Best XBLA game

[Zhukov]

Let's say I only have enough credits to download one Xbox Live Arcade game (because I do), what would you guys recommend?

I'm interested in a really good co-op shooter/beat em up, or just any great game in general.

What are your favourites?

I've already got Castle Crashers and Alien Hominid, and I could go something similar to that. I was thinking Either Metal Slug 3, Turtles in Time or Warhammer 40K: Kill Team. Ikaruga is also appealing.

Suggestions please.

[k0k0]

My absolute favorite downloadable game is Shadow Complex. It's single player but for the price, you get a whole lot of exploring, shooting, and cool stuff going on. It's kind of set up like metroid in a way but it's awesome.

I love Guardian Heroes too. But you'd probably want to try it first since it's a Sega Saturn port and they messed with the art style a lot for it. It is multiplayer though.

I also love me some Trials HD, which is a really hard platformer type game using a motorcycle.

I loved the splosion man and ms. splosion man games. Although multiplayer on those is just too hard. And it's also a platformer.

Really, for any downloadable game I'd suggest trying the demo first to see if you like how the game plays.

[OxBlood]

If you don´t count Symphony of the night (because it IS the best XBLA-Game but it´s kinda unfair to count it and chances are, you already own it anyway if you have preserved yourself at least a splinter of sanity...)


The best original XBLA-Game would be Bastion imo. It´s really really good and worth every cent. What else...Shadow Complex, Toy Soldiers, Puzzle Quest 1 (NOT Galactrix or 2, those suck), Splosion Man...in terms of Indie games, go for Cthulhu saves the world and Miner dig deep.

I´d personally pass on Turtles in Time, simply because...well it´s not my thing. Metal Slug is always good. Kill Team is...supposedly pretty short. The demo was okay but not much more.


But let´s face it, you can´t do better than Symphony of the night. Which is why I prefer the PSN, there´s so many good old games available, I don´t even need new ones :D Buy things like the PE-Games, one or two Final Fantasy games, complemented with a bit of Breath of Fire and Suikoden, then walk over to GOG.com and spend 20 bucks on some games including Planescape Torment and you´re pretty much set for the next 10 years :D

[Fathom Zero]

Ca depend.

I like the Serious Sam games, From Dust is cool, Trenched (or whatever it's called now) is cool, and Costume Quest is a fun little thing.

Splosion Man and Ms. Splosion Man are classics, as is Shadow Complex.

[Emu]

Do indie games count? Prismatic Solid is the prettiest shooter and I think it's only 3 dollars.

[Zhukov]

Cheers dudes. Having some good times downloading demo and trying stuff out. I just needed to tell what was worth the few minutes it would take since you can't always tell from the title/screenshots.

[Zomboid]

I have a shitload of arcade games, but few of them are XBLA originals. TMNT Arcade, Streets of Rage 2, Golden Axe, Altered Beast, and shit like that are all fun, but a lot of those can be found on that Genesis Mega Collection and you likely won't find others playing them online anyway.

[Zhukov]

I'm more interested in originals. Downloading old games for money seems like a rip off to me.

Unless it's an old game that I never played, and it's not actually that old.

[Nick]

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

[Dommin]

Super Meat Boy.

[Chojin]

my game is coming out before the 30th and only costs 80 MSP :picklehat

[Dimnos]

What is your game called again?

[Zhukov]

Chojin's Big Adventure.

[Fathom Zero]

Chojin's Biggest Burger

and I was going to do the man a solid and buy it regardless. But it looks fun and Jousty.

[Emu]

Super Meat Boy.

This.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

my game is coming out before the 30th and only costs 80 MSP :picklehat

Is it the max payne 2 mod for 80 msp?

[darkvare]

my game is coming out before the 30th and only costs 80 MSP :picklehat
oh so that's why i see you playing a game called xna game i suspected you were developing something

[Nick]

Sonic CD.

[Chojin]

it's called transgression ;<

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SECRET UNLISTED VIDEO

[darkvare]

looks like a mix of ballon fight and sidescroller shoot em ups

[Zhukov]

Sonic CD and your game, Chojin, are next on my list.

[Chojin]

y ty honey

[executioneer]

you get a percentage of sales for it? i got 80 points i'm sure i could spare for it

[darkvare]

i only have 20 left don't even know how it came to that

[Chojin]

i get 70% of all sales which is actually a really decent split

[Emu]

So what, you get like 70 cents for each sale? That's not bad at all. Is it online yet?

[Chojin]

it's still in peer review because the foreign language versions aren't getting reviewed. ms has a really stupid process for getting indie games released where you have to get other indie guys to voluntarily review your game. it takes about a month in english, but the other language versions are kinda at the mercy of the handful of foreigners they've got.

[Fathom Zero]

What if people can speak other languages?

[Zhukov]

What if people can do convincing accents?

[Chojin]

you can "pass" a game in multiple languages, but you're assuring MS that you are fluent in all the languages you pass a game in

so most people only pass in english

[Zhukov]

Can someone review Chojin's Game and tell me if it's worth my cash. Also, is there anywhere I can pirate this?

[King Hadas]

So what kind of publicity are you hoping to get for your game? Are you planning to shop this around to all the various indie websites?

[Chojin]

i was going to use the free adsense credit i got with my godaddy domain to put up some targeted banners, maybe see if the various cyberpunk communities would want to link to it. i'd like to shop it to io9 also.

i'm also going to pitch it to Steam with an extra multiplayer mode and maybe some more content in the single player.

[Fathom Zero]

GET IN ON THAT INDIE BUNDLE ACTION, HOMIE

[Emu]

How the fuck does shit like Baby Maker Extreme 8.0 get into the top rated XBLIGs and yet I have to wait a month for Chojin's Game :|

[Chojin]

now one of their forum mods is being shitty because i had the gall to ask people to peer review my game after it's been stuck at 85% for 2 weeks. STOP BEGGING, GAWD, IT'S AGAINST THE RULES THAT AREN'T WRITTEN ANYWHERE.

i hate volunteer mods with all of my hate

on other forums

*fucking wow, this douchelord has a sig asking people if he should write a book with links to two separate threads about it. STOP BEGGING FOR VALIDATION OF YOUR EXISTENCE ASSFACE

[Chojin]

well anyway because apphub's peer review system was designed by a chimp, I'm actually going to have to remove support for other languages to get the game approved. then i guess i'll make a patch that supports the 4 other languages and let it sit in approval limbo for eternity.

[darkvare]

i'd help you with spanish translation but i'm too lazy

[Chojin]

jfc

so now i'm not allowed to resubmit the game until jan 7th

i guess as punishment?

welp sure am glad i spent the last two days fixing the game up for a quick re-release

[Emu]

is there even any text in it outside of the menu

[King Hadas]

Those guys don't sound very professional. It's like Microsoft Live is being run by Wikipedia editors.

Just for chuckles I translated your game into Spanish, at least what was on that video.



Transgression
Transgresión

Press Start
Pulsa Inicio

Transgress
Transgrede

Lives
Vidas

Combo
Combo

Timer
Temporizador (you can probably stay with Timer though)

Chips
Chips

Threat Level
Amenaza Nivel (or Nivel de Amenaza)

Player's Score
Puntos del Jugador (Might be a better translation for this. Just "Player's Score" might be good enough)

Combo: Invincibilty Activated
Combo: Invencibilidad Activado

Portals Reduce Threats/Enemies
Portales Reduce Amenaza/Enemigos

Chips Full
Chips Lleno

All Chips Collected-- Enter Portal
Todos Chips Recogido-- Entra Portal

Proceed to Level __ (Easy, Normal, Hard)
Prosigue a Nivel __ (Fácil, Normal, Difícil)

Cyberpunk!
¡Ciberpunk!

[Chojin]

There's actually quite a bit of text when you look at all the strings in the game. There's the in-game hints and notifications, then all the little shit like labels in the UI, instructions, words that pop up for collecting stuff, credits, and so on.

Thanks Hadas. The person who did the French localization also offered to do Spanish and Italian, so theoretically I could support 5 of the 6 XBLA languages (the 6th is japanese which none of my fonts support). However getting 3 XBLA languages passed has proven impossible so I'm hesitant to ask anyone to waste their time making the game even more difficult to pass.

[kahljorn]

that game looks stupid but people will buy anything

gl

[Chojin]

i thought you'd at least appreciate all the cheeseburgers