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I just wanted to say that I bought The Walking Dead Collector Edition as I hadn't played any of the games or read the comics so i thought this would be a major win-win. I just want to say I wish I didn't.

All 5 episodes come on a disc format which would be great, but for some reason you don't have the install option (I checked at least 3 times) so you have to play it from the disc which I haven't done since the install option became available. It's loud and loads slow with lag hiccups when a scene is transitioning. I don't recommend the disc format at all. Besides with the first episode being free during the Christmas sale if they do the usual 50% off then the entire series will cost you only 800 points which would be an incredible deal.

As for the comic well, it is an exclusive version for this collectors edition only, but it comes as a heavy gigantic unwieldy softcover tome of the first 48 comics. It's seriously colossal and not fun at all to hold. I really wish they'd broken it up a bit to make it easier to read.

So, I really just wanted to give people a heads up that if you're considering getting the disc, don't, skip it and get them on sale on Xbox Live and also just buy the comics separately or in smaller tomes.
 
Sounds to me like you didn't know what you were buying when you bought it. For what it's worth, the game had some pretty bad framerate hiccups regardless of what format you play it on, at least on PS3. There were plenty of times where severe lag kicked in, especially during scene transitions and loading sequences.
 
[quote name='Tsel']Sounds to me like you didn't know what you were buying when you bought it. For what it's worth, the game had some pretty bad framerate hiccups regardless of what format you play it on, at least on PS3. There were plenty of times where severe lag kicked in, especially during scene transitions and loading sequences.[/QUOTE]

I also found many framerate issues and plenty of lag during scene transitions when I played through it on PS3. It sounds like the disc version is just as sloppy as the downloaded one. I enjoyed the game and all but I am a fan of the books. If I wasn't, the many technical issues in the game could have easily turned me off to it.
 
[quote name='Tsel']Sounds to me like you didn't know what you were buying when you bought it. For what it's worth, the game had some pretty bad framerate hiccups regardless of what format you play it on, at least on PS3. There were plenty of times where severe lag kicked in, especially during scene transitions and loading sequences.[/QUOTE]

How the hell was I supposed to know it wouldn't have an install option? On the tome perhaps, but I was just giving others a heads up, I didn't ask for a side of sass. :roll:
 
[quote name='Fear No Darkness']How the hell was I supposed to know it wouldn't have an install option? On the tome perhaps, but I was just giving others a heads up, I didn't ask for a side of sass. :roll:[/QUOTE]

No one asks for sass, it comes freely. Thanks for heads up btw, was thinking about the disc version. Looks like the walking dead is mine for this sale.
 
The Walking Dead disc is just like any of the other XBLA compilation discs in that they can't be installed. I was in for the disc version too until I read about it the other day. Now I'll just grab them all during the sale.

It would be nice if they included download codes with the compilation discs, but for whatever reason they don't or can't.
 
[quote name='Fear No Darkness']How the hell was I supposed to know it wouldn't have an install option? On the tome perhaps, but I was just giving others a heads up ... :roll:[/QUOTE]
No sassing here! I'll say that if the game were available as 5 separate XBLA games (rather than episode 1 and 4 add-ons), then it might've been possible to download the games as trial-versions, and play them from the HDD. You see, as long as the system can find the XBLA file available "somewhere" with DRM within the file that enables "full-mode" play, then the trial version on your HDD will launch with the full game available. Try this with a few compilation discs (like "Namco Museum"), and you'll find the trial version on your HDD will suddenly launch as a full-title.

But that's not how "Walking Dead" runs ... since it's a single XBLA title with 4 addons. :whistle2:(
 
[quote name='Cornelius']No sassing here! I'll say that if the game were available as 5 separate XBLA games (rather than episode 1 and 4 add-ons), then it might've been possible to download the games as trial-versions, and play them from the HDD. You see, as long as the system can find the XBLA file available "somewhere" with DRM within the file that enables "full-mode" play, then the trial version on your HDD will launch with the full game available. Try this with a few compilation discs (like "Namco Museum"), and you'll find the trial version on your HDD will suddenly launch as a full-title.

But that's not how "Walking Dead" runs ... since it's a single XBLA title with 4 addons. :whistle2:([/QUOTE]

So if I get the Trials HD, Splosion Man and LIMBO XBLA trials then they should run as full versions because I've played them on a disc?
 
[quote name='Cornelius']No sassing here! I'll say that if the game were available as 5 separate XBLA games (rather than episode 1 and 4 add-ons), then it might've been possible to download the games as trial-versions, and play them from the HDD. You see, as long as the system can find the XBLA file available "somewhere" with DRM within the file that enables "full-mode" play, then the trial version on your HDD will launch with the full game available. Try this with a few compilation discs (like "Namco Museum"), and you'll find the trial version on your HDD will suddenly launch as a full-title.

But that's not how "Walking Dead" runs ... since it's a single XBLA title with 4 addons. :whistle2:([/QUOTE]

This is interesting. I have Namco Museum, but haven't played it. So do I play the dic version first then install the trial or the other way around?
 
[quote name='robbyH']I thought that serious Sam was going to be on special or did that go away?[/QUOTE]

It's still next week's DOTW, it's just not in the OP and has been largely overshadowed here by the upcoming holiday specials.
 
[quote name='dutch72']Quick question was thinking about buying Saints Row 2 is there anyway to use Microsoft points or do I need to actually pay the ten dollars ?[/QUOTE]

I'm gonna start taking a shot every time this question is asked. :beer:

[quote name='Kerig']You should buy it ONLY if you can answer yes to these questions three:

1. Do you have a friend or two or three (not small children or wives who suck at video games) who you can play it couch co-op with?

2. Do you enjoy laughing at yourself for doing the same stupid mistakes over and over until you finally get through a level?

3. Do you mind not getting 100% everything in a game and just having fun doing the best you can? (even if it means not seeing the true ending/final levels?)

The level of difficulty is brutally hard but tolerable with multiplayer. If one player dies they float in a balloon bubble until another player saves (touches) him. If you're playing single-player, ever single cheap, stupid, frequent, rage-inducing death means starting the albeit short level over.

I had a blast (and a laugh) playing it co-op, but I know better than to touch the game on my own.[/QUOTE]

Rayman Origins? I didn't think it was all that hard at all in single player. I didn't 100% it, but I think I easily could have. The only thing that could have possibly caused problems were the speed runs.

[quote name='darkrun']When do prices usually leak? I bet the LEGO games are going to be 800 MSP, but I want to know now![/QUOTE]

For the daily deals, if it's like previous years, more than likely we won't know the prices until the day the sales go live. Please be patient.
 
Got bored, did a little OP tweaking. Insignificant nitpicking that you may safely ignore:

* When listing a substantial amount of DLC for one particular game - examples currently in the OP including Tropico 4, Saints Row the Third, and others - I don't think it's entirely necessary to preface every single bit of content with the name of the game it accompanies (Tropico 4 - Junta, Tropico 4 - Modern Times, etc.) just because the header usually is sufficient clarification. Yeah, someone will inevitably need a seemingly obvious point clarified, but I don't think it's ever been a problem in this regard. I am aware much of this stems from copy-pasting from XBLDB or Xbox.com. It's not a big deal at all, I just prefer keeping it light wherever feasible.

* One thing I don't agree with is slipping in remarks over the merit of DLC (or whatever else) in the OP itself, as has been done with Tropico 4 currently and other content in the past. I don't dislike it enough to edit it out, but I do think those matters should be left to discussion in the thread and not decided on by whoever wants to edit the OP. I do think Metacritic links are informative and worthwhile (Natural Selection II fiasco aside...), though of course this is not always viable for DLC. I also totally support including links to better/comparable deals in the OP, as being cheap is in the spirit of the site.

Just my two cents :) Keep on keeping on, fellow OP editors.
 
I was going to get TWD on disc but heard horrible reviews containing lots of bugs the download versions haven't encountered...the retail version is under heavy attack..maybe I will get the downloads then

also thanks for updating the OP Cornelius!
 
[quote name='Kerig']You should buy it ONLY if you can answer yes to these questions three:

1. Do you have a friend or two or three (not small children or wives who suck at video games) who you can play it couch co-op with?

2. Do you enjoy laughing at yourself for doing the same stupid mistakes over and over until you finally get through a level?

3. Do you mind not getting 100% everything in a game and just having fun doing the best you can? (even if it means not seeing the true ending/final levels?)

The level of difficulty is brutally hard but tolerable with multiplayer. If one player dies they float in a balloon bubble until another player saves (touches) him. If you're playing single-player, ever single cheap, stupid, frequent, rage-inducing death means starting the albeit short level over.

I had a blast (and a laugh) playing it co-op, but I know better than to touch the game on my own.[/QUOTE]

i don't consider myself to be that good at video games, i did not find rayman to be overly challenging playing single player

i would say the difficulty was fair, nothing compared to the difficulty of donkey kong country returns
 
i'm confused by the part of the post that list sonic 4 episode 2. it doesn't have a price or mention anything specific. does anyone know if it will be less than 1200 points?
 
[quote name='AngryNerdJosh']i'm confused by the part of the post that list sonic 4 episode 2. it doesn't have a price or mention anything specific. does anyone know if it will be less than 1200 points?[/QUOTE]

not much of a sale if it's not less than 1200 msp
nothing has been officially spoiled but someone found some pages on xbox.com listing those sales but with current prices I assume most games will be between 33 - 50 % off
 
Anyone know if Warp has been on sale recently?
I really hope it goes on sale, it's a fun and charming game to play that's also sometimes really difficult.
 
[quote name='Fear No Darkness']How the hell was I supposed to know it wouldn't have an install option? On the tome perhaps, but I was just giving others a heads up, I didn't ask for a side of sass. :roll:[/QUOTE]

Well, every single collection of XBLA games on disc does not allow for installation of the games. After this many years of XBLA game collections coming out, it's not a huge surprise that the latest one conforms to the rest of them.

[quote name='Barry Burton']i don't consider myself to be that good at video games, i did not find rayman to be overly challenging playing single player[/QUOTE]

But did you just beat it, or did you actually do everything in it? I can't say for sure it's the hardest platformer I've played, but it's definitely tougher than average.

*cue angry rebuttal from some cranky masochistic older gamer who wishes everything was brutally hard and thinks modern games are lazy*
 
[quote name='Masters_93']Anyone know if Warp has been on sale recently?
I really hope it goes on sale, it's a fun and charming game to play that's also sometimes really difficult.[/QUOTE]

Indeed it was on sale last month for 400MSP.
 
[quote name='Kerig']You should buy it ONLY if you can answer yes to these questions three:

1. Do you have a friend or two or three (not small children or wives who suck at video games) who you can play it couch co-op with?

2. Do you enjoy laughing at yourself for doing the same stupid mistakes over and over until you finally get through a level?

3. Do you mind not getting 100% everything in a game and just having fun doing the best you can? (even if it means not seeing the true ending/final levels?)

The level of difficulty is brutally hard but tolerable with multiplayer. If one player dies they float in a balloon bubble until another player saves (touches) him. If you're playing single-player, ever single cheap, stupid, frequent, rage-inducing death means starting the albeit short level over.

I had a blast (and a laugh) playing it co-op, but I know better than to touch the game on my own.[/QUOTE]

[quote name='eastx']But did you just beat it, or did you actually do everything in it? I can't say for sure it's the hardest platformer I've played, but it's definitely tougher than average.

*cue angry rebuttal from some cranky masochistic older gamer who wishes everything was brutally hard and thinks modern games are lazy*[/QUOTE]

Cranky? Not really. Masochistic? Probably. Older? Mid-30s probably makes that a yes. No angry rebuttal, but Rayman Origins has just moved closer to the front of my backlog.
 
[quote name='ooga']This is interesting. I have Namco Museum, but haven't played it. So do I play the dic version first then install the trial or the other way around?[/QUOTE]i tried both ways with my triple pack disc (limbo/trials hd/splosion man) and it kinda works. each game is listed individually in my library and can launch on their own (the triple pack also has it's own entry in the library as well). but this only works when the disc is in the tray. the console still has to verify the disc is inside. once the disc is ejected, the games revert back to demo versions.
 
[quote name='Bloomy']Cranky? Not really. Masochistic? Probably. Older? Mid-30s probably makes that a yes. No angry rebuttal, but Rayman Origins has just moved closer to the front of my backlog.[/QUOTE]

Of course, it is one of the finest 2D platformers in recent memory, so it should be on every platformer fan's must-play list. :cool:
 
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[quote name='eastx']Well, every single collection of XBLA games on disc does not allow for installation of the games. After this many years of XBLA game collections coming out, it's not a huge surprise that the latest one conforms to the rest of them.[/QUOTE]

That's not true, I have a copy of an microsoft XBLA compilation that can be installed, and when you put the disc in you don't have to Play the Disc to play the games, they show up in your list of XBLA games like normal with the rest of them.
 
[quote name='sicsonic']That's not true, I have a copy of an microsoft XBLA compilation that can be installed, and when you put the disc in you don't have to Play the Disc to play the games, they show up in your list of XBLA games like normal with the rest of them.[/QUOTE]

Which one is that? I'm not familiar with it, but it sounds like an exception rather than the rule.
 
I've got the XBLA disc that came with Sega Superstars Tennis in a holiday bundle a few years ago, and I've been messing around with it tonight. The disc can be installed to the hard drive, and all the games on it show up individually in the games list (note: this still happens whether the disc is installed or not), but the games still play from the disc, and the Xbox still spins the disc up when the games are loaded, which defeats the whole purpose of installing the disc in the first place.

I tried this with both Boom Boom Rocket and Feeding Frenzy. Downloaded the trial versions, inserted the disc, then the full versions showed up in my games list. But the disc started spinning up when I loaded the games. Ejected the disc and the games reverted back to the trial versions and played off the hard drive.

I own the full versions of Pac Man CE and Uno, which are also on that disc, and those still played off the hard drive with the disc installed and in the machine.

So yeah, I don't think the trial thing works, at least not for this particular disc.
 
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More Kinect Party pricing details revealed

Also, I've been playing the game for a few days and it's quite a substantial improvement over HAT. However, the Facebook photo uploading doesn't work yet and the controls/voice commands for photo-related things are not explained as well as they could be. Still, it's great that they have those things since sharing the silliness will add a lot of value to the game.

(Also posted this in the general Kinect thread.)
 
Thank EastX!

Still a little confusing - is just getting the download this week enough to unlock everything for free permanently? Or will you need to open up the game and download the rest from there I'm thinking from some of my friend's perspectives that would simply just go to Marketplace and download but don't have a Kinect to play yet. I guess we'll see, it should make sense once it shows up.
 
Those sales pages for the Christmas countdown are no longer working. Wonder what the point of removing them was, as most people would have seen them by now.
 
That per-channel pricing structure is... weird. I mean, some of the channels in the original game were fine to play with for 60 seconds in between the more substantial ones, but you wouldn't have wanted to pay for them separately. The game worked more as a total package than as individual channels being standouts. I wonder why they think they can make more money this way.

Does "all 36 channels" include the original 19 from DFHAT?
 
[quote name='Ryuukishi']That per-channel pricing structure is... weird. I mean, some of the channels in the original game were fine to play with for 60 seconds in between the more substantial ones, but you wouldn't have wanted to pay for them separately. The game worked more as a total package than as individual channels being standouts. I wonder why they think they can make more money this way.

Does "all 36 channels" include the original 19 from DFHAT?[/QUOTE]

But you don't have to purchase individually if you don't want to, its an option. Some people may only want a particular channel after it gets a good review. For people like you there is the complete purchase option.
 
[quote name='CAiNiACprime']But you don't have to purchase individually if you don't want to, its an option.[/QUOTE]
Oh yeah, I think that was pretty clear from eastx's article. I just think it's a strange option.
 
[quote name='dutch72']Quick question was thinking about buying Saints Row 2 is there anyway to use Microsoft points or do I need to actually pay the ten dollars ?[/QUOTE]

[quote name='tylerh1701']I'm gonna start taking a shot every time this question is asked. :beer:[/quote]

Me & you, TylerH, we'll get wasted by the end of next week over this. \\:D/



Whenever Reddjoey (or whomever) makes the next inaugural installment of this thread, we could put the process (for buying GOD with points--NOT me & Tyler getting wasted) in the second post along with the FAQ, and then give a blanket statement to check the FAQ, amiright? Ah hell, no one will read that much either I suppose. :whistle2:#
 
[quote name='xbox_man']Those sales pages for the Christmas countdown are no longer working. Wonder what the point of removing them was, as most people would have seen them by now.[/QUOTE]

Just us deal/game super nerds, most people (Xbox owners) probably have no idea. MS post stuff early quite a bit and pull it, makes you wonder if it really is just one person hitting all the switches.
 
[quote name='Barry Burton']i don't consider myself to be that good at video games, i did not find rayman to be overly challenging playing single player

i would say the difficulty was fair, nothing compared to the difficulty of donkey kong country returns[/QUOTE]

I'm with you. It does get crazy hard after the 'ending' though. I did not do everything in the game, but there is a ton of content that i did finish. I think i spend 20 hours on it. Excellent game even having only played it in single player.
 
I see a few tempting games to pick up. For sure Mark of the Ninja, Fez & Trials Evolution.
 
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[quote name='Masters_93']Dammit, I missed it. :cry:

Maybe next time.[/QUOTE]
Well, Warp seemed to me a game with potential to be on sale several times. So maybe you won't have to wait too much (if you are lucky).
 
I think we need a list of arcade collections that work with the demo download. Kinda like shipwrecks guide to half priced arcade games. Once my friends and I figured that out, we went nuts! I'll try the few I have, in the morning.
 
[quote name='Ryuukishi']Does "all 36 channels" include the original 19 from DFHAT?[/QUOTE]

Agreed that it is weird. I think maybe they're leaving it open to the possibility of adding new individual channels down the line. That or they just want impulse buys from people who only have 80 Points to spend.

Yes, the 36 channels includes the content from the first game. I think 1 has something like 18-ish, maybe a bit less, and part 2 pushes it up to 18.
 
[quote name='cthomer5000']I'm with you. It does get crazy hard after the 'ending' though. I did not do everything in the game, but there is a ton of content that i did finish. I think i spend 20 hours on it. Excellent game even having only played it in single player.[/QUOTE]
I haven't play any Donkey Kong series, but I do have Donkey Kong Country returns. I was curious which Donkey Kong game should I start if I want to know about it's story and such if there is any.
 
Is the Kinect Party game for free, going to be free for everyone or only people with kinect, I ask as I dont have kinect but will buy one sooner or later.
I think I remember another kinect game free for a little while but only people with Kinect could get it for free.
 
[quote name='xbox_man']Is the Kinect Party game for free, going to be free for everyone or only people with kinect, I ask as I dont have kinect but will buy one sooner or later.
I think I remember another kinect game free for a little while but only people with Kinect could get it for free.[/QUOTE]

No, you didn't need to own a Kinect to get previous free games Haunt and Wreckateer. You won't need to own one to get Kinect Party. Also, we ask questions with question marks. ;)
 
[quote name='eastx']No, you didn't need to own a Kinect to get previous free games Haunt and Wreckateer. You won't need to own one to get Kinect Party. Also, we ask questions with question marks. ;)[/QUOTE]

Wasn't there an app you had to get Haunt through, but you had to have Kinect to use the app?
 
[quote name='xbox_man']Wasn't there an app you had to get Haunt through, but you had to have Kinect to use the app?[/QUOTE]

No, Haunt is a normal game that's downloaded like any other game.

What you're probably thinking of are some apps for Kinect Fun Labs which need to be downloaded through the Fun Labs hub.
 
[quote name='dirtyvu']No, Haunt is a normal game that's downloaded like any other game.

What you're probably thinking of are some apps for Kinect Fun Labs which need to be downloaded through the Fun Labs hub.[/QUOTE]

No he's right, I remember trying to download a free Kinect game (it might of been Haunt, don't remember) but it wouldn't let me because I didn't have a Kinect. I've only seen that happen that one and only time though, I've downloaded other free Kinect games.
 
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