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I dug out PGR4 for a wee run last night, I'm still embarrassingly early on in the career mode on noob level. I won a few races and got my ranking up to about 60 or something but I think I'll restart on a tougher difficulty. I still can't drive anything remotely rear endy in the wet though - I'm fish-tailing all over the place and can't seem to judge when to put the power down. Successful power slides seem to almost happen by accident - I'm blaming the game physics for that as I don't have the same issue with most other road racers.

im still kind of baffled by the crackdown 2 demo - not only is it pretty much no fun, i think the graphics and shooting/targeting/jumping seem actually worse and more broken than the original?

admittedly its been quite a while since the first one and i never really dug into it like a lot of people did, but jesus given all the hype thats preceeded this it seems pretty awful, esp for something that is (i think) a july release?

i think the last time i was this "oh hell no" towards a demo was that stupid jetpack shooter thing and we all know how well that turned out. at least CSI was hilarious in its badness.

Oh, I had heard good things about it. Apparently some people are digging the demo? (MTV Multiplayer even put up a way to crack the demo and give yourself unlimited time.)

xp

u and ur demos

I agree w/you here tho; I really dug the original crackdown but this seemed a bit same old same old and not especially pretty considering how many years have passed since the first

idk, to each their own i guess, but the more i think of it the more it actually reminded me of that big multi-player shooter where they drop you in from orbit - section 8? which was just terrible xpost

yeah i do spend a lot of time obsessing over demos for some reason - i did resist the pull of the transformers one and that weird football thing called backbreaker because there just cant be any way they are good

cozen, I said the same thing about Crackdown last September, but who was listening?

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO YOU HUSH YOUR MOUTH

― cozwn, Friday, September 25, 2009 1:11 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark

dunno who that guy is but I've retrospectively sb'd him

Defense Grid, 400 Points
PB Winterbottom, 400 Points
Rocket Riot, 400 Points
Darwinia+, 800 Points
Chime, 240 Points
Poker Smash, 400 Points

tempted by defense grid, darwinia and chime; anyone got these?

I am going to buy 12 months of X-Box Live. Is there cheap prices right now via Silver Account (a kid at gamestop said there might be cheap prices if I log into my Silver account and check.. I don't want to bother trying to hook my X-Box up to the internet)?

The lowest internet price I've found over the past week is $35 (with shipping). I'm thinking I should go ahead and buy it or does it get any cheaper?

I played most of those demos and the only one that seemed worth spending money on was Winterbottom imo.

I've heard great things about Winterbottom. Might buy it this weekend.

rarely gets cheaper, lorax - i'd just pull the trigger on that

Chime is a pretty compelling puzzler. Well worth the price.

I am going to buy 12 months of X-Box Live.

I don't want to bother trying to hook my X-Box up to the internet

Not getting this.

Just cancelled my xbox gold auto-renewal. Glad one can finally do this online, even though the way they have it set up is pretty confusing. It feels good to be free.

Defense Grid, 400 Points
PB Winterbottom, 400 Points
Rocket Riot, 400 Points
Darwinia+, 800 Points
Chime, 240 Points
Poker Smash, 400 Points

tempted by defense grid, darwinia and chime; anyone got these?

― hi bianca :x (cozen), Friday, June 25, 2010 4:28 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

any answers to these?? i'm feeling some arcade right now

also curious about limbo (revived that thread)
snoopy flying ace (seriously)
blacklight: tango down (a cheap shooter? i never to the mw2 map packs. nor bad company 2)

something else?

snoopy flying ace (seriously)

fairly sure this is just ~average~. maybe best to wait for a sale on that one

hmm oh well.

i'd love a simple little arcadey flight sim. if there was a CRIMSON SKIES ARCADE, i would buy it!

isn't there a CRIMSON SKIES ON DEMAND up on arcade? the xbox version? nuh sure

oh ha it looks like there is such a thing

xp lol

just go out and buy h.a.w.x. for like $5 at a pawn shop imo

consensus on the sale picks seems to be: defense grid is good even if you don't like td games; darwinia+ is good; and PB winterbottom is diet braid; and, chime and rocket riot are aight if you have some points hanging about your account doing nothing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Road_to_Revenge

really liked the pc game from 100 years ago, i heard these were so-so

xp i hated braid tbh. and i'm not so into endless-wave fight management type games either.

yeah me either... I tried the demo of defense grid and it seemed ok I guess but I find those games really much of a muchness

i was momentarily excited by the demo of toy soldiers (love those little plastic men) but it was not so good imo

tempted by one of the board games on xbl but can decide on one out of catan, carcassone or ticket 2 ride

in re: to Crimson Skies - online multiplayer for all original xbox titles no longer works :(

shoot. thought maybe they'd re-upped it all to 360 live, i don't even have a o.g. xbox

original xbox games online used to work fine via the 360 until a few months ago, when they finally canceled support

i think i'll test defense grid out on steam

tried some demos! aqua, blacklight and deadliest warrior.

all pretty bad.

cancelling 1 vs 100 is some bullshit.

yeah, that sucks

i mean i get that whatever they'll do next will be basically the exact same thing except it'll be KINECTED and they'll own the intellectual property and they'll make it better but the smokescreen of "it wasn't profitable" when they're throwing money away on a motion detector and reaping hundreds of millions of xbox live memberships and you STILL have to sit through a shitton of commercials for phones and orange drink is BULLSHIT

So is Limbo going to be amazing or just a'ight.

I'll probably download it after I finish Death Spank, which is pretty fun in spite of its retarded name. Pretty simple hack and slash with adventure game elements by the one of the dudes involved with Monkey Island.

Kinect offically priced at $150/£130/€150. comes with Kinect Adventures game.
Bundle also with Xbox 360 4GB flash version, Kinect & Kinect Adventures for $300/£250/€300.

loooooooool abandon hope now kinect dudes

So you could just buy a Wii for roughly the same price as the Kinect on its own?

yup. this is the bit that amuses me tho
"Pre-order Kinect or the Xbox 360 Kinect Console Bundle today, and at launch receive a token to download three exclusive game levels for Kinect Adventures, the game included with Kinect."

"Buy our stuff and we'll give you a code to own our stuff!"

limbo is out!

first 10 mins have been great!!

totally gonna get limbo

deserves its own thread

Limbo launches on July 21st

o fuk

I'll probably download it after I finish Death Spank, which is pretty fun in spite of its retarded name. Pretty simple hack and slash with adventure game elements by the one of the dudes involved with Monkey Island.

― mayor jingleberries, Tuesday, July 20, 2010 11:37 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

this would be good a hack & slash / inventory shuffle game, but the joeks were wearing on me just from the demo.

cosine on that. spoken word kills that dialogue dead.

any of you yankee fuxx pick up deadly premonition?

I played a bunch of this last night and it totally rules.