The 360 thread!

[PVB]

I just took a look on XBLM and noticed there's a Tales of Vesperia demo on there now. I don't know if it's the same one the US got about, erm, a year ago?

Major Nelson's site only lists a demo in Asia last June, but Xbox.com now shows a Eurpoean demo released on 15 May with no release date for the full game yet.

[Ratsoap]

Monkey Island coming to XBLA.

Be interesting to see what they do with it. Can't imagine those 320x200 graphics will look too great at 1080p. It would be nice if it got a makeover ala MI3. Not sure what achievements you'd have in there either.

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Crackdown Premium Theme Preview

Is anyone else reading something into the timing of the release of a Crackdown theme? Or is that just wishful thinking on my part?

[PVB]

Is anyone else reading something into the timing of the release of a Crackdown theme? Or is that just wishful thinking on my part?

Well APB is reported to be shown at E3 next month, so maybe they'll announce something then?

[DocDaneeka]

Bloody xbox live gold exclusive demo shite! Is it usually a weeks wait for the silver untermensch to be able to download them?

Anyone tried the Tales Of Vesperia demo? I've been looking forward to the game for ages.

[PVB]

Bloody xbox live gold exclusive demo shite! Is it usually a weeks wait for the silver untermensch to be able to download them?

Anyone tried the Tales Of Vesperia demo? I've been looking forward to the game for ages.

Yes and yes.

Never played any of the Tales games before, but I found the demo slow and very linear.

Probably been spoilt by more open world games like Fable 2.

[grue]

Monkey Island coming to XBLA.

Be interesting to see what they do with it. Can't imagine those 320x200 graphics will look too great at 1080p. It would be nice if it got a makeover ala MI3. Not sure what achievements you'd have in there either.

Nooooooooooooooooooo!

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Bloody xbox live gold exclusive demo shite! Is it usually a weeks wait for the silver untermensch to be able to download them?

Anyone tried the Tales Of Vesperia demo? I've been looking forward to the game for ages.

Yes and yes.

Never played any of the Tales games before, but I found the demo slow and very linear.

Probably been spoilt by more open world games like Fable 2.

I wouldn't really compare it to Fable to as Tales is more of a traditional Role Player and Fable was anything but, however I will agree that the demo was really slow.

There's always a bit of a problem doing a good demo for an old school RPG though. You don't get hooked by the storyline and character development is virtually non-existent, so you get neither of the things that make them so compulsive.

Even taking all that into account mind, I didn't find the combat system much fun and the overall style was a bit too cute for my liking (The voice acting was just horrible.)

[Flabio]

Horrible voice acting kills RPGs for me these days, I think I've been spoiled by FF12 and Lost Odyssey.

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Horrible voice acting kills RPGs for me these days, I think I've been spoiled by FF12 and Lost Odyssey.

I don't like voice acting in RPGs period. I'm strange like that..

[PaulEMoz]

I liked Tales of Symphonia on the GC, but didn't think much of the Vesperia demo. Certainly wouldn't buy it based on that.

[Flabio]

I don't like voice acting in RPGs period. I'm strange like that..

I'd rather have none at all rather than of the standard we've been getting lately. Eternal Sonata and Last Remnant made me want to hit things after a while.

It's odd, cause Square certainly know how it's done if FF12 an DQ8 are any indication.

[aureole]

I don't like voice acting in RPGs period. I'm strange like that..

I'd rather have none at all rather than of the standard we've been getting lately. Eternal Sonata and Last Remnant made me want to hit things after a while.

I'm doing Eternal Sonata in Japanese instead- mostly to try and improve my woefully non-existant Japanese, but it's also a lot better. I think.

Last good game for voice acting was Mass Effect - but that was almost a hassle since it was so bloody wordy. I ended up skipping all the dialog and I felt bad 'cos the acting was good.

[Flabio]

I tried the Japanese with subs in Sonata but the sub timing was pretty poor. Rather than time the subs to match the speaking, it threw up 3 or 4 lines at once, well ahead of the sound. If you're doing that you may as well just not have the speech at all.

Probably not a problem for most, but I read so fast I tend to need the timing to be good or it loses a lot of the effect.

[Ratsoap]

Fight Night demo is up!