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Never enough.

Well, we'll have plenty of stuff to play through when were rocking away in our piss soaked chairs with our arthritic claws.

when we're all 'jacked-in'... to the morphine drip

Heh, yeah. What with:

Darwinia+
Gridrunner++
Metal Slug 7
Quake Arena Arcade
Space Invaders Extreme
Uno Rush
Marvel Vs. Capcom 2

it's going to be a fun 2009.

...

Although UT3 might have made it an anachronism.

bought kingdom for keflings the other, leisurely settlers... liked it, and with avatar support

Oh if anyone doesn't already know, UNO supports avatards now.

Not as much fun as our crap-hat/belming competitions, though.

So... another 1200 pointer this week with Banjo-Kazooie. I'll pass.

Ohhhh! That's what Pundy was talking about on Live just. *Ahem* How much?!!

Is this just an N64 emulator?

I only have 400 points now, after spending 400 points on Worms, just so I could kill Myoptika on a lazy weekend morning.

I may see if anything that has been talked about is on for cheap.

We need more Wormage soon. I know that Dimrill has it, at least.

I also have Worms. I am pretty sure Dave does, too.

I'm tempted by some wormage. It's amazing! Although I need to find my credit card and pay for some pointage!

Definitely up for some Wormage. It's been an ice-age since last booting it up though, so expect lots of misaimed grenades and accidental suicides.

I also have worms, but the doc says the pills will take care of that

MEGA LOLZ

I can't see how it's going to work well with a joypad.

Hmm.. I played the DS version of Meteos to death but I can't see me buying the Xbox version. Like Puzzle Quest, it's more suited to touch-screen controls.

A WiiWare version might work.

if you plan a worms tournament , or just a good worms night i'll buy, 400 pts seems okay for worms

There are a fair few of us with Worms.

Anyone downloaded Street Fighter II Uno? Worth the 280 points?

Isn't it just a deck of cards? Like the millions of Klondike sets on Amiga PD, but costing 200 times more?

Well that and music etc but I think some of these games have slightly different rules/cards?

Only one person has to buy it, though, which is a good thing. It'll download the deck to the other players' Xboxes before the game starts.

Final proof that this forum should never be a barometer for what's popular. I mean, who bought it here? I can think of only jonarob.

i think that XBLA has been sullied for many of us by the sheer amount of dogshit we've had to endure this year. Even the big Summer of Arcade was a very mixed bag and with 1200 point games now being commonplace it seems people just aren't bothering with it now.

I mean last week's releases (Meteos and PowerUp Forever) are both pretty good but only a handful of people have bothered.

Actually the big new XBLA games are getting really price squeezed.

Launch.

2100 points could be had for £12.97 from Tesco. "big" XBLA games were 800 points or £4.94.
New release retail games are £40 at best.

Retail boxed games cost just over 8 times as much as XBLA AAA titles.

Xmas 2008

2100 points can't be has for less than £15.99 today. "big" XBLA games are 1200 points or £9.13
The biggest name games are £17.99 online a lot of the time now (Fallout 3, Prince, Tomb Raider, Fifa)

Retail boxed games cost just under twice as much.

XBLA is now effectively 4 times as expensive as it was then. Braid (now nearly 4 months old) starts to look a little silly at just shy of a tenner for 3-5 hours when Fallout 3 can be had for less than twice that and will eat. your. life.

It's even worse when you start looking at what you can get some big retail games released this year for. Pure is £9.99. Bully £12.99. There's nothing on XBLA released in 2008 that isn't still full price.

And that's if you ignore that I could walk into CEX and get more that half the price of either of those boxed games just mentioned in cash back.

But a 14 year old game with new clothes selling a quarter of a million copies at 1200 points makes your argument look like complete nonsense, Duds.

Don't ask me - I don't understand it, either.

I never said people weren't idiots but merely striving to point out the XBLA is significantly worse value in 2008 than 2006.

Anyone bothered with The Maw yesterday? I watched the video for it and it didn't look completely useless, but I'll save my points for something else I think.

Eurogamer say it's great fun for the evening you'll finish it in.

I haven't been remotely tempted by anything lately. Last thing I bought was Galaga Legions, oh and the SF2 table for Pinball FX.

Where's R-Type Zomgo!

The Maw is pretty good. Reminds me of the PS1/PS2 games like Ape Escape or Herdy Gerdy.

Same here. The worst thing is that I've even stopped trying the demos.

I can kinda tell by the lack of "Wow thingies out this week!" posts that there's eff all on there.

Last demo I downloaded was that Kingdom for Keflings or whatever it was and I've not even loaded it up. I've not even been tempted to download that free Doritos game to get my gamerscore over 10,000. That Yaris has put me off adverts-as-games.

Oops I completely forgot about the Doritos game. Not bad for free actually. One to play through once and forget.

They are setting up a pattern surely. XBLA games in the summer Full Price in the winter. So we are in the lull for Xbla right now.

But we've got Space Invaders Extreme, Outrun Arcarde, Metal Slug 7 and FLACKS's Cleatus coming at the very least. Which is going to make for an awesome year.

But now is buying disk based games as they get discounted season.

(Or having a broken Xbox season if you are me).

Does AnthonyFlack know about the last one?

Random googling led me to this. I smiled
No Outrun for US PSN

What the fuck was I thinking. And I had only just finished reading about how well Platapus was doing 7 years after release. Fuck.

I will buy Flack's game if he comes back here and says please. And kisses my shoe.

Please Baby Jesus Santa can you give me in 2009 on Live:

a. Some decent word games, Word Soup is OK as a start but Word Puzzle is a stinking piece of poo. Bookworm or Bookworm Adventures would be lovely
b. A decent Worms game, that abortion of a game carrying the name Worms is so cutdown that is qualifies for diability benefits. WWP should be no problem to port (for crying out loud the version on the PS2 was pretty feature-tastic).

Thanks Lord

Definitely Bookworm Adventures. Bookworm is nice enough, but it goes on and on forever, as it's more or less impossible to die.

The Worms game is basically the Amiga game with redone graphics, ie the original and best. I've found all other Worms games to be complete pants since.