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Backbreaker Vengeance is a lot of fun.

Child of Eden is nice but I don't think I would buy it full price, and definitely not a reason to get a Kinect.

Hi, are any of the newish (last 6months or so) arcade games worthwhile?

sooooo, I guess I'll be buying this:
http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2011/07/19/15-things-videogames-can-learn-from-bastion/

hell yes, this looks great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX48y24t9iU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Sh-b1jtX0

damn, that QT3 article pretty much sold me

everything about it sounds great...except maybe the actual gameplay, which looks pretty rote?

so that catherine demo

huh

xp

Bastion looks AMAZING - is it coming to PC or is it a foul and contemptible 360 exclusive (DAMN YOU SHADOW COMPLEX/REZ HD/SWOS 07)

downloading bastion now, it's just the kind of game i'm itching for right now.

demo was quite fun. if i weren't so busy right now it'd be a definite buy.
I also really liked the Catherine demo!

i kinda can't get over how fun bastion is; the voice acting alone just makes the game feel so much more immersive and real and important than other games like it, and the gameplay's just so well balanced between hack-and-slash and tactical real time battle

honestly the only thing i'm afraid of is feeling that it's way too short when i'm done (i'm maybe 6 hours in; i've heard it described as a 10-15 hour game in reviews)

Bastion is great btw -- i'm loving it.

couldn't sleep last night so i downloaded From Dust (and then fell asleep). hope it's good.

wow the reviews seem really split between great and awful

for what? From Dust?

yup. but they all mention the same things, so maybe it's just a matter of how annoyed you get by bad a.i.

when i'm killing them, not so annoyed. when they're killing my party members, very annoyed.

Catherine demo was pretty weird.

It's like Indigo Prophecy meets Q*Bert?

well put!

i agree except i enjoy qbert

man, i gotta play that demo

tried from dust again last night, it just feels buggy as hell. i finally got a little dude to touch the totem and walk back before the tsunami hit, but right before he got to the village he started walking across the ocean (!), stranded himself on a little island, and then wanted my help to get back. :/

it looks a little like black and white 2011?

remember the game populous? is it like that?

I played through the From Dust demo. Didn't encounter any major issues but didn't like it enough to buy the game. Maybe when it's cheaper.

Basically you move dirt around to divert water sources and create land bridges, to help your little crew of tribespeople move from one totem to another. It seems a little lacking in depth. Also I think I'd rather just play Lemmings.

yup, this recent lemmings clone was way more enjoyable than from dust: http://armorgames.com/play/11652/dibbles-for-the-greater-good

Oh hey, it's this thread. I'm Doc_Roswell or docroswell or maybe I should log in to see what my gamertag actually is (though my son uses the xbox more than I do, but that may change with the release of SPACE MARINE.)

Doc Roswell minus the underscore thingy. I used to play too much ROCK BAND. Currently downloading KILL TEAM because I'm an oldschool 40K geek.

Exciting new Kinect game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-dCkEa4rGU

just bought 250gb xbox on weekend, sans kinect (it doesn't really interest me). got dirt 3 w/ it.

1600 posts to catch up on!

sweet

the rental tour van had a 360 in it so on the first day of tour I stopped in a gamestop and grabbed a couple used games & then was in the van every day for a couple of weeks & then after tour I was unceremoniously returned to the house with two games & no console to play them on, and that is how I came to be the owner of a new 360 last week

what's your gamer tag, tyler

hey all mine is my ilx name with one more O. friend me!

will do, gooleo!

in like flynn, ogoole!

http://rlv.zcache.com/that_was_so_funny_i_forgot_to_laugh_tshirt-p235070817475274735yaee_400.jpg

what's your gamer tag, tyler

I'm kinda long in the tooth and don't play online yet - I have to confess that multi-player gaming has almost never been my thing. I know that's a big part of the appeal for a lot of xbox users but I basically just wanted to be able to play the new games that lol Wii doesn't get i.e. almost all the good games

you sound like a noob tbf. couldn't keep up with my leet stratz old man

in all seriousness tho, xbox live is a revelation. /the/ killer app of this generation for my money. don't know if you're maybe a bit too late to ~get into it~ at this point tho

definitely recommend trying it out if you can bag a free month's trial or w/e

I probably will at some point but idk, playing games is like an occasional thing for me - like I get really into a couple of games over a period of some months & then I'm doing other stuff for months at a time. I'm totally sure it's way fun but I am probably a little late for it, yeah

xbox live is a revelation.

I guess this makes sense if you like multiplayer, but for me xbox live is this weird extra expense that I get very little value from.

ditto. there was a minute when i was playing left 4 dead with friends online (lol single life), but since then i haven't used live at all. netflix is the only reason i'm paying for it, more or less.

xbox live is like 99% streaming netflix and demos/downloadables to me, but this is changing now that the multiplayer coop of portal 2 sits angrily unplayed in its case.

I do netflix and demos on my PS3 now, for free.

ya but PS3... has no games

Yes it does!

The combat in El Shaddai is definitely on the shallow side, but man is this game cool and weird. The sidescrolling parts are gorgeous.

ok i want to buy some games for the weekend since the gf is out of town, and gamespot is doing buy 2 get third free so here are my options so far:

dead rising 2
dead space 2
fable III
metro 2033
shadows of the damned
other stuff i am forgetting

pretty much needs to be in the $30 and under category (shadows of the damned is $35 which is hurting its chances tbh). any thoughts peeps who have played these?