Since I wait on Bethesda to release GotY editions of their RPGs, I chose to pass on the
Skyrim DLC at discounted price. Coupled with repeat discounts on
The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile and
Torchlight, which I already purchased before at the discounted prices, this past week allowed my Microsoft moon money wallet to regenerate. Which doesn't regenerate so easily either since I do not see a special offer for November yet, nor do I see the 2% back for MyAchievements pending at this time [bought a lot last month too with all the sales and reward offer, so 2% still nets me something].
For this week's sales, I still don't know what will be offered on discount through the Sales and Specials + app for this week, so there still a chance for something to get me spending. I can at least continue to maintain some funds due to purchasing the XBLA
Guardian Heroes at full initial release price because I loved the game that much back in the Sega Saturn days. I will continue to recommend the game, even with my odd taste in games, especially now that it is only 400MSP to purchase this week. I've already played
Guardian Heroes dozens of times then (not exaggeration), so I am really looking forward to the XBLA
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds -Cocoa's Nightmare Attack- sometime in 2013, which appears to have a similar style of play mechanics.
A couple of new XBLA titles appears on the horizon. I never spent any time with
Toejam & Earl before and doesn't appear to appeal to me, so this may be the only Sega Vintage Collection XBLA title I will pass up when they go on discount. I don't know much on
Karateka either aside from someone on [the earlier version of] this thread mentioning it features the same character designer as the old "Batman: The Animated Series" doing character designs for this game. At least both will be initially offered at 800MSP, instead of the trending higher 1200MSP-1600MSP for XBLA. I will need some heavy convincing in order to try these titles if and when they get a discount, I await that day to ask you guys ^^.
Also on things I don't know, I have been waiting on the XBLA edition of the board game "Zombies!!!" (that's with 3 exclamation points) for a couple years now, and I still have no idea when it would be released for XBLA (I know Windows Phone 7 release exists, don't have the device tho). All I can find recently on it was just this video:
XBLA Zombies!!! If the game continues to stall much longer for release, I will be more concerned about XBLA on the next Microsoft game console (and the "game" part is even under scrutiny from me); but at this time I am a bit at ease since the original Xbox Live for the original Xbox did have some arcade games (Popcap ones like
Bejeweled 2 to my recollection) which did transfer over to the newer 360 architecture. At this time it is only speculation ... but since I will likely wait out until the next system is at an acceptable price point, it wouldn't concern me too much right now with my purchases, so long as I can still play my 360 (I still enjoy older systems to this day).