The 360 thread!

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:12 am 0

Lara climbs a mountain and arrives at a pre-mayan (Incan?) place. You jump a hole, kick some rocks, swim across a puddle next to a waterfall, push a rock, jump on some creepers and then get bored shitless and switch it off.

Total distance travelled since the start of the level. About 10 fucking feet. As a tutorial it's shit.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:13 am 0

sty wrote:This could be a big problem for LiveArcade for counrties with bandwidth capping, unless Microsoft were to decide to get into the ISP business and start to offer uncapped services

Demos perhaps - the XBLA games are only 20Mb so that won't drive a hole in your bandwidth budget.

rockwaldo · Post by **rockwaldo** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:14 am 0

HGFB wrote:Lara climbs a mountain and arrives at a pre-mayan (Incan?) place. You jump a hole, kick some rocks, swim across a puddle next to a waterfall, push a rock, jump on some creepers and then get bored shitless and switch it off.

Total distance travelled since the start of the level. About 10 fucking feet. As a tutorial it's shit.

Question would be - what did you expect from a Lara game? I mean its going to do all that stuff just nicer right? I put it to you sir that you weren't into it from the bally start.

skweek · Post by **skweek** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:17 am 0

matt303 wrote:There is now a title update and free content download that adds CoOp over live and system-link to Kameo Elements of Power.

Woo! Aces.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:23 am 0

rockwaldo wrote:Question would be - what did you expect from a Lara game? I mean its going to do all that stuff just nicer right? I put it to you sir that you weren't into it from the bally start.

Try playing the demo. I don't mind all those things in a Lara game. It's the way they did them in the demo tutorial that pissed me off.

skweek · Post by **skweek** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:25 am 0

Rod_S wrote:
skweek wrote:Downloaded the demo and played it. Not bad, but it's no great leap in game experience from the original; jump around, shoot things, solve puzzles, now with prettier graphics.

Unimpressed. 5/10 do better.
Which level is the demo set in? What I've seen of the Xbox version has been superb, I'm about five levels in and really loving the pace and atmosphere so far, it's so slick and well presented. Gameplay seems much more refined than the previous installments, it's got the fluid, rhythmic feel of Prince of Persia.

8/10 in the new Edge.

It's the one with the pushing the boxes about onto pressure switches puzzle and the Indy boulder bit. The full game may well be miles better than the demo but I've decided now that demo is a bit pants so the full game must be the same. No bugs in it though which is a good thing.

It doesn't seem that fluid to me and it seems a lot more forced than Prince of Persia. Too many unintuitive buttons to press too. Ratchet and Clank and Kameo are far better 3D platformers.

I'm going back to Ninja Gaiden. Now that's a fluid gameplay experience now they've finally fixed it on the 360.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:25 am 0

Actually one thing I would like to see is the levels in a Tomb Raider game being less like a long line of puzzles and more organic.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:59 am 0

skweek wrote:
matt303 wrote:There is now a title update and free content download that adds CoOp over live and system-link to Kameo Elements of Power.
Woo! Aces.

Bethesda so need to do that for Oblivion...

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:02 am 0

Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:Bethesda so need to do that for Oblivion...

If they havn't planned their code out to cope with it, you could be in for a very long wait...

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:06 am 0

Flabio wrote:
Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:Bethesda so need to do that for Oblivion...
If they havn't planned their code out to cope with it, you could be in for a very long wait...

S'alright, it'll give me a chance to actually finish some of these damn quests that are racking up nicely in my inventory...

Flojomojo · Post by **Flojomojo** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:25 pm 0

HGFB wrote:Lara climbs a mountain and arrives at a pre-mayan (Incan?) place. You jump a hole, kick some rocks, swim across a puddle next to a waterfall, push a rock, jump on some creepers and then get bored shitless and switch it off.

You ... are .... ME!

Uncanny.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:30 pm 0

I've tried it a little bit past the bored shitless point. It looks like her breasts light up in this one.

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:35 pm 0

HGFB wrote:I've tried it a little bit past the bored shitless point. It looks like her breasts light up in this one.

Well I've just played the whole thing, and I'm a little ashamed to say this, but I love it!

Looks great, controls pretty well and seems a nice mix of puzzles and shooting.

With so little time for gaming, most of the demos leave me feeling I've had plenty of that game, but I have to say when this one finished I was dissapointed and wanted to carry on!

Tuur · Post by **Tuur** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:47 pm 0

Tuur wrote:
Along with the Marketplace comes the Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA), for which SNK, Konami and Bandai Namco and Yukes will provide content. A Bandai Namco rep took the stage to announce that Pac-Man and Galaga wil be will be available for download on the service in Japan.
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/700/700381p1.html

Video: http://xboxyde.com/news_2758_en.html

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:51 pm 0

Tuur wrote:
Tuur wrote:
Along with the Marketplace comes the Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA), for which SNK, Konami and Bandai Namco and Yukes will provide content. A Bandai Namco rep took the stage to announce that Pac-Man and Galaga wil be will be available for download on the service in Japan.
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/700/700381p1.html
Video: http://xboxyde.com/news_2758_en.html

Do they not think people outside of Japan want to play them then?