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Official Xbox Live Arcade Thread
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I love the name Sega Vintage Collection.
That is pure awesomeness!
That is pure awesomeness!
Bearillusion
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I've completed it on single player and the framerate was fine. Worth the purchase for me.
Captain Glanton
Banned
I played some single player Double Dragon tonight. It has a little slowdown, not excuseable given the platform but makes it a little authentic.
My main impression was being forceably reminded of how cheap gameplay design used to be. As you get tossed to and fro by the black giant dude [Adobo?] you can just feel the game reaching for more of your quarters.
At 400 points not awful but not a bargain by any means--or a well-made game. Much better deal for those of us who actually remember searching out arcades for the original, when it was new.
My main impression was being forceably reminded of how cheap gameplay design used to be. As you get tossed to and fro by the black giant dude [Adobo?] you can just feel the game reaching for more of your quarters.
At 400 points not awful but not a bargain by any means--or a well-made game. Much better deal for those of us who actually remember searching out arcades for the original, when it was new.
Coin Return
Loose Slot
Having completed TMNT Arcade and Double Dragon, its become obvious to me that these 80s beat-em ups were optimized for maximum quarter intake from kids. The deaths are so cheap.
SHOTEH FOCK OP said:
Another update on the Sega Screen Shots, this time according to Kotaku they were able contact Sega and they have stated that those shots have not come from them and thus the myth has been busted.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/phony/rumor-smash-sega-vintage-screens-259189.php
And even MORE contradiction is contained in the comments section.
xblarcade said:I'm not really sure that the comment Sega made is meant to deny that the game exists, but rather that its not official because it didn't come from them.
Could be wrong though, wouldn't be the first time
Different sites are saying different things, IGN XBOX 360 said that the orginal site the official site of Sega Netherlands, Kotaku here is stating that the screenshots are not thiers and Mr. Comments guy is saying the Sonic game is on the Partnernet, looks somewhat different, but that god awful typo is there.
Space Runaway
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Lyte Edge said:
Not to the extent you get from co-op in the XBLA version. Didn't bother me too much though.
Double Dragon 2 arcade was the king of slowdown though. You had to throw the weapons offscreen to stop the game from being a slideshow.
Bearillusion
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Coin Return said:
I easily made it to the last level without continuing on my first go.
PepsimanVsJoe
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They were right about the elbow in Double Dragon. Damn that move is a beast.
And yeah the game is pretty much crap. There's slowdown all over the place, it's cheap and busted as all hell(gotta elbow through everything ugh), and well it's a beatemup from the 80s. I think the only truly great beatemup of the 80s was Konami's Vendetta, which could be considered a sequel to Crime Fighters. Basically it features better graphics, more moves, more fun, and bunches of other good things. Then again that probably came out in the early 90s so there went that..meh.
It would be nice if there was a River City Ransom game for XBLA. Kick the player count up to four, make it take much longer to max out your character, pretty much include all of the options from the newer GBA game(character customization, more moves, better framerate). Yeah I'd be all over that.
I think the situation for good beatemups on XBLA is pretty depressing. Capcom is too tied up in licensing issues to release their best games(C&D, AvP, ToD/SoM) and the other ones are too obscure to even consider. Sega is too incompetent(Revenge of Death Adder would be excellent, same with SoR 2 or 3jp, hell just making SpikeOut Xtreme BC with better netcode would be nice...but we'll get none of that, probably get Golden Axe 1 and SoR 1 ugh ugh ugh). Konami's games are too simplistic and most will only see a release if there's a good movie tie-in(Hey guys when is Xmen 4 the movie due?). SNK has a handful of nice beatemups but their XBLA support will probably be limited to older titles and chances are they'll all be fighters anyway. There's a ton of great beatemups by no-name developers but good luck ever seeing those and well so on and so forth.
Other than that..dunno. I guess Castle Crashers should be good.
And yeah the game is pretty much crap. There's slowdown all over the place, it's cheap and busted as all hell(gotta elbow through everything ugh), and well it's a beatemup from the 80s. I think the only truly great beatemup of the 80s was Konami's Vendetta, which could be considered a sequel to Crime Fighters. Basically it features better graphics, more moves, more fun, and bunches of other good things. Then again that probably came out in the early 90s so there went that..meh.
It would be nice if there was a River City Ransom game for XBLA. Kick the player count up to four, make it take much longer to max out your character, pretty much include all of the options from the newer GBA game(character customization, more moves, better framerate). Yeah I'd be all over that.
I think the situation for good beatemups on XBLA is pretty depressing. Capcom is too tied up in licensing issues to release their best games(C&D, AvP, ToD/SoM) and the other ones are too obscure to even consider. Sega is too incompetent(Revenge of Death Adder would be excellent, same with SoR 2 or 3jp, hell just making SpikeOut Xtreme BC with better netcode would be nice...but we'll get none of that, probably get Golden Axe 1 and SoR 1 ugh ugh ugh). Konami's games are too simplistic and most will only see a release if there's a good movie tie-in(Hey guys when is Xmen 4 the movie due?). SNK has a handful of nice beatemups but their XBLA support will probably be limited to older titles and chances are they'll all be fighters anyway. There's a ton of great beatemups by no-name developers but good luck ever seeing those and well so on and so forth.
Other than that..dunno. I guess Castle Crashers should be good.
Shame about that IGN review. He didn't touch on achievements, which were well done in the game. If you try to get all the achievements, you will play through the game multiple times in slightly different ways. In single player, I only saw slowdown when there were 4 enemies onscreen. This happened at the conveyor belt/elevator in level 2 and at the end of level 4. Not game-breaking to me. I haven't played co-op on Xbox Live, but I did try co-op with a second controller, and the slowdown was worse, but not unplayable bad. I think it's well worth five bucks, if only for the epic music in the final boss fight.
Time for some more updates to the XBLA.
Sega shows up again today, but not in a good way, as they seek to bring licensed dreck to the service, the announcement via PR.
The dev being cited for Happy Tree Friends is no stranger to the XBLA, it is Stainless Games according to the Gamespot.
Also, our friends of this thread over at XBLA have part 2 of their in-depth preview of Street Trace: NYC up, this time detailing single-player.
http://www.xblarcade.com/node/579
Let me see, IGN XBOX 360 has a new preview up as well as new screenshots of Wing Commander: Arena
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/786/786964p1.html
Finally, at least for now, first screenshots of Puzzle Quest XBLA from IGN XBOX 360.
Sega shows up again today, but not in a good way, as they seek to bring licensed dreck to the service, the announcement via PR.
The dev being cited for Happy Tree Friends is no stranger to the XBLA, it is Stainless Games according to the Gamespot.
Also, our friends of this thread over at XBLA have part 2 of their in-depth preview of Street Trace: NYC up, this time detailing single-player.
http://www.xblarcade.com/node/579
Let me see, IGN XBOX 360 has a new preview up as well as new screenshots of Wing Commander: Arena
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/786/786964p1.html
Finally, at least for now, first screenshots of Puzzle Quest XBLA from IGN XBOX 360.
Space Runaway
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PepsimanVsJoe said:
Well in Japan it was called Crime Fighters 2 so....And yeah, it came out in 91.
I agree it's a truly excellent game. There was a 3rd game in the series called Violent Storm. It's more Final Fight-ish and not as good as Vendetta but still worth your time.
Yeah, seriously. This is the first time I really revisit the DD franchise since way back when, and I'm shocked to find out that something I loved so much is just so bad. It really is horrendous.PepsimanVsJoe said:
I can't be the only one who has a hell of a time even getting the game to let me do an elbow smash, can I? No matter what I map my buttons to (to make sure it isn't just worn out buttons my controller), about 40% of the time, the dumbass character will do a jump kick or a punch into the air instead of the elbow. It's seriously frustrating and annoying as hell.
So, then, total crap confirmed? Nah, that's unfair. Maybe it'll be just as awesome as Novadrome and Crystal Quest...Shard said:
What happened to keeping track of the level of quality on your service, MS? Stop allowing Stainless games, please. And tell Digital Eclipse to shape the hell up while you're at it.
And speaking of crap, you guys should be careful about looking forward to Street Trace. It doesn't just look like Trickstyle, it's just as bad too.
Review Round Up: Gamespot on Double Dragon
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/doubledragon/review.html?sid=6170477
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/doubledragon/review.html?sid=6170477
Crab Milk Mickey
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Bomberman on Xbox Live Arcade = real, by the way. First screens can be found here.
Features:
- Developed by Backbone Entertainment
- Offline multiplayer up to 4 players (NO System Link)
- Up to 8 people can play over Xbox Live
- Official tournaments each month
- Customizable Bombermen (according to PR: 10,000 possibilities)
- Power-ups also customizable
- 8 different arena's
- No price revealed yet
- DLC planned (see below)
- Movies underway (BlimBlim?)
- Will be released mid June
Screens can be found here.
Add-on packs written in the press release:
First pack (30 days after LIVE date):
- 1 New Game Mode - Most Frags Mode
- 2 arenas Air Ship, and a Las Vegas Level
- 10 new characters
- 5 Gamer Pics
- 1 Theme
Second pack (60 days after LIVE date):
- Bomb Shelters
- 10 new characters
- 2 arenas -- Race Level, and an Dreamland Level
- 5 Gamer Pics
- 1 Theme
Third pack (90 days after LIVE date):
- 2 new arenas Candy World & Inferno
- 10 new characters
- 5 Gamer Pics
- 1 Theme
Achievements:
Paint the town red!
Win a Zombie match in Local Play against 2+ computer players - 10 points
The Name's Bomb, Dangerous Bomb
Take out 3 CPU players at once in a Local game - 10 points
Exterminator
Win 15 Local matches against 3+ CPU players - 10 points
Totally Bombed!
Win a Local match against 3+ CPU players after being in a Super Revenge Cart - 10 points
Completely Unstoppable!
Remain undefeated for five consecutive 4+ player Xbox Live games - 10 points
You die so good!
Score 25 Frags in an Xbox Live Match in Most Frags mode - 15 points
The Bomb!
Win 30 Xbox Live games - 15 points
Joy of Painting with Bomberman
Claim 130 or more tiles in a Local Zombie match against 3+ CPU players - 20 points
The Good, The Bad and The Bombed
With the full cowboy outfit, Frag another cowboy in an Xbox Live match - 20 points
Girl Power!
With a full female outfit win an Xbox Live 4+ player girl only match - 25 points
Did I just win AGAIN?!
Go on a winning rampage and win 10 consecutive matches in a Ranked Tournament - 25 points
EXTREME MAKEOVER!
Collect 60 Costume Balls - 30 points
Features:
- Developed by Backbone Entertainment
- Offline multiplayer up to 4 players (NO System Link)
- Up to 8 people can play over Xbox Live
- Official tournaments each month
- Customizable Bombermen (according to PR: 10,000 possibilities)
- Power-ups also customizable
- 8 different arena's
- No price revealed yet
- DLC planned (see below)
- Movies underway (BlimBlim?)
- Will be released mid June
Screens can be found here.
Add-on packs written in the press release:
First pack (30 days after LIVE date):
- 1 New Game Mode - Most Frags Mode
- 2 arenas Air Ship, and a Las Vegas Level
- 10 new characters
- 5 Gamer Pics
- 1 Theme
Second pack (60 days after LIVE date):
- Bomb Shelters
- 10 new characters
- 2 arenas -- Race Level, and an Dreamland Level
- 5 Gamer Pics
- 1 Theme
Third pack (90 days after LIVE date):
- 2 new arenas Candy World & Inferno
- 10 new characters
- 5 Gamer Pics
- 1 Theme
Achievements:
Paint the town red!
Win a Zombie match in Local Play against 2+ computer players - 10 points
The Name's Bomb, Dangerous Bomb
Take out 3 CPU players at once in a Local game - 10 points
Exterminator
Win 15 Local matches against 3+ CPU players - 10 points
Totally Bombed!
Win a Local match against 3+ CPU players after being in a Super Revenge Cart - 10 points
Completely Unstoppable!
Remain undefeated for five consecutive 4+ player Xbox Live games - 10 points
You die so good!
Score 25 Frags in an Xbox Live Match in Most Frags mode - 15 points
The Bomb!
Win 30 Xbox Live games - 15 points
Joy of Painting with Bomberman
Claim 130 or more tiles in a Local Zombie match against 3+ CPU players - 20 points
The Good, The Bad and The Bombed
With the full cowboy outfit, Frag another cowboy in an Xbox Live match - 20 points
Girl Power!
With a full female outfit win an Xbox Live 4+ player girl only match - 25 points
Did I just win AGAIN?!
Go on a winning rampage and win 10 consecutive matches in a Ranked Tournament - 25 points
EXTREME MAKEOVER!
Collect 60 Costume Balls - 30 points
virtuafightermaster
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Sonic is not even an arcade game, it doesnt fit in XBLA.
Bring on more fighting games please, capcom and snk, Guilty Gear would be nice.
Bring on more fighting games please, capcom and snk, Guilty Gear would be nice.
PepsimanVsJoe
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virtuafightermaster said:
Um there are a lot of "non-arcade games" on XBLA already.
Hitler Stole My Potato
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virtuafightermaster said:
*cough*
Symphony of the Night
So, the PR being pulled means no Aegis Wing on wednesday? Too bad -- then again, my XBLA backlog is growing and growing. There needs to be another draught soon!
Bomberman looks very nice as well. Not a huge fan of the pre-rendered artstyle but whatever. Looks like good, classic Bomberman in the best of ways.
(Too bad about the achievements though. What the hell is wrong with devs thinking we're going to spend hours playing games like Catan, Worms and Bomberman offline?! If anybody buys those games to play them alone, they deserve not being able to get any acheivements for being dumb and weird.)
$10 for the like dozens of hours you'll get out of Soltrio is nothing. It's a pretty jam-packed game from what I saw and I'm totally looking forward to it. It is, of course, not just a straight up solitaire game like the ones on iPods or something. It has a cute little 'adventure mode' that you travel through and perform solitaire-based tasks and such.
Bomberman looks very nice as well. Not a huge fan of the pre-rendered artstyle but whatever. Looks like good, classic Bomberman in the best of ways.
(Too bad about the achievements though. What the hell is wrong with devs thinking we're going to spend hours playing games like Catan, Worms and Bomberman offline?! If anybody buys those games to play them alone, they deserve not being able to get any acheivements for being dumb and weird.)
My god you people are so insanely cheap when it comes to XBLA games, it's not even funny. :lolGowans007 said:
$10 for the like dozens of hours you'll get out of Soltrio is nothing. It's a pretty jam-packed game from what I saw and I'm totally looking forward to it. It is, of course, not just a straight up solitaire game like the ones on iPods or something. It has a cute little 'adventure mode' that you travel through and perform solitaire-based tasks and such.
aku:jiki said:
Let me reiterate my point,
I cannot comment on this game as I know nothing about it and its extended features etc. so its on the wait till the demo pile, but when I think of Solitaire I think of the free on on my laptop im using right now or a pack of cards so when its boiled down into the simple line "Solitaire on XBLA for 800points" I cringe as its alot.
Now if this added enough features and extras to warrant 800points then no problem but that is yet to be seen as I know nothing about the game
Steverulez
Member
The Aegis Wing game sounds pretty cool. But why is it US only? Being European (In the UK to be exact), I just find it annoying that a "Free gift to gamers" doesn't include us either. Make it happen Microsoft!
Exactly. I'm intrigued to hear their reasoning behind this as unlike the video marketplace stuff, this is internally-produced and licensing should not be an issue.steverulez said:The Aegis Wing game sounds pretty cool. But why is it US only? Being European (In the UK to be exact), I just find it annoying that a "Free gift to gamers" doesn't include us either. Make it happen Microsoft!
tomchoucrew
Member
You can see two videos of bomberman Live here:
http://www.xboxygen.com/index.php?file=News&op=suite&news_id=4248
It seems very nice
http://www.xboxygen.com/index.php?file=News&op=suite&news_id=4248
It seems very nice
tomchoucrew said:You can see two videos of bomberman Live here:
http://www.xboxygen.com/index.php?file=News&op=suite&news_id=4248
It seems very nice
Gah! more fun I'm gona have gaming this year
ZombieSupaStar
Member
im sorry guys but double dragon has not aged well at all.....
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
The soundtrack certainly has.ZombieSupaStar said:
Super Double Dragon played fine but it was just too damn short.
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