why isnt the la noire pass on sale?!?!

Originally Posted by fatboyjam Seeing MotN still at 600 this morning, I checked out the Quick Look and it looks great. So, I'm rethinking my countdown purchase plan. For those who've played both, would you get Dust or MotN for 600? (don't have points for both)

I've played both to nearly 100% completion. They're probably my two favorite XBLA games of the year. They're both extremely impressive in their own ways. Ninja solves the problem of how to make stealth games fun. Dust shows what one talented person working really, really hard can accomplish. (It's also a great "Metroidvania" game if you like that subgenre). I'd probably give Ninja the slightest edge as a game experience but I think the Dust guy deserves our money for making such an impressive game almost entirely single-handedly.

Didn't heed the warning about Midnight Club's higher MSP price, and they ended up getting 280 extra points than they should have out of me. Bummer.

Originally Posted by illennium I've played both to nearly 100% completion. They're probably my two favorite XBLA games of the year. They're both extremely impressive in their own ways. Ninja solves the problem of how to make stealth games fun. Dust shows what one talented person working really, really hard can accomplish. (It's also a great "Metroidvania" game if you like that subgenre). I'd probably give Ninja the slightest edge as a game experience but I think the Dust guy deserves our money for making such an impressive game almost entirely single-handedly.

Thank you for your feedback. Each's game 'style' is impressive, but it's good to hear that both hold up in the 'substance' department too.Honestly, I don't think you can go wrong picking up either of these games. I'm definitely not feeling buyer's remorse after picking up Ninja, I just need to get some more points so I can pick up Dust too.

Looks like Fez, Rayman 3 and Sonic Adventure 2 are still at sale price. Trine 2, Hell Yeah and MotN are back at 1,200 each.

So far, the next day's sale content has been on sale on xbox.com a day in advance. Tony Hawk HD is not on sale yet. That's not good. I have points with its name on them, I may give in and buy it full price tomorrow if it's not on sale.

Aww don't cry luriden it'll be OK. I'll hug you.

I am excited for the sales on Sunday. Hope they're good prices!

If you guys aren't buying Train Simulator 2010 for 67% off, then I don't know what's wrong with you.

Picked up Bully, RAW, and Rock Band 3. I had Rock Band 3 but going to give my disc to a friend who doesn't. Think I'll like it being on the hard drive and will probably play it more.

This was my reaction to the rockstar sales....

MAX PAYNE 20 dollars off SWEET!

oh wait its still 40 dollars. -_- Nevermind.

Might pick up dust, skyrim DLC though.

Originally Posted by hufferstl You can always re-download ANYTHING that you have downloaded in the past, so I don't see how it could really be an issue with a 250 gig drive.

This sounds easy to someone that's not going through it. But I'm in the same boat. I've deleted all disc installs due to lack of space. All 250 GB is dedicated to dlc, game saves, and apps. I'm at the point that in order to download a 4 GB games on demand game, I have to delete a 5 GB god. That's a real pain, especially sharing a connection.

Added demo links to the OP for upcoming countdown games that have demos.

I always check the sale before I go to bed, and assumed whatever I saw (at 1am) would be the following days sale. Last night, I decided to download the demos for Hell Yeah and Ninja, and play them today before deciding if I wanted them (Why not? I have 24 hours!). Wrong. Should have checked CAG first, and I would have realized that I was seeing stuff from the previous day that was soon to end.


Now I want Hell Yeah, But Not sure If I want to spend 1200pts on it.

Originally Posted by Bloomy Added demo links to the OP for upcoming countdown games that have demos.

Awesome idea, thanks! I keep meaning to add "Metacritic" & "First Look" links, but just can't seem to justify that 2 hours or so. I'll see if I can carve out some time tonight, since we're getting into some lesser-known titles on Sunday ... and people should also have some advance warning as to how badly "Tony Hawk HD" was received.

Originally Posted by idontcare I always check the sale before I go to bed, and assumed whatever I saw (at 1am) would be the following days sale. Last night, I decided to download the demos for Hell Yeah and Ninja, and play them today before deciding if I wanted them (Why not? I have 24 hours!). Wrong. Should have checked CAG first, and I would have realized that I was seeing stuff from the previous day that was soon to end. Now I want Hell Yeah, But Not sure If I want to spend 1200pts on it.

Same rule here as it is with Steam sales ... unless it's on sale for the entire 2 weeks, grab it now. Otherwise the only "buy" decision you should be sitting on are the 2-week-long sales that didn't pop on some daily deal. However, since "Hell Yeah" is a SEGA title, I'd think it'll come back within the first half of 2013, and hopefully bring the DLC along with it this time!

Originally Posted by dirtyvu This sounds easy to someone that's not going through it. But I'm in the same boat. I've deleted all disc installs due to lack of space. All 250 GB is dedicated to dlc, game saves, and apps. I'm at the point that in order to download a 4 GB games on demand game, I have to delete a 5 GB god. That's a real pain, especially sharing a connection.

My 250 GB hard drive is on the brink of filling up. I usually keep 4 or 5 games installed at a time, since I tend to jump around between games rather than sticking with one until it's finished. But I'm at the point of going through old DLC for games I haven't played in a while and seeing what I can get rid of. I know it's not the end of the world, but it's going to suck when I decide to pop in Borderlands 1 or something one day, but oops, I need to re-download 3 gigs worth of DLC before my save will load.

Originally Posted by dirtyvu This sounds easy to someone that's not going through it. But I'm in the same boat. I've deleted all disc installs due to lack of space. All 250 GB is dedicated to dlc, game saves, and apps. I'm at the point that in order to download a 4 GB games on demand game, I have to delete a 5 GB god. That's a real pain, especially sharing a connection.

I'm with you ... but I still have 40'ish GB of movies I can burn if necessary. I do have all my XBLA+DLC loaded for such an emergency when I'll need to play "Lara Croft & the Guardian of Light" at a moment's notice(!) ... but I realized that since disc-based games aren't an impulse play, I can leave that DLC off the HDD, and restore it when I'm ready to grab all 4 addons to Borderlands, for example. Eventually I'll get desperate & throw a couple of 32GB flash drives onto the system, but for now, the 250GB drive is a reminder that hoarding is a disease & not "preparedness".

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Originally Posted by Renaissance 2K Didn't heed the warning about Midnight Club's higher MSP price, and they ended up getting 280 extra points than they should have out of me. Bummer.

You can call 800-4MY-XBOX, select help with Live and then when they have someone on the line, they'll instantly refund those 280 points. I did that myself earlier today.

Originally Posted by INMATEofARKHAM So still nothing but rumors for the 22nd? Kind of surprised by that...

I checked the Neogaf thread again & it said Tony Hawk HD. As for the other day, 26th, it's rumored to be Counter Strike.

& I'm sure it won't happen, but it'd be awesome if the Model 2 Sega fighting games were discounted on the 30th since the theme is fighting games.

Originally Posted by Cornelius the 250GB drive is a reminder that hoarding is a disease & not "preparedness".

at least you're in a forum for other carriers of the hoardo disease.

-i read a random post online about someone using a 1 TB HD on their slim, is this possible?

Yeah this 250/350 gig max stuff is just not well thought out by microsoft. I'm sure they'll change that for the new xbox. I mean how can they push so much content between movies, music, dlc and games and expect us to only need 250? After putting my three lego games I purchased I'm also running out of space. Never thought that would happen.