Arcade: Wits & Wagers

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Marty — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:30:04 GMT

It's quite fun, but the questions start to repeat *very* quickly.

Plus, this needs multiplayer, yet virtually no-one appears to be playing it online - Quick Match produces zip, which then goes to create online game, which then produces zip. Either that or really really bad net code.

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mikdaddy — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:22 GMT

Thanks for the info Anon 32/ Jeff.

Region specific questions can be a little tricky, personally i am English, living in Sweden, so would have appreciated the opportunity to play the English version, why not at least give us the option to choose to play?

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Jeff Pobst — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:39:34 GMT

Hi all, I wanted to chime in and let you know that we clearly hear many of you who are looking for regional questions in your own language so you can get this kind of game play relevant to you whereever you live. Hidden Path Entertainment is a small indie developer and with Wits & Wagers we now have the great opportunity to self-finance the development of this version of the game and release it directly with Microsoft online on Xbox Live Arcade. We very much look forward to working with North Star Games to utilize newly developed questions and create new questions in different languages for different countries or locales moving forward. We want to apologize to all of the interested folks that we couldn't afford to support initailly at our launch with more question packs than the initial three for the US, Canada and the UK and we ask for your patience. As the game is enjoyed primarily in these three English regions, we'll better be able to reinvest in this franchise and develop new questions for other regions and other languages. I'm sorry we couldn't afford to do it all on day one, but we will work very hard to expand our support and provide more content to everyone. As an aside, you should know that Microsoft definitely wanted more regions and languages from us, but agreed to work with us as an indie to do this stepwise approach. We greatly appreciate their support and yours. Jeff Pobst Hidden Path Entertainment http://www.hiddenpath.com

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PittaMan — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:06:22 GMT

I ended up buying the full version, and it doesn in fact allow 6 players on XBL... and even lets you play multiple people on one box online... Very cool... This and Scene It need more Question packs!

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Andrew — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:55:02 GMT

@ anon 26.......

that was exactly what i was trying to say. those are us/canada specific questions

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TigerHawk310 — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:22:15 GMT

Some of the questions from the last 2 rounds:

1. In dollars, what is the average NBA player's salary?

2. When did the U.S. Supreme Court hand down the Miranda decision requiring police to inform arrested citizens of their rights?

3. When did 80,000 people rush to California in search of gold?

Now, are you really telling me that, say, Italians, aren't going to be at a severe disadvantage?

Wait for Europe-specific questions; you're not going to have much fun playing on these questions.

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jwilliamsoh — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:14:53 GMT

We are in a global economy, dealing, working with, and interacting with people all over the world; case in point - this board.

That said, why is it that we can not play together?

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II Tapio II — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:56:54 GMT

This is just BS..How come UK is only one in europe that get`s this.

What a load of BS!

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anon — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:08:43 GMT

A fortnight in Ireland with no releases. I hope they dont start excluding us when releasing retro and retro remakes. This geogrphical classism is worrying. When I had a snes and P.S. all the good Japanese r.p.g.s would come out in europe a year or two late now Ive got a u.s. console and although we have near simulateous release dates we still are treated as second class when it comes to download content. The only solution is for Europe to release a console. Lets hope commando 3 is out next week so I can play the Street fighter remix beta.

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Benny — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:43:06 GMT

They'll probably release region-sensitive questions for you guys who dont have it yet. Does seem odd that most countries didnt get it, its not like Spongebob which is an owned copyright thing is it? Or is it?

I like it I'll probably buy it, most of the questions seem to be ones you can't really know the answer to, only have a stab at it, then betting on other people is the way to really win.

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Andrew — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:31:45 GMT

@ ANON 21

not bad....all is good but the Michael Jordan question. And I would consider the Netherlands in that group of regions that would know most pop culture that you would find in trivia games, Austrailia too. But my point was that you really do have limited knoweledge about what happens in other countries if you are an average every day kind of person. I'll be honest with you.....I live no more than 1.5 hours from the Canadian border and I couln't name one Prime Minister in the history of that Country.

My room mate didn't even know about the cyclone in Myanmar the other day until I told him. That is all I'm saying. I wouldn't know anything about China that I didn't learn from a Jackie Chan movie......so who is to say that somebody in China should know how long the Mississippi River is (I actually stole that question from a screenshot on xbox.com.)

That was my point, I wasn't sticking up for microsoft by making this game available for a few select people, I was just trying to say that maybe that could have been one of the reasons they decided to do this.

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SidearmS — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:29:27 GMT

The game listing says 25 hours of gameplay questions included.

So, fun for two days, then what, wait for the overpriced DLC?

Seriously, think of Soltrio Solitaire and how many DLC packs that one had. I consider it the Ace Combat 6 of XBLA DLC.

And I did not even get into the fact we still have the DRM.

PASS. Rez was the last one guys. No more Gold, XBLA, or DLC until the DRM is fixed.

If you can SELL US Movies, TV Shows, Music Videos, Gamerpics, and Themes, then you can FIX the DRM.

And all that above? Goes double for the Zune.

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Absyrtus — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:23:38 GMT

Didn't really like it. I just wish the team would start releasing 2-5 titles a week (maybe two titles twice a week?). I'm sure there must be a whole load of titles queued up.

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Anon — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:11:45 GMT

@ Anon 6

Eddie (it's his dad's dog though not Frasier's)

Ashton Kutcher

dunno much about basketball but I'll guess Chicago Bulls

General Lee

How good was that considering I'm from the Netherlands?

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SAB CA — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:51:53 GMT

Well, the game overall seems pretty well made, and the couch-to-couch feature sounds like quite a nice idea. Defiantly not a game for me though, as I suspected.

For those whom this game targets, hope you guys are enjoying it! Is 700 questions a good amount for this type of game?

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theultimate13x — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:52:22 GMT

@ Anon 11. Check out the Controls section for how the Scene controllers work with Wits and Wagers. @ PittaMan. Check the How to Play section for details on how to get up to six players on Xbox Live. It appears Xbox.com and the game are accurate in saying the game supports up to six players, but then again I am only looking at the trial version.