Board 8 > --XBLA Summer of Arcade: THE TOPIC--

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Liquid Wind posted...
others?

Rez HD, Super Meat Boy, N+, Outland, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, and 3rd Strike Online are a few other good ones. Lots of nice XBLA games to choose from.

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

The areas so far are very small, you can't aim the bow until you start pulling back (it makes the powershot timing more of it's own annoying mini-game instead a fun weapon mechanic), and you replace your weapon with one you pick up.

I never used the bow, so it didn't bother me. The areas are small, but each is unique and has its own gameplay twist. You replace weapons when you pick them up, but theres usually an armory nearby if you want to switch back. Those sections kind of serve as tutorials for those weapons.

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Liquid Wind posted...
I'm getting a 360 next month(waiting for the GoW3 bundle), what are some good arcade games I should get? so far I'm aware of

bastion
braid
insanely twisted shadow planet
shadow complex
ikaruga(never got this on GC)

others?

Bomberman Live... not sure if people play on XBL much anymore, but it's a solid game to play with friends still.

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords if you've never done PQ before.

I found Band of Bugz to be worthwhile but ymmv.

SOTN if you've never done that before, or you like having a picture of Dracula on your screen at all times!

There's a Settlers of Catan game as well

probably lots of others I'm forgetting. also you can just DL demos for anything that grabs your interest.

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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

TS: Cold War is fun!

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Grbtmngr

about to try the demo

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definitely buying it, feels a lot more polished than the first one, and I had a lot of fun with it. I also love the mini-game addition.

22,000 people already own it, dayum. Sales wise it could crush every other XBLA game in just one week.

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The "enemies explode when they die" thing keeps ruining me in the hoard mode in Bastion.

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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

Played my first versus match, got my ass kicked.

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Grbtmngr

haha, maybe I'll play one with you Teevee, I'm probably even worse.

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SALEZ

Half Minute Hero: 22,000
Trenched: 101,000
Ms. Splosion Man: 49,000
Bastion: 131,000
ITSP: 42,000
Toy Soldiers Cold War: 55,000

toy soldiers is owning, and will probably be the top seller of Summer of Arcade.

Bastion has done really well, considering the small team, I imagine Kasavin and crew totally made bank on this game already. They also have an upcoming Steam release, and long term sales, yeah. $$$$

ITSP has some hella disappointing numbers. They'd be decent if it was a regular release, but when you factor in Summer of Arcade, plus the long development cycle, thats just pretty weak. They have to be upset about them.

I don't have any fruit ninja kinect or From Dust numbers, but From Dust has actually been doing better than Bastion on the top downloaded chart. I actually think it might have been the #1 game the week ITSP launched even, so it had 2 weeks of really strong sales, and continues to stay in the top 2-3. So that might end up being the #2 best seller of Summer of Arcade.

Fruit Ninja Kinect was #1 for last week, but we'll see if it has any staying power.

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did some more NG+ with bastion yesterday/ doing a 2nd playthrough with shrines on really is a lot of fun.

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