Official XBLA Thread

[NGEFreek]

In the early XBLA days I'd have like 30 TNLers on the leaderboard of just about every game I bought. Now even the major releases only usually have like 7 people.

I feel your pain, I'm still waiting for someone to come near my guardian heroes arcade score.

[jyoung]

So how are Sonic 4 Episodes I and II?

I saw Episode I is $5 in this week's sale.

[Chux]

$5 is an acceptable price.

[TobalRox]

I personally didn't care for the games... it just feels "off" to me. My fiance who is not much of a gamer but loved playing sonic as a kid (ie, she's not a jaded gamer like the rest of us) and she even felt that it wasn't very good. With that said, I have a friend who loved the shit out of both of them. Demos are nice.

[GohanX]

I read somewhere that ep 2 is supposed to fix the physics, and that it would aslo let you play ep 1 with fixed physics. I hope that's true, the level design was pretty decent, the game just didn't control right. I'd give it another chance with fixed physics, and zoom the camera out, this isn't a Game Gear.

[Yoshi]

this isn't a Game Gear.

They made it for everything else with a screen. Why not?

[Joust Williams]

stop playing sonic games

[TobalRox]

I read somewhere that ep 2 is supposed to fix the physics, and that it would aslo let you play ep 1 with fixed physics. I hope that's true, the level design was pretty decent, the game just didn't control right. I'd give it another chance with fixed physics, and zoom the camera out, this isn't a Game Gear.

Physics are better, but not "fixed." They still feel off to me. They don't let you play episode 1 either, it just has a few levels from episode 1 you can replay for some extra mode. Not worth it.

[jyoung]

Yeah the controls seemed fucked up in the demo of Episode 1. I guess I'll stick with Sonic CD.

[jyoung]

This week's sale is live:

26-June to 2-July

Trine 2 (Atlus) --600 points (50% off)
Gotham City Impostors (Warner) -- 800 points (33% off)
Nexuiz (THQ) -- 200 points (75% off)
Worms 2 Armageddon (Microsoft) -- 400 (50% off)
Shoot Many Robots (Ubisoft) -- 400 (50% off)
X-Men Arcade (Konami) 400 (50% off)

Anyone still playing Shoot Many Robots or Gotham City Impostors?

I heard the guy who did the Shoot Many Robots soundtrack also scored Fez.