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Posted: Dec 4th 2007 3:42PM (Unverified) said
Well I already have Small Arms, but might pick up Marble Blast and/or Zuma. Have heard that Zuma is 'difficult'. I know I have had my frustrations with the PC version.
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Posted: Dec 4th 2007 4:06PM (Unverified) said
yea marble blast is great and it has online multiplayer which is pretty fun.
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Posted: Dec 4th 2007 4:24PM Neon Jebus said
Marble Blast is a great game. Zuma is a great pick too. Xeno...was that not getting 200 / 200 have anything to do with those old bugs with unlocking them?
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Posted: Dec 4th 2007 4:34PM xenocidic said
@neon, it has a lot more to do with the game being mind-boggling fugging difficult beyond a certain level. and scoring 2 mln points is damn near impossible IMO.
but still , good fun, all in all. i picked it up when they had the 48 hour price special. my girlfriend likes it, and she hates games.
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but still , good fun, all in all. i picked it up when they had the 48 hour price special. my girlfriend likes it, and she hates games.
Posted: Dec 5th 2007 1:21AM Demon G Sides said
Marble Blast Ultra is perhaps the best Arcade game i've ever played, or at least the most well rounded.
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Posted: Dec 4th 2007 3:58PM Gemini Ace said
Shouldn't all of the titles from the first 6 months after launch be discounted by now? Why pick and choose these?
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Posted: Dec 4th 2007 4:21PM (Unverified) said
I was afraid this would be an issue. A disc-based game has a couple market pressures that drive its price down, namely limited shelf space and used game sales. These downloadable games don't have the same pressures -- and it shows. With proportionally very few exceptions, XBLA games and other DLC are still at the same price as they were at launch, even stuff that's two years old. I know a guy who picked up COD2 for $7 two months ago, but the DLC is still original price, worth more than the game!!
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Posted: Dec 5th 2007 9:01AM xenocidic said
@DaMan, nope it was a permanent drop.
http://xbox.joystiq.com/2007/10/18/lumines-live-gets-a-price-drop-now-800-points/
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http://xbox.joystiq.com/2007/10/18/lumines-live-gets-a-price-drop-now-800-points/
Posted: Dec 4th 2007 4:07PM (Unverified) said
Bankshot Billiards 2 I got free when I first bought my xbox, its alright but was never worth 1200 points
Lumines LIVE!, Zuma Deluxe I bought both at full price a long time ago, so I cant feel too bad now after getting this much play for so many months. Both are good games, and the wife used to play Zuma all the time.
Small Arms I bought when they had the first discounts, pretty fun and probably worth 400 pts.
Marble Blast Ultra I might pick up. For the most part, 400 points is pretty much an impulse buy for most of the XBLA games that are first priced at 800 points.
I am very excited to see this system in place. They are going to get me to spend a lot more points when they drop 800 pt games to 400.
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Lumines LIVE!, Zuma Deluxe I bought both at full price a long time ago, so I cant feel too bad now after getting this much play for so many months. Both are good games, and the wife used to play Zuma all the time.
Small Arms I bought when they had the first discounts, pretty fun and probably worth 400 pts.
Marble Blast Ultra I might pick up. For the most part, 400 points is pretty much an impulse buy for most of the XBLA games that are first priced at 800 points.
I am very excited to see this system in place. They are going to get me to spend a lot more points when they drop 800 pt games to 400.
Posted: Dec 4th 2007 7:48PM (Unverified) said
Marble Blast looks fun, I was thinking about getting it awhile ago, but the 800pts seemed a little high, must say that I forgot about that game, but now I am buying it at 400pts, looks like a fun little time waster.
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Posted: Dec 4th 2007 11:09PM ccc said
FUUUUUCK! I was hoping for Omega 5 tonite. As far as zuma goes yeah its tough but I almost have all 200 Gs outa it. Its nowhere near as hard as Astro pop is. Concerning Xbox originals, if you buy them your part of the problem. I scaned all my friends friends list and found noone was playing them which is good. I want MS to see that they made poor choices concerning these games functionality and lack of GS.
I'm starting to think the friends of friends feature isn't such a corny thing after all, in fact it could be devastating to MS as it is a means to mass communicate a single message to many fast.Now in theory, a message can get to 5 million or so gamers within the span of 5 minutes whereas before this was not possiable. This feature gives us unity and perhaps a meaningful voice in things:)
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I'm starting to think the friends of friends feature isn't such a corny thing after all, in fact it could be devastating to MS as it is a means to mass communicate a single message to many fast.Now in theory, a message can get to 5 million or so gamers within the span of 5 minutes whereas before this was not possiable. This feature gives us unity and perhaps a meaningful voice in things:)
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