Xbox Live Market Place - General Discussion Thread 1

[merf]

I'm probably alone and won't start a first play but Lazy Raiders is really nice.

[Paulos G]

You're not alone. I rather enjoyed the demo too.

[Brats]

Chalk me up for another fan. It was the other two releases this week I was interested in, but Lazy Raiders is a nice surprise.

[merf]

I bought it and spent a nice hour with it earlier. Have a rather fetching set of Avatat clothing unlocked now too for my chap.

[Dezm0nd]

This weeks Super Deal of the Amazing Week is Gears of War....

Cog Armour for blah blah blahh... ZZZZzzzz

[Skull Commander]

Deal of the Weak more like...

[number9dream]

Shockingly poor deal of the week and next weeks isn't great either (bit of discount on CoD: WaW map pack ), clearly they want everyone to spend their MS dollars on the March Block party games and the game room thingy.

[Spatial]

Remember Limbo?



It's not dead and is coming to XBLA!

http://www.console-arcade.com/2010/03/03/limbo-no-longer-in-limbo-coming-to-xbla/

[merf]

anybody else try Toy Soldiers then, I quite liked the demo but not sure its worth 1200 points, would have taken a punt at 800 but I need a little more convincing at higher price point, I had some doubts over the controls for the plane, camera angles and the fact when all said and done looked like a simple tower defence game in a posh frock.

[toythatkills]

I almost like it, but there's a fair amount of things that try to prevent it. Especially when my last Tower Defence experience was Defense Grid which is very user friendly - this, not so much.

[merf]

echo's my thoughts, for 1200 points it has to be really good and well finished, like Trials HD.

I love the idea, art style, concept. just the execution feels a month or 2 of polish away from being excellent.

[Brats]

I bought it and it is really good, but the trial (which is the training mode) is a right mess. It throws you in with pretty much everything available at the beginning, but with a massive 100 'lives' so that it's impossible to lose, even though you won't know what the hell is going on.

The actual game itself starts off at a much more sedate pace and gradually teaches you the nuances of the units as it goes along. The plane for example doesn't become available until level 4, and did you know that clicking in the stick gives a complete overhead view which makes bombing runs much easier (I didn't know that until it tells you in level 3).

I've thought before how a first world war game could work and this is the perfect solution. Tower Defense is the best way to represent it. Although the style of the game loving reproduces the painted toy soldiers of yore, it also does a very good job of representing the stupidity of the first world war with hundreds of troops advancing in plain sight and being minced to pieces by machine gun turrets and artillery. There's something very saddening about WW1 and this game captures some of that despite the clockwork toys. It's helped by the sound which is surprisingly sparse, with no idiotic quips from the troops (the only speech is a quiet roar when the roops go over the top into the gunfire) and a surprising lack of music.

I don't know if it was the developer's intention, but the game reminds me of that final scene from Blackadder Goes Forth, which is no bad thing.

[yesteryeargames]

whats the online mode like im tempted to pick this up, if it was 800 it would have been an instant buy

[merf]

curse you brats for now making me want to part with 1200 points.

800 pts it is an insta-buy I agree. hasn't the app store taught people that price it cheap you flog more, I'm sure this would do amazingly at 800 but a lot will be put off at more.

[toythatkills]

whats the online mode like im tempted to pick this up, if it was 800 it would have been an instant buy

Terrible and completely broken, to answer that question.