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EaglesEye379 on 22 May 2008

News regarding XBLA. They are going to delete games that suck according to Metacritic average below 65% (and people to this day still discredit this awesome website), and demo-to-full conversion rate below 6%.

I think this is a great idea with alot of comments lately of shitty games on XBLA and overcrowdedness. What do you guys think?

http://kotaku.com/5010548/microsoft-to-start-pulling-underperforming-titles-from-live-arcade



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Strategyking92 on 22 May 2008

bye-bye yaris...



And that's the only thing I need is *this*. I don't need this or this. Just this PS4... And this gaming PC. - The PS4 and the Gaming PC and that's all I need... And this Xbox 360. - The PS4, the Gaming PC, and the Xbox 360, and that's all I need... And these PS3's. - The PS4, and these PS3's, and the Gaming PC, and the Xbox 360... And this Nintendo DS. - The PS4, this Xbox 360, and the Gaming PC, and the PS3's, and that's all *I* need. And that's *all* I need too. I don't need one other thing, not one... I need this. - The Gaming PC and PS4, and Xbox 360, and thePS3's . Well what are you looking at? What do you think I'm some kind of a jerk or something! - And this. That's all I need.

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Freddy77 on 31 May 2008

I made a list of xbla titles that could be delisted :

 

Name / Metacritic score / sales (VGchartz ) 

 

Robotron 2084 =  65 = 179,977

Bankshot Billiards 2 = 65 = 454,900

Feeding Frenzy = 65 =  237,222

Dig Dug 2006 = 65 = 127,000

Ms. Pac-Man = 65 = 137,000

Gauntlet = 65 = 194,000

Crystal Quest = 64 = 90,000

Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe = 64 = 31,000

Hardwood Hearts  = 64 =  37,000

Texas Hold 'em = 63 = 840,000

Fatal Fury Special  = 63 = 35,000

Contra = 63 = 342,000

Marathon: Durandal  = 63 = 71,000

Missile Command = 63 = 27,000

Time Pilot = 63 = 92,000

Track & Field  = 63 = 36,000

Hardwood Backgammon  62 = 73,000

Hardwood Spades  62 = 67,000

Pac-Man = 62 = 295,000

Frogger = 62 = 236,000

Mad Tracks = 62 = 98,000


Root Beer Tapper = 61 = 82,000

Super Contra = 61 = 32,000

Geon: Emotions  59 = 13,000

Soltrio Solitaire  59 = 82,000

Rush'n Attack  58 = 28,000

TMNT  58 = 479,000

Aegis Wing  58 = 1,119,000

Defender  58 = 42,000

Double Dragon  57 = 156,000

Xevious  56 = 26,000

Gyruss = 56 = 29,000

Asteroids / Asteroids Deluxe = 55 = 27,000

Battlestar Galactica 55 = 50,000

Centipede & Millipede 55 = 36,000

Spyglass Board Games  54 = 121,000

Tetris Splash  53 = 112,000

Ecco the Dolphin  53 = 20,000

Yie Ar Kung-Fu  51 = 21,000

Wing Commander Arena  51 = 22,000

Novadrome  50 = 31,000

Shrek-N-Roll  49 = 10,000

Scramble  47 = 45,000

Street Trace: NYC  45 = 13,000

TotemBall 44 = 175,000

Word Puzzle 44 = 38,000

New Rally-X  43 = 40,000

Cyberball 2072  41 = 14,000

Screwjumper!  40 = 9,9000

Yaris  17 = 436,000



mrstickball on 09 June 2008

Frogger 2 and Commando 3 are the XBLA games of the week.

Very intersting...Both should be pretty big.



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

Strategyking92 on 27 June 2008

I can't wait to see how well ticket to ride has done.
If not: damn you all!



And that's the only thing I need is *this*. I don't need this or this. Just this PS4... And this gaming PC. - The PS4 and the Gaming PC and that's all I need... And this Xbox 360. - The PS4, the Gaming PC, and the Xbox 360, and that's all I need... And these PS3's. - The PS4, and these PS3's, and the Gaming PC, and the Xbox 360... And this Nintendo DS. - The PS4, this Xbox 360, and the Gaming PC, and the PS3's, and that's all *I* need. And that's *all* I need too. I don't need one other thing, not one... I need this. - The Gaming PC and PS4, and Xbox 360, and thePS3's . Well what are you looking at? What do you think I'm some kind of a jerk or something! - And this. That's all I need.

Obligatory dick measuring Gaming Laptop Specs: Sager NP8270-GTX: 17.3" FULL HD (1920X1080) LED Matte LC, nVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M, Intel Core i7-4700MQ, 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3, 750GB SATA II 3GB/s 7,200 RPM Hard Drive

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mrstickball on 07 July 2008
Machina-AX said:
Today I began working through that little recommendation list you sent me mrstickball, but N+ (which was the 1st listed) was an instant purchase, so I didn't get very far.

It's an amazing little game, perhaps a tad expensive but certainly great value for money (looks like there's loads of levels at first glance, but I haven't really looked at the 'bigger picture', I've just been playing).

So yeah, thanks :D

If memory serves me correct, there are 500 levels on the initial purchase of N+ and there is a cheap (if not free) expansion coming very soon.

 



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

mysticD on 12 July 2008

No one here like Ticket to Ride? I thought it was very fun little board game. Now that the DRM issue is somewhat thing of the past I am more open to buying XBL games (bad news for my wallet).

I know people find idea of board games on 360 XBLA to be silly but look how well Uno is holding up. It would be great to see game like Risk, Monopoly and Clue on 360 arcade. I enjoy board games but I hate setting them up and in the case of Monopoly keeping track of all the cards , money etc. They are fun for the entire family or when we have company over.

Yes I am one of those 3 people that bought Soduku game ... but when you have just 15-20 min. to play game with your wife it's perfect. I never thought co-op Soduku would be fun.



sinha on 06 August 2008
mysticD said:
No one here like Ticket to Ride? I thought it was very fun little board game. Now that the DRM issue is somewhat thing of the past I am more open to buying XBL games (bad news for my wallet).

I know people find idea of board games on 360 XBLA to be silly but look how well Uno is holding up. It would be great to see game like Risk, Monopoly and Clue on 360 arcade. I enjoy board games but I hate setting them up and in the case of Monopoly keeping track of all the cards , money etc. They are fun for the entire family or when we have company over.

 

The idea of board games on XBLA is definitely NOT silly.

Ticket to Ride is an awesome game, I'd rank the XBLA board games 1) Catan, 2) Ticket to Ride, 3) Carcasonne

 



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

sinha on 06 August 2008

Almost time for BRAID!

 



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

Mendicate Bias on 06 August 2008

Braid got a very good review on IGN, someone want to buy it and give me their impressions :)



                                           

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