August 22nd 2012 6:01 am PT

Arcade: JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE HD Ver.

JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE HD Ver.Content: JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE HD Ver.
Price: 1600 Microsoft Points
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Dash Text: (Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB) The legendary JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is now in HD with network support! This is the kind of quality JoJo fans have been raving about!

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Arcade, Marketplace By Larry Hryb, Xbox LIVE's Major Nelson

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  • Hugoku

    Is this really worth $20?
    Unless there is lots of content as in the PSOne version, I’m not sure why would this game deserve that price tag.

    • gamereviewgod

      There’s a very good reason: Capcom is testing the waters of the $20 price point. No reason otherwise, because Jo Jo isn’t a $20 series.

      • GoingPostal13

        Probably worth waiting till the
        Super Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure HD Arcade Edition Anniversary version.

      • http://www.thetjhzone.blogspot.com/ Tylerh1701

        I think your 100% right. I hope they get very very few sales, simply because of the dickish price point.

      • Hugoku

        On the other hand, we have Rock Band Blitz next week. A rhythm game that packs 25 master recordings which you can also immediately play on RB3. All for just $15 which is basically what you would pay for 8 regular DLC tunes in the RB store.

        Guess which company really cares for their customers.

      • http://twitter.com/Navarin Buster Wolf

        Them waters be choppy!

        But yes, don’t buy this people! If you look at comparison shots of HD versus non-HD screenshots it’s the hardest game of Spot the Difference ever.

        At least SF2 HD Remix was redrawn, rebalanced and had some actual effort put into it, and even then it was overpriced!

        • fsdfg dsfds

          HD remix is def worth 1200, GTFO

          • http://twitter.com/ENich1 E.Nich

            I don’t like HD remix at all, however I would have purchased if it had the original SSFIIX (the one dreamcast has).

          • http://twitter.com/Navarin Buster Wolf

            In a roundabout way you proved my point. JoJo has had no work put into it yet costs 400 more.

  • Superman64

    More like Jojo’s Bizarre Pricing…HD.

    • http://twitter.com/fcviotto Fernando Coli Viotto

      HAHAAHAHAHAHHA you won the internet my friend

  • Russell Gorall

    Is this a joke? They didn’t even bother to spell out “Version”, like that will be in future DLC. Just because you pour syrup on something doesn’t make it pancakes.

    • http://twitter.com/Navarin Buster Wolf

      Version has been abbreviated to Ver. in more games than this, I think Capcom are bunch of tossers too but that’s just nitpicking.

  • http://twitter.com/Navarin Buster Wolf

    Nope.

  • http://www.facebook.com/PANDEMlC Ryan Babcock

    If it had a great net code and completely redrawn sprites then maybe the price point would be warranted. I’ve heard it’s due to licensing issues and costs. Who knows, it’s pretty.. bizarre to test this price point with such a niche game.

  • QuixoticRocket

    Ugh. For an HD “Ver” you’d think they’d have gotten rid of the 4:3 ratio, or at least given you an option to play either way (and I don’t mean simply stretching the screen to fill).
    Looking at the video on the marketplace even the menu screens have those annoying borders. That alone puts me off even trying the game. Same reason why I didn’t pick up Metal Slug from XBLA even though I loved that series.

    • Thânia Santos

      stretching to fit 16:9 is not an easy thing to do with old games, mostly raster games.
      most of the time it would mean reprogram a lot of the game code (with high risk of breaking it). or you will have to cut the upper and lower part of the screen, meaning that you would lose game space.

      so, for me, it is ok if it is stuck at 3:4.
      Like with old films : if it was filmed in 3:4, I do not want a 16:9 cropped version.

      but … this game is not wrth 20$ as it is …

      it is a lazy port… lazyness is not worth so much money!

      • QuixoticRocket

        For that price they can spend time recoding and testing things.
        It’s not much recoding. Any variables reliant on a set 4:3 ratio can be recalculated at the known widescreen ratio (16:9 iirc). Yeah sure it means trawling through all the variables and changing them (or putting a switch on them if they did it properly so that you could toggle between 4:3 and 16:9) but for $20 I expect a little more.
        And any calculations that assume 4:3 can simply be switched (at worst they can simply add * ((4/3) / (16/9)) to it).

        • Thânia Santos

          yes, ‘for that price’ we should expect much more!
          it is far too expenssive.

          we only got online play.

          this should cost 800MS.

          Wait ’til they charge 200MS for color swap DLC

        • Fred

          I doubt it is quite that simple. The backgrounds aren’t likely wide enough, everything would have to be repositioned and rescaled. Basically you would only do this if you were sure to sell enough to justify it…

          But yes, $20 is a bit much. Likely they figure this will only sell to the hard-core fans who are willing to pay $20 for it. I wonder if it would even sell that many more copies even if it actually was HD though… it just isn’t as popular of a series.

        • http://twitter.com/fcviotto Fernando Coli Viotto

          I completely agree with you. For $20 the game chars should sing for me when I’m sad.

          Skullgirls do a much more descent job in true HD and amazing soundtrack at 1200 MSP.

          Capcom and Square Enix are out of their mind when pricing old games.

  • QuixoticRocket

    Ugh. For an HD “Ver” you’d think they’d have gotten rid of the 4:3 ratio, or at least given you an option to play either way (and I don’t mean simply stretching the screen to fill).
    Looking at the video on the marketplace even the menu screens have those annoying borders. That alone puts me off even trying the game. Same reason why I didn’t pick up Metal Slug from XBLA even though I loved that series.

  • Thânia Santos

    This is the biggest rippoff ever on XBLA ever!

    This version is inferior to the Dreamcast one, where you got the 2 arcade games for the price of one!

    It is inferior to Street fighter III wich cost less, and is more popular (more peoples playing online!!)

    It is inferior to Street fighter II turbo Remix wich got REAL HD redraw garphics, improved gameplay.

    This game is no HIGH DEFINITION at all, only a few text or the border garphics are ‘HD’. the game only utilise an absolutely ugly filter that you turn off as soon as you start the game. As a fan of the comic series, it would have been nice to have redraw HD sprite / special effect, and background, to mach the original art of hirohiko araki! HD is for Horrible Display.

    The only real improvement is online … wich was missing from any previous version
    is it worth 20$? but how many peoples will play it online?

    there is absolutly no good reason for this 12 years old game to be 20$!

  • Ganon255

    There are certain niche games where if it had a lower price it wouldn’t bring in a many more purchases. The people who planned on buying were going to buy it regardless of whether it was 800 or 1200 points. Some schmups come to mind. However, with this game they have managed to raise the price so high in comparision to the competition and product delivered, that I would assume they are losing potential sales. They lost me. Also the game lookced lack-luster, from what I could tell from the trial.

  • fsdfg dsfds

    LOL capcom didnt even bother releasing it in New Zealand,im guessing Australia to , not that i would be DUMB enough to pay 1600

  • chris

    australia did not get this. i did not want it anyway but what is the reason that australia missed out on this?

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