XBLA Deals/Deals with Gold

wes

Thanks for that guys. Kicked off the download on my Xbox 360, and that worked for me.

deathrider

calex71 wrote: »

Street Fighter II Hyper Fighter 400 MSP 200 MSP

That's a total steal. If I didn't have it already, I'd be downloading it for that price. It's a baastard had version of SFII though.

ShadowHearth

is case west stand alone or you need full game?

Wolverine359

ShadowHearth wrote: »

is case west stand alone or you need full game?

Yes, it's standalone, you dont need dr2. Highly recommended at the bargain price of 400 points, as is case zero for 200pts.

Julez

wes wrote: »

Tried to download Case West, and its saying its not avaliable in my region or the offer has expired, and that is happening for both the demo, and the proper download. It isn't happening for any other content for me as well. Anyone try to download it as well, and have the same issue?

Emailed MS about it, but no response yet.

I get this error too with a few things, right now its happening to me because I am living in America this year and my account's location is set to Ireland (cannot be changed.) I would need to set up a proxy or something.

I think its all mature rated content, Dead Rising, Call of Duty maps, GTA San Andreas etc. IIRC your region is set by the email address you use when you first set it up, so I would check that out.

ShadowHearth

Bought : case zero and case west.

Just gave a vary very short go so far. Died 50m of start location.... Was not impressed lol

calex71

This week is :

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - 400 MSP
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair - 600 MSP

Good price on Harmony of Despair with half off, all the dlc for it is on sale too.

Shockingly even at my age I've never actually played a Castlevania game

Are they worth looking at?

grimm2005

calex71 wrote: »

This week is :

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - 400 MSP
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair - 600 MSP

Good price on Harmony of Despair with half off, all the dlc for it is on sale too.

Shockingly even at my age I've never actually played a Castlevania game

Are they worth looking at?

Harmony of Despair got some pretty scathing reviews. Apparently there's absolutly no point in playing single player as its almost 100% aimed at multiplayer.

Symphony of the Night on the other hand is a great game and well worth it for 400msp

Giblet

Symphony of the Night is amazing, If you like Super Metroid, get it.

ShadowHearth

Giblet wrote: »

Symphony of the Night is amazing, If you like Super Metroid, get it.

If I haven't played bouth?!

I only played very very first castlevania on nes.... And it was not great for me... It was like million years ago too...


I camt see those deal too thought...

Giblet

I never played any Castlevania games before I played Symphony. You don't need to!

ShadowHearth

Okay. Case zero is sort of ****.

Hated that time frame system in first game, here it returns with a blast... You can't relax and explore, mess around. You constantly running... And when you think you got 10hours it melts to 7 hours in few minutes... Good game, but FFs.

Dues Bellator

ive noticed some good free games on XBL , like Doritos crash course and Hasbro family games night , anyone come across any more freebies?

calex71

almanu wrote: »

ive noticed some good free games on XBL , like Doritos crash course and Hasbro family games night , anyone come across any more freebies?

Hasbro ain't strictly free, the "platform" is but you need to buy the individual games for it, works out quite expensive vs the disc based version.

Totomball is free , but you need the camera thing, don't think it works with kinect but I don't have that to try it so worth a shot even if the game itself is poo poo

Healium

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Promotion/dealoftheweek

Borderlands, Bioshock 2, Mafia 2

calex71

Just dlc this week? No arcade game ?

Wolverine359

Looks like I won't need to use up any MS points this week.

kiddums

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this, but are Limbo,Trials HD and Splosion Man any good as games? I have the trials of them all and they seem good, but I'm worried they might just have a novelty value.

Is 20stg a good price for all 3 on a disk?

Mr Freeze

Limbo is great, but quite short.

Never tried Trials HD, but its supposed to be great.

I got Splosion Man, but I struggle to see why this game is so popular, I got it for 160msp so not too bad.

calex71 wrote: »

Just dlc this week? No arcade game ?

2 Shooters out it seems, Star Raiders and Gatling Gears.

calex71

Mr Freeze wrote: »

Limbo is great, but quite short.

Never tried Trials HD, but its supposed to be great.

I got Splosion Man, but I struggle to see why this game is so popular, I got it for 160msp so not too bad.



2 Shooters out it seems, Star Raiders and Gatling Gears.

Feel the same way about splosion man , just can't get into it. Limbo and trials are great games, but like you said limbo is short.

Pity they didn't swap out splosion man for shadow complex on that disc release.

Mr Freeze

Now Shadow Complex was good....

niallon

calex71 wrote: »

Feel the same way about splosion man , just can't get into it. Limbo and trials are great games, but like you said limbo is short.

Pity they didn't swap out splosion man for shadow complex on that disc release.

Anyone having a hard time getting in to 'Splosion Man, get someone else in with you to play co-op. Don't do it online, it'll wreck your head, but with two controllers some of the co-op levels are just fantastically satisfying to solve. I found the same thing with Portal 2 TBH, co-op serves as a great introduction.

quarryman

'sup folks.

Been out of the arcade loop for a while. Took a quick look at the latest games and don't recognise any of the titles.

What's good out there at the moment?

calex71

quarryman wrote: »

'sup folks.

Been out of the arcade loop for a while. Took a quick look at the latest games and don't recognise any of the titles.

What's good out there at the moment?

Only speaking from what I bought over the last few months.

The Fancy Pants Adventures is ace.
Outland looked good from the demo i played.
Both Deathspank games I had a blast playing.

There have been a few others that caught my eye but I couldn't afford to shell out 1200 points on like Torchlight.

Azure_sky

Pirates Theme
Discount Date
Price
Savings

Age of Booty

May 17 – 23

200

50%

Deadliest Warrior

May 17 – 23

400

50%

Deadliest Warrior Pirate Outfits

May 17 – 23

160

50%

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

May 17 – 23

400

50%

Monkey Island LeChuck Pirate Suit

May 17 – 23

120

50%

Monkey Island Pirate Telescope

May 17 – 23

80

50%

Azure_sky

Major Nelson finally took criticism on board and got rid of his narcissistic looking blog. His new one looks pretty cool.

http://majornelson.com/

It's not officially announced yet but this weeks game is Sega rally arcade for 800 MS points. I think it's only one game this week.

Charlie Haughy

Azure_sky wrote: »

Major Nelson finally took criticism on board and got rid of his narcissistic looking blog. His new one looks pretty cool.

http://majornelson.com/

It's not officially announced yet but this weeks game is Sega rally arcade for 800 MS points. I think it's only one game this week.

Why what was his blog like before?

RobertFoster

It was pictures of him striking poses based on, and tied to, the links across the top of the page. I didn't pay much notice, but it went from little to no images of himself, to lots, and now back again.

Drakar

Sticky this please! It's getting updated now by a few people, and since the deals change regularly it makes sense that it should be easier to find. Thanks everyone who keeps updating us, they really should make it easier to find whats on sale from the dashboard.

Azure_sky

Drakar wrote: »

Sticky this please!

I agree 100%.

calex71

Drakar wrote: »

Sticky this please! It's getting updated now by a few people, and since the deals change regularly it makes sense that it should be easier to find. Thanks everyone who keeps updating us, they really should make it easier to find whats on sale from the dashboard.

Yeah, I'd be lucky if the deals showed up by the weekend if at all on my dash lol, like i said earlier on the thread, if i sign in on my UK account they are there plain as day. Must be something to do with our region or something

Mr Freeze

Did anyone pick up that Star Raiders game? Just flicking through the arcade selection last night, and set that and a few others to download.

Azure_sky

calex71 wrote: »

Yeah, I'd be lucky if the deals showed up by the weekend if at all on my dash lol, like i said earlier on the thread, if i sign in on my UK account they are there plain as day. Must be something to do with our region or something

I have an Irish account and they show up on my dashboard, albeit about four or five hours after they're available via Arcade A-Z.

Jelle1880

Mr Freeze wrote: »

Limbo is great, but quite short.

Never tried Trials HD, but its supposed to be great.

I got Splosion Man, but I struggle to see why this game is so popular, I got it for 160msp so not too bad.



2 Shooters out it seems, Star Raiders and Gatling Gears.

I love Splosion Man, it really gets it full potential when you play it in co-op though.

Mr Freeze

I never tried the co-op....

I honestly didn't give the game long enough to grow on me, I played the 1st few levels and kinda left it, never played it since.

Jelle1880

First levels are piss-easy though, it gets challenging later on.

And in co-op you have to explode against each other to reach certain parts

Azure_sky

Anyone know what the deals of the week and arcade releases this week are?
I read that Mortal Kombat HD collection (MK1,MK2 and UMK3) is being released in the Summer for XBLA for 800 MS points.

Oh and the obligatory weekly request to please sticky this thread.:)

Jelle1880

Still the same deals afaik.

Mr Freeze

Picked up Age of Booty for 200msp yesterday.

I can't seem to resist any XBLA title at that price.

Gunmonkey

The weekly deals change on Tuesday now I think, no idea on whats out this week.

Azure_sky

Disappointed with this weeks deal of the week to be honest. Just some discounts on Fallout 3 and Oblivion add ons. Considering how ancient Oblivion is Shivering Isles should be 1200 points max. (Not sure if those prices are the discounted ones or the originals. They look like the original prices though.)

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Promotion/dealoftheweek?SortBy=ReleaseDate

Lets hope there's at least one decent arcade game tomorrow.

quarryman

Azure_sky wrote: »

Disappointed with this weeks deal of the week to be honest. Just some discounts on Fallout 3 and Oblivion add ons. Considering how ancient Oblivion is Shivering Isles should be 1200 points max. (Not sure if those prices are the discounted ones or the originals. They look like the original prices though.)

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Promotion/dealoftheweek?SortBy=ReleaseDate

Lets hope there's at least one decent arcade game tomorrow.

jesus, Shivering Isles is still 2400 MP? :eek:

RobertFoster

Sweet, the Horse Armor has been reduced to 100MSP!

quarryman

RobertFoster wrote: »

Sweet, the Horse Armor has been reduced to 100MSP!

omg!

*buys 10 sets!

Azure_sky

quarryman wrote: »

jesus, Shivering Isles is still 2400 MP? :eek:

I think they might be the original prices but have not decided by how much they'll be reduced yet. I probably wouldn't buy Shivering Isles for even 800 points. It's good but I have not played Dragon age 1 in ages, let alone Oblivion.

I hate when they do deals of the week and don't put in at least one XBLA game.

quarryman wrote: »

omg!

*buys 10 sets!

Don't forget your avatar armour!:pac:

Healium

I'll bite!

2100 point card = Shivering Isles + Knights + Horse Armour + something awesome for 400 points

calex71

Wish I still had oblivion

Wolverine359

Healium wrote: »

I'll bite!

2100 point card = Shivering Isles + Knights + Horse Armour + something awesome for 400 points

But that'd be more expensive than the game of the year edition, which has all that stuff plus the main game (plus cool booklet and map).

ShadowHearth

Silly deal of the week...

Oblivion goty edition can be gotten for less then the price for that dumb addon...

" you disappoint son "

Charlie Haughy

Healium wrote: »

I'll bite!

2100 point card = Shivering Isles + Knights + Horse Armour + something awesome for 400 points

The GOTY edition can be got for cheaper than that, which has everything

Plus then you can trade in your original oblivion game! Silly...