Official Xbox Live Arcade Thread
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nextgeneration
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Thanks for the video. I always knew that "herding sheep" was the key to this game, but I didn't know how extensively you have to do it. I just moved up to nearly 1.8 million now and am in the top 1000 now! Woot!
I absolutely love it when you have all your enemies all on one side of the screen and you have the concentrated firepower. Such an awesome feeling destroying all those enemies and watching your multiplier and score increase like crazy. Geometry Wars rocks!
oatmeal said:
You're such a tool... trolling every 360 thread. Not sure why you couldn't stay out of this one or even why you're still on GAF. You see the beauty of 360 is that you can see what people are playing... and you haven't played shit.
http://live.xbox.com/member/HIPPO+LOL
...and before you chime in about how you don't like COD2, Condemed, DOA4, racing games, etc., then maybe 360 wasn't for you in the first place. Honestly, most 360 owners already have a backlog.
Beer Monkey
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jedimike said:
Do you think that when companies like Sony pay viral marketers to post crap in boards, that they actually pay the guys to play the games as well? Hours spent playing are hours that could be spent spamming up the internets.
BenjaminBirdie
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Whee!
Xbox 360 Live Arcade Gets Mad Tracks, Novadrome
Gus Mastrapa's fun 'quick, opinionated video game impressions' blog Looky Touchy has put up a post discussing French-created toy car racer Mad Tracks, which both has a downloadable demo for PC, and, according to the official website, will be "on Xbox 360 Live Arcade from March 2006."
As Mastrapa says: "If I was an indie game developer I'd be very excited about Xbox Live Arcade right about now", and Mad Tracks, which hasn't been mentioned much by Microsoft yet, looks lots of fun: " A Car Arcade Party Game [with] Pull back friction vehicles, Acrobatic Tracks", according to the ex-Ubisoft creators. We're looking forward to seeing/downloading it.
In addition, a recent GameCloud interview with Stainless Games' Patrick Buckland, who just debuted the 2006 remake of his own Crystal Quest on XBLA, reveals: "We are producing an original, fully-featured multiplayer combat-driving game called Novadrome for 360 Live Arcade" - another original 360 Live title which has been relatively unheralded thus far, and is due this Spring. In conclusion - darn, it's going to be a good year for console indie titles.
Xbox 360 Live Arcade Gets Mad Tracks, Novadrome
Gus Mastrapa's fun 'quick, opinionated video game impressions' blog Looky Touchy has put up a post discussing French-created toy car racer Mad Tracks, which both has a downloadable demo for PC, and, according to the official website, will be "on Xbox 360 Live Arcade from March 2006."
As Mastrapa says: "If I was an indie game developer I'd be very excited about Xbox Live Arcade right about now", and Mad Tracks, which hasn't been mentioned much by Microsoft yet, looks lots of fun: " A Car Arcade Party Game [with] Pull back friction vehicles, Acrobatic Tracks", according to the ex-Ubisoft creators. We're looking forward to seeing/downloading it.
In addition, a recent GameCloud interview with Stainless Games' Patrick Buckland, who just debuted the 2006 remake of his own Crystal Quest on XBLA, reveals: "We are producing an original, fully-featured multiplayer combat-driving game called Novadrome for 360 Live Arcade" - another original 360 Live title which has been relatively unheralded thus far, and is due this Spring. In conclusion - darn, it's going to be a good year for console indie titles.
Eel O'Brian
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belgurdo said:
I'm mediocre at this game, too. Add my tag - EEL O BRIAN - to your friends list if you want, and we can practice being mediocre fighters sometime.
Coin Return
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This just in: I am now ranked 3 spots higher than 7 year old gaming phenom "Lil Poison" in DOA4 survival mode. Pro gamer? Pfffft...
There's actually another type of viral marketer that is hired by the company to act deliberately stupid and troll the machine, making viewers have an overly scathing opinion about the individual and look at the machine more positively. I don't know the official name of this type of marketing, but a link was posted on here a short time ago, I think.beermonkey@tehbias said:
I <3 Katamari
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So what's the Xtreme Crystal Quest mode?
Are there new leaderboards for it and such?
Are there new leaderboards for it and such?
I <3 Katamari
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Belfast said:
I agree.
But we shouldn't have to pay for that shit. ;_;
I understand Xtreme Mode or whatever, needing to pay a little for that, but.. sound packs?
holy mother of god
xtreme difficulty is really... hard on crystal quest
when you have 40 enemies on screen with 10 mega jewels floating around you get so distracted and die (edit: and that's wave 1)
it's a TRAP
oh and belfast -- you suck :<
you are 1 place higher than me in Crystal quest now :<
xtreme difficulty is really... hard on crystal quest
when you have 40 enemies on screen with 10 mega jewels floating around you get so distracted and die (edit: and that's wave 1)
it's a TRAP
oh and belfast -- you suck :<
you are 1 place higher than me in Crystal quest now :<
Wow, Xtreme is ungodly. 
I downloaded the nano graphics pack and the synth sounds pack, as well, since I had a few extra points laying around. Nano is weird, kinda cool, but I don't know how well it facilitates play. Everything is sorta black/white, with sparse bits of color here and there, as if you were looking at an ultrasound or something. The synth sounds are better than the regular ones, sound kind of old-schoolish, but not sure if they're as good as they could've been. Still, it is nice to see Stainless releasing extra content.
I downloaded the nano graphics pack and the synth sounds pack, as well, since I had a few extra points laying around. Nano is weird, kinda cool, but I don't know how well it facilitates play. Everything is sorta black/white, with sparse bits of color here and there, as if you were looking at an ultrasound or something. The synth sounds are better than the regular ones, sound kind of old-schoolish, but not sure if they're as good as they could've been. Still, it is nice to see Stainless releasing extra content.
Ned Flanders
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I have Geometry Wars and Evolution on PGR 3, but it prompts me that the "full version" of GW is available on Live. Is the XBL Arcade version any different from the one in PGR3, or does "full version" just mean "standalone, with Live rankings etc"??
I can't wait for SF2 and Hold 'Em. Hold 'Em was the first thing I thought of the minute I entered the arcade, in fact. Also, am I the only GAFer who bought and plays billiards? I wish it had some MonkeyBall style 3d viewing options, but for the most part I really enjoy it as a diversion between the "real" games.
I can't wait for SF2 and Hold 'Em. Hold 'Em was the first thing I thought of the minute I entered the arcade, in fact. Also, am I the only GAFer who bought and plays billiards? I wish it had some MonkeyBall style 3d viewing options, but for the most part I really enjoy it as a diversion between the "real" games.
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Ned Flanders said:
I have billards as well. It's the first game I did buy off of arcade
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Agent Icebeezy said:
I have it as well. I play it to "cool down" after PDZ.
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It can also take a while to update your top score, I broke my record but the leaderboard still showed my old score for a few hours, but this morning it had updated.
My guess is the GW scoreboard is not realtime.
My guess is the GW scoreboard is not realtime.
IAmtheFMan
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Son of a flippin'.... AAAGH.
Just got 987,000 something on Geo Wars. I could TASTE that million, but my last two lives I died almost instantly.
Rrrrr... allright, gives me something to do tonight I guess.
Just got 987,000 something on Geo Wars. I could TASTE that million, but my last two lives I died almost instantly.
Rrrrr... allright, gives me something to do tonight I guess.
Awesome, I snapped out of my Zuma addiction right after beating level 9. I still have my game saved midway through 10-1 :lolVALIS said:Exactly what do you do for that, anyway? Just wait on each level for the crystals? Any level in particular?
By the way, I FINALLY passed level 9 in Zuma. Got up to 12 actually, the final level, and it's REALLY difficult. It's like an angry and surly level 9.
This paragraph will allow you guys to beat my highscore... but luckily I don't care about this one. Basically, kill every enemy that spawns. Once they stop spawning, grab 1 more crystal, and repeat. 1-2 waves of enemies gives a super crystal. Some stages work better than others, such as stage 10, where its nothing but electric pink blobs. Those pink things give 50000 points each, and 20 of them spawn per crystal you grab. So literally that one level gave me 50 million points alone, with no challenge whatsoever.
I seriously cannot pass this level... I actually got Zuma called on stage 9-7 a few nights ago, but I lost my cool and screwed the game up. So frustrating. I've been going for the Son of Sun challenge instead. I think I only have 8/22 stages to go :?VALIS said:By the way, I FINALLY passed level 9 in Zuma. Got up to 12 actually, the final level, and it's REALLY difficult. It's like an angry and surly level 9.
nextgeneration
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Don't know when they started doing this, but over at xbox.com, they've now separated the upcoming Live Arcade game list from the non - Live Arcade game list. So, now, at a first glance, you can easily see what Live Arcade games are coming out. Sweet!
rod said:
That's what you think!
Seriously, a week ago, I was saying the same thing! When I started to play I thought I would never reach 100k. It's all about following the patterns! Give it some ore training and memorize some patterns, and you'll see it's easier then you think.Edit: Oh, and you have to use bombs! My biggest mistake was saving bombs "for later", but you should use them as often as you need, IMO. If you don't die because you used a bomb, you keep your multiplier up, and get new bombs much more quickly, so you never run out of bombs.
Yusaku said:
I like to play King of the Marble using the "stay in the middle of the board and spam Mega-Marble while people try to play cat-and-mouse with me" strategy. It's effective, but a side effect of it is that people think I'm a dick for doing it. I hate it when people play Zenith, though, because you spend all your time fighting the ice.
Oddly, I have never seen a full party of people play Battle Cube, however. I guess it's not a very good map
I <3 Katamari
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Speevy said:
Yep. I mean if you got 800 points to spare, do it up.
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This poster pulses with an appeal so broad the typical restraints of our societies fall by the wayside.
If you actually liked the demo, then absolutely. A lot of people played the demo and didn't like it, but bought the full game anyways and loved it. It has a lot to do with the levels in the demo, I suppose.Speevy said:
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