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Originally Posted by eastx But word of mouth is pretty good. Why don't you say what you dislike about it? That's a lot more interesting than just blindly trashing it.

The good word of mouth seems to be mostly people covering for their bad purchase.

The game looks good but it stops there, in this age where platformers are coming back for a game like this to be both clunky and have generic level design that's inexcusable.

It's not like they don't have the source material to work with
This game is the modern day equivalent to LJN licensed platformers on the NES

400 is acceptable only if you're a fan of the source material, 1200 was insane and 800 is just a bad purcahse

Scarygirl has mixed reviews over at Metacritic:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/scarygirl

Originally Posted by marsilies Scarygirl has mixed reviews over at Metacritic: http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/scarygirl

With only 3 scores 70 and above and 8 below I don't quite agree with their "mixed" label for the game

Originally Posted by marsilies Scarygirl has mixed reviews over at Metacritic: http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/scarygirl

2 good reviews and 1 negative isn't a bad mix. I haven't bought it yet, but the game looks fine to me.

Originally Posted by eastx 2 good reviews and 1 negative isn't a bad mix. I haven't bought it yet, but the game looks fine to me.

There's 11 reviews total (you have to click on "See all 11 Critic Reviews" to see them all).

1 of them gave a score of 75 or more (which metacritic denotes as a "good" score).
8 of them gave a score between 50-75 (a "mixed" score)
2 of them gave a score under 50 (a "negative" score)

So the majority of reviews are mixed, and there's more out-and-out negative reviews than positive ones.

There's a Quick Look up on Giantbomb.

Warms my heart to read I am not the only one OCD enough to keep a games spreadsheet. Definitely have a wish list tab and a sales watch tab like some of you. I actually think I buy more because of it but then the more I buy the more I need it...it is sort of a CAG circle of life. :-)

Originally Posted by cancerman1120 Warms my heart to read I am not the only one OCD enough to keep a games spreadsheet. Definitely have a wish list tab and a sales watch tab like some of you. I actually think I buy more because of it but then the more I buy the more I need it...it is sort of a CAG circle of life. :-)

+1

I also have an XBLA tab, where i've tracked the 'real world' cost of everything i've purchased. So if i bought discounted points, i then convert the purhcase back into dollars.. and then i know that i spent 1.45 to buy Bastion. This is a huge reason why i do not want to see MS go to real money. I have never spent close to 100% on my XBLA purchases.

That new game Puddle seems pretty good. May will end up buying it.

Originally Posted by cthomer5000 +1 I also have an XBLA tab, where i've tracked the 'real world' cost of everything i've purchased. So if i bought discounted points, i then convert the purhcase back into dollars.. and then i know that i spent 1.45 to buy Bastion. This is a huge reason why i do not want to see MS go to real money. I have never spent close to 100% on my XBLA purchases.

Ha! Same here. Every time I buy points or get free onesI recalculate with the new "conversion factor" for my XBLA games to see the real cost.

Originally Posted by cancerman1120 Ha! Same here. Every time I buy points or get free onesI recalculate with the new "conversion factor" for my XBLA games to see the real cost.

Wow I thought I was bad, but I don't do that. I bet if I did, I would end up spending even more. Haha.

Originally Posted by reddjoey It's days like today I hate taking classes in economics. For clarity: I have to resist bringing it up here and discussing this thread in class.

I definitely had times in business school where I wanted to make reference to the business world of video games, which I know fairly well.

I plan to grab Bastion next week. I passed on it during the holiday sale because I was playing on a 27" standard def TV at the time and couldn't read ANY of the text at the arsenal/distillery etc during the demo. I imagine being able to actually read what you are purchasing/using/upgrading would improve the experience.

I forgot to download Bastion the day it was on the holiday sale, so I will finally pick it up this time.

Anybody have any good things to say about Puddle or Quarrel? Both look pretty interesting, but I like to wait for a few reviews.

Originally Posted by mpaullin Anybody have any good things to say about Puddle or Quarrel? Both look pretty interesting, but I like to wait for a few reviews.

Tested.com, tech sister site of Giant Bomb, took a look at Quarrel for their app of the day. It looks good to me, but I'm not sure how well it will work on the 360. It seems like something that'd be better on a phone/tablet.

Quarrel would perhaps be better on a tablet, but on iOS, at least, there is no online play, so I'm definitely getting it for XBLA, at least as long as there are no game breaking bugs. I've queued up the demo. The game is really fun on iOS, it's just glaringly missing online play. I'm also hoping to find that it has local play too, because it would fun to play it that way too. It's unclear from the description.

So I got this from G4. I am really glad I did not buy COD Elite. Even at $40 from the Hardened Edition it is hard to justify the cost. 12 maps total? 6 spec op missions and 2 new "modes". Spec Ops are not really that interesting to me and the only mode I would want is 4 player survival. Put it in a spoiler to save space.

Yesterday marked the release of two new Modern Warfare 3 maps for Call of Duty Elite subscribers. It also kicked off a bold Activision initiative for this year that will see the publisher bringing out monthly MW3 content for those who bought a subscription or received one free year with their purchase of the game's 2011 Hardened Edition.
Activision bossman Eric Hirshberg promised at Call of Duty XP in September that Elite subscribers could expect more transparency surrounding Duty's DLC releases than they'd seen before, and a newly released content calendar speaks directly to those comments. Want to know how many maps, missions and modes you can expect between now and September, when the content season ends? Check out the official MW3 website or hit the jump for a quick rundown.

• January - Map, Map
• February - Map
• March - Map, Mission, Mission
• April - Map, Map
• May - Map, Mission
• June - Map, Mission, Mode
• July - Map, Map
• August - Map, Mission, Mode
• September - Map, Mission

The fine print at the bottom of the calendar notes that "content and release dates are subject to change," but what you see here is probably close to (if not exactly) what we'll end up with. Also remember that Call of Duty DLC is "first on Xbox Live," so the above timeline is probably a bit different on the PlayStation 3 side.
Here's how the numbers shake out: 12 maps, six missions (presumably Spec Ops) and two modes. There's no indication of what "modes" might mean; a Community Playlist was added to MW3's multiplayer match options a few weeks back with the custom match type Drop Zone added to the ranks of the other XP-earning modes.
Hopefully the forthcoming DLC modes will be a little more elaborate than a tweaked private match gametype. Assuming they're even multiplayer modes at all, that is. Fans have been clamoring for a four-player option in Spec Ops Survival. Would it be too much to hope for something like that?

I won Scarygirl from a Square Enix staffer and yeah it's okay, but nothing special. 1200 really was a laughable price, although the Major Nelson post for it probably had the most "civilised" price bashing his site's ever had.

EDIT: If you paid 1200 for Scarygirl, complain. When stuff's been "mispriced" before, people have recieved refunds. There's no reason you shouldn't be able to blag 400 back.

Originally Posted by cancerman1120 So I got this from G4. I am really glad I did not buy COD Elite. Even at $40 from the Hardened Edition it is hard to justify the cost. 12 maps total?

Don't COD maps usually sell 3-4 to a pack for $15 each? Apart from the question of whether the maps are worth it or the game is fun or whatever, it seems like Elite pays for itself if you were planning on buying all the DLC anyway.

Originally Posted by Ryuukishi Don't COD maps usually sell 3-4 to a pack for $15 each? Apart from the question of whether the maps are worth it or the game is fun or whatever, it seems like Elite pays for itself if you were planning on buying all the DLC anyway.

Well for BLOPS the 4 packs had 12 maps and 8 Zombie maps (4 remakes) for $60 (the same it will cost w/o ELITE for MW3) So it is comparable. I guess I am more a zombie fan than a Spec Ops fan so it seemed like a better deal.

I think MW2 had 10 maps (4 remakes) for $30.

Edit: I agree with you that if you planned on buying it anyway then it pays for itself. Now seeing what you will get I guess I am not going to buy it.