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Yep, and it's such a relatively trivial thing to address that I'd be surprised if Nine Dots didn't make some effort to fix Brand's issues. I'm surprised it launched at 80 points myself, but perhaps the developer is looking at a Minecraft model of sales, cheap beta, more expensive final release...

Raventhorne did get an update which fixed a lot of genuinely annoying issues with the initial release. Now, I'd put it about the same as Brand, really -- a great looking but rather repetitive action game... except Brand has yet to receive its patch (hello?) to fix its annoying issues. It's...

For what it's worth, Brand isn't absolutely terrible. The gameplay is pretty bland to start, but the sword upgrades can make progress easier and gameplay more fun. Brand matures into a pretty decent albeit repetitive game, but it really shouldn't demand that players grind and suffer through the...

That's pretty much what I've done as well over the years. I'll still cave if it's something I really want as I did for SFIII or if it debuts cheap as Quarrel did, but by an large I'm content to wait for the inevitable half off sale. There's just so much to play as it is anyway, and I'm still...

Wizorb might be able to squeeze in since there is some discrepancy between the size of the .ccgame and how it unpacks on the 360. There have been games over 50 MB in the past still able to get an 80 point listing just for that reason. Since Wizorb is just 6 MB over the limit, I'd imagine the...

Pfft. Reading's for chumps. :-P I did go through the topic but didn't connect your victory post to your OP for some reason. :-P Yeah, those tough Ch. 5 levels, if you work on them at the time you encounter them, make the rest of the game feel so much more manageable. I think those require that...

Skyscraper is an absolute pain. Leave it. I 100% the game on 360, and I struggled a lot on that stage. It's on par with The Kid as far as frustration goes due to the limited lives and length of that run. Seriously, leave it behind for now. Having to make that loop through the third level to grab...

The notion that the Xbox 360 is lacking exclusives is overplayed and incorrect. Whether or not those exclusives mean anything to you is another matter. For me, that means Culdcept Saga, VF5 On-Line, Deadly Premonition (English), Tales of Vesperia (English), DeathSmiles, DeathSmiles 2X, Raiden...

I've not played the remake extensively, but the first Clover had a rather abortive ending. That was the only one; you expect the game to go on beyond a point, but it doesn't. I don't believe the newer Clover has multiple endings. As I recall, it's basically just some cleaned up graphics, spoken...

Nope, that's correct. ESRB is not law, but as a policy Microsoft complies. Requiring an Internet connection circumvents that. It's akin to one of those "on-line content not rated" disclaimers you see on certain games regardless of rating since opening up a game to the Internet via content or...

You're overlooking Hieronymus Bash. :-P

Make sure you've got Apple Jack, Arkedo Series - 03 PIXEL!, Astroman, Curse of the Crescent Isle, and Ninja360. Astroman in particular stuns me that it hasn't been more successful given how nice it looks and the popularity of Metroid. It needs more love. Ask why do Kindling's games invoke...

You can also grab Invasion if you're looking for cheaper (80 points) way to experience Parasitus. It seems to reuse some of the graphics and plays about the same, but most of Invasion feels like an infomercial for Parasitus, even plugging the game in the dialogue. :-P The game I've been trying...

I agree, but then these games would never have been green lighted on XBLA nor could be priced for free given XBLIG's limitations. A number of the games are 240 points because they had to be given the file sizes. Of course, that's changed now, and you've just noted one has lowered its price...

The Old Spice games -- yes, there are quite a few of them -- are the result of a contest the company ran tied to Microsoft's own Dream.Play.Build. The catch is that developers had to make a game incorporating aspects of the Old Spice brand, and the best game would win that developer diamonds or...

I am commenting in the contest thread here. I am making it a good one. Seriously though, that's a fantastic prize. I want. Now to decide which god I must appease.

No whammies.

Too many good games coming out. Hoping I win so I don't have to sell plasma to keep up with them.

Dreamcast supported VGA. It's not HD, but it's good for a ten-year-old console.