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Originally Posted by ABVN I know I missed out on the EA sale in January but does anyone have an idea for when I can expect another sale on dlc for mass effect and dragon age because I want to play through both franchises from start to finish this summer.

No way of knowing man. 99% of the speculation here (including my own) comes back fruitless.

Originally Posted by Cheapskate Extremely disappointed the Golden Axe collection isn't going to include the arcade's sequel Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder, despite including the first arcade in place of the first Genesis game. If they'd included that one, I would've bought it in spite of already having all the other games via the Sonic Genesis Collection.

That's right, major disappointment. I wonder why they didn't include it. The first game is very short as it is.

Didn't see it mentioned but it looks like MW3 was released as a GoD and has an intro price at $40. DECENT, but not outstanding, price seeing as how they usually keep shooters at $60 forever. I'm gonna splurge and just sell the disc. Been getting really lazy about swapping discs.

Originally Posted by darrenaero Didn't see it mentioned but it looks like MW3 was released as a GoD and has an intro price at $40. DECENT, but not outstanding, price seeing as how they usually keep shooters at $60 forever. I'm gonna splurge and just sell the disc. Been getting really lazy about swapping discs.

$40 is just the promo price for the first week or so. Then it will hop back up to $60.

Not to get too OT, but speaking of GoD, when did the option of paying with points go away for SSIV Arcade? I was finally gonna break and get it and now it only takes $.

Originally Posted by darrenaero Not to get too OT, but speaking of GoD, when did the option of paying with points go away for SSIV Arcade? I was finally gonna break and get it and now it only takes $.

It still comes up on the 360 with that option for me at least.

Originally Posted by darrenaero Not to get too OT, but speaking of GoD, when did the option of paying with points go away for SSIV Arcade? I was finally gonna break and get it and now it only takes $.

On xbox.com: Underneath the price near the top right of the box that pops up when you try to buy should be text that says, "Use Microsoft Points." Click that to switch.

On the console: there should be text that says you can switch by hitting x (or maybe some other button). It's possible that it doesn't show if you don't have enough points.

Originally Posted by darrenaero Not to get too OT, but speaking of GoD, when did the option of paying with points go away for SSIV Arcade? I was finally gonna break and get it and now it only takes $.

If you go to the payment screen, you can hit X or Y and it'll charge MS points.

Hell, on my dashboard the other day it was asking me to spend points and didn't even list cash prices (DR2, MW3, etc)

Say what?!?! I just spent $40 when I could've used points?! I have thousands and thousands of points from numerous sales. Marone. Shame on me. Thought it was only an option on a very limited number of games. I'll go back and check on SSIV arcade.

I picked up the Toy Soldiers "Napalm" pack.

Beat the first two campaign missions. There was some major slowdown in the first one, but it's still fun. Maybe I just had too many level 3 mortars on the screen for the game to handle? Not sure how long this campaign is, but I'm on the third mission right now. Enjoying it.

Originally Posted by tylerh1701 No way of knowing man. 99% of the speculation here (including my own) comes back fruitless.

Probably going to be awhile I'm afraid. There were a TON of sales last year and I don't see EA doing it again for a long while, given the bad reception ME 3 got, ME 1 (not EA but MS) disappearing from retail causing prices to go up (GS charges $30 used now), and Dragon Age 2 not doing as well as Origins.

I would think the DA series DLC will go on sale before the ME series DLC just b/c only 1 of the 2 DA 2 story DLC's have been on sale and a new DA game will be coming sooner than a new ME game. EA wants you to buy/download free ME 3 DLC to keep that disc out of Gamestop's hands rather than having a sale on ME 2 DLC.

Originally Posted by eastx Golden Axe and Streets of Rage Sega Vintage Collections coming to XBLA - with screens!

So why limit it to 2-player co-op when the games have 3 characters? Even the SUGC versions had 3-player local co-op.

Originally Posted by Thrinn Apparently Sega is thinking the same thing.

Sega's dead to me until I hear about Valkyria Chronicles 3 in the West (FYI it came out in Japan a little over a year ago.)

Originally Posted by MSUHitman So why limit it to 2-player co-op when the games have 3 characters? Even the SUGC versions had 3-player local co-op.

Golden Axe 1-3 are 2-player games.

Originally Posted by wEEman33 I picked up the Toy Soldiers "Napalm" pack. Beat the first two campaign missions. There was some major slowdown in the first one, but it's still fun. Maybe I just had too many level 3 mortars on the screen for the game to handle? Not sure how long this campaign is, but I'm on the third mission right now. Enjoying it.

My guess is probably just 3 missions in each dlc pack. But let me know for sure when u finish it up.

I keep checking xbox.com and my 360 to see if Walking Dead goes up early, lol. I cannot wait to try this game out.

The whole achievement thing for The Walking Dead is messed up on Xbox 360. The first episode offers 100 points and I'd guess that the rest of the episodes will offer another 100 points as DLC, which makes it seem like Microsoft was driven crazy by Pinball FX2. As a comparison, the full season of The Walking Dead offers a platinum trophy on PSN, which is the equivalent of 1000 points on Xbox Live.

Originally Posted by FriskyTanuki The whole achievement thing for The Walking Dead is messed up on Xbox 360. The first episode offers 100 points and I'd guess that the rest of the episodes will offer another 100 points as DLC, which makes it seem like Microsoft was driven crazy by Pinball FX2. As a comparison, the full season of The Walking Dead offers a platinum trophy on PSN, which is the equivalent of 1000 points on Xbox Live.

Telltale said that the achievements are bland because they had to submit them in advance. Expect them to be simple "complete part 1 of episode 1, part 2, part 3, etc." Since the story supervisor has said he hasn't written episode 4 yet, or at least hand't as of a week or two ago, you could understand why that might make it difficult to do them properly.

I'm guessing that with the max gamerscore doubling to 400 gs, the XBLA DLC achievement cap went from 50 to 100. Since subsequent episodes are being done as DLC that could mean 500 total with 400 already set in the first episode download, even if only the first 100 are achievable right now. Of course even that seems like it'd require special consideration with Microsoft's rules.

Originally Posted by louiedog Telltale said that the achievements are bland because they had to submit them in advance. Expect them to be simple "complete part 1 of episode 1, part 2, part 3, etc." Since the story supervisor has said he hasn't written episode 4 yet, or at least hand't as of a week or two ago, you could understand why that might make it difficult to do them properly. I'm guessing that with the max gamerscore doubling to 400 gs, the XBLA DLC achievement cap went from 50 to 100. Since subsequent episodes are being done as DLC that could mean 500 total with 400 already set in the first episode download, even if only the first 100 are achievable right now.

They're all named, so they have a pretty good idea what's going on for the entire season.

I did say the rest of the episodes would offer 100 points each, which is 500 according to my math. I'm guessing that their desire to avoid the MS certification system is the big problem since they can't afford to mess with inevitable delays, so maybe they could've gone the Games on Demand route to offer something of a full season subscription for $20 to simplify things.

Originally Posted by tylerh1701 My guess is probably just 3 missions in each dlc pack. But let me know for sure when u finish it up.

Yep, turns out there are 3 campaign missions in the "Napalm" pack. The final mission has a very anti-climactic and unchallenging boss fight.