Mine is Dust!
You're too kind
Mine is Dust!
The bits release this year.
Fez towers over everything else.
Honourable mentions to Joy Ride Turbo.
Got the sudden urge to play Banjo Kazooie. How are the arcade versions?
Sounds good enough to me. Now to find a deal on points. Been a while since I've bought stuff for the xbox.Both of them played well for me. I wish I had more time for them, but they're still in my backlog.
The best stuff released on XBLA this year is multiplatform: VF5:FS, Serious Sam 3 (going by the PC original), GGXX, the Sega Ages Online collections, Jet Set Radio, and so on.
Not much going on in terms of original games, though. Certainly nothing like 2011's Strania and Uprising combo.
For me, Trials Evo and Spelunky are not only the best XBLA games, they are among the very best game experiences this year.
I haven't even played Dust or Mark of the Ninja.
Dust and Trials evolution don't know what you're talking about.
Most enjoyable year ever for xbla
FEZ, Dust, Spelunky, Trials, Mark of the Ninja, Quarrel.
I can't think of many retail games that come even close this year. Of course, the above will all be overlooked in the GotY poll for stuff like Huge Marketing Budget 4 and Slightly Shinier Graphics 3.
Opinions! Everybody has got em'!
All I can say is that I'm really intrigued to see how XBLA (and PSN games) grows when the next Xbox rolls out. Will we see an even smaller gap between smaller and full blown retail games? What kind of effect will XBLA have on the Nextbox's launch? Will there be another great launch XBLA game?
Been kinda a weak year.
VF5: FS.
And I still need to pick up NiGHTS.
Been kinda a weak year.
Cyber Monday deals are up
Gotham City Imposters
Shadow Complex
Bloodforge
Real Steel
Expendables 2
Left for Dead Cold Stream DLC
Edit-Expendables 2 win button also on sale.
Cyber Monday deals are up
Gotham City Imposters
Shadow Complex
Bloodforge
Real Steel
Expendables 2
Left for Dead Cold Stream DLC
Edit-Expendables 2 win button also on sale.
Blurg!
How nice of them to give us a Free to Play PC game for 600 points and Free DLC (on PC) for 280.
speaking of which, now that the year is winding down, what are everyone's arcade games of the year?
Trials Evolution and Mark of the Ninja, best of the year.
The only one of these I wanted I bought long ago for less.
I'm not too worried about the future of DL games on MS systems, because I've whittled down my XBLA backlog a lot and devs have been pretty good at porting stuff to PC as well, so I feel like I have the option to rebuy if playing a few years down the road is in the cards.
I feel like if the next console comes out and doesn't have BC for XBLA, well... I'll definitely grumble a bit and I certainly will stop buying digital titles on it, but for the most part I'll still be able to play the games I want to play.
speaking of which, now that the year is winding down, what are everyone's arcade games of the year?
mine, in the following order.
mark of the ninja
the walking dead
dust: a elysian tale
trials evolution
alan wake: american nightmare
naughty bear: panic in paradise
quarrel
pool nation.
it's been a amazing year for games, it's impossible to choose only one.
Also, the SEGA Model 2 collection....everywhere I look I only see the three fighting games releasing this week. But what about Virtual On and Virtua Strikers? If nothing is known, hopefully by the end of the year.
Loving what Sega's doing at the moment, especially this year for classic games, though I worry that by the end of next year they're going to run out of old games I care about