SapientWolf said:
I think you may be too price sensitive if you're interested in almost every genre and still passed on every one of this summer's XBLA games. They hardly left any genres out. MS already has your money so you might as well get some enjoyment out of it.
I played the Limbo demo. It was great, but I got downright swindled on Braid for the amount of time I got out of it, so instead of buying it, I bought Eversion for $4.99. Eversion was also great. I'll play Limbo when it goes on sale.
Played the Castlevania demo, and thought it was incredibly bad. Really, really, really bad. Character move speed was slow as molasses, I don't think the camera/zoom was set up well at all, I didn't like the level layout. The whole concept of the game disinterests me. I'm a huge fan of every released 2D Castlevania game (whether pre Metroidvania or post)
Played the DeathSpank demo, impressions posted above, they're not positive.
Hydro Thunder Hurricane looked awful and reviewed awful. No interest in Monday Night Combat; I liked what I played of TF2, but I'm not enough of an online gaming guy to invest in another online-only game after Snoopy, which I still haven't gotten my money's worth out of despite really enjoying qualitatively.
I don't feel myself to be particularly price sensitive, just sensible. Everything that I pass on because of price goes on a 50% or more sale within a year, and it'll be true this year too. I still have plenty to play, just not on XBLA. I'm sure six months from now I'll be happily enjoying Limbo, and in the mean point hopefully enough people feel the same way I do that devs either recalibrate the content they offer or recalibrate the price they offer it for.
Meh from what it sounds like they did a ton of work on it. I will pick it up even if it is 1500.
Amount of work doesn't really cut it for me. Cave Story was one man's five year opus and he didn't charge a dime for it. Two people working (admittedly very hard) on Super Meat Boy doesn't justify a premium price for it, and in the mean time the game is a spiritual sibling to N+, which was not sold at a premium price. Whether the prospective 1200 point price is the dev's fault or Microsoft's fault (and I'm reasonably certain it'd be Microsoft's fault), I can't get behind that.
charlequin said:
Maybe you should stop being such an old man and buy some of the SoA games given that you're not paying for XBLA games with real money anyway. :lol
I'm well into actual bought space bucks at this point (yes, I spent all my hard earned Coke-Zone points!). In January I bought 16,600 spacepoints at 45% off, but I still bought them!
I think part of my griping is that I do actually like playing things relatively close to release so I can talk about them on GAF and with friends. I mean, I have a huge backlog and if I didn't buy anything for years I'd still be having fun, but I don't like to drop out of participating in discussions about games because of that... and unlike retail games which tend to have an active community discussing them well into the bomba days, arcade games tend to evaporate pretty quickly.
It's super tough, but also designed with this toughness in mind - you never see a loading screen, if you fail, you push reset button and automatically go back to the beginning.
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