Everything to do with our favourite pastime! Reviews, recommendations, sells/swaps, problems etc. Whether they are on the latest consoles, arcade or retro classics. It's not the winning or losing, we came to play!
Overlord 2 has been interesting me for a while, but I've plenty to play. However, it's just appeared as this weeks start buy on ShopTo.net for £12.79 delivered (order in the next 30 mins and have it tomorrow):
Nice one. I'll pop a link on xnPlay later. If I forget, give me a nudge because I'm rotten at times
Ta
There's another swathe of reviews which have been reformatted and are ready to be uploaded - I just got slightly distracted by a long weekend at a goth festival in Germany. Hmm - I see Echos+ is nearly out there...
Subz wrote:Hi I've been on the beta for a while. There is nothing new to write home about apart from a few extra ways to spend Microsoft Points.
I just picked up Overlord 2 for £12 so thanks of the tip there chaps.
Pleasure.
Mine arrived 16 hours after ordering. It's currently sitting on my desk trying to make it play it. Which seeing as I'm typing posts on here instead of doing the work I should be is starting to sound like a good proposition....
Most of whats in this update is under the hood stuff, apart from the avatar marketplace and games on demand, which most gamers will ignore.
Worth uninstalling and then reinstalling any retail games you've installed to HD though, they've made some significant improvements in how it works so they take up less space now than they did before.
I'm very pleased by the performance increase when using the Marketplace. Populating the details is instantaneous now, instead of all that waiting before. Same goes for the list of installed XBLA games. I just hope it stays like this and doesn't degrade over time.
I tested the reinstalling a game to HD. In this case the size went from 6.5 Gb to 6.3 Gb. So I guess the savings depends on the game, but worth doing though.
I noticed that games on demand in my region are €30! Ouch! As others have mentioned, that's way too much compared to retail. Also could someone please tell Microsoft that £1 != €1.5.
As for the other stuff, well sorry but I'm not buying virtual merchandise for my virtual avatar... ooh Monkey Island! No, must resist chicken with pulley.
"In case of a nuclear attack, the protection of records is essential, if this country is to carry on its economy, and maintain our way of life."
Basically, the more of the disc the game is *really* using, rather than padding out to put the files on the outer edge (where data rate is a tiny bit faster), the more you save.
The Ultimate Megadrive Collections install goes from around 3 gig to around 700 megs, for example.
It also comes down to whether it was using both layers or not.
Basically they're just better at chucking out padding files and areas where the data has been replicated multiple times to aid the streaming rate.
chub wrote:
As for the other stuff, well sorry but I'm not buying virtual merchandise for my virtual avatar... ooh Monkey Island! No, must resist chicken with pulley.
