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Picked up through in-store pickup, that much more incentive to get an Xbox.. ONE OF THESE DAYS lol. Thanks OP!

All sold out at the Best Buys near me as now/last checking of the store inventory online. That's alright, watched a couple reviews on each of the three games. I don't think I'd ever pay the original price for each of these.

My opinion from the reviews: Trials HD is like Excite Bike, Limbo is kind of creepy, and Splosion Man seems to be the only one worth the $10.

Originally Posted by RollingSkull Trials is freakishly infuriating but it's a solid product. I fail to see how its physics at all approach reality nor do I much like the tricky waggles you are meant to do to bend the physics to your advantage. It's a quality game but I hate its guts. I'm only about halfway through world 1 in Splosion Man and it's growing on me despite my best efforts to hate it. Doubly so because it's a decent mouthwash from the awful Limbo

I feel the same way for Trials. It's fun when the levels are easy but can get frustrating easily when it gets tough
I liked the limbo demo but wasn't going to pay full price for it and splosion man was 200 msp or something so I bought it
trials was also on sale
in any case, I wouldn't not have bought ANY of these arcades given their ridiculous full price but for $10 you can't go wrong
if you hate the game, then sell it for $15 easy
just my 2cents

Originally Posted by whiptcracker Just wait till you play 'Splosion Man and Trials HD.

I already had Exploding Dude and had fun with it, but probably knocked off on it before it made my life miserable.

Not sure what the total rage against B&W Kid Dies Horribly. (A Lot!), but for all the sheer, "Whoops. Stepped on a bear trap. Whoops. Fell into a pit and got impaled. Whoops. That block makes something exceedingly large and heavy fall on you and turn you into applesauce.", gameplay, I like the grainy, misty black-and-white graphics and Grand Guignol humor of the deaths.

Picked a copy for the GF

and an xbox...

Originally Posted by ooga Except that I did not buy it for $8. I understand your point, but I normally don't purchase MSPs with cash. So the 160 points don't really offset the amount I paid for the disc. Also, as someone who typically buys stuff for 400, 600, or 800 MSPs, I am not sure how I am going to spend an odd amount like 160 points. I don't buy avatar crap, so unless I can figure out how to get another 240 points to get the total up to 400, those points are pretty useless to me. The rewards program is not a viable way to do this since it takes forever @ 20 points/month doing surveys. It's sad, but I don't have any friends that have 360s. So no one I know can benefit from my philanthropy.

Get an indie game. Most of those are around 160.

For those of you that bought a copy and have all three games already, or those of you who are done playing them, I'll buy it off of you, PM me (I'll probably forget to check this thread)

anyone know the trade-in value at GS? If its around $8 i would be happy with trading it back in a few days. Amazon is around that but took way to long to credit my account 14days. and it did come with a card that has a 2day pass and 160ms points.

hmmm...I thought I remembered seeing this in-store a couple days ago, but BB.com is only saying ship to store. I'll call my store in an hour and if they don't have one I'll have one shipped to my house since I'm silver. Thanks for posting.

edit: guess I'd have to ship to store, shipping to home isn't offered.

Funny, it says ships to store in 3 to 5 days, but when I select a couple stores, they both say pick up on 8/23/2011. Long time to wait, but I suppose I have enough to play in the meantime.

You should call and check their stock. I guess my BB got some more in cause it says Available Now, but it still messes up the pickup date.

Just called, they have a couple and are setting one aside for me.

If anyone is still looking to get on this deal, just price match at Target. Most of them at least in the northwest area have plenty of copies unlike Best Buy, who doesn't seem to be ordering anymore copies to stores

Originally Posted by nickawesome If anyone is still looking to get on this deal, just price match at Target. Most of them at least in the northwest area have plenty of copies unlike Best Buy, who doesn't seem to be ordering anymore copies to stores

How exactly do you go about price matching at Target?

bought this one a while back. cant go wrong with disc based Limbo

Originally Posted by Tsel How exactly do you go about price matching at Target?

Just bring a copy of the Best Buy print ad for this week and it should work without any issues. I even got an extra dollar off for some reason when I bought it today. Don't know if that is policy or just a subtraction mistake the cashier made.

Anyone needing a copy PM me my store has a shit ton of them.

I ended up picking up the last copy at my store... Already had 'Splosion Man and Trials... For 10 bucks for Limbo and some MS points, not too bad especially when I can let my little bro play the games on his own xbox.

Success! I was able to exchange my $10 copy of Dark Void from the B2G1 free sale last week for this Triple Pack.

I don't think I would have paid the $30 asking price for these three games. Maybe, if it was Ikaruga, Radiant Silvergun, and Bangai-o HD all on one disk.

Originally Posted by RollingSkull I take back everything I said bad about Terraria. Limbo is garbage. Holy hell what a waste of my time. Maybe one half decent puzzle in the whole lot and everything else is a shameless expression of a mangling little boys fetish or pretending that somehow they are high art for drawing the entire thing in gray and black shadows. I've read 'interpretations' of the game before now. Seen dozens of morons proclaiming it as a once in a lifetime thing. Art! Art! Now that I have played it, these banal memories are all reverberating in my head like razor blades trying to tear their way through my skull. What IDIOTS. All histrionics aside, it's dull. It's just dull, lifeless. They don't know what a puzzle is. They try their hand at gravity warping nonsense at the end and never come close to anything resembling clever. It's trial and error, and every obvious solution you can come up with is just slowed down by your retard little leprous child's slow gait. And there's no art here. No obfuscated message. No rising action. Falling action. Climax. Drive. There's NOTHING to suggest ANYTHING apart from a kid pulls legs off of some insects and dies a lot in unnervingly gruesome ways. It's not innately offensive except for the idea they thought this crap was worth $15 and that they got suckers to pretend their stupid little bohemian charade was art. Yes, I AM mad. Very mad. Anyone who read my rants about Terraria. I wholeheartedly apologize. Every time I think indie gaming has reached a sinkhole, the ground gives way and the last bottom is now a precious handhold, the only fleeting refuge before a gaping abyss. Did I mention how MAD I am?

Limbo is decent. I know that on the Internet you are supposed to either love something to pieces or hate it with a fiery passion, or just "meh" it with a too-cool-for-school attitude, but the truth is that Limbo succeeds in some ways and fails in others. I like the art direction not because it's artistic but because it's atmospheric. Some of the puzzles are fun while others are counter-intuitive. The main problems are the trial-and-error progression that ensures lots of deaths and disincentivizes exploration, and the fact that the game loses focus and atmosphere as soon as it goes indoors in the second half and becomes more about completing box puzzles in a factory (yawn) than surviving a creepy wilderness. I'd give the game a B-. It held my attention throughout the short playthrough, but there are certainly much better games out there.