Arcade: Roogoo

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Joseph Hachem — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:54:31 GMT

Some people are lacking brains. This Game freaking rulze!

XBLA was made for a game like this!

So go play Uno or Frogger some more you brats.

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SgtReznor — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:26:14 GMT

I actually really dig this game - it's not normally what I would play, but it's oddly addictive.

I'm thinking that it probably should've been a 400pt game, but still, I think it's a game that the missus would probably enjoy playing too

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Computerdude103 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:10:32 GMT

Cool idea, but not work $10, imo. There's just not a whole lot of play there.

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JAMWAFEL — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:17:31 GMT

Lol i played this game ages ago(baby)

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MACPH1ST0 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:44:48 GMT

If you guys think 800 points is high for arcade games, just wait until you see the flood of devs trying to justify 1600 points as the price for their games now with the success of the Penny Arcade game at that price point!

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fastmode — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:43:28 GMT

I kinda liked the demo. Would've bought it immediately at 400 points. 800 made me hesitate, and as soon as I thought about it, I just went back to playing Catan, which is a steal at 800 points. I mean, look at that game or Carcassonne or Uno at 800 points and compare it to the longevity of this. A year later and I am still playing them. When I know I will go through the uzzles once and never play it again, it's hard to cough up the cash. 400 points = impulse buy. 800 points = rare buys.

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RAFA — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:45:47 GMT

WTF

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dirty whirlwind — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:44:15 GMT

Good game, not 800 points good though. But they really have to add a Restart (from this level) option in the pause menu. Really frustrating to have to quit the game to main menu (or spend unnecessary time to finish the level to get the opportunity to do over) every time you screw up your odds of getting a 100% accuracy and such.

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shatulance — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:05:44 GMT

i totally agree with the discounting being better than de-listing idea.

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darkjester74 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:41:41 GMT

The hell is this crap?!?! Oh btw, Slapnutz your gamer pic is fantastic!

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Assassinator42 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:05:12 GMT

Still waiting for Vigilante 8.

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Shaolin Munkeh — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:51:36 GMT

The reviews of this have all been very positive so far, maybe you people should try it properly before you slag it...

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Mannificent — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:50:12 GMT

Major, I think I have figured out why Microsoft is delisting arcade games - it IS about bandwidth costs, in my opinion. At a 6% conversion rate - that means a game is downloaded nearly 17 times for every purchase.

So I propose a better solution than delisting, which is: When a game meets the delist targets, move it to a Bargain Bin/Platinum (whatever you want to call it) folder, discount the price and disable demo downloads for it. So all downloads will be purchases. All those game will have been tenured and reviewed on the internet, so anyone can research what they are about - you don't need to provide demo's anymore. Also with a considerable discount in price - no one can complain anyway about the quality level - because it would be cheap to purchase. I suggest a significant: 3/4 price drop - so a game at 400 pts, would then be available at 100 pts. If that is too steep - have 2 tiers/folders - i.e. bargain bin/bargain basement - where the 1st tier is 1/2 the price and the 2nd and last tier is 1/4 price - games move there after being 1 yr in the 1st tier.

As well I suggest a 2-3 tier scale for moving games to the 1st bargain folder. 1) 6mo old and (65 metacritic rating or 6% conversion rate)[need to meet only 2 parameters] 2) 1yr and(70 rating or 8% conversion) 3) 1/5 yrs and (75 rating or 10% conversion) - as a suggestion.

I think this would be a much better scenario for Microsoft, the developer and xbox users - as there would be a uplift in sales when any discount occurs, but at a profit, since all are at 100% conversion rate. As well, xbox users have more choices (a very bad idea to restrict end users), new users would have a catalog of cheap games to stock up from and all the complaining about new releases being overpriced would be moot - as these people can wait for a game to be discounted and put there money where there mouth is.

What do you think? If other commenters agree, please let Major know - so he can have a case to take forward to Microsoft management.

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BS Dr Long Jon — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:42:39 GMT

not buying it.

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Mr Akash — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:34:28 GMT

I've been looking forward to this one for weeks, can't wait to give it a spin tonight.

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MajorFagson — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:18:21 GMT

Make sure this is one of the first games they remove when the cleanup takes place.