I can understand that but it didn't bother me, maybe becauseI thought the game was kinda cheap in how it extends its length, but I did enjoy it a lot more than Alan Wake, and it's a pretty solid 600MSP
Is it worth it? I loved Origins but I heard that 2 was so shitty.
I can understand that but it didn't bother me, maybe becauseon subsequent attempts they cut out more and more or had you do different things. That, and conceptually I like the idea of having to try the same thing multiple times to get it right, like Groundhog Day.
Ooh, Alien Breed! It's only been on sale once, years ago, and I missed it then. All my friends say it sucks but for 400MSP I'm going to refuse to believe that.
Wait is SSX $10?
Wait is SSX $10?
hey it's the same stuff that goes on sale all the time
The new one has a bug that makes the intro loop if you try to run it off a USB drive. So MS pulled the game. I managed to grab the demo before it was removed but I didn't purchase it.That's what I thought too.
Warlords is the crappy old one, right? Did the new one ever come out?
Rocketbowl is so obscure that I had no idea it even existed, and I thought I was pretty well versed in XBLA. It looks pretty good, but has shitty achievements.
More than worth it. Bought it last week and I'm having a blat. Excellent game.Wait is SSX $10?
Capcom Arcade Cabinet kicks off on February 19 on PlayStation Network and February 20 on Xbox Live Arcade. It appears Black Dragon may be released as a free download in Japan. 1943 and Avenger will cost 320 Microsoft Points or 400 yen each. Games will also be released in 800 Microsoft Point / 1,000 yen bundles.
February 19/20
Black Tiger
1943
Avenger
March 5
Ghostsn Goblins
Gunsmoke
Sector Z
March 19
Legendary Wings
Side Arms
Trojan
April 2
Rush & Crash
Exed Exes
Commando
April 16
1942
Pirate Ship Higemaru
Sonson
I played the demo last year, it's like a really really weird version of minigolf meets bowling. And it's got that ghetto jank UI design and presentation you'd associate with the pre-professional era of XBLA
$4 a game seems a bit steep.
I don't really get them... It looks like Microsoft's Game Room or SNKP's NeoGeo Station all over again.$4 a game seems a bit steep.
I don't really get them... It looks like Microsoft's GameRoom or SNKP's NeoGeo Station all over again.
It seems like they don't even care of planning these 'arcades' wisely, but they just want to start from the very beginning each time, maybe with this belief of creating hype and then selling everything with minimum effort. I don't know, I don't think this is the way to go.
Me neither!Knights of the Round, King of Dragons, and Captain Commando 3 pack! The Release AVP and Battle Circuit as seperate 10 dollar downloads that still integrate into the arcade (I don't mind paying a premium, as long as we'd finally have them!)! I'd... really have no problem with this.
This, really.Maybe it's the only way they can get these greenlit, or something... It's funny that EVERY collection pretty much starts this way. Maybe it's just much cheaper to get the porter people to work on these older games, rather than more intense games? Or maybe they still believe bigger, more seperate things could be done with the more cherished IPs and iterations?
A 3 pack of "2 old games, plus 1 newer one" would seem much more like a value straight out the gate, and probably foster stronger support. You'd think it'd be marketing 101, making a higher-value bundle that SHOULD cost them roughly the same to produce, but eh...
I'd love for this to become the final destination for Capcom oldschool arcade ports for this generation. I wouldn't mind have a 40 game Capcom Classic Library of hand-picked games, all ready to play at a whim. Lets hope their 2nd half of supposed 30 games has a few nice shockers...
Me neither!
If only, hey?
This, really.
And the funny thing is that I'll be supporting Arcade Cabinet (assuming it will feature a level of quality at least on par with GR's and NGS') as well as I did with said similar projects: I have a proper soft spot for legit classic gaming on modern systems.
I just don't think these containers work, if they'd released separate XBLA 3-packs at 800pts a piece with 400 achievement points each, they'd be a lot easier to market. People tend to forget that Game Room even exists/existed and this'll suffer the same fate. Week one might sell okay, week five might as well never come out.
It works for the Pinball tables. Why not for arcade games?
The worse part about GR was that only Konami seemed to be porting anything worthwhile there. Me and my friends got a kick out of Kitten Kaboodle, I think I bought two other Konami titles, but that that early 80s stuff wasn't making it.Both GR and NGS failed miserably just before things could get actually interesting: I loved and supported both, felt really pleased with the games and emulation but - honestly - I can figure how just a few people nowadays could be interested in Scramble, Asteroids, Pitfall etc. Same thing with NGS: Fatal Fury, SamSho, Metal Slug, Magician Lord... Such classics, sure, but again: really? Why couldn't they just start with Shock Trooper, latest King of Fighters, some Real Bout and then - at a further stage - recover some older title? Gamers get bored by such lame approaches.
Same devs - japanese studio M2 - and same exact menu/settings, which is lovely (dem scanlines, 1:1 screen ratio, region selector...).Does NGS even have a menu as intricate as GR? It just seemed like the old Sega Vintage collection on XBLA/PSN to me
Same devs - japanese studio M2 - and same exact menu/settings, which is lovely (dem scanlines, 1:1 screen ratio, region selector...).
Wops, sorry.I was talking about the ones by backbone...not the ones that came out last year. I'll have to check them out now that I know they're by M2.
They say 10 but I think it was 15 (and looking back at canIhasAnAccount's post from last week, seems like it). However the sale seems to have ended: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/P...9115-d8024541096d?cid=SLink&DownloadType=Game
Either people are guessing correctly that Atari's trying to squeeze a few bucks out of games they're delisting soon, or it was just supposed to be a permanent reduction and someone fucked up.Yars Revenge is back and at 400 points... I wonder the reason for delisting and re-listing at a lower price.
I roll in £ son
Anyways, is there a must-play/must-have in this week's deals?
Yes. Excellent game. Whatever happened to OMD2?And OMD.
Orcs Must Die.
Just buy the disc, it's like $5.I missed Serious Sam HD 1 and 2 on sale last December. Damn. Who knows how long I'll have to wait, now...
Yes. Excellent game. Whatever happened to OMD2?
OMD or Alan Wake: AN?
Yes. Excellent game. Whatever happened to OMD2?
Just buy the disc, it's like $5.
Edit: After some quick googling, it might be PAL only. That's a first.
Yeah, only Europe got that compilation.
Also, more Capcom Arcade Cabinet info released.
Thanks to Lifelower on Twitter for all the translations and collections of said info!
Japanese Trailer for the collection
Looks just like M2's Sega collections (even has a similiar music player), so that should confirm who'se doing the ports.
The games seem to have lots of Dipswitch settings, Image galleries, some form of history mode detailing each of them, etc.
The demo includes Black Tiger for free. Buying it for 400 MSP also gets you 1943 and Avengers.