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

Skills rags on us for complaining about high price points, so he can't have it both ways. Living in a country that's still technically under the heels of a monarchy makes him a bit snarky sometimes.

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I picked it up yesterday as well, and I'm glad to see them getting back to the roots. I just couldn't do the 3D Worms games.

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Originally Posted by Tritoch

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.

Really? I made two public games and when people joined I couldn't even see what my opponents were doing, just the aftermath, and one of the matches didn't even finish, it got stuck on the "Waiting for other players..." message. I'm gonna try some more today before I judge since playing against my friend turned out fine. Loving the game, though. Do I have to unlock the vertical maps? I remember it being one of the new features.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I've played two ranked matches (one fort, one standard) and 4-5 games with Frank, and I haven't had any issues at all. It's a bit of a pain that you can't really invite friends to public games right now since games fill up within seconds of being created, but a lot of people playing is a good thing.

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So this week, N+ is half-off. Pick it up if you haven't done so already.

How ya doing, buddy?

EVERYONE fucking buy N+ or I will fuck you up.

There is no better MP arcade game out there.

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fucking buy N+

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THIS SHIT AIN'T HARD

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Terminus

So this week, N+ is half-off. Pick it up if you haven't done so already.

So just for the record, how much is it?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

That would make it 400 points, I believe. It's really tempting after playing the multiplayer at Mo0's place, so I may pick it up this week.

Also, apparently LucasArts has announced that Secret of Monkey Island will be released next week (7/15). Here's hoping it isn't $20.

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

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Well that works out nicely, I have 400 LOL POINTS left. Thx

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Trust us.

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

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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.

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

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.

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I was going to ask if people were going to be picking up 1943, but after that glowing review probably not many people. I'll probably grab the trial at least.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

So I've never really played a Battlefield game before, but this seemed pretty neat and everything, and I knew probably at least some of you fuckers were going to pick it up. So I download the demo this morning before I leave work, and look forward to coming home to check it out.

So now I get home, and it seems like for some people it's fine once they can get into a game, but for a ton of people they can't get into games, and it's super laggy. And now apparently people are saying (and I've seen screenshots) that they upped the price to 90,000 MS points to stop people from buying it?

Weird, I checked Marketplace online for me, and it shows 1200, but I'm seeing a lot of people (that I know) that show 90,000, I guess if you've already downloaded the demo you can still "get in"?

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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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People seem to be having problems getting into matches period, but people that are able to get in seem to be having zero problems with lag or anything now. Since apparently no one is around for L4D right now (which is bizarre for us for a Wednesday night) I'm about to go check it out.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Isn't that the same day as Marvel vs Capcom 2? Brilliant timing

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.

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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.

It probably helps that they know you by name now though Skills.

"Thank you for calling Microsoft. For technical support, press 1, for sales enquiries, please press 2, if this is Skills asking for a refund, please press 3".

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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.

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