Arcade: Band of Bugs (Game, Pictures and Themes)

re: Arcade: Band of Bugs (Game, Pictures and Themes)

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

this is getting sneaky also putting up themes/pictures as well as the game! They should come with it!

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Shaggy2000 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Looks kind of cool, definately worth a trial download.

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saturnmoonboy — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:18:52 GMT

I downloaded the demo of this. I didn't enjoy it much at all. I thought I would, when I did as I usually first do, with XBLA games (visit the "how to play" and "controls" sections) and saw lots of variables that decided how the damage dealt is determined, and status effects - which hinted at depth. After mucking around with the slider to boost the "vocals" and drown out the amateurish-sounding music (repetitive, clumsy and ultimately irritating, if never being utterly loathsome, to these ears) I started playing. Straight through what was on offer, first try...

The characters that you play I found visually unappealing, and the mumbles for character speech are Rare's speciality, and it shows. The gameplay, for what the demo showed there was to be found of it, enables the game to clamber its way back to an "ok" overall.

Sure, it reminded me, too of things like Vandal Hearts, and Ogre Battle - Unfortunately, it reminded me that I really should have stuck to those. Band of Bugs is an uninspiring if well-intentioned attempt, and I'm holding onto my points for this week. It's not without charm, but it's not worth eight hundred, for me.

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wyldtek — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:23:03 GMT

This was kinda boring. Back to Catan...

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PupaBoy — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:05:52 GMT

I downloaded the demo. It seems very similar to Final Fantasy Tactics. Turned based fun with bugs...

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Major Nelson — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:47:02 GMT

You are wrong..now go away

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Boy — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:46:11 GMT

This is crap waste of money...band of bugs? gmmie a break

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RuairiAU — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:12:36 GMT

Strak Attack:

I disagree. This website is the ideal place to give feedback as it has strong links to the community and Major has direct contact with both MS and 3rd party developers.

In fact, I'd go as far to say that this IS the purpose of this blog. Our collective constructive criticism helps MS and the 3rd party developers shape current and future products to what we want. And if they keep us happy, they will generate more revenue.

Correct me if I’m wrong Major.

re: Arcade: Band of Bugs (Game, Pictures and Themes)

RuairiAU — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:04:11 GMT

I found this game to be a bit dull. Not really my kinda thing.

Anyhoo, its good to see people are still banging the drum on the redoctane DLC. Keep it up.

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Joergen8 — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:19:48 GMT

Noo not pages for comments. So much for scrolling through all of them. Though I can see how a 700KB HTML page hit umpteenmillion times a day can cause you some trouble.

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ds — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:12:21 GMT

back on topic: I played the demo and endedup buying this game. Its a fairly simple concept, but with a great interface and interesting characters. With the level editor I feel like thats great value added content. very enjoyable

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Strak Attack — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:23:19 GMT

I would just like to reiterate that I hate opening up a major post about some sort of content and only seeing people gripe or complain about past problems, games that aren't out, how evil microtransactions are, etc. If this is a post about Band of Bugs, I would like to see what people think about the game. If you have a complaint, maybe you should:

1) contact the developers

2) post on official xbox forums... rally more users who are interested in that game to try and get the devs to fix it

3) email major directly (he does have an actual email address)

4) don't buy THAT game, content, free demo, etc.

On that note, can't wait to try out this game tonight. It looks really fun and imaginative and I like the positive response so far.

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honkyjesus — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:12:48 GMT

sorry, i am an arcade strike because of digital rights management

i have expanded this to anything that costs money on marketplace

i have spent about 300 dollars on markeplace so far, and unless the DRM changes i will not give ms another penny

ps - i rent games only, never buy them

gt - CuddlyPervert

brick my console ms, i dare you

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GOON36O — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:57:59 GMT

HA! I love this game. Reminds me of FF tactics! The craziest thing about the game is the STATUS BAR when you look at someones Gamercard when they're playing the game. Have you seen this Major? I think you should get NINJA BEE on for your next show to explain it, because I sure cant lol.

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ds — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:31:09 GMT

H1TnRON: I agree this thread is not the correct topic to post those issues, but really this is the only place that we know for certain that someone from Microsoft is actually listening (Thank you Major. Also he claims to pass topics of discussion to the right people, which is really needed.) I think it should be on MS's heels to force the developers to release products that aren't broke, or at least ensure they fix them. Maybe disallow selling of extra content until a games known bugs are fixed. (I'm very doubtful that will happen, because why would they want to stop a source of revenue?)

Perhaps if Nelson had some sort of sticky topic feature, where issues that needed fixing could be listed, and someone from MS would for-sure contact the developers and track the solutions. Hopefully this would ensure that we as customers wouldn't have this standing problem.

As it stands now, the developers can choose to ignore complaints about broken games, and some seem to actively do this (Sierra). They already have our money, so what is the point of reassembling the old team to fix these bugs, or setting up a new team?.. They won't get any MORE money for it, so there is no real incentive for them to do it.

There are enough customers on XBL that they will sell tons of copies, even with broken titles shipped.

So as much as you dislike it, people will continue to use the Majors blog as a place to praise (and criticize) all things 360.

Besides, people can still post on any topic and stay on topic. If it bothers you that people complain, just ignore them, there is a lot of useless noise all over the internet. I really appreciate this blog though, because people can politely state their beefs, and as a group we can help in the ongoing certification process for live.

peace

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fastmode — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:25:27 GMT

Played through a bit of the demo this morning. Seemed like something I might play for 400 points, but I think I'll skip it at 800. I'd be curious to know how deep and thoughtful the game gets at later stages, because early on it just seems kinda clunky, and I really expected to enjoy looking at the game more than I did. It's just kind of muddy and blah to look at.

I find the maps and movement markers and the like sort of difficult to see, and that's kind of the whole point, no? And I am on a 42" HD screen, so it's not the size of the graphics at all. It's the color schemes and the definition between objects and map points.

Kinda disappointed, as I thought this'd capture my interest.