Tales of Vesperia can be bought from Xbox Live for 30 euros. Or if you use Microsoft points, and buy them from play.com, for 23 euros. Guess what I just did. I wasn't going to celebrate until the game was on my HD and running, but now it is. \o/
Now I'm a happy man. (Well, at least until the next time I find something to complain about.)
I have been downloading quite many trial versions of XBLA games. Most of them have been rather bleh, and a few have been quite good (some of them so good in fact that I have bought them).
When I tried the trial version of Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes I wasn't expecting much. And in fact, the first minutes of the game seemed a bit meh... However, just after three or four battles I was so totally hooked that I just went and bought the full version even without reaching the end of the trial. As I advanced in the game, I didn't regret my decision. On the contrary. I really like this game.
I didn't know anything about this game previously, but it seems to be one of the "big"(ish) games for the DS, ported to the Xbox 360 live arcade.
More games like this. please. :)
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Marble Blast Ultra is a pretty fun game for XBLA. It's definitely worth the cash IMO.
Edit: Forget this post...I just found out the game was taken off of XBLA 4 months ago... =(
Edit: Forget this post...I just found out the game was taken off of XBLA 4 months ago... =(
Reminds me of what happened to the free Japanese voice pack for Naruto: Rise of a Ninja.
The game in question was published back in 2007, and featured rather sub-par English voice acting. Some time after the publication Ubisoft announced and later published via xbox live marketplace a free pro-quality Japanese voice pack which gave the option to replace all the voices in the game. This patch was hugely popular.
Then, some time in late 2010 (AFAIK) the voice pack was simply removed from xbox live. No announcement, no explanation, nothing. One day it was still there, the next day it wasn't. AFAIK nobody knows why it was removed as Ubisoft or anybody else has never given a reason. (Personally I'm wondering if xbox live downloadable content has some expiration dates which must be renewed, and Ubisoft simply stopped caring about a 4-year old game, but this is just wild guessing.)
Even though it's a free patch, it's still DRM'd like the majority of downloadable content in xbox live. (Anything you download will be tied to your account and can't be used by anybody else.) This means that you can't just download the patch from somebody else and install it in your xbox. It just won't work. (Making it work would require some severe hacking of the system, most probably earning you a lifetime ban from xbox live. AFAIK the patch itself cannot be modified in such way that your xbox will accept it; you have to hack your xbox to make it accept it. Even if it didn't cause a ban, it's still too laborious and risky to start messing with the system.)
Well, guess when I bought a copy of this game (knowing that the Japanese voice pack was available, but not knowing that it was recently removed, as this tidbit isn't very visible anywhere online). And yes, the English voice acting sucks.
I'm reviving this thread to urge everyone to play Batman: Arkham City. It is AWESOME. Easily even better than the first game. The fights are harder, the plot more interesting, the enemies more diverse, the play area a LOT bigger and more exciting and there is a lot more stuff to do including collectibles, sidequests and challenge modes. Simply put you all just need to play it.
