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it ate a few days of my life.

what the hell is peggle?

ah ledge, cool, was wondering who reg delmot was but knew it'd be ilx, no fear involved!

when is peggle out?

i finally got braid too. generally i think most xbla games are mad overrated but braid is impressive.

nevermind, i can google. peggle is out tomorrow. nice. wish it were out today.

braid is super impressive, and super hard. some of the puzzles makes me wonder if there's something wrong with it.

There's nothing wrong with it.

stevietonychick is my foolhardily explicit username, come friend me one and all.

also, play death tank.

I will play peggle, death tank is 1200pts, you must have money to burn stevie!!! : P

but you can multiplayer the demo!!!

oooooh, I have the demo!! ok

stayed up last night just to play peggle. it was worth it.

We can multi-peggle, yeah? If so, I'm sold.

Got the demo, still don't get it. But if there's multiplayer fun might pony up anyway.

It just seems pretty random to me, where is the skill?

we can multi-peggle, yeah

I have it, so hit me up :D

Well, it is pretty random. But it's not completely random, you can get better with practice. And it's not really clear where your skill stops and the randomness starts - you can be pretty good and still have it go painfully wrong (or be pretty bad and have it go amazingly right), and for some reason that makes it stupidly addictive. I think this is a very specific category of games, there's one on the iphone too called sneezies, where you're basically setting up initial conditions and hoping for a good outcome from a semi-chaotic system. I think a lot of solitaire card games are like this too, except then it's the initial conditions which are randomly fixed, and the game lies in trying to engineer a good outcome. In all of them, the challenge comes from the urge to figure out how much of the result was due to the random aspect and how much was due to your input (so that you can then refine that input). And I think the addictiveness lies in the fact that actually, it's impossible to completely work out where the dividing line is, but you CAN feel like you're getting closer and closer to it. So you carry on wanting one more go.

Anyway, I'm working until 1am tonight, so I won't be on. But I'll give it a go tomorrow night.

What is multi-peggle??

I just meant online multiplayer peggle. Don't know how it works, yet.

waaaaaaaaaaaaaait, online peggle? DLing now.

yes I am very interested in this, d/ling demo now

it reminds me of the best pinball games, where you can have little skill but still see a lot of flashing lights and sounds and points piling up so you feel like a bad-ass.

tried geometry wars for the first time tonight and was much more O_O over that.

i am not RRODing, but i seem to be getting stuck at the signing in screen with the pulsing green circle. worrisome.

ok yeah i am hoping that there is some central problem w/xbox live, otherwise i think my xbox has just taken a dirtnap.

I couldn't connect to xblive last night - was thinking it was my network...

does anyone have a problem with the picture being slightly shimmery at times? or is it my tv?

there is no multi-peggle in the demo though to make clear. it's addictive and fun but i'll wait til next month to decide if it's worth the points.

i dunno if i can buy the same game three times.

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pc/ds/360

wow Peggle is great! I (knowingly) fell for the "if you bought this then you'd get an achievement", but then played for another 2 hours afterward so I don't regret the $10. I'm anxious to try the multi.

The screenshots of Fight Night 4 look amazing. Very excited for this game.

Started ranked duelling in peggle tonight. Played 5, won five, got up to number 33 on the overall leaderboard! Played two more, won both, should easily have put me in the top five...except both were against CHEAP MOTHERFUCKING CUNTS who unplugged as I played my winning shots, denying me the wins as far the leaderboards are concerned. Played one more, got a horifically shitty final bounce, dropped down to 130something. Gnyah.

i played some gta:tlatd team deathmatch the other night, dudes were ragging on my name in the lobby and then, they all switched teams so i was on my own, vs two teams of 3. one team had 2 helicopters and was constantly blowing the shit out of me, and then i received an XBOX live message from one of the other team, saying "you come into the subway and we fucking kill you". it was a little unsettling.

haha!! jeez

yeah, gta stories like that are what keep me from embracing the wider multiplayer experience. I play with friends on there a lot, but whenever we recruit someone from the general population (a prison term, like Brucie notes, used intentionally) I'm shocked at their idiocy. I mean they can play pretty well, but the crap they spew while doing it, ridiculous.

Online Peggle I think I can get with. I played local multi with my kids and wife yesterday. At one point my two-year old beat my six-year old, without even moving the stick at all. She was so proud, her first video gaming! My son took it in stride, thankfully. Then my wife beat me 10 times in a row. I guess there is skill to this after all!

Yeah, I also schooled ledge in the skill of peggle last night. :)

2-1 wasn't it, more or less? that's hardly schooling! i still maintain it's just luck.

uh oh, PEGGLE BEEF!

2-1 wasn't it, more or less

Haha, two huge drubbings versus one close thing. And then you dropped out!

peggle ragequit??

brutal pwngglage

After my wife went up 10-0 last night (we ended the night with her 15-2) there was serious domestic discord. I am holding out that it was mere beginner's luck, except that I've only been playing for one day too.

stevie, what's your Live name that they were all ragging on?

And then you dropped out!

what, now it's a sin not to sit playing the same repetitive game all night long? ;)

you ragequit reg delmot, admit it! anyway I'll be done for playing in some of these flatmate-on-flatmate passive-aggression multiplayer peggle sessions! if you see me on, hit me up

Peggle just ate my entire afternoon and evening, yikes.

it'll do that.

mordy, it was stevietonychick, my actual name, which made the ragging sting all the more.