Both great buys at 400 for anyone who hasn't downloaded those yet.Originally Posted by diskoboy
Both great buys at 400 for anyone who hasn't downloaded those yet.
Seriously, no new game today? WTF Microsoft?
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There is an addon for Samuri Warriors 2 today as well as the March car pack for Forza 2. I can go one week without any new titles especially with so many good retail titles being out this month.
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2 of some of the best games on live IMO. I payed full price and still love them. The best deal they have offered so far.
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Ditto. No other game on my DS has gotten as much play!
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Puzzle game this week, Tiqal
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/t/ti...de/default.htm
Also I believe the Samurai 2 XL addon is available tomorrow as well as a Switchball update on Wednesday.
The Beta for Battlefield Bad Company goes active tomorrow too.
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That S2XL addon is such a ripoff. Here I was thinking it'd be 400... maybe 800 points. Nope. 2400. The worst part is that this is yet another game I will never get 1250 in. I HATE when expensive DLC (that adds achievements) gets added to random old games.
Well that's somewhat consistent with the old Koei XL expansions, but I'd think a purely digital distribution should cut prices somewhat, considering that (I assume) the PS2 retail DVD version is the same price :\
Wednesday's game is Mr. Driller Online.
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/31/th...oming-to-xbla/
FUCK
YEAH.
I'll be post-call and home for half the day (and hopefully awake). I know what I'm doing that afternoon.
I just noticed there's a new Pinball FX table of Rocky & Bullwinkle.
Is this a completely new table, or a remake of the actual Data East table? If it's the Data East table, I'm buyin' it....
Anyway, Mr. Driller Online is quite fun. There's alot more replay value on this one, compared to the DC version.
I have no idea, but there's a video of it at GameTrailers:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/32432.html
How so? I'm on the fence about downloading the XBL version seeing as it really didn't seem like much of an upgrade from the DC version. Does the game fill the whole screen or does it have those lame "placeholder" graphics on each side (like so many other XBLA titles).
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Actually, it shows your score, current power-up, and other information on either side of the screen. But I guess you could say it's a full screen game. Split screen for multiplayer.
Quest mode is the most fun. You have to complete certian tasks before you can pass the level. And one false move can literally mean game over. Even if you have 3 men left. The achievements also help alot.... These achievements are actually pretty hard for a Namco arcade title (or I suck at this game, one of the two...)
Sadly, the only thing missing from this version is the noise Mr. Driller makes when he picks up an air capsule.
Last edited by diskoboy; 04-02-2008 at 06:21 PM.
Battlestar Galactica XBLA price frak-ed on Saturday [Joystiq]
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Casual
This Friday marks the debut of the final season of Battlestar Galactica, and while we have no delusions that the 60 minutes of commercial interrupted TV will leave us any more stupefied than we were at the end of last season wondering what in the frak is going on, we nonetheless cannot wait to pick our jaws up off the floor.
To celebrate the premiere, Sierra has chopped the price of its casual BSG-themed XBLA shooter in half to 400 points, and while playing the game still just serves as a painful reminder that we still lack a real Battlestar Galactica game, the new price is nonetheless a welcome treat. But get it while it's hot; the toasters are going to jack the price back up to 800 points 24 hours later. So say we all!
Gallery: Battlestar Galactica (XBLA, PC)
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Mr. Driller does seem to have one problem though--online multiplayer is shit. I tried for a long time to get anyone to play with me. I was really confused because usually the day the games are released there's a lot of people in the lobbies just kind of experimenting with the multiplayer. But when I actually got some people I quickly learned why nobody was using it.
The lag was absolutely rediculous. It was literally unplayable. It's simply unacceptable how bad that was. Literally, you had to drill a block about 10-12 times before the game caught up with you and recognized that you had done it.
Did anybody else have this problem or is it just me?
Does Mr. Driller have splitscreen "offline" multiplayer? Can I play with someone sitting next to me on the couch? The demo didn't give any indication of what "multiplayer" entailed.
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Maybe it's just because I was tired when I played it last night, but do the graphics for Mr. Driller seem not as sharp as they could be? I'm playing it over HDMI at a bit over 720 and only this game seems, not blurry, but just really soft around the edges. It looks like it delivers what it promises, but I don't think I'm going to pay the price for this one for quite some time.
i've had exactly the same problem.. yet the guy i was playing against was storming through the game.. till he got stuck too
with any luck they could release a patch soon which will sort it all out
IGN just gave Mr. Driller a 2.8...ouch.
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Yup, the reviewer agreed that the online multiplayer is crap, the local multiplayer doesn't exist and to him the in-game graphics seemed slightly out of focus too. Glad to know I'm not going crazy.
The "blurry" character/block sprites were the first things I noticed. It didn't look like much of an improvement from my DC version hooked up via VGA.
This release is a huge disappointment. It's a shame since I've really enjoyed the Mr. Driller series in the past and looked forward to this release. Hopefully they can fix the multiplayer issues. I'm not going to totally give up on the notion of buying the full version some day. Still, no local multiplayer is hard to swallow.
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"One of the ways I gauge a DS game is by recharges. "...Tycho (Penny Arcade)
Yeah, why is it so blurry??
Its like they recycled the GBA code for a tv screen.
Looks like an easy 200 points though.
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Mr. Driller Online's lag-tastic online play [Joystiq]
Filed under: Arcade, Microsoft Xbox 360
We got a tip that Mr. Driller Online for XBLA is having a problem with the online portion of the gameplay. Turns out that the person hosting an online game is fine while the other person can't drill anything. X3F put a video together of the bug which we've placed after the break.
Another test of Mr. Driller's online capabilities was done today with the same broken result. No word on a patch in the works. Best to save your 800 MS points for the moment, no sense in supporting broken titles.
Gallery: Mr. Driller Online (XBLA)
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