Microsoft releases some XBLA stats, teases 2009 releases

XBLA games only have a max of 200 points.

Well the article is about XBLA games, but I was wondering about full games.

Seeing as you know the maximum number of points for XBLA games, and I stated that I thought the average was over that number, that should have been obvious.

Depends by game as well. Cheevos in Braid are pretty straightforward, whereas there are some rather obscure ones in Castle Crashers / difficult to get.

um.. add another 5 bucks and then you can get the game. it's only broken if you plan on playing multi online.. but as the old saying goes, "60% of the time, it works all the time"

I'm in the same boat. I want Castle Crashers, but I'm not shelling out the $15 until the patch is out, and it is confirmed to work.

Unfortunately, Behemoth is not in any rush to get that patch out.

Yup, the game is still busted. Sucks, because gameplay, music and graphics are all spot-on.

What is the premise of lode runner?

In a world brimming with man-hunting robot death machines, one man uses his amazing acrobatics, upper body strength and disintigration pellets to single handedly stay alive as the last remaining human alive. Handily Robots have not been equiped with ground detection software and the entire planet has been transformed in a giant jungle gym.

If I remember correctly.

The premise of the old lode runner was:

You are running on a 2D platform maze collecting bags of money. When all the bags are collected, a ladder appears allowing you to continue to the next level. There are thieves who are trying to grab them as well, or kill you. Thieves can 'carry' a bag of money, which prevents you from collecting them all. You can temporarily 'phase out' the brick platforms that the levels are made of, either to make temporary paths down, or 'capture' thieves. Phased bricks will resolidify after a few seconds. Thieves will either crawl out of phased platforms, or be engulfed when the phased platform resolidifies (you can die this way as well). Killed thieves will respawn in a few seconds. When you have collected all the money bags.

Gameplay is puzzle platformer, requiring agility to outrun the thieves, and some puzzling to determine how to use the terrain and ground-phasing mechanics to gather all the money bags.

Yea, same here.

And you can make your own levels.

I never got the Medic achievement or the Glork achievement because I could never join a 4 player game because either it lagged, people left at the first 2 minutes or some d*ckheads who were doing boosting parties with their friends kicked out everyone and that's sucks when the stupid quick match function only founds that same exact party for about 15 minutes.

In the case of Glork everyone used RB drum.

If Behemoth ever releases the patch they better add a function so you can join anytime to any game that need an extra player, that would have saved so many games.

Goldeneye is never going to happen, but Tooie is coming in February.

"Tooie is coming in February".

This video captures my reaction perfectly.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiapRKY9rpY&feature=related

You win the Best Avatar of the Day award my friend.