This Wednesday: Galactrix Flocks things up on XBLA

Big PuzzleQuest fan but I'm going to pass on Galactix for a while... it'll go half price then I'll get it... too many other games to play for arcade Titles to be this expensive.

I'm looking forward to Galactrix, and perhaps some hardcore flocking after that.

I've heard plenty of people talk about the lack of quality of galactrix...

so i'll just keep playing the original.

What the flock is with the downloadable market pricing? Every week it seems to go up.

MS can go Flock themselves.

Nope. Not for those prices. Pass.

Odd week that there are actually two games released that I'm interested, though I'm likely to wait on Galactrix unless the 360 release for some reason fixes a few of the complaints about the DS release.

Was a huge fan of the original Puzzle Quest. It's the only game I've ever got every achievement. Galactrix is just terrible. I don't recommend it at half the price.

Save your money on Galactrix. It's not worth it. They took the PQ formula and ruined it by adding tedious jumpgates and made the game even more about luck and less skill with pieces coming in from all sides to affect gameplay. The first one was much better.

Flock looks interesting, ill have to try the demo first though.

Man. I was really looking forward to flock.

But 1200 points is a little much. I'll wait for it to go on sale some day.

I'm not going to immediately say no to either until I've tried the demos, but at this point they have to be able to really impress me in order to consider them.

What is up with these rediculous prices? This is a recession, give people a freakin' break!

800 or less ya greedy bastards!

mmm. If Flock were 800 points there'd be a good chance I'd hit buy without a second thought if the demo is reasonably fun. At 1200 points I'll have to really LOVE the demo, and even then I'd wait a good amount of time before buying while I justify the purchase to myself.

Surely the whole point of these types of games is maximising impulse purchases? Lots of people buying a cheaper product is better than only a few people buying it at a slightly higher price. Especially when there's no actual physical product involved.

Bummer

The real "sissified" thing that tees me off with this pricing is that the blogs run by Major Nelson and Gamerscore no longer accept posting on the fly, aka anon posting. So while we all know this pricing IS A JOKE, you have to actually create an account now to tell them this. Major Nelson used to be a fun place to debate issues, but now Major seems to have had celebrity go to his head, and now he is too busy to listen to the community that helped put him where he is today. Gamerscore is worse, every post has "comments disabled" right underneath it.

THIS is why I have not bought an arcade game in months at launch - I do pick up the occassional points card ON SALE, but I do not buy any titles outright any longer. I thought this tactic would go away after the DRM tool, but no, Marketplace game prices STINK these days.

And $20 USD IS NOT A SWEET SPOT. John Davidson on 1Up Yours (now ListenUp - but the quote was from an older 1Up) pretty much stated that the "sweet spot" for DLC appears to be 2.99, as that is what is being eaten up in tons by the iPhone community. It would be nice to see DLC on the 360/PS3 in the 320/$4 USD range, but we never see it unless it is crap DLC on sale, or some stupid costume packs (which are usually nothing more than pallete swaps).

$20 USD for DLC, even full games, is stupid, purely stupid. Flock for $10/800 was a day one purchase for me, but $15/1200? PASS. Unless you are busting out Lost and the Damned or Shivering Isles content, you can not expect $20 for an arcade game to be taken seriously. I do not care who you are, you will fail in some way.

I for one am SICK of MS' pricing for arcade stuff. You notice that ever since the US "went into recession", MS has been RAISING PRICES on their stuff. Not only is that insulting to the consumer, but it does cost developers purchases of their titles.

GFWL - Join the meeting through Twitter? Unless I can PUKE MY DISGUST through Twitter, you can shove your "Twitter" up your backside.

I got Galactirx off Impulse a couple weeks ago and I'm hugely disappointed. They tried to add more depth to the whole match-three thingy and ended up taking away what made the original PQ so great: the fun. Battles feel more like roulette matches and the gate hacking minigame gets annyoing extremely fast. Save the 1600 and get the original plus expansion instead - much better play value.

I love how you can't go to the live marketplace and find anything on these games. Don't know why they don't support previewing games that aren't already released, or at least queuing them up once they're out. As far as live is concerned these games don't exist.

They killed Puzzle Quest with Galactrix. I played it on the pc and the only way I could enjoy it was by modding the tedious jump gates and mining. Not to mention everyone starts the same and you have to go flying through those jump gates to find the upgrades you want only to find out they cost too much. I never found anything that made me be able to have fun. Like someone else said the battle are 10x more luck based then warlords was. Sure you can control what direction the gems flow in from but I've already matched some bombs and next thing I know the new gems allow the computer to match bombs for 30+ damage. Not to mention I spent more time unlocking the stupid jump gates then actually in battles. As someone else said, if you haven't got the original yet then use your points on that instead.

Now as for Flock, I played the pc demo and I gotta say it was pretty fun. I'm not sure how much I could play a space ship just scaring some animals around because it's not very controlled. Sometimes the animals go behind you and then when you go back for them they keep running away. But I think it could be easier on the 360, we'll see.

Looks like I'm not going to get PQG.. I was going to get Flock, now I'm going to have to think about it... that's a shame.

MS only controls the price on games they publish or own, Capcom and D3 made the price of the games, MS can only give them recommendation. SO stop saying MS is ripping you off people

I've been looking forward to Flock!, but now that I realise there is no online multiplayer, only local, I'm looking forward to it a little bit less.

Why why why does a game that you purchase and download online NOT have online multiplayer? The friends that I play Xbox with live 2-3 hours away and local multiplayer doesn't do me any good at all.

I can't wait to flock all those pretty little sheep.

But I'm getting really pissed at how much these XBLA games prices keep going up. I just won't buy them anymore.

nobody get galactrix. biggest disappointment i've seen in years