Mike_Nathan

It's not just the indie games. XBLA games, DLC - they're just a slow, long list now.

The new marketplace is a nightmare.

At least if your credit card info gets stolen again, you can sue.





Oh, wait....

And the number of penises built in Minecraft increased expontentially...

To kurwa chuj jebany...

That drawing of MegaMan reminds me of Tank Girl. A lot.

Riiiiight. Let's see what they have to say in a week.

@CaptainProtonX

I'm glad I'm not the only one who looked at the pic and thought "landscape filled with penises".

"We've placed the screens in separate galleries in case, for some reason, you have trouble distinguishing Pac-Man from Galaga"

Funny, because neither one of them look like Pac-Man nor Galaga.

@BinaryTweedDeej

True. And my qualms about the game aside, I am very glad that a game like Clover did come out.
I don't think Microsoft ever expected anything to ever come of the indie games. Honestly, I'm pretty sure they only created the option so that certain people would stop using "homebrew" as an excuse to legitimize modding the console. And with the early pile of games on there, they were close to being proven right.
And then came Clover which was one of the first games among the indies that was made with some imagination and effort. The other title that also comes to mind was the College Lacrosse game that was also like nothing else that had come out previously. Indie games like those two were kind of the game changer that made critics and Microsoft take notice.

@fallouthirteen

The reason it was discounted was because it vaguely tied into the whole St. Patrick's Day theme. Y'know cuz Ireland and four-leaf clovers and all that.

But Clover is an indie game that critics loved because to supposedly shows what an indie game could be. It had voice acting, puzzles, multiple endings, etc. Ok, the gameplay was somewhat crap and the art style left much to be desired, but it also came out when most over indie games were unimaginative shooters and "use your controller as a massager" apps.
Unfortunately, that early love for the game causes critics to still overlook its flaws and, more importantly, that much much better indie games have come out since.