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Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) News and Announcements Thread - 2012 Edition
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Yeah...wow, Wrecked is absolutely horrible. Like 2008-on-XBLA horrible. How did they cram so many shitty ideas into one game? Worst camera I've ever seen, controls are floaty and crap, the AI cheats relentlessly with infinite boosts... And that control scheme? Why do I have to break-gas-gas to boost instead of just pressing A?
randomlyrossy
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Won't be up till Friday.
Apologies, I thought it was released today.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Fuck Wrecked. 1200pts and 400pts DLC is pathetic. I knew there was a reason the base game had 6 tracks.
Fuck em, I was excited for this. Not even downloading the trial now. It's just greedy and has killed any chance of a community.
Fuck em, I was excited for this. Not even downloading the trial now. It's just greedy and has killed any chance of a community.
Yes, also that. It has 24 singleplayer "missions," which are unfair and retarded so far, and that's it. 24 missions might sound like a decent amount but that's 24 times "get 3 kills with a machine gun!" or "beat the ghost in a 1 lap race!"
Fuck this game and fuck Microsoft for certifying it. Oh, and the game basically has no demo if you don't have a second controller handy. Bullshit ripoff.
Corleth the Fey
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To hell with the rubbish car game and on with the important question. Did Pinball Arcade come out today?
bigtroyjon
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If anyone is going to PAX, xbox put up a Youtube Playlist of games that will be there and it's mostly XBLA stuff.
It's releasing Friday for some odd reason, assuming it's a tie-in with something.
crazy taxi waves hello
randomlyrossy
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It's Friday for whatever reason, and as far as I know the review embargo is Friday also, some sites could be earlier than that however. Today is meant to be Pinball Arcade, Wrecked and Kung Fu Strike. Though I'm only seeing Wrecked right now, anyone else seen the others?
I bought Wrecked because I got bored waiting for the other two, Pinball and Kung Fu Strike. They are MIA so far at least.Corleth the Fey said:
Crazy Taxi also eats balls, so that's fine.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Giant Bomb did a Quick Look, which has impressions: http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-shoot-many-robots/17-5804/
randomlyrossy
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Cheshire_Buddha
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Just a head's up: if anyone is interested in getting South Park: Tenorman's Revenge a few days early, you can get a code from within the season 15 box-set that allows the first 5,000 people who input it into the South Park Studios website to get it for free.
I was able to use my code today and spent an hour or two with the game. Not sure how I feel about it yet.
I was able to use my code today and spent an hour or two with the game. Not sure how I feel about it yet.
The multiplayer has the same stupid camera angle shit, poor controls and physics and all the other flaws. This is a very bad game, especially coming off a few hours of Joe Danger like I am.
I'm level 50 and nearly got every star in the game (but got bored waiting to find better items to more easily get 5 stars on those last 4 levels) and I think the game is awesome. The unlock system is a bit of a pain, especially if you want the achievement-related items, but everything else works great and is consistently fun.
So, the big news of this is that we should FINALLY see some new info on Dust: An Elysian Tale? *party*
LoL at the turning on Wrecked. Not something I'm too interested in myself (Kung Fu Strike, Dungeon Fighter, etc for me), but it looked like a somewhat jankier version of the free Doritos "Harms Way" game in some aspects... Except Harm's looked more unique...
sooperkool
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No Fire Pro this year. Feels bad man. Also, I wonder why they put MS Flight in that list...it's the PC launch trailer, and the list specifically says "what's coming to Xbox". XBLA version of that would make sense, but there has been no indication it's happening.
randomlyrossy
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So Wrecked is all we're getting today. As has been mentioned The Pinball Arcade is delayed a week but Kung Fu Strike is apparently coming out in May not today as previously thought.
XBLA Wednesday via XBLAFans
XBLA Wednesday via XBLAFans
Any word on Kung Fu?
abracadaver
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Why is Wrecked on PSN only 4,99 / £3.99 ?
Fortinbras
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I haven't checked yet but are you sure that isn't just the day 1 dlc?
day one DLC is £3.99, game is £9.49
OH MY GOD Wrecked is like the worst game so far this year. Holy shit the camera is the worst thing in any game ever. The only good part of it is the fact that it's joke-easy.
Oh wow, it just got even worse. I'm looking at a scoreboard that says "Gold: 00:47:19" and "Personal best: 00:46:63" yet the game says I'm only silver. There is not a single aspect of this game that works properly. What happened to the certification team this year?
Oh wow, it just got even worse. I'm looking at a scoreboard that says "Gold: 00:47:19" and "Personal best: 00:46:63" yet the game says I'm only silver. There is not a single aspect of this game that works properly. What happened to the certification team this year?
Are you playing it singleplayer or multiplayer? This is designed as a local multiplayer game, very similar to a Micro Machines. I'm betting they didn't focus very much on the singleplayer. Hopefully online works well.
I haven't had played it much so far, but I'm hoping it lives up to Mashed. I spent a ridiculous amount of hours into the multiplayer for that game.
toythatkills
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If you're disappointed with Wrecked, and you haven't already got it, buy Little Racers STREET.
More game. Better game. 5% of the price.
More game. Better game. 5% of the price.
RobotRocker
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It's 100MB so it's not DLC you just unlock though. Wasn't it finished and in Partnernet hell for a while? It's getting increasingly common that XBLA games are starting to release with Day 1 DLC because the DLC ends up finished while the game is waiting for a release slot.
MS really needs to sort out approval for next gen because now everyone's on XBLA, it's becoming a massive clusterfuck.
Corleth the Fey
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Thanks. (Goes back to playing it on my phone)
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Wrecked only passed cert like two weeks ago. There is no excuse for this shitty DLC model.
Really enjoying it. Bought it after watching the quicklook but have found a bit more depth in the game than the QL suggested.
There are a ton of fun upgrades, weapons and leveling. The levels are a mixture of Metal Slug style side-scrolling and mini-arenas where you have to survive through waves of bad guys.
In the QL they run and gun a lot but I've found that positioning yourself appropriately on the screen, holding LT to stand firm and then firing at the enemies, along with jumping and mostly sliding to dodge works really well. In general I'll be holding LT for a lot of the game and then sliding for better position rather than releasing LT and running.
It's really enjoyable and I've put maybe 5 or 6 hours in so far and reached level 21 (of 50) and am about 2/3 of the way through the games levels. The star rating on levels also makes revisiting levels (to grind for exp and 'nuts') fun.
For 800pts I'd say it's worthwhile, the power ups/weapons are really varied and the difficulty curve seems really steady.
I'm enjoying it a lot!
Singleplayer, but I don't know why anyone would assume that the complaints listed in my post wouldn't be applicable to multiplayer. It still has the same shitty camera, controls and physics.
And I don't feel like I'm getting my camera complaint across - it truly is the worst camera I've ever seen. It tries to "zoom in on the action" and always fails. When there's a sharp turn, the camera turns to your side making it nigh-impossible to navigate the curve. It's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
RobotRocker
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Supersonic submitted it to Microsoft last November and had to do a re-submission in December. That's a hell of a wait between submission and release and I can easily see Supersonic doing DLC to be ready as Microsoft could have greenlighted them at any minute. Since the DLC was done and submitted, I'd imagine MS and Sony wanted both up at the same time so it wouldn't be taking up slots in later weeks.
The people crying about the DLC boogeyman are getting as annoying as Day 1 DLC itself. Especially as this game does seem to have legitimate DLC, just an unfortunate release date.
I just finished off Wrecked and that was one of the most frustrating experiences I've ever had in my life. If I had a cent for every time my car has been 3/4 across the checkpoint while the checkpoint chime echoes in my speakers, yet the screen throws up "LOL U FAILED," I'd be having a caviar party on my yacht this weekend. Abysmal, terrible, offensive game. Nobody ever buy it. Throw eggs at Supersonic's offices and cars. The employees too.
And you think that you defending a game you obviously haven't played yet somehow isn't annoying? The DLC is singleplayer content and the main game comes with a pathetically small amount of singleplayer content. It's the most obvious "held back content" DLC I've seen in a long time.
SapientWolf
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lol
If you hated every moment of the game then why would more of it be a good thing?
Micro Machines V4 was actually good so I don't know what happened to Supersonic between then and now.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
I left a comment on Supersonic's blog and they deleted it. 
Don't even have the decency to explain to potential customers.
Don't even have the decency to explain to potential customers.
HadesGigas
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I don't know what's more confusing,ATM actual date for Fez, Microsoft not bumping it up to 1200 points, or that it's coming out on a Friday.
Shhhh... Microsoft might actually come to their senses.
hitman blood money is 1600 points if you don't have it already. a good investment in my opinion, i also believe a b horror game whose name i can't remember is also 1600 points. the boxart has a monster with a red trench-coat on.
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