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

Different rules. Basically this is a much faster, combo based thing.

I'll let IGN's preview do the explaining, since it describes it a bit better than I'd be able to.

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The major difference between Uno Rush and regular Uno is that rather than simply playing one card at a time, you can play multiple cards in a row on your turn. When your turn starts, the top of your deck will simply start discarding -- if it is the right color or number -- and any other combos after it will automatically follow. If you can string together the right order (and have a really good hand), you can burn through all of your cards before anyone else can act. Since the order your cards are in determines how many cards you may or may not be able to play, the game only gives you a moment to act once your turn begins. That means that you'll have to keep shuffling cards around while other players are acting to keep up with what color is currently active. This in itself changes the base structure of the game and completely speeds things up, but it's not the only new mechanic.

To add some strategy to the game, Uno Rush allows you to see everyone else's cards at all times. This way, you can decide whether or not to combo on that last card or not. Playing four cards might be better than five if the last one will leave the next player open to winning the game. Add in special cards that shuffle an opponent's deck, add cards, or the ever popular draw-four wild and you've got a game that can turn on the current leader in a split second.

The flow of the game is much faster and frantic in Uno Rush than in classic Uno, especially once you start looking around at everyone else's hands with one eye towards challenging Uno calls. It took me a few rounds to catch up with the fast play, but once I did I found Uno Rush to be a great little variant on the classic card game.

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How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

(especially given how painfully long it took them to get their shit together with the online fix).

Which still doesn't work right, I might add.

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

Originally Posted by Tritoch

Flock is only $10 on Amazon today.

You know what else is 10 dollars, you dirty sack of dog shit?


How ya doing, buddy?

So, alongside Banjo?

Well, damn.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Detection

Yes! Finally something I can play on Live where I won't have to wait an hour to find an opponent. Hopefully.

Maybe.

Hopefully, I dunno.

Netcode seems spotty. Could be the people I was (attempting to) play against, could be the game. Unfortunately I was having a significant amount of trouble connecting to other players, so I only can speak of the one match. It went kinda iffy, and the other 8 I tried to join got connection refused.

Hopefully this will improve and it was just a bunch of bad luck. We'll see tomorrow, when I'll give it another shot.

FELIPE NO

The actual interface for joining games online is a ridiculous mess, though. Pick character first? Then this communal lobby thing? What the fuck were they thinking? It's a bit of a disaster.

I'm glad you found some matches that weren't laggy. I've played about ten online and even playing against people on this continent, I found it to be a bit of a crapshoot.

What is your gamertag? I'm absolutely horrific and out of practice, but perhaps playing a game against someone from 'round here will improve my experience with the online, as of right now it's pretty much the definition of

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

Yup.

The whole reason they got it was for an accessory that was only sold in Japan. What the fuck were people thinking releasing it over here without that. No wonder it's so fucking garbage, eh Tritoch? Jesus shit.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Blue Falcon

...Space Invaders Extreme for the Arcade.

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I'm just hoping [Jeff Minter] doesn't make the thing a visual mess.

I'm never hoping anything again.

Fuck this man with an axe.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well, shit.

Figured I'd post this since it's all over CAG/etc.

On the new eBay classifieds thing, there's a guy selling prepaid points codes.

Link is here: Microsoft Xbox 360 Live 4000 Points Zune Card - Fast - - eBay (item 370219198406 end time Jul-22-09 14:18:04 PDT)

Looks and sounds fishy, and I wouldn't blame you for thinking that, but a bunch of people on both those sites jumped on it since the cost was 40 percent off the price you'd pay normally. After everyone confirmed working reciept of codes I also decided to jump in.

Code worked fine. 4000 spacebucks for 30 dollars.

He's got only USA codes, but luckily I have a silver USA account so I just dropped it on that. I am saving the points for Turtles and BF1943.

Regardless, it's probably the best rate on points you'll get any time soon, and it's legit, so I just figured I'd point it out.

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Oh, BZ, check your spam folder for the code, that's where mine ended up.

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

I've heard some nasty, nasty things about Garou's netcode, if anyone's bit, care to offer up your experiences?

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A week after BF1943? Damn. Haven't had major releases back to back like that in a while.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Trust us.

The size of your giant ninja testicles will be unholy huge by the end of it all.

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So, 1943 is completely unplayable at the moment. I'm not even exaggerating. 10 person games have 3000+ pings. It's ridiculous.

I'm going to chalk it up to early hammering and not being properly set up (game went up late on the marketplace proper), but as of this very second I would not drop the cash.

I'll let you know my experiences throughout the next 24 hours. As it stands it's a bit of a trainwreck. (Not entirely surprising all things considered but still)

Oh, by the way. The demo gives you 30 minutes of playitme and that's it. Resetting/deleting/redownloading the game doesn't reset the timer. You play for 30 minutes and that's that. I'm unsure about squad match functionality during that, though. Apparently you can still try the tutorial after the timer's done. No idea if doing tutorial first eats into that timer or not though.

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

It's not a review.

It's an issue. And it's a shame too, because from what DOES work (about 5 minutes of one match I was in) shit was fun and worked well. Granted, that was a portion of one match, of the six I played, but anyway.

I wouldn't write it off yet, but as of right this second I wouldn't even bother trialing it simply because you'll eat up your 30 minutes and not get off the fucking beach thanks to lag.

Bad Company's demo was sort of like this at first. Completely fucked up, but as time went on EA's side of the equation improved and it smoothed out.

But this needs fixing RIGHT FUCKING NOW because it is gutter trash in it's current form. Not fucking acceptable at all. I'll give them a day or two to make some last minute corrections before I write them off entirely.

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Ok, so.

Let's see.

Situation seems to have changed a bit. Now it's less lag and more not getting into games period.

But when you do, it's far smoother. It took me 30 minutes to find a game to play earlier this afternoon, but after I got into the server, I stayed for a number of games, and they were pretty damn good.

They're apparently adding more servers as they go today, so maybe it won't be so bad after all.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Might also be the marketplace via xbox.com only, that's the only screengrab I've seen of that price point.

Regardless, it's fine when/if you can get in, but it can take you upwards of half an hour to find a match to get into in the first place, and last night it was 3 second+ lag, dunno if that issue is still there.

But when it works it's quite entertaining.

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I'll join you after dinner. I want to try a squad match.

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Completely unrelated to BF1943 but TMNT: Turtles In Time Re-Shelled appears to have a release date of July 22nd. Make that THREE weeks of awesome in a row.

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

Could be. I realize the source I used there was implying it via another source so it might be incorrect.

At this point I'm willing to retract that until I'm doubly sure.

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

Yeah, the site I was reading was incorrect. Turtles is not after Monkey Island. It's now in August, apparently. Oh well. I also learned that the price point is 1200, which totally turns me off. Would have been a no brainer at 800 but fuck that price point.

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Secondly, +2 refunds. Omagnus and I got a refund for the shoddy performance 1943 has shown. They've had a number of days to improve it, and after the freezing bugs from yesterday (I had three or four, he's had 5), and the fact that I can no longer connect today even though shit's "fixed" according to the news ticker, I just about had it.

I recommend anyone else who dove in do the same. The operator won't even question it. I was in and out in 8 minutes on the phone.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Tritoch, in Omagnus's journal

Comment by: Tritoch on Jul 9, 2009 - 07:46 PM
For once, Skills will be completely entitled to his refund.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Colonel Skills

Turtles is not after Monkey Island. It's now in August, apparently. Oh well. I also learned that the price point is 1200, which totally turns me off. Would have been a no brainer at 800 but fuck that price point.

And...not any more!

IGN: TMNT: Turtles in Time Re-Priced

800 points now because everyone and their dog asked what the fuck the deal was with the 1200 point price on TMNT.

Chalk one up for collective, community wide bitching.

FELIPE NO

GET A JOB

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

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Is there a decent source on that achievement list? That's not just The Rare Witch Project? I have been unable to confirm this, and it's somewhat fishy looking considering the fact that there's more than 12 achievements there.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Xbox360Achievements.org - Perfect Dark Achievement List

Xbox360Achievements.org - After Burner Climax Achievement List

Achievement lists for the only two arcade games that matter for the next fifty years.

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