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And MajorNelson sent me an email confirming that there will be no discount on Skyrim DLC next week. Bloody hell...
Damn. Did he tell you what we could have instead? If it's another BioShock/Rockstar thingy...
And MajorNelson sent me an email confirming that there will be no discount on Skyrim DLC next week. Bloody hell...
Damn. Did he tell you what we could have instead? If it's another BioShock/Rockstar thingy...
I'm sorry but you're unqualified for this review. It's "shizzle," everyone who follows the way of the dogg knows that.Just asked my editor for a review copy of Way of the Dogg. Will it be Tha Shiznit or just Shiznit? Should you grab it while it's hot or Drop It Like It's Hot? Should you look out for this game or will Snoop be in your house looking out instead?
And so on.
I'm sorry but you're unqualified for this review. It's "shizzle," everyone who follows the way of the dogg knows that.
I'd say he's more than qualified.I'm sorry but you're unqualified for this review. It's "shizzle," everyone who follows the way of the dogg knows that.
Did I miss this already?I'll update throughout the day.
DOTW
All Zombies Must Die! - 400msp (was 800)
Zombie Apocalypse - 400msp (was 800)
Zombie Apocalypse: Never Die Alone - 400msp (was 800)
--Pure Pwnage Pack - 200msp (was 400)
Zombie Driver HD - 400msp (was 800)
Zombie Wranglers - 200msp (was 400)
Dead Rising 2
--Skill Pack Ninja - 80msp (was 160)
Some tat as well (avatar/gamerpics)
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Tempest - 240msp (was 400)
Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth
--Character Roster Pass - 200msp (was 560)
NBA 2K13 - 2400msp/30$ (was 4800/60$) US price, check your region
--All-Star Add-On - 200msp (was 400)
--Blue Diamond Jewelry Collection - 1000msp (was 2000)
--Gold Jewelry Collection - 200msp (was 400)
--Platinum Jewelry Collection - 400msp (was 800)
--Spanish Commentary Add-On - 200msp (was 400)
Spec Ops: The Line - 2400msp/30$ (was 3200/40$) US price, check your region
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Sales & specials+ app
Limbo - 480msp (was 1200)
N+ - 320msp (was 800)
Spelunky - 480msp (was 1200)
Did I miss this already?
Thanks. I guess putting them up on the dash/website would have been too convenient and obvious.In the Sales & Specials app past the scratch and match game.
Crash Course 2 is the free to play sequel to the XBLA smash hit Doritos Crash Course. Run, jump, slide and wall jump your Avatar through 5 new worlds of irreverent obstacles, traps and pitfalls. In this 2.5 platformer, compete for medals and find stars to progress. If you get stuck, buy coins to unlock new courses, power-ups and vanity items. Compare your best time against up to 3 asynchronous game clips of your friends.
I hope to god it's as fun as the old pc versions, I used to love putting that rider through painful shit!
What a huge shame that the game is Free To Play. Screw off. I would pay 800 points for a competent sequel to Doritos Crash Course. It was a fine platforming game. But Free To Play rustles my jimmies considerably... more like Pay To Win.
1) Do you guys recommend Warped, Spelunky, and Cave? How good are these titles as puzzle games?
It's a bit early to write it off. The way I read it, there's no actual performance upgrade, you can just pay to unlock levels you can't legitimately unlock or something. Maybe the section skip will cost coins now, or something. It implies that the IAP will be to help people finish levels rather than set faster times.
Spelunky is A-class, and is only 480pts in Sales and Specials if you buy before Tuesday. Purchasing it is listed next to "no-brainer" in the dictionary.
Warp and The Cave are less good. Probably "okay" is about as far as I'd go. Spelunky's not really a puzzle game though, so if puzzles are an absolute must then you want one of these. Or rather you want one of the better puzzle games on XBLA.
Fuck yeah!!!Doritos Crash Course 2. Thanks, Lifelower.
Spelunky is 16 levels. But man, it will take you a while to get through them. Been playing for weeks and I've only reached level 9 (3-1). Keeps me coming back over and over. Very tight and appealing old-school gameplay with a modern flavor (randomized generation).Re: Doritos Crash Course 2 - you're right, too early to write the game off.
Re: Spelunky. Sounds good. I looked up the game and apparently it's really long. I'll try the demo but I won't buy it just yet (even on sale) unless the demo blows me away. I'm trying to work through a considerable backlog.
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The thing I'm worried about the most with Crash Course 2 is, how hard are they going to make those levels, and will they be balanced in such a way to almost force you to buy the unlocks. I would much prefer to pay for new levels as DLC, even on the first day of release, than to make purchasable anything that is unlockable through normal play.
i forgot this series existed- used to love the first one on pc ages ago. anyone know when it's supposed to drop on xbla?
I have the full version and I have to disagree. In fact, I hate it. First and foremost, the game is a laggy mess with netcode from 1998, where the host is an unstoppable god and your success in the match is based solely on how well you ping to him, and wether he's on your team or not. The team he's on will win, with zero doubt, and if you're pinging on the high side you'll just be everyone's punching bag. Lag is a fact in online play, of course, but I haven't seen a game this bad in a long time. The fact that they chose to not include any sort of ping indication, neither in the lobby search nor the match itself, doesn't exactly make things better, and neither does the fact that the netcode is wildly inconsistent. Sometimes you'll kill a guy in the required 5 bullets, 20 seconds later that same guy will sponge every bullet you fire at him and just turn around and instakill you.Special Forces Team-X is, like, much less terrible than I thought it would be. It's a multiplayer-only third person shooter. It feels like a competent Gears of War clone with a Borderlands style presentation and CoD style loadout stuff. It felt pretty decent, there seemed like lots of missions to go through, and I had no trouble finding a full game. The demo gives you 45 minutes of in-game time. There are a bunch of pretty standard modes. I liked that one of your loadout items could be an attack dog, which give the whole game a sort of slightly off-kilter feel.
In between rounds you vote for the next map, but it's kind of cool. The map is divided into three zones, and you vote for each zone... so every map feels like a mash-up of multiple other maps, but it all fits together well. I thought that was pretty neat.
I don't think I'd ever buy it because I don't play multiplayer shooters really, but, like, given the name and lack of information before release, I assumed this was going to be terrible.
Doritos Crash Course 2. Thanks, Lifelower.
I'm in the minority here but I think Renegade Ops wears out its welcome very quickly and is extremely tedious and repetitive. I pushed myself to beat it but I had a frustrating time with it and was really just cleaning up the achievements that I was already working my way towards.Today's demos:
Arkadian Warriors: A really crummy, low-impact hack-and-slash with N64-era graphics and stock sound effects. I played as a warrior and just button-mashed. The demo sucked.
Battle LA: Terrible, terrible looking FPS bad shooting dumb enemies
Dead Block: This is a sort of weird thing. It's a third person sort of tower defence crafting type game. It's got cute graphics and a weird style. You fight off hordes of zombies. I didn't actually like it because it was a bit too slow for my liking, but it was kind of original.
Gyruss: This is like Space Invaders, only it takes place in the Sonic 2 rotating bonus level. Weird. I've never played the original arcade game. I liked the background image. The demo only lasted maybe 2 minutes, so hard to say if I'd buy.
Island of Wakfu. Pretty. *waits through lengthy introduction crap* *moves character* god this is slow and boring *exits game before any gameplay happens* I think it's a mana-style ARPG???
Microbot: 2d twin-stick shmup where you're a robot that is infiltrating someone's blood-stream which is infected by evil robots. You can collect resources and upgrade your weapons. I got a lance arm that I could ram people with booooya. Demo was fairly long, seemed like there were lots of upgrades. Looked really nice but simple, loved the fluid graphics. Loved lancing red blood cells. Would definitely consider buying if the full game is good.
NBA Jam On Fire: Definitely has a modern look version of NBA Jam. Most of the cool tricks from NBA Jam seem to still be in it. I couldn't get the hang of the controls in the demo, to be honest.
Nights: The last time I played Nights was about 15 years ago. They cleaned up the image. I didn't really get the hang of the scoring system and mostly got Cs. It was neat, I would buy this for 400 msp
Omega Five: A terrible, slow, heavy, horizontal shooter. Really messy, too much going on on the screen without neat bullet patterns. Demo cut off before anything interesting happened.
Renegade Ops: Very slick, reminded me of Desert Strike or Jungle Strike meets Blast Corps meets Just Cause. Will definitely buy on the next 75% off PC sale. Seemed like the content repeated a bit, but controlled well, looked nice, and kept my attention.
Today's demos:
Arkadian Warriors: A really crummy, low-impact hack-and-slash with N64-era graphics and stock sound effects. I played as a warrior and just button-mashed. The demo sucked.
Dead Block: This is a sort of weird thing. It's a third person sort of tower defence crafting type game. It's got cute graphics and a weird style. You fight off hordes of zombies. I didn't actually like it because it was a bit too slow for my liking, but it was kind of original.
Island of Wakfu. Pretty. *waits through lengthy introduction crap* *moves character* god this is slow and boring *exits game before any gameplay happens* I think it's a mana-style ARPG???
NBA Jam On Fire: Definitely has a modern look version of NBA Jam. Most of the cool tricks from NBA Jam seem to still be in it. I couldn't get the hang of the controls in the demo, to be honest.
Omega Five: A terrible, slow, heavy, horizontal shooter. Really messy, too much going on on the screen without neat bullet patterns. Demo cut off before anything interesting happened.
Oh, thanks for breaking the combo. Two Omega Five haters in a row, I was like WHAT IS THIS WHATOmega FIVE: AWWW HELLL NAA- *ahem* Seriously, I love this game. When every other shooter is ANOTHER bullet hell or ANOTHER boring minimalistic graphic twin stick that tried to cash in on GeoWars, Omega Five appeared, with large characters (with small hurtboxes), rather great graphics for it's time, memorable music, depth through proper power-up useage, characters that played surprisingly differently, and all the bells and whistles that I expect from "full" games, such as useful, meaningful voice work, and fun unlockables (Retro Music and Graphic filters, unique characters that change the gameplay up strongly, etc).
Yar's Revenge: It's a rail shooter in the vein of Rez or Panzer Dragoon. That's not really my genre, but I enjoyed the demo well enough here. Sometimes the screen got busy and I couldn't really see what was going on. I could see myself maybe paying 400 msp for this.
Today's demos:
Gatling Gears: Steampunk-ish themed top down twin-stick kind of shooter with mechs. You can shoot regular or missiles or throw grenades. Actually visually it reminded me of a 3D version of the original Command and Conquer: Red Alert, even though there are no gameplay similarities. There were some Steampunk elements. It was presented well. I did feel like stuff took too many shots to kill, like the game wasn't quite quick enough, but I had a good time. I'd maybe buy this on sale.
Today's demos:
Arkadian Warriors: A really crummy, low-impact hack-and-slash with N64-era graphics and stock sound effects. I played as a warrior and just button-mashed. The demo sucked.
Battle LA: Terrible, terrible looking FPS bad shooting dumb enemies
Dead Block: This is a sort of weird thing. It's a third person sort of tower defence crafting type game. It's got cute graphics and a weird style. You fight off hordes of zombies. I didn't actually like it because it was a bit too slow for my liking, but it was kind of original.
Gyruss: This is like Space Invaders, only it takes place in the Sonic 2 rotating bonus level. Weird. I've never played the original arcade game. I liked the background image. The demo only lasted maybe 2 minutes, so hard to say if I'd buy.
Island of Wakfu. Pretty. *waits through lengthy introduction crap* *moves character* god this is slow and boring *exits game before any gameplay happens* I think it's a mana-style ARPG???
Microbot: 2d twin-stick shmup where you're a robot that is infiltrating someone's blood-stream which is infected by evil robots. You can collect resources and upgrade your weapons. I got a lance arm that I could ram people with booooya. Demo was fairly long, seemed like there were lots of upgrades. Looked really nice but simple, loved the fluid graphics. Loved lancing red blood cells. Would definitely consider buying if the full game is good.
NBA Jam On Fire: Definitely has a modern look version of NBA Jam. Most of the cool tricks from NBA Jam seem to still be in it. I couldn't get the hang of the controls in the demo, to be honest.
Nights: The last time I played Nights was about 15 years ago. They cleaned up the image. I didn't really get the hang of the scoring system and mostly got Cs. It was neat, I would buy this for 400 msp
Omega Five: A terrible, slow, heavy, horizontal shooter. Really messy, too much going on on the screen without neat bullet patterns. Demo cut off before anything interesting happened.
Renegade Ops: Very slick, reminded me of Desert Strike or Jungle Strike meets Blast Corps meets Just Cause. Will definitely buy on the next 75% off PC sale. Seemed like the content repeated a bit, but controlled well, looked nice, and kept my attention.
is the most goddamned beautiful thing my TV has ever shown me.AfterBurner Climax
Rock Band Blitz: You play a simple, two-button version of Rock Band. You can lane switch like the pre-Rock Band Harmonix games. You need to lane switch and keep all your instrument multipliers as high as possible for each section of the song. The controls are a little weird ("A" for right lane, any dpad button for left lane). I think this probably makes more sense as a $15 Rock Band track pack if you still play, since all the songs are playable in real Rock Band games. It doesn't really feel as zen as Frequency did to me. There's an achievement for playing 300 or more unique songs, so it's pretty clearly targeted for people who are loony about Rock Band. I checked the tracklist, and the only things that popped out to me were: Cult of Personality, Death on Two Legs, Shine, and The Wicker Man... and there's some out-and-out turds in the list too.
Ascend: New Gods update: http://playxbla.com/ascend-new-gods-sizing-up-to-your-enemies/
I wanna like this game, but it looks not good.
Doritos Crash Course 2. Thanks, Lifelower.
Updating at the moment, double check prices before buying. I'll update throughout the day.
DOTW
Skyrim - 3200msp/40$ (was 4800/60$) US price, check your region
Oblivion - 800msp/10$ (was 1200/15$) US price, check your region
--Knights of the Nine - 200msp (was 400)
--Shivering Isles - 600msp (was 1200)
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Just Dance 4
--Katy Perry: Part of Me - 120msp (was 240)
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Sales & Specials+ app (updates two hours after this post)
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Yar's Revenge: It's a rail shooter in the vein of Rez or Panzer Dragoon. That's not really my genre, but I enjoyed the demo well enough here. Sometimes the screen got busy and I couldn't really see what was going on. I could see myself maybe paying 400 msp for this.
Wait for GOTY edition. That's what I'm doing. Got loads of other stuff to play.I'm still pissed that the DLC's are not discounted. I was ready to finally jump into Skyrim with all DLC's this week. Yeah not happening.
Wait for GOTY edition. That's what I'm doing. Got loads of other stuff to play.
Oh...well in that case I understand your discontent. :/Well I already have the game (bought it on release day lol) and bought both Dawnguard and Heathfire when they were discounted. I was just waiting to get Dragonborn too and finally start the game.
I'll update throughout the day.