Xbox Live Market Place - General Discussion Thread 1

[Alex_976]

finally I might be able to get them multiplayer kills on doom now.

[Anilones]

I return home from university on Friday and will have access to the internet for the first time since Christmas so intend to buy some XBLA games. I'm currently looking at getting Rez HD, N+ (and also the Mass Effect update).

Are there any recommended games I may have overlooked? I haven't bought any games off XBLA before so open to pretty much any recommendations. Also is SWOS any good, I hadn't tracked it after it's release after it's numerous delays?

[tom-nook]

Cheap films on the Marketplace this Easter

Apologies if posted already....spotted a link to this on AV Forums (taken from Aceybongos blog):

From midnight on Good Friday (March 21) to midnight on Easter Saturday (March 22) you'll be able to rent the following movies for only 100 MS Points for SD, and only 150 MS Points for HD!

UK/Ireland

• Transformers
• Swordfish
• 1408
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Naked Gun

Remember that the films will only be at this special price for 24 hours, but if you download them during that time they will stay on your hard drive for 14 days (so long as you don't start watching the film, at which point it switches to 24 hours), so you can rent them cheap then watch them another time!

Hopefully it'll not turn into the farce that was 300.....

Is 1408 any good btw??

[toythatkills]

Wouldn't mind getting 1408 and Transformers but that's 10gb of bandwidth in a day, I should really check if BT let me do that...

[SCCAAMMM]

i found 1408 to be very watchable.

[RLench]

ffs I just rented 1408 from the Marketplace as well! I enjoyed it too btw. Very good film, IMO

[Kubrick]

I return home from university on Friday and will have access to the internet for the first time since Christmas so intend to buy some XBLA games. I'm currently looking at getting Rez HD, N+ (and also the Mass Effect update).

Are there any recommended games I may have overlooked? I haven't bought any games off XBLA before so open to pretty much any recommendations. Also is SWOS any good, I hadn't tracked it after it's release after it's numerous delays?

SWOS is alright, pretty-much unchanged so if you've played it before and like it...800 is a bit steep though.

Rez HD and N+ are excellent choices. PacMan CE is also a great little game and Omega Five, if you like shooters. Poker Smash is probably worth a look too...I would've bought that by now if I had enough points.

[stainboy]

ffs I just rented 1408 from the Marketplace as well! I enjoyed it too btw. Very good film, IMO

Meh, I thought it was great for the first half but then got all sentimental

->Open Spoiler<-

over his dead daughter

which made it boring.

[Spatial]

News that Ikaruga's achievements have been revealed

http://www.console-arcade.com/2008/03/19/ikaruga-achievements-revealed-game-coming-soon/

Games also been covered by OXM (9/10) so looks like it could be coming by the end of this month.

[Silvergun X]

Haven't Ikaruga's achievements been out for a few months now? I remember seeing them.

[Spatial]

Dunno actually, but it's the first time I've seen them.

Quick Google search shows most news on it is only a couple of hours old.

[Silvergun X]

Then that's all good by me.

[toythatkills]

Mr Driller achievements too! I do hope this is close to release...

[toythatkills]

From midnight on Good Friday (March 21) to midnight on Easter Saturday (March 22) you'll be able to rent the following movies for only 100 MS Points for SD, and only 150 MS Points for HD!

UK/Ireland
Transformers
Swordfish
1408
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Naked Gun

I stayed up 'til gone midnight last night so that I could download one of these overnight, I should have known it was beyond Microsoft to do anything bloody right.

[Womble9]

I stayed up 'til gone midnight last night so that I could download one of these overnight, I should have known it was beyond Microsoft to do anything bloody right.

Surely midnight on Good Friday is midnight tonight isn't it?