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XBLA release schedule for the rest of August
- Thread starter neptunes
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Ninja Kn1ght
Member
Lumines Live! sweet. I'll probably get Pac-man too, don't know if I'll buy any of the others.
TheMissingLink
Member
Shit, thought it was Scrabble, as well. That would f'n own. Imagine the achievements 
My guess is by the time Madden rolls around, you won't find a friend online playing something other than that, Texas Hold 'em or Dead Rising!
My guess is by the time Madden rolls around, you won't find a friend online playing something other than that, Texas Hold 'em or Dead Rising!
time pilot! woo
multiway scrolling arcade shmup. You're in the middle in a little fighter plane, and you can move in all eight directions (the screen scrolls accordingly). Depending on the level, you have to shoot down WWI biplanes, WWII fighters, modern jets or spaceships.
Great fun and was a fave when I was a child
Nemesis556 said:
multiway scrolling arcade shmup. You're in the middle in a little fighter plane, and you can move in all eight directions (the screen scrolls accordingly). Depending on the level, you have to shoot down WWI biplanes, WWII fighters, modern jets or spaceships.
Great fun and was a fave when I was a child
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
Did the Texas Hold'em free/not free thing ever get cleared up?
I hope its free. That would rock.
I hope its free. That would rock.
Baron Aloha said:
Nope.
They lost their sponser and instead of spending another 6 months trying to find another sponser and work out a deal, they're just going ahead and releasing it. No word yet on what ts going to cost. If its only 400 points I'll probably still get it. I'm trying to look on the bright side, if people have to pay a little something for it, then hopefully there will be fewer jackasses playing the game who have no idea what they're doing. Or fewer people stepping up to tables just to grief and sabotage the game.
HocusPocus
Member
I'll probably buy them all .
.I'm still so disappointed that the Texas Hold 'Em isn't free anymore - it was the factor that guaranteed that EVERYONE on Live was going to have it... and that would have been so much fun, damn it...
I may still get it if the price is right, I'm not too sure...
I may still get it if the price is right, I'm not too sure...
anachronous_one
Prologue Type S Alpha
???jarrod said:
That's not Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, is it? I was under the impression that there was no way PS1 games would make it over to XBL.
anachronous_one said:
I think we'll laugh at this in a year's time, simply because they certainaly won't keep the 50mb limited forever, and I'm pretty sure that between now and then there will be some insane annoucements that'll make us love XBLA more than we ever could have possibly thought!
Well, the possibilities for XBLA are endless, and it sounds like MS are embracing that fact - Greg Canessa said in a recentl interview with IGN that there will be some big franchies coming back in retro form and also BRAND NEW versions of the games being made - sounds good
neptunes said:
Can anyone else confirm this? I expected a lot more hype around this release and am pretty suprised that they would release it this soon.
I also suspected they would hold back this game until well after Activision's poker game came out on Sept 1. I imagine releasing Texas Hold'em first will have a significant impact on that games sales.
anachronous_one
Prologue Type S Alpha
HAWT!Fatghost said:
I'll buy Hold 'Em for 400, and that's probably it. Well, I'd happily buy Lumines Live for 800, but that isn't gonna happen.
I LOVE XBLA - I didn't even have a retail 360 game for the first 2-3 weeks I had my 360 and had a great time with the three games I bought for $25, demos, etc. But now that Arcade is taking off... I dunno. Lumines for 1200 is just too much, imo. Are we ever gonna see 400 point games again that aren't retro ports? GeoWars was perfect at 400.
I LOVE XBLA - I didn't even have a retail 360 game for the first 2-3 weeks I had my 360 and had a great time with the three games I bought for $25, demos, etc. But now that Arcade is taking off... I dunno. Lumines for 1200 is just too much, imo. Are we ever gonna see 400 point games again that aren't retro ports? GeoWars was perfect at 400.
Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
Man, Hold 'Em sounds good.
Are there any plans for a chess game?
Are there any plans for a chess game?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Musashi Wins! said:
Nebulous plans, according a recent Canessa interview.
Gigglepoo said:
Everyone starts with the same amount of money and when you play online matches, the amount you win/loose is tied to your gamertag - permanently. You can always go to the ATM and withdraw more money, but you essentially will go into the negative. There will be certain rooms that require a specific positive balance to enter, other rooms will be open to anyone. Basically, the good/serious players will end up with their own exclusive rooms. The idiots who go All In on every hand and just screw around will be stuck in the free-for-all rooms. If you have a run of bad luck, you'll have to work your way back up in the free-for-all rooms.
Arsenal said:
How does this work? Does it mean that, if you start with 20K and lose it all, by drawing 10K more from the ATM you are actually down 30K? This sounds like a pretty fair system. Can't wait to see how this works in practice. I'm worried that tables will become disrupted with people continuously standing up and sitting down. If they attach some abritrary number of hands you have to play that would add some cohesiveness.
Gigglepoo said:
I would think you'd just be $10k in the hole at that point. Say there is a room that you can only get into if you have a $50k balance - you'd need to win back $60k before being eligible to get into the room. I have no idea how they will work the tables - if people will be able to come and go as they please. I'm sure they will have tournaments though where the round just keeps going until one person wins - if they make the buy-in significant enough, people will be motivated to stick around to complete it.
Time Pilot is a scrolling (8-way) shooter where you battle various air/spacecraft in different time periods. It's fun but wicked simplistic. Time Pilot 84, the sequel was way better, obviously.
Scramble is the spiritual predecessor to Gradius - very literally. Fly through rocky caverns shooting aliens and bombing ground targets - the main gameplay mechanic though, is refueling. Which you have to do constantly to stay aloft.
Scramble is the spiritual predecessor to Gradius - very literally. Fly through rocky caverns shooting aliens and bombing ground targets - the main gameplay mechanic though, is refueling. Which you have to do constantly to stay aloft.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
Gyruss. I want to see that on the list. Not Time Pilot, Not Scramble. Gyruss. Please.
Some crappy games. Lumines might be worth it. Overall MS is being far too rigid with the XBLA service for it to really take off. I'm hoping for better, maybe when they see Nintendo's Virtual Console they may just get their act in gear.
Unlike many of the people who have experienced XBLA I'm not impressed, too few worthwhile games.
Unlike many of the people who have experienced XBLA I'm not impressed, too few worthwhile games.