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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: The Sceneman on December 16, 2013, 04:15:23 PM

Title: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Best game ever Dark Souls now free
Post by: The Sceneman on December 16, 2013, 04:15:23 PM
Did we have a catch all thread for GWG discussion? Can't remember.

Anyhow this game is free now. Dev claims it's Borderlands mixed with Metal Slug. Hopefully it's not as shit as Borderlands, and hopefully it's half as good as a Metal Slug game.

Who wants to play with me :noah
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: demi on December 16, 2013, 04:16:00 PM
Borderlands 2 Season Pass on sale as well, might cop to continue my adventures.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: The Sceneman on December 16, 2013, 04:17:11 PM
Yeah I might as well snag that too lol. Been meaning to roll a new toon and run the DLC. I got like 20K badass rank I ground out :noah
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 16, 2013, 04:17:41 PM
Shoot Many Robots was was  :zzz, fun for a few minutes in MP, gets old fast.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 16, 2013, 04:20:00 PM
I've played it on Steam, was a fun diversion.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: The Sceneman on December 16, 2013, 04:23:57 PM
Shoot Many Robots was was  :zzz, fun for a few minutes in MP, gets old fast.

TA ratio is real low, which means its short and easy to 200/200 :noah
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 16, 2013, 05:05:39 PM
Meanwhile ps+ gets Borderlands 2 and DMC
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: The Sceneman on December 16, 2013, 05:19:43 PM
Meanwhile ps+ gets Borderlands 2 and DMC

Meanwhile PSN servers have no party chat and play, and long ass download times. Meanwhile Gold is less than the price of a latte a month (I just re-upped my sub for 48NZD, 4NZD per month)
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 16, 2013, 05:25:05 PM
Psn costs the same

:umad

Shoot many robots isnt worth the price of a latte, btw ps4 downloads are fast
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: The Sceneman on December 16, 2013, 05:31:11 PM
360 party chat and seamless online play transitions from game to game make the fee worth it IMO

Online gaming has never been so easy and stress free
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: demi on December 16, 2013, 05:38:36 PM
PS+ is so good. But since I buy and play games on release, its largely useless for me.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 16, 2013, 05:55:51 PM
I agree that online play on ps3 aint as smooth with friends.

If you just wanna play some cod it doesnt matter really
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: The Sceneman on December 16, 2013, 06:00:52 PM
I've been shilling for M$ for like 6 years now, can't stop now :noah
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: drew on December 16, 2013, 06:01:57 PM
borderlands isn't shitty

take that back

I'm serious.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: Raban on December 16, 2013, 07:53:55 PM
It's pretty shitty as a shooter. Maybe your response to that is "Well DUH it's an RPG not a shooter", but it still looks and controls just like a modern FPS. Yet it has the gun balance, encounter design, and enemy behavior of a mediocre shooter from the PS1 era, not to mention a quest system every bit as shallow and mindless as any low-rent MMO out there.

I've tried and tried to get into the series, but ultimately it just leaves me wanting. I'm tempted by this sale, but even if I bro-op with some fellow Boritos I don't think I can look past my issues with the core gameplay.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: The Sceneman on December 16, 2013, 08:04:17 PM
It's still fun and addicting of course, but you can't say its that well designed or anything. And the writing. Good god the writing. Handsome Jack is good, but the rest of the jokes are based on 5 year old unfunny memes and have been focus grouped by bottom feeding "Redditors". The 3d text overlay scenes where they introduce a new character make me want to smash my TV
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: chronovore on December 16, 2013, 08:11:29 PM
Did we have a catch all thread for GWG discussion? Can't remember.

Anyhow this game is free now. Dev claims it's Borderlands mixed with Metal Slug. Hopefully it's not as shit as Borderlands, and hopefully it's half as good as a Metal Slug game.

Who wants to play with me :noah
(http://i.imgur.com/YpSfw.gif)
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 16, 2013, 09:03:25 PM
I've been shilling for M$ for like 6 years now, can't stop now :noah

No reason to bro. Anybody who attempts to argue that PSN is better than XBL is delusional or a gaf ps proxy nazi.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: AdmiralViscen on December 16, 2013, 09:59:45 PM
I've been shilling for M$ for like 6 years now, can't stop now :noah

No reason to bro. Anybody who attempts to argue that PSN is better than XBL is delusional or a gaf ps proxy nazi.

PS4 PSN > XBO Live

Cheaper, free games, party system works better, live streaming
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: huckleberry on December 16, 2013, 10:46:21 PM
borderlands isn't shitty

take that back

I'm serious.

goddamit drew   :maf

spoiler (click to show/hide)
i completely agree with you
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Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: The Sceneman on December 17, 2013, 03:18:09 AM
Did we have a catch all thread for GWG discussion? Can't remember.

Anyhow this game is free now. Dev claims it's Borderlands mixed with Metal Slug. Hopefully it's not as shit as Borderlands, and hopefully it's half as good as a Metal Slug game.

Who wants to play with me :noah
(http://i.imgur.com/YpSfw.gif)

(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h52/mad_chump/dancarter_zpsba878ceb.gif)
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 17, 2013, 08:29:19 AM
This is the most sexually charged XBL Games with Gold thread yet.  :noah
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: chronovore on December 17, 2013, 09:27:57 AM
 :phil
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: The Sceneman on December 17, 2013, 02:43:35 PM
So I played the first few levels last night. The game is... OK. Its really obvious they lifted the aesthetic (and even central conceit) of Borderlands so wholesale that it's almost a joke. It plays kinda like Gunstar Heroes, but way sloppier. Again, like Borderlands, the developers have clearly spent very little time in fine tuning (or even considering) gameplay and twitch challenge, in favor of grinding to get better stats, so you can tank the harder enemies. I wouldn't expect anything less from filthy gaijin.

Still, it's fun enough, and there's a shitload of items to collect so I'll 200 this with the quickness
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 17, 2013, 03:51:48 PM
Meanwhile on ps+ you can get the real Borderlands 2

Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: The Sceneman on December 17, 2013, 04:14:19 PM
which we've all already played. Spin harder :spin
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on December 17, 2013, 04:27:24 PM
"which we've all played" is literally teh worst anti-spin ever.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: The Sceneman on December 17, 2013, 04:32:23 PM
Not if it's true!
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: chronovore on December 18, 2013, 08:59:27 AM
I started this. It's fun, but uneven. Why is the hub in the RV so weirdly blurry?


Meanwhile on ps+ you can get the real Borderlands 2

And on XBLA it's on sale for $7.50, and all the DLC is stupid cheap right now.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: The Sceneman on December 18, 2013, 04:04:28 PM
Uneven is a pretty good adjective for this game. Played a 4 player match last night which was sooooo laggy. Got the cheev for highest score in a 4 player game so I'm happy.

Chronovore lets invite each other to each others games, for the achievements :noah
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: The Sceneman on December 19, 2013, 03:22:50 PM
This is one of the most boring games I have ever played, after 2 levels I'm falling asleep... thank god for the easy/free gamerscore.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: demi on December 19, 2013, 03:36:22 PM
Good to know - I already deleted it
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: The Sceneman on December 19, 2013, 04:19:46 PM
All the enemies are the same, all the levels are the same, all the waves and encounters are the same. Thankfully you don't even need to beat all the levels for 200/200. Will grind this one out while drunk.

Reviewers who compared this to Hard Corps Uprising and Metal Slug could have been smoking PCP for all I know. I guess they are all used to on rails blockbuster handjobs and don't understand action games. I don't blame them. Society, society did that to them.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 19, 2013, 04:29:09 PM
No amount of PCP and handjobs could have convinced me that SMR was a good game.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: demi on December 19, 2013, 04:31:38 PM
Good to know - I'll be right over :3
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: chronovore on December 19, 2013, 11:01:39 PM
 :lol

Well, crap. I am going to have to bang out the four-player winner and any other online cheevos in a hurry, then. I was hoping it would not be a crapfest!  :'(
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: The Sceneman on December 19, 2013, 11:49:50 PM
I'll boost em with you if you need to. fwiw I got the 4 player one and others in quick matches
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: chronovore on December 20, 2013, 04:34:48 AM
Good to know, and thanks for the offer.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: demi on December 30, 2013, 12:25:32 PM
January:

Sleeping Dogs
Lara Croft and Guardian of Light
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: CatsCatsCats on December 30, 2013, 12:37:53 PM
Sleeping dogs is actually pretty fun and I never finished it before returning it, so that's cool
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: Raban on December 30, 2013, 12:51:36 PM
shiiiit I bought Sleeping Dogs like a month ago :'( at least it was only $12 :-\
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold - "Shoot Many Robots"
Post by: The Sceneman on December 30, 2013, 04:56:40 PM
Awesome!

Theres a couple of cheevs I need in Sleeping Dogs, and I was wanting to play the DLC. I don't have Lara Croft either, so great month!

WEI SHEN MOTHERFUCKER
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: chronovore on December 30, 2013, 08:57:30 PM
Yay, I can go completely digital with Sleeping Dogs at long last!

Oh, wait. It's Square Enix, so it's likely to be blocked in my territory.

Same with Lara Croft, GoL.

FFFUUUUUUU....
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: chronovore on January 02, 2014, 03:04:00 AM
Huh. Sleeping Dogs was purchasable just fine today. This may mean Lara Croft and the GoL will be as free as my PSN copy was!  ;)
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: The Sceneman on January 16, 2014, 03:16:56 PM
Lara Croft GOL is free now. Will probably get into it this weekend.

Also other Tomb Raider games on sale:

• Tomb Raider: Anniversary - 67% discount - Now US$6.79 / £5.09 / €6.79 / AU$10.18
• Tomb Raider: Legend - 67% discount - Now US$6.79 / £5.09 / €6.79 / AU$10.18
• Tomb Raider: Underworld - 67% discount - Now US$6.79 / £5.09 / €6.79 / AU$10.18 / ¥1969

Unfortunately the DLCs are not on sale, and will cost more than the actual games lol.

I've been meaning to play TR Anniversary for like forever, so will pick that up
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: Positive Touch on January 16, 2014, 09:32:34 PM
wow now the sale prices match the price that the disc versions have been at for the last seven years. great job

I hate the console's digital stores
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: chronovore on January 18, 2014, 05:13:35 AM
wow now the sale prices match the price that the disc versions have been at for the last seven years. great job

I hate the console's digital stores

Meh. It's one thing to sell cheap used games, where only the reseller gets money, and another to buy from the digital storefront, where the publisher/dev get almost all the profit.

It's also great to have games on standby which play silently, without ever inserting a disc.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: Positive Touch on January 18, 2014, 10:55:49 AM

Meh. It's one thing to sell cheap used games, where only the reseller gets money, and another to buy from the digital storefront, where the publisher/dev get almost all the profit.


true; i just hate how a lot of digital content gets thrown up and then forgotten about by the publisher. like in tomb raiders' case you have the underworld expansions that both still sit at $10 each. i'm sure almost no one has bought either of of those in years, yet they still have those crazy prices. drop the price after a few years and get a few more sales; make it free after sales bottom out. i love that konami made the metal gear rising expansion dlcs free to boost sales - not saying everyone has to go THAT low, but a least consider a discount.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: Raban on January 18, 2014, 11:24:12 AM
Yeah the prices on DLC over long periods of time are pretty shameful. I'm sure I'll be waiting forever for ME3 DLC to go on sale
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: chronovore on January 18, 2014, 12:02:09 PM
I completely agree. It's frustrating when the digital version is N dollars, and the used, DLC-included Platinum version is N dollars or less.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: The Sceneman on January 18, 2014, 04:26:13 PM
I very rarely see TR Anniversary discs in bargain bins here in NZ, and I've never seen it for less than $30NZ, so picking it up digitally for $10NZ is pretty good.

The game is total fuckin :lawd tho. So exciting and fun. The nostalgia feels are awesome, and the game is mad atmospheric and scary. Love it
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: Positive Touch on January 18, 2014, 05:36:22 PM
that was the first 360 game i owned, and iirc i bought it for $5 in 2008

I completely agree. It's frustrating when the digital version is N dollars, and the used, DLC-included Platinum version is N dollars or less.

or with commercial failures you have the standard disc for dirt cheap and the dlc for 2-4x the cost of the disc  :-\
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: chronovore on January 18, 2014, 09:12:02 PM
(snip)
I completely agree. It's frustrating when the digital version is N dollars, and the used, DLC-included Platinum version is N dollars or less.

or with commercial failures you have the standard disc for dirt cheap and the dlc for 2-4x the cost of the disc  :-\

Yeah, that's pretty ass-y as well.

I forgot which title I was looking at, but the main title had been reduced in the digital storefront -- not a sale, just the standard price had been permanently reduced -- but all the DLC was still full price, and I thought "man, what the hell is going on here?" If there are studies showing that DLC doesn't sell, here's one reason why.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: The Sceneman on January 19, 2014, 04:53:21 PM
Yeah it is nuts that they still charge the 800MSP equivalent for crusty old old DLC for 7 year old games. The XBL store needs a pricing overhaul across many titles.

TR Anniversary is pure sex, effin incredible game. A real shame the franchise has been totally dumbed down to an auto platformer, with bollocks on rails push A to win rollercoaster scenes. I mean I still thoroughly enjoyed Tomb Raider 2013, but it wasn't a Tomb Raider game. Anniversary is classic TR, heavily exploration based, complex platforming and secrets, and real danger and challenge. Loving it too much. The nostalgia I have for the first game helps, too.

Hows TR Legend? I hear that's good, and it's also on sale.

Played through about half of Lara Croft GoL with a friend yesterday. Pretty fun co-op action game.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: Positive Touch on January 19, 2014, 05:46:41 PM
legend is fantastic too. a mix of old-school platforming and new-school everythings exploding gameplay. underworld finishes off the trilogy and is good enough for a playthru but nowhere near as good as the other two.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: chronovore on January 19, 2014, 06:33:43 PM
Legend is awesome.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: The Sceneman on January 19, 2014, 08:48:09 PM
Yeah, it was free to download 1-15 Jan. Its a good idea to keep an eye on Xbox GWG, some good free stuff being offered!

Sleeping Dogs is really great! Very well told crime drama story and fun Batman-style brawler combat.

I'll be getting Legend tonight! :D Looking up the DLC, it appears it's TR Anniversary, in episodic DLC form? Huh?! Things were weird in 2007...
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: demi on January 19, 2014, 08:58:06 PM
Yeah, they released a "digital" version (before GoD existed) and the physical version.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: The Sceneman on January 19, 2014, 09:20:35 PM
That would have been pretty cool back then, I guess.

It just screws me out of a completion, as no way am I paying top dorrar for a game I already have :tocry
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: chronovore on January 19, 2014, 10:58:42 PM
Sleeping Dogs looked really interesting. I had never heard of it. Was it free earlier in the month then?

As mentioned, sadly it's off the Games-for-Gold program as of Jan 16th; MS is offering 2 titles a month, changing the one on offer at the midpoint.

Sleeping Dogs was pretty near my GOTY for 2011. It's GTA Hong Kong, minus guns for about half of total playtime, and plus Batman Arkham Asylum brawling.

The only shame is, with S-E so dead-set on throwing all their western developers under the bus, a sequel to Sleepeh Dawgs looks unlikely.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: demi on January 20, 2014, 12:02:56 AM
Except "Triad Wars" has been confirmed for a while now, even so much as an off-screen pic a month ago.

http://www.vg247.com/2013/10/07/sleeping-dogs-triad-wars-coming-from-united-front-games/

http://www.vg247.com/2013/12/09/sleeping-dogs-triad-wars-gets-first-off-screen-photo-from-united-front-games/
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: Positive Touch on January 20, 2014, 12:14:11 AM
The only shame is, with S-E so dead-set on throwing all their western developers under the bus, a sequel to Sleepeh Dawgs looks unlikely.

theres still hope for a console sequel - both tomb raider and hitman are getting proper sequels
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: chronovore on January 20, 2014, 01:15:32 AM
I hope you're right about Sleeping Dogs. IO and Crystal are internal S-E studios, but UFG isn't. That's not a trivial issue to most publishers.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: Raban on January 20, 2014, 10:52:12 AM
UFG and Square have already announced that they're working on a follow-up to Sleeping Dogs.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: chronovore on January 20, 2014, 07:18:42 PM
I'm not putting my faith in Triad Wars until someone confirms that it's an open-world game, and not some kind of Facebook-based resource management game.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: Raban on January 20, 2014, 08:57:21 PM
Fair, but we're getting something.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: chronovore on January 20, 2014, 09:50:15 PM
Sure! And I thank you for the reminder. I'd forgotten about it entirely.

But when a publisher squeezes out a cart-racing game as a sequel to a platformer, I don't count those, either.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: The Sceneman on January 27, 2014, 08:08:25 PM
no word on what February's games are gonna be yet... that generally means M$ is gonna roll out some stinkers.

I've got my fingers crossed for Faery: Legends of Avalon :hyper
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: chronovore on January 27, 2014, 08:35:18 PM
I hope it's Motocross Madness, so I can finally find some active multiplayer matches.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: AdmiralViscen on January 27, 2014, 09:24:56 PM
I hope it's Yaris and Dorito's Crash Course
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: The Sceneman on January 27, 2014, 09:29:31 PM
re-listed, for your gaming pleasure :bow
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: chronovore on January 28, 2014, 12:37:16 AM
Oh, god no.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: CatsCatsCats on January 28, 2014, 01:39:08 AM
Haven't played a Tomb Raider for like a decade but hell why not. I'm hoping Beautiful Katamari is on this eventually, I've always wanted to play it but never can bring myself to grab it
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: chronovore on January 28, 2014, 01:47:19 AM
Lara Croft and GoL is pretty different from any other Tomb Raider. If you have a co-op partner, it is apparently much more fun than solo.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: CatsCatsCats on January 28, 2014, 01:53:43 AM
Is there local co-op or just online?
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: chronovore on January 28, 2014, 02:21:01 AM
Local was all there was available at launch, apparently. :lol
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: pilonv1 on January 28, 2014, 03:53:21 AM
Haven't played a Tomb Raider for like a decade but hell why not. I'm hoping Beautiful Katamari is on this eventually, I've always wanted to play it but never can bring myself to grab it

I liked Beautiful Katamari. It's not as good as the original but it's no worse than any of the other sequels. I think I had a multiplayer game with Groo at one point too.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: Raban on January 28, 2014, 11:36:11 AM
I'm too lazy to dig up the online deals thread so I'mma put this week's XBL deals here since you need Gold for these. Catherine GoD is on sale for <$10 (want so bad but no monies :'() as well as the Citadel DLC for Mass Effect 3, Skate 2 and other shit
(http://i.minus.com/iKU2dkOhYqSAs.jpg)
links to the online store @majornelson (http://majornelson.com/2014/01/28/this-weeks-xbox-live-store-deals-3/)
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: chronovore on January 28, 2014, 02:01:26 PM
I'd bite on the Skate 2 deal, but didn't EA turn off their online servers for it a dog's age ago?
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: demi on January 28, 2014, 02:27:17 PM
Yup, game is still amazing though. You just won't get 1000. There is single player DLC I believe as well.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: The Sceneman on January 28, 2014, 02:49:22 PM
This is great, as I've been waiting on a sale for Mass Effect Citadel for a long time. A shame Leviathan and Omega aren't discounted too. I'll probably just cop the other DLCs at full price and do a big run through of them all. Need that 1550/1550 to wrap up my Mass Effect completions

I'll grab Phantom Breaker too.

Its great that Xbox sales have improved over the past couple of months, I'm buying up great games every week it seems
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: Positive Touch on January 28, 2014, 04:14:07 PM
phantom breaker is a very good 2d sidescroller
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: The Sceneman on January 29, 2014, 03:26:06 AM
Just got Phantom Breaker, so far its nothin but :lawd
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: demi on January 31, 2014, 11:13:03 AM
Dead Island & Toy Soldiers: Cold War in February
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: AdmiralViscen on January 31, 2014, 11:34:05 AM
Dead Island is decent at least, isn't it? What about the other one
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 31, 2014, 11:51:11 AM
Don't buy the Ryder White DLC for Dead Island. It's pure shit.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: MCD on January 31, 2014, 12:52:49 PM
http://majornelson.com/2014/01/31/xbox-live-gold-members-get-dead-island-and-toy-soldiers-cold-war-free-in-february/
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: CatsCatsCats on January 31, 2014, 01:00:06 PM
Played GoL for about 30 seconds before I realized it wasn't what I thought it was and deleted it
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: chronovore on January 31, 2014, 01:52:52 PM
Played GoL for about 30 seconds before I realized it wasn't what I thought it was and deleted it

Weren't you previously looking for co-op games for you and your wife? Or am I thinking of someone else?
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: CatsCatsCats on January 31, 2014, 02:05:36 PM
Think that was the Biz
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft GOL free in Jan
Post by: The Sceneman on January 31, 2014, 07:26:22 PM
awesome games this month, I've been meaning to check out Dead Island!

Hopefully since the game is free getting the co-op cheevs will be a breeze!
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Get Dead Island now
Post by: The Sceneman on February 02, 2014, 02:50:23 AM
Dead Island is pretty cool. Hitting zombies over the head with sticks is a fairly safe formula.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Get Dead Island now
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 02, 2014, 04:11:49 AM
Gotta dl this later, what's the file size?
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Get Dead Island now
Post by: The Sceneman on February 02, 2014, 05:35:49 AM
3.5 gig or so
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Get Dead Island now
Post by: Third on February 02, 2014, 07:21:25 AM
People still subscribe to Gold? lol
Currently the biggest scam in the game industry.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Get Dead Island now
Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 02, 2014, 12:52:42 PM
I dunno what your angle is here, paying to play online is a scam, period, and that scam now includes PSN with the PS4.  With Gold you now get two free games a month, and they're yours to keep whether you cancel or not.  In that respect, it's a better deal than PS+.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Get Dead Island now
Post by: MCD on February 02, 2014, 01:10:53 PM
The only scam part is locking apps behind Gold. Shit sux.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Get Dead Island now
Post by: chronovore on February 02, 2014, 06:36:36 PM
The only scam part is locking apps behind Gold. Shit sux.
You mean the non-game apps, like Netflix?
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Get Dead Island now
Post by: The Sceneman on February 02, 2014, 07:55:41 PM
People still subscribe to Gold? lol
Currently the biggest scam in the game industry.

Gold is cheap as hell and discounts are always available. I recently re-upped 12 months at the cost of $3 a month. That's less than the price of a latte. :win

Not a bad deal for 2 free games a month, seamless party and chat system, and mega quick downloads.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Get Dead Island now
Post by: The Sceneman on February 02, 2014, 08:00:30 PM
The only scam part is locking apps behind Gold. Shit sux.
You mean the non-game apps, like Netflix?

I know that you need gold to use the Youtube app. Which is an awesome app btw.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Get Dead Island now
Post by: chronovore on February 02, 2014, 08:10:13 PM
People still subscribe to Gold? lol
Currently the biggest scam in the game industry.

Gold is cheap as hell and discounts are always available. I recently re-upped 12 months at the cost of $3 a month. That's less than the price of a latte. :win

Not a bad deal for 2 free games a month, seamless party and chat system, and mega quick downloads.

That's just bait! Don't bite! Third is the biggest PS3 stan on the board. He revivified his account just to come back and troll the Xbone launch (which is, admittedly, pretty troll-worthy).

Under his fascination with the PS3, Third has never been able to experience cross-game chat, Party invites, seamless game-to-game transition, consistent access to your local or shared audio library for customized game soundtracks, opting out of game updates for offline play, or controllers with replaceable rechargeable batteries. Be kind to him!
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Get Dead Island now
Post by: chronovore on February 19, 2014, 01:39:23 AM
http://www.trueachievements.com/n16161/games-with-gold-plays-with-cold-war-toy-soldiers.htm

Please update thread title: Toy Soldiers Cold War is the current offering.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Toy Soldiers Cold War exists, play it maybe
Post by: chronovore on February 19, 2014, 08:11:13 AM
Ta!
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Toy Soldiers Cold War exists, play it maybe
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 19, 2014, 10:03:44 AM
Is it any good?
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Toy Soldiers Cold War exists, play it maybe
Post by: demi on February 19, 2014, 11:02:07 AM
:gurl
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Toy Soldiers Cold War exists, play it maybe
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 19, 2014, 01:24:07 PM
Read the article up to "tower defense" :yuck
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Toy Soldiers Cold War exists, play it maybe
Post by: chronovore on February 19, 2014, 07:43:06 PM
I don't like tower defense games, but Toy Soldiers 1 was a action game with defense elements. You can take over each emplacement and fire; in fact it's critical to success in many cases. I liked it, so I'm happy to get Cold War for free.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Toy Soldiers Cold War exists, play it maybe
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 27, 2014, 05:02:34 PM
Word is the first one up next month is CivRev :larry
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Toy Soldiers Cold War exists, play it maybe
Post by: The Sceneman on February 27, 2014, 05:15:13 PM
I'll be honest, I've never played a Civilization game! :anhuld

That one has good reviews so I'll probably give it a try (that is if it is in fact the free game for March)  :larry
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Toy Soldiers Cold War exists, play it maybe
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 27, 2014, 05:58:59 PM
That's a good game.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Toy Soldiers Cold War exists, play it maybe
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 27, 2014, 07:22:25 PM
Yeah we'll see, this is insider info guys, worship me now k? :ninja
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Toy Soldiers Cold War exists, play it maybe
Post by: chronovore on February 27, 2014, 07:43:01 PM
Another case of buying something on disc, and never playing it. Crap!
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Toy Soldiers Cold War exists, play it maybe
Post by: demi on February 28, 2014, 12:09:37 PM
Civilization Revolution (Retail) & Dungeon Defenders (XBLA)
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Toy Soldiers Cold War exists, play it maybe
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 28, 2014, 03:50:03 PM
Dungeon Defenders seems like something the kid might enjoy co-oping :larry
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Toy Soldiers Cold War exists, play it maybe
Post by: The Sceneman on February 28, 2014, 06:03:24 PM
another tower defense XBLA game :piss

Looking forward to getting into Civilization though! I hear its a watered down version of the PC games, which is fine by me, as an entry level product is less daunting.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Toy Soldiers Cold War exists, play it maybe
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 28, 2014, 06:48:17 PM
I would say it isn't that watered down if the last one you played was Civ3. I was impressed at how much it retained back when I played it and Civ3 was my context.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Civilization Revolution available for frees
Post by: The Sceneman on February 28, 2014, 11:35:19 PM
downloading now :hyper
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Civilization Revolution available for frees
Post by: The Sceneman on March 01, 2014, 07:20:20 PM
So I played and won my first ever game of Civilization (on babby difficulty). Wow! So addicting, like 4 hours went by and I barely noticed. Gonna play again and step up the difficulty. I went a peaceful cultural victory, this time I'm going to try and steamroll the opposition
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Civilization Revolution available for frees
Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 01, 2014, 08:51:32 PM
Kinda found it boring, kid's really into it tho
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Civilization Revolution available for frees
Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 19, 2014, 11:10:39 PM
Dungeon Defenders is hella fun co-op
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Toy Soldiers Cold War exists, play it maybe
Post by: chronovore on March 19, 2014, 11:34:22 PM
Another case of buying something on disc, and never playing it. Crap!
It turned out, for whatever reason CivRev was download was blocked for Japan, so I was unable to bag it. Ah, well.

Dungeon Defenders is hella fun co-op
Hey, yeah. Are you doing local co-op?

Sceneman, update the thread title!
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dungeon Defenders, free tower defense game #43
Post by: The Sceneman on March 20, 2014, 12:44:11 AM
I should get into this now, while the online is busy
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dungeon Defenders, free tower defense game #43
Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 25, 2014, 12:28:58 PM
Yeah local co-op with my little dude. He loves the tower defense element, I love having a giant sword to slice through bitches. It works out great
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dungeon Defenders, free tower defense game #43
Post by: MCD on March 25, 2014, 12:55:53 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/lEHtJqK.png)

http://majornelson.com/2014/03/25/this-weeks-xbox-live-store-deals-11/
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dungeon Defenders, free tower defense game #43
Post by: The Sceneman on March 25, 2014, 03:56:34 PM
Worthless sale :piss

I was all geared up to poo poo Dungeon Defenders, but it's actually really good!

There's a deceptively meaty game under the facade of cutesy XBLA game, seems to be very competent RPG wise, which is awesome. The tutorial guy had a very soothing voice. I can see myself getting hooked on this. Needa get my buns online and beat all levels with 4 players. The game is clearly designed for co-op, it was quite arduous running around a big map to set up all the defenses between rounds with just one dude.

Tons of stats and worthless loot :lawd It's better than Borderlands so far, because it's not trying to be especially funny.

I found the game terrible initially as I picked Monk class who starts off useless and is clearly support class only (his starting towers don't even damage enemies), so I made a Squire and he is way more powerful to start with. My main criticism for the game was your guy moves way slow, but  found thats something you can upgrade so no biggie.

Co-op with me Chronovore :noah
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dungeon Defenders, free tower defense game #43
Post by: chronovore on March 30, 2014, 10:23:50 AM
YOU HAVE MY AXE!
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dungeon Defenders, free tower defense game #43
Post by: demi on March 30, 2014, 01:13:57 PM
Hitman Absolution is April 1
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dungeon Defenders, free tower defense game #43
Post by: Raban on March 30, 2014, 01:43:42 PM
:obama
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dungeon Defenders, free tower defense game #43
Post by: The Sceneman on March 30, 2014, 03:13:32 PM
That's the more recent one right? Sweet, I've never played a Hitman game before.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dungeon Defenders, free tower defense game #43
Post by: The Sceneman on March 30, 2014, 03:15:23 PM
YOU HAVE MY AXE!

Cool, I can show you the ropes!

Game is crazy addicting once you get into the swing of things. I couldn't put it down this weekend!
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dungeon Defenders, free tower defense game #43
Post by: demi on March 30, 2014, 03:40:31 PM
Apparently this one is vastly different from the previous ones. So I would probably play this one and Blood Money side by side to compare the two.
Title: Hitman Absolution
Post by: chronovore on March 30, 2014, 11:04:46 PM
Apparently this one is vastly different from the previous ones. So I would probably play this one and Blood Money side by side to compare the two.

Yeah, I've had Blood Money on standby forever, so I'll be able to do the same. Exciting! I haven't played Hitman since the second one!
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dungeon Defenders, free tower defense game #43
Post by: The Sceneman on March 30, 2014, 11:14:38 PM
so we're sure Hitman is the game? Can't find any mention of it online. Guess we'll have to trust demi :rejoice
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dungeon Defenders, free tower defense game #43
Post by: demi on March 31, 2014, 12:02:42 PM
Hitman Absolution (Retail) & Deadlight (XBLA)
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dungeon Defenders, free tower defense game #43
Post by: Eel O'Brian on March 31, 2014, 03:07:15 PM
Never played hitman, so will download and...never play

Already own Deadlight from some $3 bundle...will continue to never play
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dungeon Defenders, free tower defense game #43
Post by: The Sceneman on March 31, 2014, 05:40:14 PM
oh god, Deadlight. I made the mistake of buying that when it came out. Never has a game started so well and gotten consistently worse, like a perfect downward trend

Probably one of the worst games I've played on 360

Jim Sterling says it best:

Quote
I don't think I've ever seen a game that manages to start so strong and get progressively worse. Even the story falls apart, opening as a decent little homage to The Walking Dead before devolving into straight rip-off territory, gleefully pilfering the best bits of other zombie stories and making them less interesting. As Randall starts spewing quasi-philosophical soundbites and experiencing labored flashbacks to his wife and child, one sees only a contrived attempt to make the game seem "deep" and "emotional." Really, it just comes off like a developer ticking a check box, making sure it's got the token amount of angst and the factory-standard dream sequences, just enough to fool the public into thinking it's artistic. By the time Deadlight reaches its "twist" ending, the reveal has been telegraphed so blatantly by the preceding emotional parade that it comes off as corny and insulting.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dungeon Defenders, free tower defense game #43
Post by: demi on March 31, 2014, 06:20:42 PM
I didnt hate it as bad as people did. Its not a bad choice for free.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dungeon Defenders, free tower defense game #43
Post by: demi on March 31, 2014, 10:01:57 PM
Hitmonchan is free
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dungeon Defenders, free tower defense game #43
Post by: The Sceneman on March 31, 2014, 10:14:03 PM
The kicking fiend! OP updated.

Gonna give it a whirl tonight, hopefully an easy 1k.

yeah Deadlight isn't the worst game on XBLA, but it's one of the worst I've paid full price for.

Still worth playing for free, and piss easy 400/400 to boot :larry
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Shitman Assolution available now
Post by: chronovore on April 01, 2014, 07:41:30 PM
This is the first Squeenix game which hasn't been blocked from international purchase. Usually they get very protection-y about their IP-region-locking.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Shitman Assolution available now
Post by: chronovore on April 21, 2014, 09:00:58 PM
Update OP for DEADLIGHT.

And post a warning about the utter mediocrity which will be foisted on anyone foolish enough to download. Will post impressions in the Deadlight dedicate thread.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Download Deadlight if you want a free 400 gamerscore
Post by: The Sceneman on April 21, 2014, 10:35:06 PM
Ah, for free you can't go wrong - the game starts well and goes consistently downhill. EASY completion so that you may keep your OCD in check.

I still havent played Hitman! I want to complete Lara Croft and Dead Island before I start another GWG title - this promotion while excellent has essentially created a backlog nightmare for an OCD cheevo whore like myself.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Download Deadlight if you want a free 400 gamerscore
Post by: chronovore on April 21, 2014, 11:29:24 PM
I thought you were playing Lara Croft and GoL with QuietID, no?
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Download Deadlight if you want a free 400 gamerscore
Post by: The Sceneman on April 21, 2014, 11:39:43 PM
I beat Lara Croft couch co-op with my homegirl Ellie - the last achievement requires collecting all the items and is a bitch/grind

last couple of Dead Island cheevos are grind based too, to be honest I may say fuck the achievement game - it's too stressful and time consuming and I have too much stuff to play. OCD still holding me back mayne

:tocry
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Download Deadlight if you want a free 400 gamerscore
Post by: brawndolicious on April 22, 2014, 03:49:23 AM
Hitman is a super chill game but I can see you getting really addicted to the achievements/challenges.
Title: stolen from the other thread; thanks, whoever posted this first!
Post by: chronovore on April 28, 2014, 09:37:23 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/vWbk93d.png)

:lol
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Download Deadlight if you want a free 400 gamerscore
Post by: demi on April 28, 2014, 09:38:27 AM
First game is apparently "Dust: An Elysian Tale"
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Download Deadlight if you want a free 400 gamerscore
Post by: chronovore on April 28, 2014, 09:40:56 AM
Ha! I thought you were making a landfill joke about the cart conditions.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Download Deadlight if you want a free 400 gamerscore
Post by: demi on April 28, 2014, 10:06:44 AM
No, I dont care about that stupid landfill thing. OMG AN URBAN LEGEND, BROUGHT TO U BY XBOX (tm)
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Download Deadlight if you want a free 400 gamerscore
Post by: The Sceneman on April 29, 2014, 09:05:35 PM
It would be unusual if Dust was the first game as they normally do Games on Demand then XBLA on the 16th?

Its a great game though, I already have 400/400 as I picked it up on sale recently. I'm not against something I've already played being on GWG this month - trying to catch up on so many games and achievements  :'(

oh and I started Hitman. What a weird game. Pretty chill and enjoyable though. Who wants to boost this multiplayer social contracts thing
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Download Deadlight if you want a free 400 gamerscore
Post by: demi on April 30, 2014, 11:59:15 AM
May GWG:

Dust: A Furry Tale (XBLA)

Saints Row 3 (Retail)
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Download Deadlight if you want a free 400 gamerscore
Post by: Raban on April 30, 2014, 01:06:27 PM
my Live runs out at the end of this month but I'm glad I'll be able to scoop SR3 (I already have Dust), at least now I can shoot for the 1000 in it. And maybe co-op with some boritos
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Download Deadlight if you want a free 400 gamerscore
Post by: demi on April 30, 2014, 01:07:34 PM
I already 1500 Saints Row 3 - get Saints 4 and I'll play
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Download Deadlight if you want a free 400 gamerscore
Post by: Raban on April 30, 2014, 01:28:10 PM
doesn't that game run like ass on 360?
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Download Deadlight if you want a free 400 gamerscore
Post by: demi on April 30, 2014, 01:29:47 PM
I dont give a fuck, I'm mothafuckin demitrius.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Download Deadlight if you want a free 400 gamerscore
Post by: Raban on April 30, 2014, 01:34:54 PM
:lol
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Download Deadlight if you want a free 400 gamerscore
Post by: Trent Dole on April 30, 2014, 01:35:02 PM
SRIV ran fine for me on my slim 360 aside from locking up a couple of times. :-[
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Download Deadlight if you want a free 400 gamerscore
Post by: The Sceneman on April 30, 2014, 04:18:21 PM
I already 1500 Saints Row 3 - get Saints 4 and I'll play

*1300

Yep I've maxed out both of these games already, which is kind of a relief tbh, as I'm trying to mop up my backlog currently
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Download Deadlight if you want a free 400 gamerscore
Post by: chronovore on April 30, 2014, 08:54:42 PM
SRtT -- SWEET!
I'm always happy to have a digital copy of something I own; not swapping discs appeals to my chair-affixed buttocks.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dust is free, play it if you haven't already
Post by: chronovore on May 05, 2014, 12:29:26 AM
Dust is downloading. Apparently it's a Metroid-like game?

Deleted Dungeon Defenders and deleted its history: never managed to unlock an Achievement in the 4 hours I played it.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dust is free, play it if you haven't already
Post by: Raban on May 05, 2014, 12:49:48 PM
It's closer to something like Muramasa than Metroid. Really mashy hack-n-slash combat takes the center stage.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dust is free, play it if you haven't already
Post by: demi on May 13, 2014, 11:15:36 AM
Games With Gold for JUNE

- Dark Souls (Retail)
- Charlie Murder (XBLA)
- Super Street Fighter 4 AE (Retail)

- Max: Curse of Brotherhood (XBONE)
- Halo: Spartan Assault (XBONE)

Quote
    Free games with Games with Gold**. Since Games with Gold launched on Xbox 360 a year ago, over 12 million people have enjoyed great free games, resulting in nearly 200 million hours of free fun playing Games with Gold titles. We’ve been learning from your feedback and have focused on making improvements each month to the selection of titles. To celebrate the one-year anniversary of Games with Gold for Xbox 360 and as a thank you for helping shape this program, members will receive an additional free Xbox 360 game in June. The Games with Gold titles for Xbox 360 in June are “Dark Souls,” “Charlie Murder” and a bonus game of “Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition.” We’re pleased to bring Games with Gold to Xbox Live Gold members on Xbox One in June. Members will have subscription-based access to free games ranging from top hits to breaking indie stars. The program will launch on Xbox One with “Max: The Curse of Brotherhood” and “Halo: Spartan Assault.” A single Gold membership will get you access to the free games for both Xbox One and Xbox 360.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dust is free, play it if you haven't already
Post by: chronovore on May 13, 2014, 07:25:50 PM
I had to take a peek and see if Charlie Murder had any 4- and 6-pt Achievements, like Dishwasher did. Thank goodness, it doesn't:
http://www.trueachievements.com/Charlie-Murder/achievements.htm

I spent way, wayyyy too much time on Dishwasher, just trying to get my Gamerscore for it back to a multiple of 5. Damned OCD-riddled brain. :maf

Street Fighter I own on an unplayed disc, I think. But Capcom will probably region-IP-block my download. Dark Souls I already have, but hope I can grab a digital copy.

How are there three titles for June?
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dust is free, play it if you haven't already
Post by: demi on May 13, 2014, 11:21:40 PM
It's actually Dark Souls / Charlie Murder - the "bonus" game is SSF4AE

They did this before in August.

http://majornelson.com/2013/07/31/games-with-gold-for-august-crackdown-dead-rising-2-dr2-case-zero/
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dust is free, play it if you haven't already
Post by: The Sceneman on May 14, 2014, 01:40:07 AM
I had to take a peek and see if Charlie Murder had any 4- and 6-pt Achievements, like Dishwasher did. Thank goodness, it doesn't:
http://www.trueachievements.com/Charlie-Murder/achievements.htm

I spent way, wayyyy too much time on Dishwasher, just trying to get my Gamerscore for it back to a multiple of 5. Damned OCD-riddled brain. :maf

Street Fighter I own on an unplayed disc, I think. But Capcom will probably region-IP-block my download. Dark Souls I already have, but hope I can grab a digital copy.

How are there three titles for June?

There are 3 titles becuase its the anniversary of the promo apparently. Digital versions of Dark Souls and SFIV is grrrreat, I'll be snagging those. Will probably play a lot of Street Fighter! Im hoping the Dark SOuls DLC is discounted too, as they often do that as a tie in to GWG. Not for fucking World of Keflings though  :maf
Nope - but Charlie Murder has an unobtainable achievement :rofl
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dust is free, play it if you haven't already
Post by: chronovore on June 02, 2014, 08:12:09 PM
Dark Souls is up; change OP, kthxbye.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dust is free, play it if you haven't already
Post by: Takao on June 02, 2014, 09:09:39 PM
Dark Souls is free right now, even for those that don't subscribe to XBLG.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dust is free, play it if you haven't already
Post by: chronovore on June 02, 2014, 10:58:47 PM
Wow, that's surprising!
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dust is free, play it if you haven't already
Post by: chronovore on June 03, 2014, 07:58:03 PM
I digitally bought this for $15 last winter and never played it. :(

I bought it at launch for ¥6000 and never finished it. Still may never finish it. I'm going to give it another stab though.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dust is free, play it if you haven't already
Post by: CajoleJuice on June 04, 2014, 12:02:55 AM
I bought it on Steam for $7.50 without knowing it was a bad port and never played it either. :(
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dust is free, play it if you haven't already
Post by: chronovore on June 04, 2014, 01:37:51 AM
I bought it on Steam for $7.50 without knowing it was a bad port and never played it either. :(

Aren't there readily available means of fixing it?
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Best game ever Dark Souls now free
Post by: CajoleJuice on June 04, 2014, 12:32:32 PM
I bought it on Steam for $7.50 without knowing it was a bad port and never played it either. :(

Aren't there readily available means of fixing it?

I'm just focusing on the $7.50. haha
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Dust is free, play it if you haven't already
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on June 04, 2014, 12:33:54 PM
I bought it on Steam for $7.50 without knowing it was a bad port and never played it either. :(

Aren't there readily available means of fixing it?

Kinda. There are resolution mods and framerate mods, but they're not great. For example, if you slide down a ladder too fast with the 60fps mod you'll fall through the floor into oblivion.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Best game ever Dark Souls now free
Post by: MCD on June 04, 2014, 01:10:39 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/P33vQn2.png)
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Best game ever Dark Souls now free
Post by: chronovore on June 04, 2014, 09:56:30 PM
Yeah, there was a fairly hefty system update for 360 yesterday, too. I'm guessing it was whatever infrastructure changes were necessary for getting the previously Gold-gated items available under Silver memberships.

It sure would be nice if XBL on 360 would show me what the XBone players on my Friends list were doing. It just says, "Xbox One" and then leaves me to wonder. It doesn't seem like it should be hard to blit the game's cover art and status to 360 players.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Best game ever Dark Souls now free
Post by: demi on June 04, 2014, 10:00:42 PM
If you have a phone, just install the Xbox One Smartglass version.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Best game ever Dark Souls now free
Post by: chronovore on June 04, 2014, 10:07:44 PM
Sure, OK, thanks for that.

I just mean when I'm on the Dashboard, there is no information about what a portion of my fList is doing, other than they're on the new system. It seems like just putting the game's info up there would be a neat way to get 360 owners more interested in joining their friends, make more system sales.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Best game ever Dark Souls now free
Post by: demi on June 04, 2014, 10:20:40 PM
I'm aware of how the system works, I'm sure they just aren't compatible, due to the underlying information. Probably some type of XML incompatibility or something. Even the two webstores are different between the two machines.

You arent missing out. They're either "Watching TV" or "Watching Netflix"
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Best game ever Dark Souls now free
Post by: AdmiralViscen on June 04, 2014, 11:13:06 PM
Is charlie murder good
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Best game ever Dark Souls now free
Post by: The Sceneman on June 05, 2014, 01:52:10 AM
It has an unobtainable achievement, so no

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I have no idea, Dishwasher was technically a well coded game, but I couldn't get past the presentation  :yuck
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Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Best game ever Dark Souls now free
Post by: chronovore on June 05, 2014, 03:37:49 AM
Is charlie murder good
It has an unobtainable achievement, so no

spoiler (click to show/hide)
I have no idea, Dishwasher was technically a well coded game, but I couldn't get past the presentation  :yuck
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Sceneman's back! I was beginning to get worried about you, boo.

Dishwasher is a decent game, if you can get past the "angry teenager drawing on his school binder" visual aesthetic. Then again, I hated it for including OCD-tripping Achievements which weren't a multiple of 5, and I ended up playing a friend's copy and staying up until 2:30 AM on the last night of a USA trip just so I could get my score on it back to a number which wouldn't mess up my Gamerscore total.

:maf Stupid brain. Stupid nonstandard Achievements. :maf
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Best game ever Dark Souls now free
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on June 05, 2014, 11:04:24 AM
I'm walking around in the tutorial of Dark Souls and some huge demon has his way with me repeatedly. This is the whole point of the game, right? I'm not sure this janky Japanese attempt at a WRPG is for me.

Something to keep in mind: DS is challenging but pretty much always fair. If something seems impossible or unreasonably difficult the explanation is almost uniformly "You're doing it wrong."

I think DS's dumb reputation as "hardest game everrrrrr" contributes to a lot of confusion about the game.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Best game ever Dark Souls now free
Post by: chronovore on June 09, 2014, 03:03:59 AM
Well, "fair" is a bit of a stretch.

The game starts players out next to a topmost elevator landing, and two directions they can go on the surface. The elevator leads to an overpowered area where it is difficult or impossible to damage the ghost enemies, and one of the two remaining paths leads to a graveyard where skeletons, traditionally the easy fodder of D&D games, will make mincemeat of low-leveled players.

So, giving a player 2/3rds of their options as repeated, painful deaths is not really fair, but it does give the player an immediate example of what the entire rest of the game will be like.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Best game ever Dark Souls now free
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on June 09, 2014, 01:03:02 PM
Well, "fair" is a bit of a stretch.

The game starts players out next to a topmost elevator landing, and two directions they can go on the surface. The elevator leads to an overpowered area where it is difficult or impossible to damage the ghost enemies, and one of the two remaining paths leads to a graveyard where skeletons, traditionally the easy fodder of D&D games, will make mincemeat of low-leveled players.

So, giving a player 2/3rds of their options as repeated, painful deaths is not really fair, but it does give the player an immediate example of what the entire rest of the game will be like.

You can't access the elevator without first going the way you're supposed to, and it's the fault of the player for just hurling themselves repeatedly at the skeletons without stopping and saying "hey, maybe this isn't the way I'm supposed to go. I'll look for other paths."

Dark Souls is a game about a) observing your surroundings and b) observing your enemy. If you do that the game is entirely fair.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Best game ever Dark Souls now free
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on June 09, 2014, 01:24:50 PM
Oh wait, you're talking about New Londo. I forgot about that. Haha, ok 2/3 paths = death, but still! The player should already have learned from the Asylum Demon that seemingly impossible = find new route.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Best game ever Dark Souls now free
Post by: chronovore on June 09, 2014, 07:37:53 PM
Oh wait, you're talking about New Londo. I forgot about that. Haha, ok 2/3 paths = death, but still! The player should already have learned from the Asylum Demon that seemingly impossible = find new route.
That's a very good point!

I just replayed the opening yesterday, and in the three years since I last played it, boy have I lost all muscle memory; I entirely suck at this game. Of course, there's something to be said about Japanese developers taking the nearly standardized control scheme for a third person, on-foot adventure game and deciding to change everything up. This interface is SO CLUNKY.   I don't have the patience for this game at this time.
Title: Re: XBL Turds with Gold |OT| - Best game ever Dark Souls now free
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on June 09, 2014, 08:41:40 PM
Being able to use a mouse in the DS2 PC menus is pure  :lawd