XBL deal: Scott Pilgrim vs. Your Wallet (spoiler: your wallet wins!)

by Ben Gilbert on Nov 8th 2010 1:20PM

Scott Pilgrim took on a lot in his battle for Ramona Flowers -- dudes, ladies, twins, Jason Schwartzman -- but he's yet to face one mighty foe: the ravages of time. He's combatting that very enemy this week, dropping his game's price on Xbox Live Marketplace from 800 MS Points ($10) to just 400 ($5) until Monday, November 15.

Between this and Super Meat Boy's introductory price, you could have yourself a veritable smorgasbord of digitally distributed delights for just few dollars -- let's just hope you've got plenty of spare patience for each. And all this arrives just in time to catch some new DLC for each game? It's a Christmas miracle!

Source: Major Nelson

Tags: deal-of-the-week, dlc, microsoft, scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world, ubisoft, xbla, xblm, xbox

Reader Comments (55)

finally a great price for an awesome game. I'm gonna pick this up and the Scott pilgrim vs world dvd.

Thank you, Procrastination, my good friend. You have saved me dollars once again.

@Ruinkind

I caved in and bought it this Saturday. For how much I played the game I'd pay 1200 points for it....

@Ruinkind

Procrastination pays off again. Pretty much mandatory for me to pick this up now.

@PlatinumSkeet
yep, I bought it for full price.
No regrets though. It's an awesome, awesome, awesome game!
BUY THIS YOU CHEAPOS

When is Monday November 14th? Which year? That can't be this year.

Exactly what calendar is Joystiq using? The 14th is a Sunday, not a Monday.

@Faceless Troll
I just noticed it was Major Nelson that made that error and Joystiq perpetuated it. Oh well, great deal until that Monday rolls around!

*bought*

Yep my wallet wins because I'm still not wasting money on this hipster trash.

@Ratfoot its actually a really good game, if your into double dragon esk gameplay you should check it out

@Ratfoot

I dislike hipsters as much as the next guy, but this game is decent. You're missing out,

@tasteofink313 -esque

@Ratfoot

This game is akin to Castle Crashers, Double Dragon, River City Ransom, etc. If you don't like a good beat 'em up with kick ass soundtrack, I'm afraid the gamer inside you is dead. Too many years of Madden rehash, FPS flavor of the season, and Guitar Hero: We Ran Out of Titles have damaged what your mind knows is gaming nourishment.

I mean really, how can you hate on any game that allows 4 player couch co-op these days?

@Ratfoot I hated hipsters before hating hipsters was mainstream.

@Petebot330 i knew that looked weird lmfao

@Ratfoot How is this game a hipster game, "please explain"?

Dumbass can't tell the difference between "hipster" and "indie."

Hmm.. might try it again, wasn't digging it for 800msp

@Mazrael

My goodness, what a handsome fellow!

Sigh....no PSN love. :/

@Dizazter
sigh indeed. :/

So what's the game like? It looks like a rebrand of Castle Crashers (not that there's anything wrong with that).

@Teancum More like river city ransom

@Teancum Whats it look like? its Scott Pilgrim!! :O

LOL 2D side scroller more pixelated than Castle Crashers,also i prefer the 8bit music in it over Castle Crashers as well. Don't know your age but if you remember River City Ransom of old, that's the best comparison to SP vs the World.

@Teancum It's like River City Ransom meets a more polished, less bad version of Castle Crashers.

@fightbait That's high praise since I consider CC to be one of the best XBLA games ever. Still, I'll have to check out the demo.

"More like river city ransom"

SOLD

Even if you're not a fan of SP, this is a really well made beat'em up game, with a lot of depth and a LOT of retro love for the old 16-bit button mashing days. Do yourself a favor and play the demo, and try not to smile.

I wanted to like this game, but it felt unbearably slow to me. I think I'd like it better if everything was twice as fast.

@quarlie It's a lot faster by the end of the game. You have to buy items to increase your speed stats.

Fair enough. Maybe I'll give it another try.

If only Microsoft accepted my credit card [which is accepted everywhere else] ...

@shortboy12 You only have one? You must not be American. Or over 21.

@shortboy12 You dont want them to have your cc on file. Its a bitch to get off and I learned the hard way. Easies way to get it off is to get your cc stolen - which happend to me :(

@Haon

It's easier when your card is on there so that you can just add points freely and what not. You don't have to enter in your information or codes every time you want to purchase something online. I was easily able to delete one card and add another from the website. It's not like they are going to secretly charge your card or something.

@ccc Flagged for spam.

Whoa, I was just about to buy this when I realized why I didn't get it in the first place... NO ONLINE CO-OP.

Close call.

@Uncle Jesse

Don't you have any, ya know, real friends?

And don't give me none of that 'but they live soooooo far away' crap either.

@Kaminaaa

Yes, I have many friends. Most of them actually do live far away. I don't have friends come over every weekend to play video games with and I only have a small handful of friends that actually do play games. Good enough for you? If this game had online co-op, which it should, I would have bought it already. Every review of this game asks why there is no online play. I think I'm pretty justified in wanting something as simple as being able to play this online with friends.

@Kaminaaa not all friends are into video games, or would come over just to play. When I have friends over we usually spend time socializing doing something else, and video games are the kind of things I do when I'm by myself and need entertainment.

I would love to play a game like this with others so if it has online which is normal nowadays then problem solved. I might pick this game anyways but it looks like a lost opportunity to make the game even better.

@Kaminaaa
Dude, haaave mercy....

but seriously, don't be a dick. That's Uncle F'in Jesse, show some friggin respect.

Ps. Aunt Becky is still hot.

@pkpk523

I don't live with the Tanners anymore. I can't just hit the couch with Danny and Joey and have at it. Times have changed. Thankfully, Becky's looks have not.

Have mercy.

Well, now I really do have no reason to not buy this.

This game almost made me "BARF!" all over my River City Ransom cartridge. Looking forward to the Super Dodgeball add-on.

@SEGA Scream im so stoked for the dodge ball add on, its gonna add so much more gameplay, and knives as a playable character

can't wait to get home and pick the game up

Rock on this is just the incentive I need! Loved the movies and the comic book, hopefully the game will satisfy as well

Deal is only for Gold accounts - Sadface.

@Demo22 Ah... That sucks. I was gonna go for it for $5...

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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

XBL deal: Scott Pilgrim vs. Your Wallet (spoiler: your wallet wins!)

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