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

Originally Posted by SimDaddyGT

Damnit, Capcom, WHERE'S MY SSF2T??? Psikyo, WHERE'S MY STRIKERS 1945 SERIES???

Holy shit yes! I can't wait to play shmups with that dpad.

Anyway, that does sound like an awesome thing. Needs more Ikaruga, however. I never did spend a lot of time in that game (10-15 hours?) and I didn't 1cc it. I hope the achievements are something good, and not "absorb x amount of bullets" or "defeat x boss within x time".

In other news, Bomberman LIVE is the best game available on XBLA. Any questions? Apart from abuse of dangerous bomb + full fire, I find nothing wrong with it. At all. Hell I don't give a shit if someone has remote control bombs, at least it won't dominate 75% of the map in one blow.

But fucking awesome game. I mean, they even included color mode (oh, I'm sorry, I mean "zombie" mode) where you have to take over as many floor panels as possible. Excellent shit.

Speaking of Bomberman, this game seems to attract a decent amount of girl gamers. They aren't very good though.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Parn

Since you mentioned Ikaruga, I wonder what the chances are of Radiant Silvergun also showing up.

I hope not, I don't want my copies of Ikaruga (sealed, DC) and Silvergun to decrease in value. Then again the release of Ikaruga on XBLA isn't showing that the value of Ikaruga for DC will decrease.

Quote:

What's fun is a combination of the two. If one person has a dangerous bomb, you can always take them (and yourself) out by laying a remote bomb next to it and instantly detonating. Then you just have to hope you can come back in via Super Revenge Cart and win the match.

Yeah, that's great, but it won't work if there aren't remote carts available or if it's 1v1. Might be a good idea for a draw, but that isn't what you really want. I prefer sniping and lane trickery. Also, seeing someone with full fire and dangerous bomb but no speed is hilarious.

I played a game last night where there were 3 full fires and 3 dangerous bombs. People were constantly dying. It was just too much. I can't host matches myself (some firewall issue, don't know how to fix) but I definitely wouldn't want more than one per map.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by 2401 Penitent Tangent

Haha, what? "I don't want other people to have a chance to enjoy these games because I want my copies to retain a high dollar value, even though I'll never sell them."

I think you collect for the wrong reasons, boy.

I'll sell them, eventually. I just don't like people discrediting original copies because "oh well, you can download it". So... SNES games on the VC will probably mean a decline in original cartridge value (Chrono, EB, Terranig, etc) because they're cheaper to buy virtually.

I have a major issue with originality however. I imported Chrono Trigger and an American SNES to play it, and refused roms. It was one of the most enjoyable experiences ever.

Quote:

And nothing's been said or heard about in regards to Ikaruga for ages now. It's almost safe to say that it's a rumour that hasn't panned out. I wouldn't totally discount it, but it's appearance would be a considerable surprise.

"Ages" != 6 months. SotN was announced for the 360 and the wait was longer. I wouldn't consider it a rumour at all, because it appeared on a debug 360 console. That's showing an indication that it's in beta (lol, matches the 360 perfectly) but isn't complete.

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

That isn't what I said at all.

Although, if everything becomes downloadable content, people will have less physical gaming material in the future, which isn't right. Less and less people will become interested in games, and more interested in what's "available to purchase via Microsoft Points/Virtual Console points" and what "virtual items" they can buy next.

I'm not even going to bother bringing piracy into the picture, because that's already chewing through the meaning of having an original copy of something day by day.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Radiant Silvergun can be emulated now. No slowdowns on gameplay or videos etc, depending on the computer being used and stuff. I don't really like the game all that much though so whatever. I just love seeing it being sold on Play-Asia for $220 used or $500 sealed. And $150-29356236 on ebay. I can get one from Japan ranging from 8000-15000 yen, and even that's overpriced.

There was a patch to fix the lv2 bug of Ikaruga in the Chankast emulator, but since I already own both JP DC Ikaruga and GC Ikaruga, I don't care. I'd imagine it to still be hell to play on. (It's not like Ikaruga needs to get harder, especially against the Stone-Like).

I was speaking idiomatically.

So. Moving on.

This game won an XNA programming contest put on by Microsoft, which means it's probably going to make it's way to XBLA. I'm not too thrilled about mass blood, but it shows what they can do with 2D on the current consoles. It also looks like it could be fun.

YouTube Video

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Awesome, I'll definitely be getting both of those.

How ya doing, buddy?

What is this cockfest.

So anyway Bomberman is filled with bugs:

- If you pick up a dangerous bomb just before it's about to explode (I mean JUST before), your character's frame will freeze, and you won't be able to move, and it'll blow you up.

- Sometimes an error will occur where people are invincible, and people will still be in the game even though other people are sitting at the results screen.

- You can throw bombs over falling blocks which appear in a clockwise position, making the bombs bounce across the screen indefinitely.

- Remote detonator bombs can't be detonated if they've been kicked (why the hell)

- If you throw a bomb quickly, against a bomb you've just planted, in revenge cart mode, they'll both explode.

- On the map with all the power ups in the middle, sometimes you can get "stuck" and can't move, although you aren't trapped between bombs at all. You're just stuck.

- You can indefinitely trap people with Line Bomb providing you have enough bombs. Just trap them, kill them, line bomb again, wait until they've stopped flashing, repeat.

- Punching bombs requires you to touch the bomb first. Simply bomb punching on the tile next to it won't work.

I'm sure there's more bugs but these are the only real ones I've come across frequently. Especially the one where half of the people in the room are/aren't in the game, which fucks everything up.

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