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BobbyTastic · 09-18-2012, 07:29 PM

Hey. Finally got a chance to get on here after a hell of a day, and I got some bad news.

So I know I've been handling the OP for the most part over the past 2 weeks, but you remember all that joking over not being able to pay my electricity because of the money I dumped on the back to school sale? Well, in a fit of divirony (divine irony for those of you not hip to the lingo), it seems that my place is now devoid of power, but it has more to do with these tornado warnings than not paying a bill.

Luckily I have access to a computer at school, but this place closes in ~45 minutes (and OCD-level OP updating takes much, much longer), so sadly I can't update the OP 'till tomorrow morning/afternoon in between classes. Hopefully you guys can either hang in there 'till then, or someone can pick up the slack.

What I can do though, is remove some of the expired stuff and post my opinions!

Pretty much gonna second how ~~funny~~ unnecessary the Deus: HR DotW is. Either the Missing Link didn't sell as well as expected, people wanted the other bits of DLC, or they just ran out of ideas.

But holy shit, just when I thought my 1200 leftover points were safe 'till the release of Origins (I really have no interest in RB DLC), they just HAVE to have a Marvel sale with shit I don't have (but of course it includes the Avengers pinball tables I only bought in July for the 200 points back, what a waste) but they can't even do the sale right and put up the Fantastic Four table, UMVC3 stuff or the Shadow Battle packs from the vanilla? But this a great time for people to get in on the characters, and even the first costume pack as they do NOT come with UMvC3 (I'll be sure to make a note of that whenever I do a full OP update, the IE on this school computer is making editing an even more difficult time than it usually is)

I will say I'm happy about the rapid fire Pinball FX 2 DLC that's going on sale, the Captain America table will up my count to 18 (still need to get Pinball FX 1 for those 4 extra tables). Not sure whether or not Microsoft is trying to compete with Zen Pinball 2 or something, but a lot of those single tables have needed a sale desperately ($3 is a bit much for a single table when the packs of four are only costing $5 lately). Hoping for another free giveaway table this year as the anniversary of FX 2 is right around the corner. And happy to see X-men on sale right after the Simpsons one cause I'm hoping the newbies who got into the Konami games through the big-name Simpsons beat-em-up will migrate to the X-men one now (I'd say the X-men game was more fun), the online community could always use a boost.

Digging the Fable Heroes promotion and hoping it does indeed stick around so I can pick it up on a slow sale week (like this one, but I think I'm gonna wait until after next week burns a hole in my pocket). Are there any bonuses involved in the game by playing the demo of The Journey?

And a FFXIII-2 sale? Really? Oddly specific but I'll take it, it's just coming at a horrible time. Was any of the DLC really worth it?

I also lol'd @ "NLF" (nice Vietcong joke) and the fact that Generator Rex had a game that deserved Games on Demand status. Anyways, hope to have the OP pretty-looking by tomorrow. Thanks to whoever posted the Sales & Special stuff, since I can't access the app as long as I'm without power, the loser deals are pretty nice this week too.

Edit: Did anyone else notice the random Activision music DLC sale for this month is over now? Seemed a tad early to end it. I guess Microsoft wanted the focus to be on RB this week? Either that or Activision is butthurt about being upstaged on the sales front.

Edit 2: Again, since I'm not on my Xbox I can't look, but can anyone tell me by tomorrow what's been added to the Recently Reduced tab on the Marketplace? (Or the weekly GoD on sale) Spylon's site has several things marked as Recently Reduced (including the random GoD drops), can anyone confirm that's official? And who figured out when the Mystery Wheel resets its choice of avatar items?

Edit 3: Place closes later than I thought, managed to get a decent version of the DotWs posted. Not going to even attempt to add RB stuff, update the Scratch & Match or add links for Marvel week tonight. And I know I'm missing the MW2 drop, the MJ Experience drop, and the Motionsports drop. I will try to get to them tomorrow when I finally figure out what the hell the full list of September's price drops, is.

Edit 4: Figured the OP wasn't complete without at least a little snark. I'm done now, I promise.