Phonomezer
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Yey, downloading.
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Dust: An Elysian Tail |OT| Become the Storm
- Thread starter toythatkills
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It's way worth it. Dust is much more of a full fledged title than stuff that went for $10 back in the day.
edit: Also, at least you don't have, like, 790 points.
try your luck following ChrisBoth Randomizer and zulux used the same code that I tried the second Noogy posted it? WTF/LOL
Guess I'll just wait until I have moneys too.
it seems like he is about to give away 3 more codes at random this time.
I don't have it installed yet (it won't let me as it doesn't seem like it's actually up in the NA store quite yet) but if I recall right it was mentioned you can change difficulty mid game, so I might actually start on the hardest and then turn it down if I need to.
HadesGigas
Member
I went with Tough. Hard to tell if that was a mistake or not yet.
I would personally recommend tough (3rd difficulty). Reason being is that it forces an emphasis on gear and healing, and a bit of grinding. If you are critical pathing it, normal is fine.
Tough it is then!
Based on the quick look it seems that the standard difficulty isn't that tough. Though perhaps Brad was really overleveled. Tough seems a good choice.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Tough is the way to go. I'll be scrounging around for loot Metroidvania style and grinding away.
toythatkills
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basic_text
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Diablohead
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Downloading, Bros!
I am rather disgusted in microsoft, not a single advert or notice about dust being released today on the UK xbox live at all, for shame microsoft, advertise games ffs not black ops multiplayer videos.
I am rather disgusted in microsoft, not a single advert or notice about dust being released today on the UK xbox live at all, for shame microsoft, advertise games ffs not black ops multiplayer videos.
Phonomezer
Banned
Got the title screen on while making some dinner. Great music!
Man. I should pay more attention to this thread.
thanks.
i aint getting shit anyways trying to punch these codes in on my phone while im at work.
not only is it WAY too slow, but for some reason i have a bug that reverses the first and second letter of every block of code. dunno whats up with that.
im certainly done trying though. good luck to the rest of you code hunters!
transience
Member
It's Dust Day! Yay!
Ten hour work day! Boo! At least coming home will be fun. If anyone wants to give me a code, I'm more than happy to take it.
Ten hour work day! Boo! At least coming home will be fun. If anyone wants to give me a code, I'm more than happy to take it.
Four_Chamber
Member
Well gotta pass out soon but got to play this a bit. This is a magnificent game. The art is great and I'm pleasantly surprised by the voice acting. I'm prone to exaggeration but this may be the best XBLA game I've purchased. Easily worth the 3 year wait from that first Youtube video I saw
Chill out dude, Hybrid is still being shown in the home tab...I'm sure that Dust will get it's share of ads later today.
Just finished downloading the game.
drifter444
Member
What a shitty night. I bought the game from the xbox website and when I try to download the game on my Xbox 360, I get an 80150101 error. Anyone experiencing the same problem or have a solution?
Options
(I don't think I need such tags but I always prefer to play it safe )
Now I need to decide.... stop playing with the options and start the game when I should go to bed and get yelled at by the wife.... or attempt to go to sleep before my wife wakes up in 30 min knowing that my game of e3 2011 and likely 360 GOTY is ready to be played.
I am loving the fact that dust's how to play is actually detailed... about akin to a 10-15 page instruction manual which in this gen is a huge plus to me, as most games can't seemed to be bothered to give the equivalent of a 5 page anymore.
Also adjustable hud.... more games need such a thing @_@
Also adjustable hud.... more games need such a thing @_@
)Now I need to decide.... stop playing with the options and start the game when I should go to bed and get yelled at by the wife.... or attempt to go to sleep before my wife wakes up in 30 min knowing that my game of e3 2011 and likely 360 GOTY is ready to be played.
Remove it from your download queue and then try to grab it off the marketplace on the console (it'll be marked as purchased if you paid for it on the website)?
Thanks, got one of those!
Four_Chamber
Member
I got that error for a while. It eventually fixed itself, not 100% sure what I did.
Based on Noogy's advice, I'm gonna restart the game on Tough... later after I nap though!
checking around it seems that it's recommended to sign out of anything related to your live account, and turn your 360 off, wait about 15 seconds then turn it back on.
You can actually change difficulty on the fly, however there is an Achievement for 'starting and persisting' through the game on Tough or harder.
Normal does ramp up, but I personally like it harder. Always harder.
I feel like this would be a fitting time for saying "that's what she said"
speaking about difficulties, how did you go about creating them, as in what goals did you have in mind for each difficulty?
I feel like this would be a fitting time for saying "that's what she said"
speaking about difficulties, how did you go about creating them, as in what goals did you have in mind for each difficulty?
The obvious differences are more aggressive and resiliant enemies, but there are a number of smaller changes. Enemies flinch less, save points heal less, etc. It's a ton of different things.
Casual (the easiest setting) is basically 'non-gamer' mode. You literally cannot die, autofire and autoleveling are locked. You never have to open the inventory in this mode.
Sounds good to me. Only at the first village, so I'll restart.
Intro spoilers
And may I say your opening was fantastic. The bit with Dust in shadow fighting the army "press X to wage war" and then waking up in the forest and claiming the sword. Loved that.
Palette Swap
Member
Ugh, error 8007065b. Buying this has somehow corrupted my profile. Awesome.
Edit: after retrying for some time, I managed to connect. This had nothing to do with profile corruption. Just MS fucking up.
Edit: after retrying for some time, I managed to connect. This had nothing to do with profile corruption. Just MS fucking up.
toythatkills
Member
Oh I get it, you're trying to imply that non-gamers aren't as good at games? That's so sexist or something. I'm contacting Kotaku right this minute!
No, wait
transience
Member
I like playing on Normal and then coming back to a harder difficulty later. Gives it more replay value. If you start on Tough, you'll never have fun playing Normal.
I hope to play Dust more than once.
I hope to play Dust more than once.
Ban Puncher
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Nothing hidden this time. Bolsh! Flimshaw!
Palette Swap
Member
It just shows Noogy is more articulate than the babbling Borderlands dude.
Hmm I have gotten a couple crashes back to the dashboard. Well not exactly back to the dashboard but sometimes when I change to a new tile on the grid I get booted to the "My Games" screen. Kinda weird it is not the dashboard. Has happened twice within my 40 minutes of playing.
ah that's actually cool to hear. I have a friend who would likely adore the art to the game and wouldn't mind mashing buttons to kill stuff but likely would die a lot normally. To be able to tell her that there is indeed a setting she could handle should help me convince her husband to get the game lol.
Also I hope you don't mind me asking a bunch of questions over the next few days... I am the curious type and how often is it you get to ask questions to the person who made the game you are playing that you have been watching for a long time (I suppose only 14 months... but it sure felt like a long time). I'll save my more in depth questions until I actually get into the meat of the game as while I have a few more questions I could ask now (how long did it take to write the story, how many revisions did you do... stuff like that) I don't feel like I will be able to grasp how much effort you actually put in until I experience the story. Also I have a feeling you have likely answered these somewhere and I could read/listen about them somewhere else but haven't because I am on a Dust media blackout lol.