YESSSSSSS finally some news. A release date/window would have been nice, but still, any news is progress.HadesGigas said:
Let us celebrate with the glorious trailer of absolute amazingness.
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Let us celebrate with the glorious trailer of absolute amazingness.
Seriously....so many great games coming out. I really thought PS3 had the year wrapped up early with Heavy Rain and GOW3 but damn this is a strong year for the 360 as a whole. Shank, that Snoopy thing, Limbo, the halfbrick game, new Behemoth...I really just don't know how they do it.
Snoopy really does give that Crimson Skies feel again, and I'm glad to see it playable by the public since it's been so long since I've last heard anything about the game...
And...
Holy wow this game looks amazing.
I mean, really - style, animation, diversity - this really just came out of the blue for me, and it seriously does deserve its own thread - I gotta go for a few hours, but if one isn't up by the end of the day, hell, I'll post it myself.
Incredible.
XBLA is insane.
And besides that gem of a game, there has been and will be at least one huge title per month, the ton of XBLA games mentioned here, E3 hasn't happened yet, and that little game at the end of the year called Reach, which has a beta in May.
Yeah.
And...
Shig said:
Holy wow this game looks amazing.
I mean, really - style, animation, diversity - this really just came out of the blue for me, and it seriously does deserve its own thread - I gotta go for a few hours, but if one isn't up by the end of the day, hell, I'll post it myself.
Incredible.
XBLA is insane.
mujun said:
And besides that gem of a game, there has been and will be at least one huge title per month, the ton of XBLA games mentioned here, E3 hasn't happened yet, and that little game at the end of the year called Reach, which has a beta in May.
Yeah.
Monty Mole
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It seems MS is really upping its game this year with XBLA.
Stumpokapow
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I can't say I really agree with the boundless optimism in the thread right now about upcoming games. I feel like XBLA is in one of those funks where games come out that are good, but just not the kind of games I'm into.
Since January, I've bought Lazy Raiders, Winterbottom, and Perfect Dark (although it seems I'm the only person who bought Lazy Raiders, and Winterbottom died out pretty quickly on GAF).
Matt Hazard seemed ok but overpriced, Vandal Hearts seemed ok but overpriced, Darwinia was ok but overpriced, Chime wasn't my thing, Greed Corp had UI issues that prevented me from getting into it, Fret Nice was terrible, both Toy Soldiers and Scrap Metal didn't click with me and the 1200 point prices for both was really disappointing. Game Room--well, I've commented at length on it; I don't think it's a good start.
A lot of what's upcoming seems to fit into this category as well. I didn't play enough of Mega Man 9 to justify Mega Man 10. I have Zeno Clash on PC. I didn't like Hydro Thunder to begin with or Afterburner. The Final Fight/Magic Sword collection is weird, unnecessary IMO, and neither game is all that awesome as far as I'm concerned anyway.
Lead and Gold and Monday Night Combat both seem okay to me, but in both cases I expect the multiplayer will dry up pretty quickly so I can't imagine getting them. Something about Shank feels off. Ditto Breach. Raskulls seems well made but I see it suffering from the exact same problems Rocket Riot did (repetitive single player, no multiplayer community). Toki looks just disgusting to me. Behemoth 3 looks as uninteresting as Behemoth 1/2 for me. To say nothing of stuff like Rocket Knight and Bonk that pretty much everyone agrees are going to be terrible.
Joe Danger ended up being poached to PSN, as did Explodemon.
In terms of what I am tentatively interested in:
- Monkey Island 2
- Doom II
- The Incredible Machine, if it ever gets out of limbo
- 3d Ultra Minigolf Adventures 2, if it ever gets out of limbo
- World of Keflings
- Ancients of Ooga
- Comic Jumper
- Cletus Clay
- Fez
- Limbo
- Snoopy Flying Ace
- Super Meat Boy
- Spelunky
- Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
- Plants vs Zombies, since I know I'll be suckered into rebuying it.
- Space Ark, maybe
- Joy Ride.
I guess that kind of list should give me a lot of room for optimism, but since most of those games aren't even tentatively slated for a release date at this point, and the near future seems pretty dim to me... meh.
Like I said, it's not that good games aren't being released, it's that I happen not to be interested in any of the good games that are releasing :/
Since January, I've bought Lazy Raiders, Winterbottom, and Perfect Dark (although it seems I'm the only person who bought Lazy Raiders, and Winterbottom died out pretty quickly on GAF).
Matt Hazard seemed ok but overpriced, Vandal Hearts seemed ok but overpriced, Darwinia was ok but overpriced, Chime wasn't my thing, Greed Corp had UI issues that prevented me from getting into it, Fret Nice was terrible, both Toy Soldiers and Scrap Metal didn't click with me and the 1200 point prices for both was really disappointing. Game Room--well, I've commented at length on it; I don't think it's a good start.
A lot of what's upcoming seems to fit into this category as well. I didn't play enough of Mega Man 9 to justify Mega Man 10. I have Zeno Clash on PC. I didn't like Hydro Thunder to begin with or Afterburner. The Final Fight/Magic Sword collection is weird, unnecessary IMO, and neither game is all that awesome as far as I'm concerned anyway.
Lead and Gold and Monday Night Combat both seem okay to me, but in both cases I expect the multiplayer will dry up pretty quickly so I can't imagine getting them. Something about Shank feels off. Ditto Breach. Raskulls seems well made but I see it suffering from the exact same problems Rocket Riot did (repetitive single player, no multiplayer community). Toki looks just disgusting to me. Behemoth 3 looks as uninteresting as Behemoth 1/2 for me. To say nothing of stuff like Rocket Knight and Bonk that pretty much everyone agrees are going to be terrible.
Joe Danger ended up being poached to PSN, as did Explodemon.
In terms of what I am tentatively interested in:
- Monkey Island 2
- Doom II
- The Incredible Machine, if it ever gets out of limbo
- 3d Ultra Minigolf Adventures 2, if it ever gets out of limbo
- World of Keflings
- Ancients of Ooga
- Comic Jumper
- Cletus Clay
- Fez
- Limbo
- Snoopy Flying Ace
- Super Meat Boy
- Spelunky
- Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
- Plants vs Zombies, since I know I'll be suckered into rebuying it.
- Space Ark, maybe
- Joy Ride.
I guess that kind of list should give me a lot of room for optimism, but since most of those games aren't even tentatively slated for a release date at this point, and the near future seems pretty dim to me... meh.
Like I said, it's not that good games aren't being released, it's that I happen not to be interested in any of the good games that are releasing :/
VibratingDonkey
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This explosion of announcements is pretty great and most of the titles seem interesting in one way or another. The shining beacon of hope in the sea of nefarious plots to snatch your money that is digital distribution. Platforms like XBLA make me happy. 
I was already planning on getting broke due to the 2010 retail lineup though.
I was already planning on getting broke due to the 2010 retail lineup though.
iconoclast
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Hell, if the only games coming out on XBLA for the rest of the year were Raystorm HD, King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match, NeoGeo Battle Colosseum, Clash of Heroes HD, Shank, Mega Man 10, Metal Slug XX, Guwange, Hydro Thunder, and After Burner Climax, I'd be very satisfied. Everything else is just gravy.
XBLA was very uninteresting to me once the Summer of Arcade ended last year. I don't think I bought a game that released after Shadow Complex until Perfect Dark came out.
XBLA was very uninteresting to me once the Summer of Arcade ended last year. I don't think I bought a game that released after Shadow Complex until Perfect Dark came out.
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Shig said:
He isn't interested in Guwange either.
Why do I bother reading his posts?
Stumpokapow said:
This is the part where I pretend to know what you're talking about.
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PepsimanVsJoe said:
if you stop reading my posts you might find your gaf gold account mysteriously cancelled. just saying.
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Sad_Panda said:
I'm wondering that too. I haven't read anything to the contrary, but it's weird that it's omitted from all recent lists I've seen. Looking forward to at least playing the demo and I hope it's not delayed.
PepsimanVsJoe
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Hey Namco/Bandai I figure you're the guys I should bitch at for Denjin Makai II/The Guardians to see an XBLA release. You're responsible for Banpresto's shit and last I saw Banpresto published a few arcade games. At least get this one.
Wouldn't you want to show all these up and coming beatemup devs(lolz) how it was done back in 95? At least Capcom has an excuse as 80% of their best stuff is wrapped up in licensing issues.
Seriously Denjin Makai 2 is an amazing beatemup.
-Eight selectable characters
-The ability to slide, dodge flip, block, backstep, and probably some other stuff.
-Gobs of moves for each character. Everything from air-throws to desperation attacks to super desperation attacks to super attacks to even special attacks.
-Play stylishly for bonus points
-Grapples because they're awesome.
-Even some of the weapons have special moves.
-A great beatemup engine with lots of foes to slap around, great combo opportunities, and just enough variety in each encounter to keep everything fresh.
-Wackiness.
-Large breasts and a nearly-naked man.
-Shooting minigames cause hey why not?
-Not ball-busting hard. Takes less than half an hour to beat(with continues of course). So easy even random dudes on youtube are 1CCing it.
This was back in 1995. To think the genre has not advanced that much or even at all since the release of this game. Hopefully the guys behind Twinkiesoft, Dinkysoft, or whateverthehellsoft got great jobs and made some games I've probably heard of.
Wouldn't you want to show all these up and coming beatemup devs(lolz) how it was done back in 95? At least Capcom has an excuse as 80% of their best stuff is wrapped up in licensing issues.
Seriously Denjin Makai 2 is an amazing beatemup.
-Eight selectable characters
-The ability to slide, dodge flip, block, backstep, and probably some other stuff.
-Gobs of moves for each character. Everything from air-throws to desperation attacks to super desperation attacks to super attacks to even special attacks.
-Play stylishly for bonus points
-Grapples because they're awesome.
-Even some of the weapons have special moves.
-A great beatemup engine with lots of foes to slap around, great combo opportunities, and just enough variety in each encounter to keep everything fresh.
-Wackiness.
-Large breasts and a nearly-naked man.
-Shooting minigames cause hey why not?
-Not ball-busting hard. Takes less than half an hour to beat(with continues of course). So easy even random dudes on youtube are 1CCing it.
This was back in 1995. To think the genre has not advanced that much or even at all since the release of this game. Hopefully the guys behind Twinkiesoft, Dinkysoft, or whateverthehellsoft got great jobs and made some games I've probably heard of.
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Dark Octave said:
I was the exact opposite. I was like man Snoopy + Crimson Skies= Dope!
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Brettison said:I was the exact opposite. I was like man Snoopy + Crimson Skies= Dope!
Exactly. I'm just a little bit sad that the platforming segments seem to be gone.
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REMEMBER CITADEL said:
To be fair this was the first footage I've seen of this game, but I can understand if you'd seen earlier footage and it seemed like they cut stuff.
It could have just been the demo was best setup with the flying action though.
forgeforsaken
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Some more from my hands on at PAX. Game supports bots. I was playing split screen with a friend plus a few bots. As you get kill streaks you get rewards, get X and Lucy (I think it was Lucy) shows up on the back of your plane with six shooters, get Y and your plane turns into the flying dog house.Brettison said:I was the exact opposite. I was like man Snoopy + Crimson Skies= Dope!
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Brettison said:
Maybe. Or maybe the platforming just didn't gel with the flying gameplay so they removed it. Either way, it seemed fun.
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From what I heard, surprisingly good.
PepsimanVsJoe
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REMEMBER CITADEL said:
What is up with that trailer?
The voice should be more like "Wha wa wah wa wah wahn whah"
Yeah I know if they did that it would give away the other joke but whatevs.
Hearing Snoopy's trademark cackle of glee makes this day one. Maybe I should grab the PS2 rev while I wait.
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Amazon has the 4000 point cards for 41.54 right now, down from $50.
Not a bad deal.
Not a bad deal.
Zeouterlimits
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Big sale for the first week of April apparently:
- Age of Booty 400 points (usually 800)
- Defence Grid, 400 points (usually 800)
- Lumines LIVE, 400 points (usually 800)
- Mad Tracks, 400 points (usually 800)
- Rocket Riot, 400 points (usually 800)
- Schizoid, 400 points (usually 800)
- South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play!, 400 points (usually 800)
- Super Street Fighter II HD, 560 points (usually 1200)
- Track & Field, 240 points (usually 400)
- Wallace & Gromit Episode 1, 400 points (usually 800)
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- Age of Booty 400 points (usually 800)
- Defence Grid, 400 points (usually 800)
- Lumines LIVE, 400 points (usually 800)
- Mad Tracks, 400 points (usually 800)
- Rocket Riot, 400 points (usually 800)
- Schizoid, 400 points (usually 800)
- South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play!, 400 points (usually 800)
- Super Street Fighter II HD, 560 points (usually 1200)
- Track & Field, 240 points (usually 400)
- Wallace & Gromit Episode 1, 400 points (usually 800)
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iconoclast
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Zeouterlimits said:
Quoting for the new page.
Some great deals here, I'll probably wind up buying a few of these games.
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Age of Booty is SO bought.
Dead Man Typing
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Thinking of buying Virtual On since it's 800 this week, are there still people playing it online?
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Dead Man Typing said:
Couldn't find a match when I tried. Might be my timezone, though
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Will buy South Park. Would buy Defense Grid except I already bought it for $2 on Steam.
I wasn't really impressed by the Age of Booty demo. Am I missing something?
I wasn't really impressed by the Age of Booty demo. Am I missing something?
Stumpokapow
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If you like Worms, 8-bit pixel graphics, and particularly if you liked the old PC game "Liero", I'd really recommend Rocket Riot. It's also fiendishly hard. I don't know of anyone on GAF who finished it other than A Master Ninja (last level took him 350 tries) and me (last level took me 100 tries).
One thing to note, though; there are literally 0 multiplayer matches. I tried for hours at a time on half a dozen occasions and didn't get a single match. Maybe the sale will bump the community for a while, but do not buy it if you're counting on a vibrant online community.
One thing to note, though; there are literally 0 multiplayer matches. I tried for hours at a time on half a dozen occasions and didn't get a single match. Maybe the sale will bump the community for a while, but do not buy it if you're counting on a vibrant online community.
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