Castle Crashers set at 1200MS Points

it's cool anyway because I picked up a few 1600 point cards for only $15 at target....can't wait

If it was the rumored 1800 pts, it would have had to knock my socks off in the demo (especially because I thought they said it would be 800 pts) . At 1200 pts, as long as I've been waiting for this game, it's bought with no trial.

It doesn't surprise me, though, since they delayed the game over a year which would increase their costs substantially. That would definitely necessitate a $5 increase. From the initial buzz and what I've seen, I think this one will be good, too.

1200 isn't as bad as 1800, but still.. $15 is alot for a game that i can't sell or trade for something else. If it's good, i'll get it.

Has anyone noticed a trend with the pricing? It wasn't TOO long ago that 400 points was the norm for arcade games.. then 800 became the norm. Now with Penny Arcade Ep. 1, Braid, and Castle Crashers, is it a sign that 1200MSP is going to be suggested retail?

I'll definitely download the trial, but I'll reserve judgement until I've played it through. Initially I was really excited for this but it was announced so long ago that my excitement just tapered off.

I still need to get Braid and change my gamertag so that's 2000points gone already. Plus if Castle Crashers is good there's not going to be much change from 4000pts. Ouch!!

BS. I'll play the trial, and if I REALLY like it, I'll get it.

*Microsoft realizes they can charge 1200 points for arcade games, proceeds to keep screwing us over even more.*

I would have been fine with 1600 points, but 1200 is even better. I too also just some of the cards at Target yesterday, and I may go and get some more today again with everything else that's come out recently.

I'm gald Microsoft for some reason decided to give me 500 points for some error I never recieved, allowing me to afford this!

:D

i really dont mind this being 1200 points cuz it'll actually be worth it and have enough content in it to be worth 1200.

Thats fine by me.

May I point out this is the same price as BRAID.
So why was there so much bitching about Braid and not Castle Crashers?

Even though I haven't played it yet I have a feeling this game is going to be worth the 1200 points.

Hilarious. Judging from comments around the web I get the following feeling:

Braid = 1200 ms points: Oh noes, world coming to and end, M$ is out to get me, arghghghghg.

Castle Crashers = 1200 ms points: Oh, Jolly good deal chap, it could have been 1800.

Hopefully I am not the only person confused by this dichotomy.

I'll take 1200 over 1800 any day. I just picked up a 2800 card yesterday so that I could get Bionic Commando and Castle Crashers. I'm glad it's not 1800!

I think the real issue of value for Castle Crashers is that it's online coop (and versus) 4 player multiplayer. I'm actually suprised Geometry Wars 2, Galaga Legions, Braid, and Penny Arcade don't have online multiplayer (and several of these don't even have local multiplayer). Local Multiplayer is a minor inconvenience to program; Online Multiplayer is *not* an easy programming feat and XBLA cert makes it even more fun.

In the end, tho, value is what you think it is. $15 is not pocket change (or is it?) but in a time where triple A titles are selling for $60 (and we rush out to buy them), we jump on sales for these titles when they are marked down to $50, $40, or $30 (and alot of these games are garbage). Disk games have alot of advantage (ie, selling them, taking them to a friends house, rental), but lets not forget that its near impossible for independent developers to compete for shelf space at Best Buy and Walmart against such mega giants as EA and the 1st party publishers.

So, download the trials or play them at a friends house, and then decide for yourself if its worth $15 (one dinner out or a trip to the movie theater). For me personally (and I've played Castle Crashers quite a bit), I'll say its underpriced at $15.

1200MP is the new 800MP.

Probably passing. Spent 800MP on Alien Hominid and played it for about an hour. I'll DL the demo and give it a shot though...

More like most anticipated XBLA game ever, am I right?

(I didn't bother reading the other comments so someone else might have already said this. Whateva! I do what I want!)

I knew the 1800 MS points price was just a RUMOR floated by Castle Crashers dev... so that 1200 MS price would look more tasty...


But this should be 800MSP!!!!!!!!!!! I'll wait for the sale (or just pass). Looking forward to trying the demo though.

:D

*cabbage patch*

In the whole Castle Crashers vs Braid argument for 1200 ms points, Castle Crashers has more replay value and online co-op and multiplayer.

I really didn't find Braid to be that great from the demo, it was okay. I didn't really like the art style that much but the puzzles were fun.

We're approaching the stage where XBLA games are going to automatically be 1200 and up, whether they are worth that or not.

I just hope Castle Crashers isn't a huge bug fest mess of a game that Alien Hominid was. And if it is, expect to wait half a year for a patch.

Christ, two games come out at 1200 points that obviously took a significant amount of development time and have really high production values considering the size of their relative "teams" and people claim that's the new 800 points?

These are pretty much the only games either of these developers are releasing this year. Keep that in mind. Capcom has 500 other titles to bring in their millions from.

vote with your wallets people. If you dont agree with the price then fuck em...got some god damn principles. Otherwise ofcourse microsoft are going to set 1200points as the new standard, and then 1600 after that, and 1800 after that, and so on and so on.

Is it so hard to see the difference in quality BTWN old 400 points games with "HD" graphic modes, Older 800 points games, New 800 point games, and new higher point (1200 - 1600) games?

800 points once got you Cloning Clyde. Now it gets you Bionic Commando Rearmed. We used to have to wade through releases like Screwjumper! before. Now each game coming to arcade is as high quality as Nintendo DS and PSP games. These are no longer just bite-sized week-or-2 distractions, these are full games, that will be played in your system as long, if not longer, than full shelf releases.

The sound effects, music, graphics, features, variety of gameplay... these elements are expanding in each game coming to the service now, or are being much better refined, in the case of more singular experiences.

Retail games across all systems have lower cost releases, higher cost ones... XBL will stay the same way. AND this fall we're getting community games, which, hopefully, will give us some low priced games that offer high amount of fun.