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Anthony — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Sweet. Hope it's as good as I remember.

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Veive257 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

FUN :)

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Root Beer Tapper Sucks — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:38:20 GMT

PAPERBOY!?? Ohh cmon!!! That game sucks!! it's not even a classic.. Alot of people hate that game. why can't they put some decent arcade games up for example.. Final Fight, Captain Commando, Any of the tmnt arcades, or put some REAL Classics up like Chrono Trigger, Contra 3 yeah the GOOD contra not the ARCADE version of the 1st one,, .. i'm amazed they're putting SOTN out on xbox live but of course THEY have to make everyone dissapointed by PUTTING out JOB simulator CRAP like ROOT BEER TAPPER AND PAPERBOY... Xbox live arcade could be an amazing thing but they keep putting out crap.. I hope they keep an eye out on the sales for SOTN Then they will realize maybe they should put some BETTER games up once in awhile

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Ardoreal — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:45:16 GMT

This game sucks, nobody that matters cares, and all we are waiting for is SOTN.

This is where Microsoft is apparently going deaf.

The XBLA has otherwise had great communication and great dialogue with the community, but this is getting contentious by their previous standard of measure.

Larry, if you read this comment, could you kindly pass the avalanche of opinions here on up? We don't want anything but possibly either worms or SOTN. The rest is just filler unless it's original.

Many thanks.

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Gargoyle — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:23:27 GMT

This reminds me to turn off my autodownload. Don't want this tripe on my harddrive.

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rifster — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:52:08 GMT

oh wow another yet another ancient game not worth playing for more than 2 minutes..

my hopes were high for arcade when i first played hexic and geometry wars but i agree with a lot of other people in saying it has gone down hill for arcade most people dont want this crap.

and for those that disagree look at the comments 99% of people dont want this stuff wtf is wrong with microsoft...this sort of crap ought to be free i definitely wont buy any of this sort of stuff even though i have fond memories of them from my younger days.

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MartenKL — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:10:13 GMT

People please. When you get your hands on your old favourite game you will only get disappointed. Including every remake from Rally-X to Castlevania. They were good or even great when they were released. I was hoping XBLA would be a chance for new developers making small games with new ideas. Not huge publishers rehashing some old game in an emulator on the 360. It is hard to understand how these old games even can be sold, they should be freeware by now. I am also sure it would be entirely possible to release a NEW game every week. So release content for puzzle games or old-school retro titles for that crowd every week and new inspiring games for my crowd every week. XBLA has a huge potential but right now it is the lack of fulfilment on that potential that really makes people like me think less of Microsoft/Xbox.

Marketing of XBLA is also totally failing. With better marketing and better games on XBLA Microsoft allready has what it takes to reach the non-hardcore gamers. When I show people XBLA they are all in awe, in awe because they can understand how this can be great. Even current Xbox 360 owners don't know about arcade. One reason being they checked it out once and they found joust, a horrible game even at the time of its release. Another reason is of course the crappy UI. It is not designed with hundreds of titles in mind, it could have been for everyone, you could find a bunch of board games or a bunch of arcade classics and search and sort to find your type of game. One platform game, one strategy game, no adventures, no sports, all new games have the same controle scheme. There is very little variation and a huge gap between potential and reality.

There is a ton of games I am missing.

A strategy game like advance wars

Board games, quiz games (live content please)

A pinball game (please get DICE to do it)

New pure multiplayer games, realtime as well as turn based.

Other "live" content like perhaps comic strips, subscription type, one launcher to read your comic and not separate media files you have to manually browse.

Artist of the month should have been an application in which you could see them, select karaoke mode, subtitling and so on.

Please get pass peoples nostalgia and do something creative which will bring a greater audience. Let people buy the Wii for the Virtual Console, Nintendo has all the best old-school IP's anyway.

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cfour20 — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:14:59 GMT

SO SWEET FINNALY IV BEIN WAITING TO PLAY PABERBOY AGAIN FOR SOOO LONG

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SAKY — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:26:04 GMT

Screw Worms, where is SOTN?

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Samiad — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:24:19 GMT

We don't have to have a new Arcade release every week, but please don't say "This Week's Arcade Release Is..." implying that there ALWAYS is a new arcade release each week. It just doesn't happen.

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Vriess — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:00:36 GMT

@What the Geek:

So I get a snide remark for saying I am pleased with the recent releases?

Just because the majority of people here like to whine about something or another, and complain about every release. (remember small arms?)

I just enjoy these games, and while Castlevania looks to be the best game coming to the marketplace, I am not going to whine that it isn't out yet.

As for the me working for microsoft comment....I wish I worked for them, I would have better things to do than post here, like spending my fat MS paycheck.

Believe me, I cannot stand some of the releases on XBLA, Time Pilot, Bankshot, Joust, to name a few.

Either way, you can spend your time hating and whining about games that aren't your style, while I will focus on the games I enjoy, and not worry about whether game X is releasing or not this week.

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SotN_Fan — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:06:55 GMT

Why paperboy? Please stop with the releasing of the stupid games and release SotN or Worms!

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ken_berry_fan83 — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:44:34 GMT

Paperboy? I can't believe Castlevania has not came out yet. Please hurry Castlevania I want to play you so bad.

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Spadge — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:06:09 GMT

I'd just like to say that we (Team17) are working very hard and very closely with the XBLA team to get Worms through cert and out to you - the earlier the better as far as we and the Microsoft team are concerned!

It's unfortunate it's taken so long, but games with a bit more content take quite a lot of testing and fixing due to the great dashboard feature-set, which is fairly hairy to ensure a title fully supports (especially the multiplayer stuff).

I know a few of you are low on patience right now, but hang on in there. We expect some gripes on release that the 50mb version doesn't have everything the CD/DVD editions have, but there's a ton of DLC and PDLC coming to make up for it.

There's a bunch of great stuff coming, but no-one will cheer louder than us when we go live!

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next DNB — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:56:58 GMT

"And is there a chance that we'll get new bike models and colors for Paperboy? *Please* release these before you start dropping Worms or Catan on us! I can't wait to play Paperboy on the 360 instead of the PC like I've been able to do for at least 10 or 15 years."

if thats sarcasm its brilliant

why even complain anymore, xbla is a place where you may get a cool game every 3-6 months. thats all it is

the rest of the time its a dumping ground, also a bait and switch as they keep revising whats comin out and forgetting about things

its the home of vapourware and crap

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fasty — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:36:13 GMT

Arcade is rapidly losing its lustre for me. Games come out so slowly and sporadically. And there's just so few that I want to spend cash on. Why pay for stuff I can play for free elsewhere?

Like puzzle games? You get 2 a year. Cards? 2 a year. New IP's? One a month if you are SUPER lucky. It's just so boring.

Why do we have one game a week? Why is there so few games a year in? I know MS doesn't want to glut the market with junk, but this is the opposite extreme.