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

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?

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

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Hell yes Garou coming Wednesday. Gonna be awesome.

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

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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.

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

It seems like it would be a fun co-op or versus game. Tritoch's going to buy it on my 360 so we can both get the game with a single purchase.

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Worms 2: Armageddon is coming out next week for 800 points. This should be a no brainer for everyone.

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I was speaking idiomatically.

Why is it every time I see these kinda games, I miss my 1989 Packard Bell computer and Tank Wars 2.5? Seriously... why is this?

Anyway, it's something to consider, but I dunno... Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 comes out next week as well, if I recall. That's gonna suck up some points as it is.

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Does anyone have Garou yet? I would have insta-bought it since now we can play it online without having to rely on something like kaillera, but I'll hold off if no GFFers plan to get it. It definitely wouldn't be as fun for me if I kept encountering BURN KNUCKLERS punching my girls in the face all day long.

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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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Originally Posted by Colonel Skills

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

I haven't played any ranked matches yet but I played for about three hours against a friend and it was great. Even with 100+ latency it felt pretty nice, unlike Kaillera. It did disconnect for no reason during one match but it was just that once. That was pretty much the only bad thing that happened during my playtime but as I said I haven't played any ranked matches yet.

Now about that dpad on the 360's controller..

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Originally Posted by Detection

I haven't played any ranked matches yet but I played for about three hours against a friend and it was great. Even with 100+ latency it felt pretty nice, unlike Kaillera. It did disconnect for no reason during one match but it was just that once. That was pretty much the only bad thing that happened during my playtime but as I said I haven't played any ranked matches yet.

Now about that dpad on the 360's controller..

If the 360 controller is your only option, I strongly advise using the analog stick instead of the terribly unreliable pad. I've played many great people online who use the analog stick and have execution just as good as a arcade stick player. Just gotta get used to it.

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All this playing is making me get used to the dpad, now I can pull off moves at the same rate as with the analog stick. It's still costing me a few matches but it'll have to do until I get a real controller.

So I asked my friend to do some ranked matches with me to get those achievements over with and holy shit, it was absolutely terrible. The latency had to be worse than what was getting calculated and the game even skipped frames occasionally. After two ranked matches I asked him to do Player Match again and everything went back to normal, no latency problems or frame skips. I don't know what the problem is but Ranked Matches are fucking unplayable.

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According to Xbox360Achievements, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 got pushed back to the end of July, courtesy of Capcom.

Xbox360Achievements.org - Marvel vs Capcom 2 Now Shooting For End of July Release

There's really nothing else in it, except speculation that we'll now see Battlefield 1943 before we see this... well, that and probably a few people who are pissed off when it's not that big a deal to wait a while longer.

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Garou's netcode is 100 different kinds of fucked. I tried searching for matches numerous times, to no avail.

As for the D-pad use, it's at best clunky and frustrating. If you have a stick, by all means, use it. It will take you copious amounts of time to pull off some of the moves in there, such as Tizoc's LP/SP special.

My only grievance right now is putting Jenet's Ennui Madamoiselle to work, seeing as it's quite tricky to pull a Just Defend on a D-pad.

I was speaking idiomatically.

On the plus side, Worms 2: Armageddon seems to play just fine. I tried one match online and although I couldn't find anyone in a search, someone joined my fort game pretty fast and there weren't any lag issues.

Strangely enough, you can also cheat on some of the achievements and get them on the firing range training stages. Killing 6 worms at once, using a Holy Hand Grenade, and using Armageddons 10 times all work there. You could likely grind the 170 water kills and 200 fire weapons the same way if you get desperate enough.

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Sometimes I wonder why I spend points carelessly. Seriously. First, I thought Cellfactor PW would be fun to play, but it turned out to be simply Shadowrun with Unreal Tournament configurations and whatnot. Now, that doesn't mean I hate UT. God, I still love it. However, this, just doesn't cut it.

And then there's King of Fighters 98. Now, I play CvS2 sometimes, which features the KoF/FF cast, including the trio of Terry, Yuri, and either Kim or Ryo (varies on how I'm feeling), but I go back to games like KoF, and it's just ridiculous how much I suck at em. That's another 10 bucks worth I coulda saved up for other games.

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Tritock destroyed my poor Wiseguy Worms tonight, several times over. It's a ton of fun to play though, more of you oughtta pick it up so we can get larger matches. Joining public games with friends is, at the moment, not really a possibility.

So we need private ones. Which means we need more GFFers on.

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I remember being a little disappointed with the first XBLA Worms. I mean, it was fine, but lacked a lot of the classic Worms stuff that I really enjoyed from some of the later titles on the PC. I've not checked out any reviews of this new Worms 2 on XBLA, but how does it stack up?

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Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

I remember being a little disappointed with the first XBLA Worms. I mean, it was fine, but lacked a lot of the classic Worms stuff that I really enjoyed from some of the later titles on the PC. I've not checked out any reviews of this new Worms 2 on XBLA, but how does it stack up?

This one is what the first XBLA Worms should have been. All the missing weapons (Holy Hand Grenade has a new sound effect), a mission-based single player game, lots more worm voices, Forts, etc. It's pretty much a souped up Worms Armageddon, which is a good thing.

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Sounds like it could be good, how much is it?

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

It's only 800 points, so there's no complaining about the price either.

I still haven't figured out if it's got a way to create custom landscapes, but you can do custom rule sets for matches. I'm just happy to have fort matches, even if they're the lame built-in forts.

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Originally Posted by Tritoch

It's only 800 points, so there's no complaining about the price either.

You've met Skills right?

I was speaking idiomatically.

I know, he'll still ask for a refund after deeming it an affront to all that is Worms.

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