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AATG had one, it made sense so I thought I'd carry on the tradition here! :{D> Most of us know the release date of Ikaruga is April 9th now, thanks to a leak, BUT - it's happened again! This time Mr Driller Online; due next week for 800 MS points! \o/ But it's not all good news, no.... apparently, MS have turned down bullet bukkake shooters Do Don Pachi & Ketsui X for release on XBLA and the developers have instead been forced to release them as retail products. Our initial plan was to port lots of good arcade titles to XBLA. We talked to IP holders of these titles, and persuaded them. We secured these licenses, and finally talked with Microsoft. There they rejected all of our proposals saying, 'We are going to cut down faithful arcade ports.' We felt so frustrated. We wanted to show them that their decision was wrong. So we switched our two most promising projects into retail.Stupid, stupid MS! These types of games are going to be a very small niche as physical releases (we've all known the hell of trying to find obscure games with small production runs), XBLA & PSN are perfect for them. Silly sods. |
*Official* XBLA thread
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Oh, and Darwinia coming to XBLA is news to me! -
AwesomeWells 1,119 posts
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Registered 15 years agoThe Darwinia news is super awesome. -
saysomething 1,245 posts
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Registered 17 years agoLalalalalaalalalalalalalalalalala etc..
Excellent!
Edit:Lala was too hard spell. -
elredeyegrande 2,382 posts
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Registered 15 years agoGood upcoming XBLA game list here. Announced and rumoured games included. I've never heard the GTA rumour, but it'd be nice if that did come out too.
Gridrunner++ and Quake \o/ -
GloatingSwine 3,916 posts
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Registered 14 years agoRetroid wrote:
Oh, and Darwinia coming to XBLA is news to me!
It's even got Win in the damn title. -
quantumsheep 3,129 posts
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Registered 20 years agoelredeyegrande wrote:
Good upcoming XBLA game list here. Announced and rumoured games included. I've never heard the GTA rumour, but it'd be nice if that did come out too.
Gridrunner++ and Quake \o/
Holy shit - Radiant Silvergun's on that list!
Rumoured, but still.... \o/
Loads of great games to look forward to - Street Fighter HD, 1942, [link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_%28video_game%29">Braid (rumoured), -
A little more about Braid
Oh, and Fez was on 1up a few weeks back and it looked like an interesting title back then. I look forward to it! -
morriss 71,293 posts
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Registered 17 years agoThey should remake Sentinel. -
Xerx3s 23,970 posts
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Registered 17 years agoHELLO?! Haven't you guys heard? XBLa only has shit releases of 20 year old shit games. -
elredeyegrande 2,382 posts
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Registered 15 years agoDamn, man..
/cancels enthusiasm -
BartonFink 35,268 posts
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Registered 20 years agoMS deserve to be kicked square in the left and right nut for this crap. -
MrSensible 26,517 posts
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Registered 16 years agoGreat thread, can't believe we don't have one already! I spend more time on XBLA games than full releases sometimes! -
I implore you all to try poker smash. It's awesome! -
GloatingSwine 3,916 posts
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Registered 14 years agoBartonFink wrote:
MS deserve to be kicked square in the left and right nut for this crap.
Well, when they allow arcade rereleases, everyone moans about all the arcade rereleases. Can' really win, can they? -
Psychotext 70,652 posts
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Registered 15 years agoGloatingSwine wrote:
Pretty much.
Well, when they allow arcade rereleases, everyone moans about all the arcade rereleases. Can' really win, can they? -
GloatingSwine wrote:
Yay: Do Don Pachi, Triggerheart Exelica, Ikaruga & other 'modern' arcade release many of us won't have had the chance to play as our arcades have died a death.
Well, when they allow arcade rereleases, everyone moans about all the arcade rereleases. Can' really win, can they?
Nay: New Rally X, Frogger and its ilk. THOSE are the arcade games I want to see less of. -
Xerx3s 23,970 posts
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Registered 17 years agoNatAttack wrote:
/want Quake
They are making Q3 arena so quake might be a possibility. -
morriss 71,293 posts
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Registered 17 years agoSENTINEL
ELITE
WIZBALL
MOVIE -
sam_spade 15,745 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI'm interested in Ticket To Ride, based on the board game. -
quantumsheep 3,129 posts
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Registered 20 years agomorriss wrote:
SENTINEL
ELITE
WIZBALL
MOVIE
Heh - beat you to it
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Trowel 24,512 posts
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Registered 18 years agoThe Incredible Machine! \o/ -
morriss 71,293 posts
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Registered 17 years ago.gif)
It's got to be done. It'll sell bucket loads! -
Devil-Dancer 66 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI'd probably DL Scrabble, and I'm psyched for Bionic Commando Rearmed. -
haowan 7,385 posts
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Registered 15 years agoXBLA is a rotting failure. Doubtful they'll be able to turn it around now. Thw whole thing's fucked up. -
Xerx3s 23,970 posts
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Registered 17 years agoNatAttack wrote:
I'll settle for Quake 1&2
I never played Quake the first time 'round. I remember reading C&VG and people like Tom Guise and that complete tool Richard Leadbetter raving about the online play. And that.
Q2 is already available on the 360. It's included in Q4 (the only reason why I bought it). It's quite good. It has coop, achievements and everything. -
Xerx3s 23,970 posts
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Registered 17 years agoNo, it's on the bonus dvd (!). -
Quake 4 is also a bloody awful port on the 360. Don't bother.
haowan wrote:
Go on then, spill!
XBLA is a rotting failure. Doubtful they'll be able to turn it around now. Thw whole thing's fucked up. -
haowan 7,385 posts
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Registered 15 years agoWell it's all a bit up in the air, but most indies are feeling priced out be the recent royalty drop. It's a complicated issue, as there are upsides put in place to compensate for the rate drop, but basically the impression is that it's being made easier for publishers and more difficult for indies - the idea being that indies will go with the publishers instead of self-funding (destroying the meaning of being indie in the first place as you lose your IP rights etc). Things might be changing but it's hard to believe that they'll save it now the developer backlash has started. In addition, all interface changes to XBLA have worsened the service instead of improving it.
Things that need to be done to fix XBLA:
* Restore the royalty rate for indie developers.
* Stop turning down content - it's a digital service, there is no limit to "shelf space".
* Allow users to filter existing content in different ways, rate content, share rating and reviews with other users.
* Give XBLA its own blade with a front page incorporating these social features.
* Ideally also have a web portal people can access from any web browser with similar features, and the ability to purchase content to be downloaded to the XBox later. -
I'd agree with those points.
As for the royalty costs and all of that, as you say it's a bit muddled with pluses and minuses allover the place, but I'm not a dev so I have to rely on word of mouth
It's frustrating as it hosts a lot of my favourite content at the moment but they seem to be unable to stop choking the benefits of digital distribution.
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