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bkfount said:
I've never played that game before, but those seem like pretty shitty achievements.

Yea, definitely not the most exciting list, but I'm dying to play this game otherwise. Just wish they'd announce the damn release date. It went from 3/31 to "early April" to "..." :(
 
snap0212 said:
Since I didn't want to create a new thread I thought I'd ask here: What are your must-own XBLA Games?

I've played tons of retail games on the 360 before but got my own one just a few days ago. I've only bought "Shadow Complex" so far. What games should I buy next?

The best twin stick shooter (and there are a lot of them) is Geometry Wars 2. It's easy to pick up and addictive as hell to play, especially if you have friends to try to beat high scores with.

Puzzle Quest and Gyromancer are both neat, if you're into that kind of puzzle/RPG hybrid stuff.

OutRun and After Burner are both fantastic updates of classic arcade games. The achievements in After Burner are painfully easy, though.

Marble Blast Ultra is one of the oldest games on the Arcade, but it's also fun as hell. Think Marble Madness with much more enormous levels and the ability to jump. Getting par time on all the levels is one hell of an adventure.
 
My apologies if this has already been discussed to death or mentioned somewhere else in the thread, but I figured this would be a good place to ask.

Is it possible to play The Dishwasher without being signed in with a gamertag? Since its the DotW and I loved the demo, I want to buy it BUT, with the achievements being such oddball numbers, I don't want to get an achievement for 12 GS points and have it mess up my GS. (Yes, very OCD, I know :)

I tried to play some other games I have without signing in with my gamertag and it says I can't save anything without doing so. I assume this is the case for almost every game.

Can I just create another gamertag to use for just this one game or does Microsoft look down on that? I don't know why that would matter to them, but you never know.
 
BigMack said:
My apologies if this has already been discussed to death or mentioned somewhere else in the thread, but I figured this would be a good place to ask.

Is it possible to play The Dishwasher without being signed in with a gamertag? Since its the DotW and I loved the demo, I want to buy it BUT, with the achievements being such oddball numbers, I don't want to get an achievement for 12 GS points and have it mess up my GS. (Yes, very OCD, I know :)

I tried to play some other games I have without signing in with my gamertag and it says I can't save anything without doing so. I assume this is the case for almost every game.

Can I just create another gamertag to use for just this one game or does Microsoft look down on that? I don't know why that would matter to them, but you never know.

You always have to be signed with the Xbox 360, either an offline or a Live account.

But of course you can make a Silver secondary account to play the game you bought with your main Live account, no problem at all.

And regarding the odd points, you can try to reach the game whole 200 pts, so it will not be an issue.... :-)
 
BigMack said:
Can I just create another gamertag to use for just this one game or does Microsoft look down on that? I don't know why that would matter to them, but you never know.

They don't care if you do that.
 
MrChiaroscuro said:
You always have to be signed with the Xbox 360, either an offline or a Live account.

But of course you can make a Silver secondary account to play the game you bought with your main Live account, no problem at all.

And regarding the odd points, you can try to reach the game whole 200 pts, so it will not be an issue.... :-)

Yeah, I wouldn't care so much about the odd points cause they will always add up to 200 or 1000, but this game has been said to be very difficult to get the full 200. Knowing my luck, I'd end up getting everything except the final achievement and have my score forever ruined.
 
Stumpokapow said:
They don't care if you do that.

I didn't really think they would, but didn't want to find my real gamertag get banned for some inane reason.

Thanks to both of you for your help
and for not laughing at my stupid question! :lol
 
bryehn said:
So no Game Room update as promised? Man they really killed that service quick.
Yeah; the lack of Game Room updates have totally killed it for me and I was totally hyped up for it. It needs 7 games a week every week (like they said it would have) not 7 games a month after release once everyone has forgot about it...
 
Yeah so much for Game Room.

It was a good idea but man..execution is key and MS/Khrome boned it big-time.
Nobdody is going to give a crap when they finally get around to updating with...wait..what the hell was this week's update supposed to be? It's not even worth looking up.
 
PepsimanVsJoe said:
Yeah so much for Game Room.

It was a good idea but man..execution is key and MS/Khrome boned it big-time.
Nobdody is going to give a crap when they finally get around to updating with...wait..what the hell was this week's update supposed to be? It's not even worth looking up.
I think Pitfall is in the next update; but I could be wrong
 
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/63517

Rocket Knight Reboot Gets Release Dates

Through its Facebook fan page (via Joystiq), Konami has announced the US release dates for the impending downloadable sequel to its classic game Rocket Knight.

The Xbox Live Arcade and PC versions will be available on May 12 with the PlayStation Network version following on May 18, in accordance with earlier reports that the game would be released in May. The PC version will be released through Valve's Steam digital distribution network. Pricing across all three platforms is yet to be revealed.
 
dreamcastmaster said:
Another game that is too expensive for no real additional content. No suprise it's from Taito. I guess they gould not work out how to add expansions to this game.

SquareEnix tax, not just for DS anymore.
 
truth-lasers said:
Southend Interactives new game Ilomilo has just been confirmed for XLA.

They released the latest trailer yesterday, which you'll find on youtube if you click here.
It's the closest to LittleBigPlanet I'll get on the 360! This looks awesome.
 
truth-lasers said:
Southend Interactives new game Ilomilo has just been confirmed for XLA.

They released the latest trailer yesterday, which you'll find on youtube if you click here.

My gawd could this game be any cuter?

I must play it based on the art style alone.
 
truth-lasers said:
Southend Interactives new game Ilomilo has just been confirmed for XLA.

They released the latest trailer yesterday, which you'll find on youtube if you click here.

O_________________o mother of goodness... must have, at any price.
 
truth-lasers said:
Southend Interactives new game Ilomilo has just been confirmed for XLA.

They released the latest trailer yesterday, which you'll find on youtube if you click here.

I'm not sure I totally understand the play mechanics but it definitely has one of those "I want to pick it up and touch it" graphic designs that's extremely enticing. I wish those guys luck.
 
truth-lasers said:
Southend Interactives new game Ilomilo has just been confirmed for XLA.

They released the latest trailer yesterday, which you'll find on youtube if you click here.

Wow, add me to the list of people smacking off to this trailer. That looked awesome.
 
ilomilo looks interesting. Is it bad tha thing that got me most is the fact they used Perler sprites at the end of the video? XD Reminds me of the graphic style of Flock!, just... as a puzzleformer. These things are really popular now-a'days...
 
ilomilo blog
Here are some comments we liked about ilomilo from users on different sites and forums (neogaf, kotaku, ign):

“It’s like if Studio Ghibli, Viva Pinata, and Little Big Planet had a baby”
“GIRLFRIEND GAME!”
“My heart just sang a song in the key of awesome.”
“SUPER MILO GALAXY!!! Oh My I have waited so long for this!”
“I’m getting somewhat sick of this cutesy crap.”
:lol
 
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