your thumb up your ass.

Which isn't exactly a bad assumption when dealing with you in just about any situation.

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So a port of an old game is worth 1200 MSP, but not a new game just because it's short?

Did you buy Death Tank, Tritoch?

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Originally Posted by Tritoch

Don't worry. I already know that I can't buy anything else on XBLA unless I get Outrun with it, or I'll never hear the end of it.

*psst* If you ignore Skills' rampant prostitution of video games you avoid buying 5 games a year purely on recommendation of a psycho Canadian

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This Wednesday's a threefer, including two that I've been waiting for for a while now. Space Invaders Extreme and Arkanoid Live? Curse being next to broke and having finals this week!

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XBLA is up for another threefer this week, with Zombie Wranglers (no, really), Arkanoid Live and Space Invaders Extreme all hitting the service. Arkanoid Live and Space Invaders Extreme are both remakes of arcade classics, while Zombie Wranglers is a co-op game that tasks players with -- you guessed it -- wrangling zombies. All three games will be available this Wednesday for 800 ($10) each.

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I was speaking idiomatically.

For those who didn't catch this before, Garou: Mark of the Wolves has been confirmed for XBLA Wednesday. At 800 points I'd consider getting it if I knew a bunch of friends were going to be playing it, but the odds of that aren't too good, I imagine.

The link also mentions Droplitz, which is a puzzle game for 800 points that looks... sort of like Pipe Mania? Kind of?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by nuttyturnip

Neither of those appeal to me, but I plan on getting Rocket Riot in the next few days. The demo for that was awesome.

The full game doesn't do much that's terribly different from the demo (which is a LONG demo, I might add), but the challenge level amps up at a nice pace, I've been having a lot of fun with it.

Also the "break 1 million blocks" achievement is going to take a lot longer than I imagined. I'm about 40 or so levels in (halfway there!) and only have 200,000 blocks broken.

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fucking buy N+

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THIS SHIT AIN'T HARD

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Just make sure you can count to 3.

Took us a while just to be able to count to 1 successfully last time we played.

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Prod is hilariously understated, I love it. You first look at it and go "Jesus, why would you EVER need a poke move?" And then all it takes is seeing a guy so... close... to... the... edge...

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