The Xbox 360 Marketplace Thread

[Iron Nan]

Perhaps they've delayed it to take out some of the flag waving.

[Garth]

This Wednesday:

Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax (800msp)


Galaga Legions DX (800msp)


Backbreaker: Vengeance (1200msp)

[PCCD]

strawberry float yes Half Minute Hero!

[Garth]

Summer of Arcade dates and prices

July 20 - Bastion - 1200msp
July 27 - From Dust - 1200msp
August 3 - Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet - 1200msp
August 10 - Fruit Ninja Kinect - 800msp
August 17 - Toy Soldiers: Cold War - 1200msp

PLUS: When you buy all five Summer of Arcade titles, you’ll receive a free copy of Crimson Alliance – valued at 1200 Microsoft Points! Coming to Xbox LIVE Arcade September 7, this fast-action RPG game from industry-leading Certain Affinity lets you play with up to three friends and battle the sinister Cult of the Soul Siren. You’ll receive three characters, each with a host of special abilities from the Assassin’s time-bending attacks, to the Wizards elemental mastery or the Mercenary’s sweeping whirlwind strikes.

http://majornelson.com/2011/06/27/summe ... nd-prices/

[HSH28]

1 month till From Dust! Awesome news.

Can see getting all of those to be honest, need to go on another points buying spree.

[Octoroc]

strawberry float yes Half Minute Hero!

\o/ It was one of those games that sort of almost made me want to buy a PSP.

[Buffalo]

Except they've butchered it, aesthetically anyway.

[HSH28]

Except they've butchered it, aesthetically anyway.

I'm sure I remember reading you can switch it back to the old style graphics.

To be honest though, although to start it looked strange, after watching a few videos its not so bad really. Think its just an initial reaction that most people will get over.

[Octoroc]

Except they've butchered it, aesthetically anyway.

Have they? The trailer seems to suggest you can still play it in "8-bit mode".

[Garth]

Except they've butchered it, aesthetically anyway.

I'm sure I remember reading you can switch it back to the old style graphics.

Yup, you can.

[Buffalo]

Thank heavens!

From Dust and Insanely Twisted for me - the rest don't look like my cup of tea. ITSP reminds of PixelJunk Shooter, a bit.

[Octoroc]

Those so-called "8-bit graphics" look suspiciously 16-bit to me anyway.

[Cuttooth]

I'll be buying From Dust (although I may get in on PC) and maybe Insanely Twisted. I thought Street Fighter III was a summer release too?

[Fruits Punch Samurai]

From Dust, Toy Soliders Cold War and Insanely Twisted Planet look good. Can't play the Kinect one and Bastian looks a bit cheap and nasty.

[Floex]

From Dust, Toy Soliders Cold War and Insanely Twisted Planet look good. Can't play the Kinect one and Bastian looks a bit cheap and nasty.

Que?

[HSH28]

I thought Street Fighter III was a summer release too?

Summer? Maybe. Summer of Arcade? No.

I think it was announced as being out at the end of August.

[Garth]

Worth noting Bastion got a lot of good buzz at E3, it was a runner up for Eurogamer's game of the show for instance.

Bastion: Simply some of the best fun you could have playing a game on the show floor, this XBLA Summer of Arcade treat from Supergiant Games delighted with its punchy isometric action, colourful quasi-anime looks and gravel-voiced, hard-boiled narration. With a tone unlike anything you've ever played (or seen), this is not your average action RPG.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/eurog ... of-e3-2011

[Fruits Punch Samurai]

Bastian looks better in stills, but the footage I watched looked a bit rubbish. Like that flash game released the other month. Wakufu or something

[Photek]

You're heartless, joe.

[Fruits Punch Samurai]

Maybe it's just me, my friend things I'm seeing things differently with these cartoony looking games. Wakufu and the HD Might and Magic gave me similar weak impressions on the visual front.