richard('Happy' - Ed)wood wrote:
I really like Penny Arcade. It just matches up well with my sense of humour I think.
Which says a lot about your "sense of humour", dyswijdt, etc.
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But that is not the substance of my post.
<Homer Simpson>Too late!</Homer Simpson> As we've argued before, while it is clever at times, it's very rarely funny, for reasons which nervouspete has described extremely well. I mean, the whole 'fangspire' thing that has wasted the last week... spluh?
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I'm curious as to why people think arcade games over 800 points are an automatic ripoff. I heard a lot of this with Puzzle Quest, which was also 1200 points, wasn'it it? So £11-14 depening on where you buy your points. I paid £30 for Puzzle Quest on DS and was ecstatic with my purchase; I played it for almost 50 hours and enjoyed every second. I claim that on XBLA it is a bargain.
Isn't PA:SOTRSPOD (or whatever) 1600pts? That's a lot more, and you could argue you could get loads more fun out of four carefully picked 400pt games.
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Now, granted, most XBLA games are short and somewhat throwaway and not worth all that much cash. That might be true of the Penny Arcade Game of The Long Title I: Stuff Begins To Happen. But equally, it might not. Hypothetically, if it has high production values, lasts 8-10 hours, and was really fun to play, would you still moan that it cost 1200 points? I just don't understand that.
It just doesn't seem to balance out, considering how much excellent Gilbert-ness you can get for less points (or is it 1600 also?) in the form of Psychonauts, also for download onto your 360. Personally, I think a lot of XBLA games are overpriced for what they are. Tiqal is good but not 800pts good. N+ would be entertaining but again, not for the price they're asking for what it is.
It just strikes me that we're paying half the price of a brand new game but not getting a proportionate amount of content.