The 360 thread!

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:46 am 0

PVB wrote:
HGFB wrote:That's the thing. It shouldn't have dropped off my list. I paid 150 points for it.
If you've an hour to spare you could phone the MS support line to get the 150 points re-imbursed.

It would seem that today's release of Heavenly Star is exactly the same one I downloaded before. It even reinstated it into my download list and knew I'd already downloaded it once.

Ratsoap · Post by **Ratsoap** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:18 am 0

Man, the enahnced graphics in Speedball 2 are awful, really amateur looking.

The original game seems relatively unchanged though. The new music doesn't have as much character as the original, and the league screens are less flash looking. But the gameplay is there.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:01 pm 0

Warning for peeps on SDTV's EEEE does seem to use a rather small font.

chub · Post by **chub** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:11 pm 0

benedictw wrote:Warning for peeps on SDTV's EEEE does seem to use a rather small font.

How much is there to read though?

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:55 pm 0

chub wrote:
benedictw wrote:Warning for peeps on SDTV's EEEE does seem to use a rather small font.
How much is there to read though?

Sweet FA apart from the menus, really.

Ratsoap · Post by **Ratsoap** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:07 pm 0

benedictw wrote:
chub wrote:
benedictw wrote:Warning for peeps on SDTV's EEEE does seem to use a rather small font.
How much is there to read though?
Sweet FA apart from the menus, really.

What are you actually supposed to do? The how to play section seems to be complete gibberish.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:31 pm 0

Ratsoap wrote: What are you actually supposed to do? The how to play section seems to be complete gibberish.

You make your cursor go boom by pressing A. Other stuff chain reacts with that.

Collect the yellow blobs to give you more time.
Collect the purple ones to make the enemies move faster (so more booms in a chain).
Collect the blue ones to give you a higher bonus or something.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:49 pm 0

benedictw wrote:
Ratsoap wrote: What are you actually supposed to do? The how to play section seems to be complete gibberish.
You make your cursor go boom by pressing A. Other stuff chain reacts with that.

Collect the yellow blobs to give you more time.
Collect the purple ones to make the enemies move faster (so more booms in a chain).
Collect the blue ones to give you a higher bonus or something.

I think you have to time your detonations with the music in some way though don't you?

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:53 pm 0

Does it still have the seven quicken limit?

In EE, purple quickens speed everything up and cause more items to appear simultaneously. However, no more of them will be created after you've collected the seventh... so you had to collect six, fill the screen with quicken powerups, and then collect 'em all.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:56 pm 0

Kamineko wrote:Does it still have the seven quicken limit?

In EE, purple quickens speed everything up and cause more items to appear simultaneously. However, no more of them will be created after you've collected the seventh... so you had to collect six, fill the screen with quicken powerups, and then collect 'em all.

Theres a mention in the instructions about that. The quicken meter goes to 100 but at some point it becomes a bonus points rather than quicken.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:26 pm 0

Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:
I think you have to time your detonations with the music in some way though don't you?

You have to hit detonate on the beat, either by ear or by using the beat indicator at the bottom of the screen. You can cancel the explosion by hitting B if you miss a potentially massive chain off the beat.

Ratsoap, do persevere with it. It seems pointless at first, but when it clicks, oh man, it's totally fucking brilliant. I love it.

mutopian · Post by **mutopian** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:12 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:It seems pointless at first, but when it clicks, oh man, it's totally fucking brilliant. I love it.

Fucking lovely so it is although I really need to get a HD telly now to stop eye-bleed

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:10 pm 0

Nice score just shy of 3.5 trillion has just been posted by Sickboy, FFS

Buy yeah, this is an incredible game, the risk/reward structure is pitched just right, when you inevitably get greedy and cocky you get punished hard, but stay cool and ridiculous scores are within reach. It's all about the balance of chaining, collecting powerups, and knowing when to cancel a detonation to go for a higher bonus or collect powerups instead.

It's one of those game where it's truly galling to lose all your multipliers and speed-ups, but the genius of the game is being able to make a complete comeback even when you've got 10 seconds left and you've pissed your multipliers away.

Love the clean vector graphic style, looks like a next-gen Vectrex game. Ace.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:17 pm 0

I was just going to buy this outright, but I'd better play the demo first, because it'll be a while before I get to play in HD. I've only played the PC original so far, and I really liked that, so if the text isn't a problem I'm sure I'll buy it immediately after my first play.

piku · Post by **piku** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:20 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:
Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:
I think you have to time your detonations with the music in some way though don't you?
You have to hit detonate on the beat, either by ear or by using the beat indicator at the bottom of the screen.

Or the vibrations in the controller.

This is my kind of game. For once dying and exploding are good things to do in a game. I'm good at exploding and running into the enemy.

Loud and colourful wins too.