The Summer of Arcade Sucks
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That was actually the first achievement many people get, me as well. It's because I was playing on the difficulty higher then normal, and didn't grind Fidget's attack before meeting those purple flying dragon things. Getting a combo that big is easy if you just keep doing that dust storm magic combo thing in Archer's Pass or what ever it was called. Even when you fail you often get around 600-700 hits easy, it's just a matter of learning to chain the groups of enemies.Yahtzee Croshaw said:
But yeah, Dust was by far the best of the bunch, and I don't mean of XBLA, I mean of every game I've played this year. Still isn't saying much though since I haven't been impressed at all with the lineup of 2012. Though Metroidvania games though are like sex on the beach for me, so hell yes!!
Exactly. Why NOT try out what PSN's offering, so he can compare it to XBLA?Two-A said:
captcha: stranger danger
I need a grown-up!
Well Red ones go fasta. Though blue is lucky...Zaik said:
I'm also going to chime in with that psn had at least a few good once recently. At the very least you could point out how is you have play station plus (which costs as much as a NORMAL XBLA account) currently gets you a ton of free (fairly old) games.
As far as I know, PSN doesn't have an event where it showcases the best indie games of the summer. He mostly does XBLA reviews during the slow release monthsDarth_Payn said:
I'm not saying he shouldn't review PSN games. Maybe he will considering the mediocre Xbox releases of this summer. But in this article he was analizing how this year Summer of Arcade
stands on its own merits
Holy shit, I thought that I was the only one who always joined the losing team if both had the same number of players! Just this Sunday I joined a match on Hightower and carried the cart almost to the elevator, while the other team barely got it to the crossing. Then I switched teams and won. Granted, I don't pretend my contribution to that turnover was very far above negligible, except to myself, and it makes me feel good.Yahtzee Croshaw said:
OT: I'm in Brazil and Microsoft has finally taken to calling it the Winter of Arcade here as well, except when it forgets doesn't, which is very very often. The little stupid briefcase menu where you can see all the games is also ridiculously offset and I can't even see anything that's near the right side of the screen.
I always pick red team when possible in TF2 because of Sarge from Red vs. Blue. You can never trust those dirty blues. The Blues never sleep! They're too busy plotting to destroy our way of life. That's how you can always spot a Blue. They're always conniving and scheming. Sometimes they do both! I call that... schenniving!
U dissing on Cyan?
There is nothing wrong with cyan. There are a million colours uglier than cyan.
There is nothing wrong with cyan. There are a million colours uglier than cyan.
Great post. Plus, Steam sales of those games tend to be way higher so maybe they just need to change publishers. PSN indie devs don't blast Sony, but platform-exclusive indie games feels like a wrong thing. Journey and Dyad are great, but being on all platforms can only be a good thing for everyone involved.CBanana said:
What are the Valve published indie games?
pink isn't a real colourBoudica said:
no seriously, look at the EM spectrum, no such thing, it's a construct made by our minds to bridge the gap between the two ends of the visible light spectrum, after all, what wavelngth is between red and violet? green, but that makes no sense, so our brains wrap the spectrum into a circle and make up magenta.
fear the science, FEAR IT!Boudica said:
ok, I'm being unfair, pink IS a colour, but it's not naturally occuring (and is technically desaturated red, it really depends on the particular type of pink), there is a story about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colour_Out_of_Space (ironically, I always imagined The Colour to be greenish-grey, now I'm only going to be able to imagine it as pink... it puts a bit of a wierd view on the story...)
now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to get back to my non-lovecraftian colours
I thought you were going to say 'This summer sucked' and I was going to agree, then I saw 'Arcade'... So I had to think about it and I still agree it sucked.
But then I realized you're not in Britain anymore and Wales is bloody amazing on deciding weather, from one type of rain to another.
But then I realized you're not in Britain anymore and Wales is bloody amazing on deciding weather, from one type of rain to another.
A fair point, I think a lot of it comes down to XBL's pricing policy as much as anything. The oft-maligned practice of charging a membership fee for multiplayer and such, when people are already paying for an internet connection. That basically means that if your an indie developer someone basically has to decide playing your game is worth also maintaining an XBL membership for if it's a multiplayer game, where on STEAM or most other platforms there isn't an issue like that.CBanana said:
Not to mention the fact that indie games did get kind of swept into the closet on XBL's dashboard. To Microsoft they are second class citizens and treated as such.
