Metareview -- Castle Crashers (Xbox 360)

Actually, IGN did mentioned all of your complaints. Way to actually read the reviews before bitching about them, though.

And if you wonder why a review wouldn't mention that the game is repetitive... well, you either don't know what a brawler is or don't get it. Either way, that's half the fun.

I love Castle Crashers. My gf loves it too, so finally I can get her to play some damn x360 with me.

Here's my review: It's a really fun game, and if they get the online problems figured out then it's definitely worth the $15. And if you have other people to play with you locally, it's also totally worth the $15. If you don't have anybody to play with locally and don't plan to play it online with friends, it's still a fun game, but maybe not worth the $15.

I played the CC demo and really wanted to like it. It was cute, but I and wasn't overwhelmed with a need to buy it like I was with Braid. I am in the middle of re-playing Fable in preparation of Fable to and am having a much better time with Fable than I did with the CC demo. Oh well.

So what exactly are the online problems? I was planning on picking this up for specifically for some online co-op with friends. Some other people I know have it for the same reason and they haven't mentioned a thing about any online problems yet.

Is it just with finding random players that the problems occur, rather than when accepting invites from friends (which is the only way people should be playing anyway)?

Also, what lack of features in online co-op is VGT talking about? And who the hell is VGT anyway?

Also, could I possibly ask any more questions?

There are definitely online problems. Played through with 4 people online last night, (2 in one place, 1 in another, 1 in another) had to "restart" the game about 5 times to get to the end, including having it dump us out just as we were in the middle of the end boss fight.

In one game I started, it even actually wouldn't allow me to join my own game, saying that it could not be connected to. More than once, it would let one of the two people join from the same console, but not the other.

There will definitely need to be a patch for this game. Fun, but the online troubles are significant.

Wow I wonder how those saying they were saving their money to play this "masterpiece" feel now instead of purchasing Braid?

Oh that's right most gamers want something familiar and safe. We don't deserve innovation, we are a demographic full of consumers that appreciate cheap laughs over subtle witty and clever humor, low budget horror movies over movies that attempt to use cultural subtext in a clever way, and contrived unoriginal music over past masters that gave birth to the music you love now.

I bought a 360 the other day mainly for this game.

regarding the price...depending on how old you are, you probably spent at least 5 times this amount playing The Simpsons and TMNT in the arcade.

//have not played CC yet, looking forward to it though

I can't wait to go home and play this. Anybody wants to play multi, add me to your friends. Xbox Live gamertag: "Busta Gnutt v2"

Hi gang,

I'm the editor of VGT and the author of the Castle Crashers review. I just wanted to take a moment to thank Joystiq for the linkage and offer up a slice of commentary about our coverage.

I read one comment about VGT "hashing together" our coverage based on other articles. At VGT, we provide our gamertags for anyone to view the amount of a 360 title that we have actually finished. The review is based on my time with the game, online and offline, after it was released yesterday morning.

I’d imagine IGN’s perspective of online play based on their experience over Partnernet was accurate. They likely didn’t test it on Xbox Live before the review was published.

I’ll continue embracing my "ignorance". I’m not going to reward The Behemoth for shipping a broken game that makes Xbox 360’s freeze. I’m not going to reward The Behemoth with a padded review score because they are promising to fix the game. It doesn’t matter if the fix happens today or three months from now. It was sold as a complete product and is completely open for review.

I also didn’t tell anyone "skip it altogether". I’m telling interested gamers to skip it for now. Wait until Behemoth fixes the problems and pull the trigger on 1200 MS points at that point. I’m sorry if that offends people. I simply believe that a product should work correctly and do everything it’s advertised as doing before purchase.

I lost all my stuff while playing MP and switching back to single player. This happening to anyone else, are they working on a fix?

Hope so, cuz this game rules glitches aside!

clearing my cache cleared up many of the online issues I was having. before that I couldn't play the game at all. give it a try.

I don't understand the last one..

They praise the game for it's gameplay, graphics, etc.. and then bitch about how the story is 5 hours, has no re-playability (even though that's the whole point of the game), and they complain that the servers are cluttered (even though, anyone in their right mind would know this)..

So even though they praised it more than they hated on it.. they gave it a 60? Yeah.. that really doesn't make sense.

Casle Crashers is ultimately the best arcade game on existence, and the online works fine if u are playing with someone on your friends list, which is what I bought it to do, also, over 50,000 people bought CC if you check the leaderboards, I don't believe the behemoth expected that, I also think that the netcode was the last thing they worked on, and MS rushed them for the summer of arcade release :( HOWEVER, This is no reason to pass this game up, if you have friends and like fun, then I reccomend it, I'd you're a percfectionist, then you have days of gameplay ahead of you :D

i never knew, why this game was so much hyped at x3f.com or joystiq. i played the demo, and it was... usual. nothing special. but you blogging guys piss your pants about this game. and i still don't know why. nothing special in ths game...
even the price sucks. hard...

Oi! When are those Jasper Chips coming out already!?! I wanna get a 360 NOW!! >:O

Great game; i care not for the cost as much as the quality. The game has quality & IT IS FUN for me. if the game is not your cup of tea then that's fine but why click on the link for this article & ask the FANS of the game why this & why that. I understand the frustration over the "needed" patch for better online play but c'mon ppl; would you review Halo 3 & COD4 lower since it lags especially when a new DLC is introduced? The game is solid; true 4 player brawler. grab a beer & play. The stool jokes get better with each beer consumed. as far as the "pro" reviews from non-established game site/magazine/podcast/whatever... They seemed to always give a negative review to attract gamers to their site; just like in Halo 3. As for me & my crew we'll be playing Castle Crashers for some time. it's a instant classic from the makers of Alien Hominid. P.S. if you don't like dookie jokes then DON'T GO to www.joecartoon.com because CACA is not always it's all CRACKED up to be. peaCE & have fun playing CC.

Sorry, but not worth 1200 to me. I might pick it up on sale.

Sale(s) are always always good; that's how i get most of my games & M$ points like; buy one get one free & i think last week's Target's sale of 15.00 for 1600 M$ pts.

If anyone reads this:

This game is worth playing more than once, with friends it's exponentially more fun; i really can't recommend it enough.
Whilst online is flawed currently, a patch to resolve the issue will almost certainly be forthcoming.