This week on Arcade: Elements of Destruction and Sea Life Safari

re: This week on Arcade: Elements of Destruction and Sea Life Safari

hans — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:01:34 GMT

I am so tired of these junk games. When are the games they promised at launch gonna come out. Castle Crashers, Talisman, Hoops World... et al.

re: This week on Arcade: Elements of Destruction and Sea Life Safari

Col J Matrix UK — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:42:03 GMT

The whole 800 points for arcade games is getting ridiculous. And to those who say, why are people complaining? This service is something we pay for, customer feedback is a good thing, if these games aren't selling well, and if customers DIDN'T complain, they might not link the fact that poor sales is due to poor quality.

Anyway, list of arcade games I'd like to see:

Marathon and Marathon Infinity

Warcraft 1 and 2

Dark Castle/Return to Dark Castle

Dragon: Bruce Lee Story

Rock N Roll Racing

Goldeneye

Road Rash

re: This week on Arcade: Elements of Destruction and Sea Life Safari

Firecrest — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:44:33 GMT

@SnowPhoenix

Whoops, I forgot to mention that the description of the avatars in that description got me concerned that they'll be replacing gamerpics permanently.

re: This week on Arcade: Elements of Destruction and Sea Life Safari

Firecrest — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:42:57 GMT

Yeah, I asked that question with that in mind. I figure MN will probably never reply, but I wanted to voice my concern about the avatars.

Supposedly, the info was leaked from an advertising partner of MS'. Gamepro (seriously, this mag is still around?) further backed this up by confirming through a first-party 'source' that most of the info leaked was the real deal: www.xbox360fanboy.com/.../rumor-avatars-are-microsoft-take-on-miis

You can find a bit more info about this and the other rumors by searching kotaku and joystiq.

re: This week on Arcade: Elements of Destruction and Sea Life Safari

SnowPhoenix9999 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:44:47 GMT

@Firecrest

Here's a quote from what Major Nelson wrote for the FAQ section of this site:

"I can’t comment on rumors, unreleased details, data or anything that is covered under my Microsoft NDA".

I'm almost certain that the stuff you are asking about would fall under rumors and/or unreleased details so don't be surprised if you don't get a response.

Anyway, where did you hear they would be "ditching gamerpics for Mii-esque avatars"? I haven't been keeping up on that story, but while I have heard about the "avatars", I haven't heard anything other than speculation that they're intended as a replacement. They could just supplement the gamer pictures (i.e. you would have both).

re: This week on Arcade: Elements of Destruction and Sea Life Safari

Firecrest — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:41:31 GMT

So Sea Life Safari is like Pokemon snap sans the Pokemon? And I don't know how long I could play Elements of Destruction before all the um, destruction becomes repetitive. I'd rather Rare re-create Blast Corps for XBLA. Now that was an awesome game right there.

So Major, what do you have to say about all this leaked info regarding a Xbox Live gameshow channel and ditching gamerpics for Mii-esque avatars? I mean, hopefully you guys aren't ditching gamerpics altogether after paying for some of the pic packs and enjoying the freedom of changing my personal gamerpic with the Live Vision Camera.

re: This week on Arcade: Elements of Destruction and Sea Life Safari

e vola — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:28:23 GMT

meh...

in b4 de lisiting

re: This week on Arcade: Elements of Destruction and Sea Life Safari

Nanetillo — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:26:23 GMT

COOl, what was waiting

re: This week on Arcade: Elements of Destruction and Sea Life Safari

Deap360 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:19:05 GMT

Really! Who is in charge of XBLA games? This service is a shaddow of its former self...

I cnat believe you are taking games of the service for this....

re: This week on Arcade: Elements of Destruction and Sea Life Safari

360DeathWatch — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:00:52 GMT

Rumour: No more dashboard revamps for 360 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/16/proto-rumour-no-more-dashboard-revamps-for-360/ Could be a storm brewing in the community. I think I'm going to make a 360 death watch page because it shant be long now. Also more great news: PS3 has now passed up the 360 in install base in Europe despite a 1 year launch. http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=1310 I sure hope E3 is rockin this year otherwise you are destined for the bottom of the console heat once again.

re: This week on Arcade: Elements of Destruction and Sea Life Safari

Inigo Montaco — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:22:55 GMT

Where is the DRM tool?

re: This week on Arcade: Elements of Destruction and Sea Life Safari

r3dreck — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:36:16 GMT

Add it to the dlist:

xbox360.ign.com/.../882158p1.html

re: This week on Arcade: Elements of Destruction and Sea Life Safari

lakeshow — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:42:58 GMT

The Sea World one might be a game my kids might like to watch and play, them being almost 3 and all.

re: This week on Arcade: Elements of Destruction and Sea Life Safari

SidearmS — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:31:53 GMT

Pass. No DRM tool yet? DOUBLE PASS. PA ruined it for everyone else. You can't trust anything off XBLA now after that mess.

Gee I hope THIS message passes Major "filter" this time.

XBox 360 - Once you hit $20, you lost a lot of us. Believe it.

re: This week on Arcade: Elements of Destruction and Sea Life Safari

SnowPhoenix9999 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:30:47 GMT

@tabicat

Have you looked at the Metacritic scores for the recent XBLA titles? Of the seven the most recent titles (except for Frogger 2, which doesn't have a score yet), three are well over the required score of 65, two are borderline, and only one is significantly under the 65 line.

Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 - 66

Aces of the Galaxy - 78

Roogoo - 81

Buku Sudoku - 62

Warlords - 51

Penny Arcade Adventures Epsiode One: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - 77

If you look at the scores for some games released before the announcement, you'll see many are significantly lower.

Here are some of the older XBLA games I notice on the sidebar of Metacritic's website:

Bliss Island - 43

Brain Challenge - 54

Ikaruga - 88 (Yes, I see that this score is higher than the most recent games.)

Mr. Driller Online - 45

Rocketmen: Axis of Evil - 57

Rocky and Bullwinkle - 37

TiQal - 58

Triggerheart Exelica - 63

Wits & Wagers - 64

re: This week on Arcade: Elements of Destruction and Sea Life Safari

ColdMolasses — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:27:00 GMT

LOL I wish you people would stop complaining about delisting....

You take one "bad" thinking about the Xbox 360 & its service and won't let up. What about all the good things that XBL offer? If you're so dissatisfied with the service why are most of you that is complaining week after week gold members? It amazes me that still after a month-a month and a half this is still happening.