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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:02AM Dr Blight said

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Yeah, it's a pretty good sale.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:04AM Morph156 said

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And now, I shall finally purchase Defense Grid.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:04AM PlatinumSkeet said

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I may just grab the Southpark Tower Defense game...
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:05AM Dr Blight said

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I think the USB drive update will hit before the sale ends...
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:14AM MNeko said

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Isn't Lumines chunked up into a bunch of downloadable packages? That five dollars will only get you half of the game.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:18AM MorbidToaster said

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Lumines is just fine size wise without the packs. I play it regularly, and own none of the packs. It's great, without or without.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:19AM DoubleDown said

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Crap. No Trials HD.

I would grab Defense Grid in a heartbeat if I didn't already have it. Played the demo, bought it immediately after, haven't looked back.

Might get South Park then (I played this demo and Defense Grid is definitely better). Or I might just wait for Geometry Wars 2 next week. Or both.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 5:59PM WiredKnight said

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How does the XBLA version stack up to the PC version? I played the demo on PC and it's difficult for me to imagine it working well on a console...
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 7:39PM DoubleDown said

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See my comment below... replied in the wrong place, of course.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:17AM jsutcliffe said

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Is this another Gold-only kind of deal?
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:24AM GordoJones88 said

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No, this sale applies to silver members also. It's not the sale of the week.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:18AM Spike Spiegel Humble Bounty Hun said

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Street fighter, nice. I'll pick that up.

Here's to hoping a day without a ton of April Fools joke posts. I expect to see some hefty ones.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:25AM Dr Blight said

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After you see the Halo one...you'll change your tune.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:29AM Spike Spiegel Humble Bounty Hun said

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I would get a kick out of seeing people get pranked.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:30AM Uncle Jesse said

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Finish the fight!

When that helmet came off... not exactly what I was expecting, haha.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 1:05PM Baron Milton Von Crompton said

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Don't get SSFIITHD. I feeling bad just having it, it's of of the shittest looking games in hindsight. Be it in HD or not, and I got this as a gift from my sibling as a thanks, and yet I still feel bad that he paid for it.

It's dated terribly this game has. :(
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 1:05PM Spike Spiegel Humble Bounty Hun said

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Are there still lag issues with online play?
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 1:32PM bm111 said

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks SFIIHD looks awful. It's like Capcom giving a kick in the balls to 2D fans, having udon do a shitty traceover of SFII while they put their proper team on a 3D sequel.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 4:17PM Baron Milton Von Crompton said

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Sorry, Spike, can't tell for sure, but last I played there was, granted that was a while ago though. Haven't touched it since. I'd much rather go and stir diarrhea with a stick than touch it. :(

@bm, Traced! That's exactly why it's shitty. The original sprites are outdated, and yet Udin went ahad to race over it. They should have redone it, a complete over haul... wait -- scrap that idea... Nevermind.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 4:18PM Baron Milton Von Crompton said

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Udon, rather, went ahead and traced it.

Where's our 'edit' button, Joystiq? Gaaah!
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:18AM Accessgranted said

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I think I'll get Lumines, Defense Grid, and Wallace & Gromit episode 1. I always liked the trials for those games! :)
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:22AM Kenaf said

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Was really hoping for Mega Man 9. :(
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:24AM quarlie said

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Time to finally buy Schizoid, I think.

Rocket Riot is really fun, but I already have it.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:25AM WiNGSPANTT from TopTierTacticsco said

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In case anyone here was wondering, Schizoid is a really interesting title, you should def at least try the demo. Great co op.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:28AM DoubleDown said

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Now that I think about it, my son (4 yrs) might like the Wallace & Gromit game. He's just about worn out Splosion Man and Castle Crashers so he could use something new.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 12:24PM (Unverified) said

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Raise him right. Get SSFII. I started playing SF when I was very young and it has been a life long love story. But 4 might be a bit young.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 7:38PM DoubleDown said

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I played Defense Grid on 360 first and thought the controls were very good. Later on, I played it on the PC and thought it was actually worse than 360. I guess I was just used to it, but I don's think you'll have a problem. Great thing about the 360 version is it has more content than the PC version, including the Borderlands mission pack.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:29AM (Unverified) said

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Track and Field is awesome too. For 3 bucks, DAMN!!
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:59AM (Unverified) said

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SF for me!! And how is this version of lumines compared to the psp? This is tempting if it is about a good.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:37AM Anticrawl said

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Inventory sale. Guys we gotta move out all these boxes full of intangible data to make room for new stock, everything must go and everyone is working triple shifts until we get it done.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:41AM Faceless Troll said

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I'd prefer Sam & Max, though at $5 the Wallace & Gromit game might be good for a lark.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:55AM (Unverified) said

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Time to pick up South Park.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 12:20PM JCarpio said

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I would highly recommend Defense Grid to anyone.

It was my personal GOTY of 2009. It's especially fun when you play some of the levels backwards
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 12:24PM jameskond said

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GeoWars2 will be discounted next week: http://www.bizarrecreations.com/article.php?article_id=5369 so maybe They'll do more next week :D
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 1:12PM CynicalStrike said

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You can buy stuff off XBL for the sale price now and download it any time; that's what I did when the 12 days of Christmas sale was on, due to being 100 miles away from my 360 at the time.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 1:40PM chrisrackley said

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Well, having already experienced the love of SSFIITHDR and Lumines, I can attest that these are great sales...

... but the one that stands out to me is Wallace & Gromit. I always wanted to play that.

But James-Kond (above) is right. Geometry Wars at $5 next week is the REAL steal.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 3:48PM Axcalibur said

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So, Microsoft takes a play out of Sony's book and offers a weeklong sale of it's online wares. Smart idea, no doubt. It's just odd that the last couple times Sony has done it, I've walked away happy with 3-4 titles at least. With Microsoft's sale, I see only one that I'm planning on purchasing, the South Park title.

At least in my opinion, these titles are less quality then those that Sony offers for it's sales, and maybe that has more to do with Sony playing catch-up for online sales. But paying $5 for Flower is a better deal then anything on this list from Microsoft.

I might have picked up Super Street Fighter had it dipped to the $5 mark as well, so that's a missed opportunity for MS as well. Regardless, my fingers are crossed that consumers find something here and take advantadge of this sale - that way MS will do this more often! In my opinion, MS's best week of deals was the Christmas break week, with a different title each day, that was smart.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 7:25PM GordoJones88 said

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MS has a sale on an XBLA game every week. They put sales on all the time. WTF does it have to do with Sony. I purchased PSN Everyday Shooter last week on sale, and I purchased XBLA Rocket Riot this week on sale. Next week MS has Geometry Wars 2 on sale for half off.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 8:20PM Axcalibur said

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Wow, you're quite observant.

MS to my knowledge has never had a sale like this, with multiple titles at the same time, yet Sony has done it a couple times a year for the past couple years. Also, when Sony does it, it's better titles. That's not to say Microsoft never puts good titles on sale, because it does happen, and the best example was this past Christmas. To top it off, while MS has had at least one item for sale weekly, Sony has had near 10 every week for the last few months.

Sony's just offering more deals at the moment, and it's likely because it's playing catch up with MS. That's my only observation from someone who owns and purchases from both companies.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 6:54PM QuePasa87 said

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I think I'll get street fighter.
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