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12-04-2007 @ 3:42PM
grigdog said...
Well I already have Small Arms, but might pick up Marble Blast and/or Zuma. Have heard that Zuma is 'difficult'. I know I have had my frustrations with the PC version.
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12-04-2007 @ 3:49PM
xenocidic said...
Zuma is quite difficult - but addicting... Don't expect to get anywhere near 200/200.
Marble Blast Ultra on the other hand is a solid purchase at 400 msp and 200/200 is very do-able.
12-04-2007 @ 3:52PM
Swede33 said...
Just picked up Marble Blast Ultra. Definitely a good buy.
12-04-2007 @ 4:06PM
Marc Federico said...
yea marble blast is great and it has online multiplayer which is pretty fun.
12-04-2007 @ 4:15PM
DjDATZ said...
Based on Xeno's recommendation on Marble Blast, I'll ponder picking it up...lol
12-04-2007 @ 4:24PM
Neon Jebus said...
Marble Blast is a great game. Zuma is a great pick too. Xeno...was that not getting 200 / 200 have anything to do with those old bugs with unlocking them?
12-04-2007 @ 4:34PM
xenocidic said...
@neon, it has a lot more to do with the game being mind-boggling fugging difficult beyond a certain level. and scoring 2 mln points is damn near impossible IMO.
but still , good fun, all in all. i picked it up when they had the 48 hour price special. my girlfriend likes it, and she hates games.
12-05-2007 @ 1:21AM
DemonGSides said...
Marble Blast Ultra is perhaps the best Arcade game i've ever played, or at least the most well rounded.
12-04-2007 @ 3:58PM
Gemini Ace said...
Shouldn't all of the titles from the first 6 months after launch be discounted by now? Why pick and choose these?
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12-04-2007 @ 4:04PM
xenocidic said...
Apparently they're only dropping the price on the best-sellers. (Counter-intuitive, no?)
12-04-2007 @ 4:21PM
CyberKnight said...
I was afraid this would be an issue. A disc-based game has a couple market pressures that drive its price down, namely limited shelf space and used game sales. These downloadable games don't have the same pressures -- and it shows. With proportionally very few exceptions, XBLA games and other DLC are still at the same price as they were at launch, even stuff that's two years old. I know a guy who picked up COD2 for $7 two months ago, but the DLC is still original price, worth more than the game!!
12-04-2007 @ 4:03PM
Mazzani said...
Lumines Live is priced at 800 points. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that it's price prior to the Fall Update as well?
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12-04-2007 @ 4:04PM
xenocidic said...
Yes, it got dropped prior to the Fall update.
They're trying to get double praise for dropping the price once.
12-05-2007 @ 1:38AM
DaMan09 said...
Im pretty sure it dropped for only a couple days as some promotion for something, after that it shot back up to 1200 points.
12-05-2007 @ 9:01AM
xenocidic said...
@DaMan, nope it was a permanent drop.
http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/10/18/lumines-live-gets-a-price-drop-now-800-points/
12-04-2007 @ 4:07PM
Scott said...
Bankshot Billiards 2 I got free when I first bought my xbox, its alright but was never worth 1200 points
Lumines LIVE!, Zuma Deluxe I bought both at full price a long time ago, so I cant feel too bad now after getting this much play for so many months. Both are good games, and the wife used to play Zuma all the time.
Small Arms I bought when they had the first discounts, pretty fun and probably worth 400 pts.
Marble Blast Ultra I might pick up. For the most part, 400 points is pretty much an impulse buy for most of the XBLA games that are first priced at 800 points.
I am very excited to see this system in place. They are going to get me to spend a lot more points when they drop 800 pt games to 400.
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12-04-2007 @ 4:19PM
DjDATZ said...
Same here...I'm much more likely to pick up 400pt games than 800pt games even if they are old...lol
12-04-2007 @ 4:11PM
DjDATZ said...
Don't care about picking up Arcade games...frankly I don't have the points to either.
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12-04-2007 @ 7:48PM
alindy said...
Marble Blast looks fun, I was thinking about getting it awhile ago, but the 800pts seemed a little high, must say that I forgot about that game, but now I am buying it at 400pts, looks like a fun little time waster.
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12-04-2007 @ 11:09PM
ccc said...
FUUUUUCK! I was hoping for Omega 5 tonite. As far as zuma goes yeah its tough but I almost have all 200 Gs outa it. Its nowhere near as hard as Astro pop is. Concerning Xbox originals, if you buy them your part of the problem. I scaned all my friends friends list and found noone was playing them which is good. I want MS to see that they made poor choices concerning these games functionality and lack of GS.
I'm starting to think the friends of friends feature isn't such a corny thing after all, in fact it could be devastating to MS as it is a means to mass communicate a single message to many fast.Now in theory, a message can get to 5 million or so gamers within the span of 5 minutes whereas before this was not possiable. This feature gives us unity and perhaps a meaningful voice in things:)
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