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Originally Posted by eastx Speaking of beat-em-ups, my Dungeon Fighter LIVE Co-Op Review is now online. Please check it out.

Good review and very fair. It definitely could've been much better if they had thought out some of their decisions. At the very least it would've benefited from having an extra button to pick up items instead of using "X". It was infuriating to be in the middle of a combo and have your character bend down to pick up some coins a monster dropped.
Also, the last level (floating gardens) was incredibly cheap and served only as a reason to make people buy Resurrection Stones. This is all evident by the fact that you are not allowed to use potions in that EXTREMELY long level.

Originally Posted by Sath666 Still playing Spelunky - can't get enough of this game! Got the speedrun achievement, also the one for collecting $500k (yesterday i was ranked 23th out of 27k people ^^). Reached the Hell for first time as well, but my shotgun go down into lava during the battle with Olmec and i didn't last long there. Man, the achievements in this game are tough as nails. How the hell MS didn't put game like this in SoA line-up? Instead there are Hybrid, Tony Hawks and that Kinect game, ugh. -__-

Impressive, you're a far more dedicated gamer than I. I told that game to off a soon after release, and haven't been back since.

Originally Posted by eastx Speaking of beat-em-ups, my Dungeon Fighter LIVE Co-Op Review is now online. Please check it out.

Good review, I agree with the majority of it (can't comment on the MP because I didn't do much of it). My absolute biggest gripe about the game (which you briefly mentioned) were the inventory screens. Whether you're selling something, disassembling something, or just looking for something, there are 0 sorting options, making navigation much harder than it needed to be. The menus are also pretty intimidating when just starting up the game, because of them I was actually ready to banish this game to my backlog when I first started it. It was only saved because it was part of the Cheeve Challenge last week.

It was also a little bit too grindy and repetitive for my tastes. I'm sure this is remedied a good amount when playing MP, because each room of each dungeon won't take nearly as long with 1-3 extra party members.

Originally Posted by ooga Good review and very fair. It definitely could've been much better if they had thought out some of their decisions. At the very least it would've benefited from having an extra button to pick up items instead of using "X". It was infuriating to be in the middle of a combo and have your character bend down to pick up some coins a monster dropped. Also, the last level (floating gardens) was incredibly cheap and served only as a reason to make people buy Resurrection Stones. This is all evident by the fact that you are not allowed to use potions in that EXTREMELY long level.

Wow Floating Gardens sounds like an awful "reward" for clearing all the other levels on King's Road difficulty. I'm really glad I didn't bother with them. You, like Sath before you, are far more dedicated than I.

Originally Posted by ooga Good review and very fair. It definitely could've been much better if they had thought out some of their decisions. At the very least it would've benefited from having an extra button to pick up items instead of using "X". It was infuriating to be in the middle of a combo and have your character bend down to pick up some coins a monster dropped. Also, the last level (floating gardens) was incredibly cheap and served only as a reason to make people buy Resurrection Stones. This is all evident by the fact that you are not allowed to use potions in that EXTREMELY long level.

Thanks for reading, you guys!

Ooga, those are both great points that I originally intended to include in the review. Went back and put this in:

Standard attacks use only a single button (X), which seems like a legacy of the game’s keyboard-friendly origins. The same button also picks up items, sometimes leading to interrupted combos as fighters accidentally scoop up trinkets during the heat of battle.

The review is a bit overlong already (500 words above the sweet spot), so I could only squeeze in a passing reference to Resurrection Stones (and now the garden):

(The only PDLC so far is Resurrection Stones, which function as extra lives during dungeons and are mandatory for completing the final level.)

Now then...

Originally Posted by tylerh1701 Good review, I agree with the majority of it (can't comment on the MP because I didn't do much of it).

I've seen you say stuff like this before. Why dontcha play multiplayer in co-op focused games like this? You sure seem social enough otherwise.

Thanks for all the info guys!

Also, nice review. I am probably going to wait for the 400 pts or less sale.

Finally won Scratch & Match today. I've played pretty much every day since it launched. It was a Zombie Pet avatar prop from All Zombies Must Die. Cool award as I'm big into zombies, but nothing I'd have paid for.

EDIT: Updated the main page since it wasn't listed.

Originally Posted by eastx Thanks for reading, you guys! I've seen you say stuff like this before. Why dontcha play multiplayer in co-op focused games like this? You sure seem social enough otherwise.

Haha I'm actually not that social in real life. This game would have been perfect for co-op though, because you can start dungeons by yourself and people can just hop in and out as they want. Unfortunately I didn't find this out until after I had beaten the game.

Just a quick heads up for those that don't frequent spylon's site...

The Command and Conquer game is now showing up as $13 and Star Wars Force Unleashed is at 800 points ($10) so that's how these games should be priced normally but it's nice to see them getting this low.

Yes this is what Microsoft has needed to do... (even a bit lower though) but that's a good price on Force Unleashed

yeah, 800 MSP for SW:TFU is a good price if you want a digital version. The GOTY edition is still costing a good amount so I dont know how if you were to buy the G.O.D., how you would get the dlc. I guess paying the full 800 MSP, even though neither one is worth that much. Hell 400 MSP is a huge stretch.

Glad to see prices coming down a bit more.

My guess is they jumped the gun with Madden 11 since It was already $30 before the deal. Probably will drop to $15 to later.

So the GOD Command and Conquer finally gets the right sale price late last night then expires. SMH. You'd think they would extend it a day since they forgot to actually drop the price to $13 until later in the evening.

I keep dying in Spelunky since the only way to get more lives is by rescuing the girl, yet I love playing it. I might buy if it reaches 800 points again.

Has Comic Jumper ever been on sale? Once they introduced Brad and his fembots, I knew this was worth buying. I read there is even a manga level.

Note that I purchased Raskulls through the Sales App last week, and even after the app update the game still shows up as re-purchasable through the xbox.com Marketplace. Not sure if other people are seeing the same thing?

I'll probably get the Scott Pilgrim Knives Chau pack even though I don't really care for the game all that much (I can't put my finger on it, but the gameplay in Scott Pilgrim just feels "off"). At only 80 MSP and a couple new game modes, how can you go wrong?

Originally Posted by Cage017 Has Comic Jumper ever been on sale? Once they introduced Brad and his fembots, I knew this was worth buying. I read there is even a manga level.

It was on sale for 400 when I bought it, and I truly loved it. You should also check out the retail game of Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. It's dead cheap now ($5+shipping at Gohastings.com used or new) and it was pure silly perfection, everything that Duke Nuke'm should have been but much less raunchy (it's rated T, even).

Also: start checking XBLDB if all you want to know is "was this on sale?" for XBLA games. Here's comic jumper's page: http://xbldb.com/offers/001-cbf

I hated Comic Jumper. The opening level is a hoot and the writing is charming but the gameplay is just so weak.

There is a manga level but it is written by people who have never read a manga ever so it isn't actually a sharp parody.

Originally Posted by Cage017 Has Comic Jumper ever been on sale? Once they introduced Brad and his fembots, I knew this was worth buying. I read there is even a manga level.

Yeah, it's been on sale a few times for 800 MSP, & was even 400 MSP as part of an April Fools sale.

& yes, there's a manga level where you look like Cloud & are riding an unicorn and it ends with a boss of a Japanese kid who shoots out snot bombs and laser beams out his eyes. As a manga reader, I found the stage quite hilarious.

Originally Posted by SporkWielder When you purchase something on the Xbox Marketplace, you're essentially buying two licenses: one that entitles anyone on the console on which you purchased the game/content/etc to play it, and one that entitles your gamertag to play it. Thus, if you go to a friend's console and use your gamertag to download a game, you can go home and download the same game to your console and play it as long as your gamertag is signed in to Xbox LIVE. Of course, all of this is predicated on not needing a license transfer to a new console at some point and having a reliable internet connection.

So are both consoles using the same gamertag at the same time?

Watch a playthrough of Comic Jumper on youtube. Guarantee it will be a more enjoyable experience than actually playing that game.

Originally Posted by Kerig It was on sale for 400 when I bought it, and I truly loved it. You should also check out the retail game of Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. It's dead cheap now ($5+shipping at Gohastings.com used or new) and it was pure silly perfection, everything that Duke Nuke'm should have been but much less raunchy (it's rated T, even). Also: start checking XBLDB if all you want to know is "was this on sale?" for XBLA games. Here's comic jumper's page: http://xbldb.com/offers/001-cbf

I actually paid full price for it (I was rather new to XBLA at the time, foolishly still paying full price for games) and really enjoyed it. My only regret was that it did drop down to 800 rather quickly and then even hit 400 during a sale.

Originally Posted by crookshow Watch a playthrough of Comic Jumper on youtube. Guarantee it will be a more enjoyable experience than actually playing that game.

THIS, and I am a big fan of Twisted Pixel.