The official I Love Games XBOX 360 and XBOX LIVE thread!

Ok, bought it, too crazy to ignore

^I approve the above series of posts. Will try out the demo sometime

put in some time with this last night, and it seems pretty obv that it is going to get painfully hard. that isnt a bad thing.

i think i might start a lonely thread for this, because it isnt console exclusive.

kinda surprised we don't have an all-purpose Suda 51/Grasshopper thread. probably by the time someone makes it, the studio will shut down

actually i think ill change the thread i just started into that, one sec

Fez and Mark of the Ninja 50% off today on XBL along with some other stuff

http://majornelson.com/2013/02/25/xbox-live-ultimate-game-sale-starts-today/

And

http://majornelson.com/2013/02/26/additional-xbox-live-ultimate-game-sale-items-on-sale/

can anyone recommend the following?

Dirt 2
Rainbow Six Vegas
El Shaddai Ascension of the Metatron

$3.00 for El Shaddai gives me some major backlog guilt, picked it up on disc a while back. Tried the demo last year, seems like a visually stylish game with mediocre combat, but the general weirdness seems worth the purchase price

Is the first The Darkness worth $5?

daaaaaang, i can't access that at work, but i've been looking for something new to play now that my Faster Than Light addiction has worn off. could anyone just c+p the list of games on sale, if it's easy to do?

Halo 3 $29.99 $9.99 $20.00 67%
Halo 4 $59.99 $39.99 $20.00 33%
Halo: Reach $29.99 $9.99 $20.00 67%
Halo Wars

Persistent Offers Feb 26 – Mar 4 Standard Price Discount Price Savings % Off
Dirt 2 $29.99 $4.99 $25.00 83%
GRID $29.99 $4.99 $25.00 83%
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements $19.99 $2.99 $17.00 85%
Rayman Raving Rabbids $19.99 $2.99 $17.00 85%
TCs. HAWX $19.99 $4.99 $15.00 75%
Rainbow Six Vegas $19.99 $4.99 $15.00 75%
Kane & Lynch Dead Men $19.99 $4.99 $15.00 75%
Call of Juarez $19.99 $4.99 $15.00 75%
Tomb Raider Legend $29.99 $4.99 $25.00 83%
Tom Clancy Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter $19.99 $4.99 $15.00 75%
Tom Clancy Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 $19.99 $4.99 $15.00 75%
Virtua Fighter 5 $19.99 $4.99 $15.00 75%
Bioshock $19.99 $4.99 $15.00 75%
El Shaddai Ascension of the Metatron $19.99 $2.99 $17.00 85%
The Darkness $19.99 $4.99 $15.00 75%

thanks Mordy!

if that works for englishes people, bioshock for roundabout $5 is a good deal yes?

Hmmm...I'm not really a fan of Halo, FPS's or the Tom Clancy games, and I'm pretty burned out on racing games as well. I don't know what the Might and Magic game is but I might check that out.

Oh yeah, Bioshock's a great game if you haven't checked it out yet!

bought the M&M, never had heard of it! sounds like my kind of thing, a dumb RPG-ish dungeon crawl

definitely a great price on Bioshock, but i should remind that the retail double pack with 1, 2 + all DLC came out recently for $30

better than Bioshock 2, which I've played?

Mordy, I'd place Dirt 2 as the best of the three Dirt games (2 > 1 >>>>>> 3) and definitely worth $5.

might give el shaddai a shot. 2.99 is a good price for some dope visuals

Dark Messiah is done by Arkane, who put out Dishonored last year.

Yknow, with massive digital sales, I never worry about picking up used games. It means I can't sell mine, but...

El shaddai is super worth it!

Like srsly everyone should buy it for that price, that's less than a cheap xbla game. I hated rainbow 6 Vegas with a passion, so I wouldn't buy it for free dollars

better than Bioshock 2, which I've played?

I didn't hate bioshock 2 as much as some other people seem to have, but yes, 1 is a far better game, at least writingwise

is there a rolling big console new release thread? cuz I'd like to complain about crysis 3, thx.

This any use to you?

The Crysis/Far Cry/Crytek-in-general thread

The only game I've boarded the hype train in 2013 and pre-ordered: Injustice: Gods Among Us. I'm psyched!

This strange little place opened around the corner today so I went to have a look, they were doing the new model 360 plus two games for £100 for the first 10 people to show up and I managed to be early enough for that, so grabbed one with Forza Horizon and Injustice. Now need to decide whether I'm going to flip it for profit, or replace my ancient first-gen machine with it, or become a two-xbox household, or what.

metro: last light is still fun. it's super linear, to the point of sometimes literally being on rails, but it's really atmospheric and there have been a number of times when i've just barely squeaked through a situation due to low ammo or being out of gas mask filters (once i thought i would have to start the game over until i remembered that you can load your currency as ammunition, since ammunition is currency). can't imagine what it would be like on 'hard'.

so this starz-branded free gladiator fighter freemium thing. kinda ok! fuck freemium tho.

lol i neglect to mention it's called spartacus something or other

So the early reviews make it sound like Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is this year's artsy-fartsy feel-good downloadable title of the year. Multi-platform too (360/PS3/PC). Who's gonna be the guinea pig?

if i go on xbox live to download some dlc but i'm using a flashed xbox with a backup disc (i paid for the orig game on pc and i'm damned if i'm paying for it twice) what are the odds that i'll get my xbox completely frozen down and have to lob it in the bin?

and what are the % odds of me happily downloading the dlc?

(game in question is splinter cell conviction, loving the DLC for it on pc but it keeps bsod'ing all the time)

I would probably be the 'Brothers' guinea pig, but I am getting ready to put my flat for sale so the xbox has gone into storage. I knew there'd be games I wanted to play (including, tentatively, Flashback) the moment I put it in a box. :(

was happy to see Crackdown free with gold, I know it's old but I'd never gotten around to playing it

not that I will now either, but at least it's ~possible~

haha - i actually just bought the game used a few months ago, but I haven't touched it either. still, convenient to have digital.

Yeah it's one of the first games I played on my 360, never quite finished it so I liked the idea of going back...but my savegame has vanished bah.

same here, JimD. and the game only really comes into its own once you're a fair ways deep into it, and your dude is so uber-powered he can leap tall buildings in a single bound.

I played the first two levels of Brothers. Very good game. The puzzles are more or less like Ratchet and Clank's puzzles, except you're moving both characters simultaneously. Each analog stick and trigger corresponds to one of the two brothers. Lots of climbing, lots of beautiful scenery. If you want something super challenging this probably isn't for you.

hmm sounds intersting?

reviews i'm seeing are saying "emotional masterpiece" and "ico meets limbo in fable's world" which kind of setting of alarms bells for me.

i run hot and cold with indie emo games (ps FUCK BRAID)

I love Braid, but always skipped the part where you read the backstory or whatever because Blow is a horrible, horrible writer. But the gameplay rules I think.

"ico meets limbo in fable's world" is fair enough although maybe the better analog would be Papo y Yo. The world reminded me a little bit of the Nepal section of Uncharted 2.

Also, if you don't have any dialog, you don't have any bad dialog.

Aw, kinda bummed that all the reviews for Ducktales Remastered are more or less universally negative

just finished brothers. it's beautiful, it has a few touching moments. save your first (and only) playthrough for a co-op experience with your significant other or friend. it's not challenging, whatsoever, but there are moments that would probably be more enjoyable with a companion. takes about 4 hours to complete.

What a mess xbox live/microsoft account management is.

Trying to log into my profile on 360, not having it. Tried resetting password. failure. Tried creating a new profile - email already exists. Tried contacting them, tells me to put in TWO different email address ?!!?!

fuck them. I've had it with their shit.

Heard good things about an XBLIG title called One Finger Death Punch. It's actually a pretty good game with a fun two button, no-stick mechanic, but as soon as I started hearing some jackass sacking "ROUND-UH ONE" in a bad accent it was like god fuckin' damn it

I remember in some thread posting a while back that I didn't "get" Rayman: Origins when I first played it a year ago or so. Tried it again tonight on a whim - pulled a total 180 on this one. It's really not a game that you should first play in frantic multiplayer, but one you should play by yourself, at your own pace, with headphones and close to the TV if possible, to drink it all in. The music, animation, and design is just wonderful.