the surprising thing is...

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:45 pm 0

Only small ideas of the gameplay, but I'm confident. Looks nice and trippy. Looking forward to it, and maybe even buy a 360 to check it out. Respect...and enjoy the creative process :-)

zbandito · Post by **zbandito** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:37 pm 0

Looks awesome!

screw the PC port though, it will probably be a big pain in the ass and take about as much time as just making another new game for XBLA!

Markie · Post by **Markie** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:53 pm 0

easter egg? ahem ... maybe "Gridrunner Nuclear version" ... (hopes)

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 11:02 pm 0

Fuck how did I miss this thread?

That looks fucking magnificently bonkers, out there epilepsy inducing psychedelically trippy gameplay. The screenshots are like looking at clouds while on acid or magic mushrooms. Bloody excellent.

Can I spy a magic spellcasting dude casting cunts at people or are my eyes playing tricks!

merman · Post by **merman** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 11:57 pm 0

In that picture I can see Thing on a Spring, out of his tiny rubber head on acid, throwing a thunderbolt he borrowed from Merlin the happy wizard, and a blue sword that looks like it once belonged to the Prince of Persia...

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 1:27 am 0

arron wrote:I think that it's been sold far too cheaply. Ten or fifteen quid would be a much more reasonable price given the current game market. Allowing for inflation, it's more in line with what you might pay for Llamatron on the ST nowadays..

If someone tried to flog me a game for three quid, I'd think that it wouldn't be worth bothering with at that price..

We bought Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction for the Xbox a couple' days ago for Â£2.99. *nod*

Bog · Post by **Bog** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 1:44 am 0

If someone tried to flog me a game for three quid, I'd think that it wouldn't be worth bothering with at that price..

I'd think "What's three quid?" and buy it just to have a go.

oddbob0 · Post by **oddbob0** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 2:17 am 0

Bog wrote:
If someone tried to flog me a game for three quid, I'd think that it wouldn't be worth bothering with at that price..
I'd think "What's three quid?" and buy it just to have a go.

Seconded

Never understood that "oh, its cheap it must be shit" line. Never will :-)

Anyway, not commented in this thread before, because I've got no words - although the ones I can think of involve "shit, my eyes", "cunt" and "my god, its full of stars"...all meant in the utmost complimentary manner!

Looks *wonderful*.

TwistedScrote · Post by **TwistedScrote** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 2:48 am 0

Thirded...

Plus the somewhat obvious addition in that it's on Live Arcade! Since when can you charge 10-15 quid on that?

sack · Post by **sack** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 4:44 am 0

Bog wrote:
If someone tried to flog me a game for three quid, I'd think that it wouldn't be worth bothering with at that price..
I'd think "What's three quid?" and buy it just to have a go.

I dunno - I still play the trials at three quid for some reason. but its not exactly hard to convince me to part with my cash at that point.

plus the whole points thing slightly obfuscates how much you're paying and seems to increase the perceived cost, makes you think about what you are spending. Then when the mental arithmetic is over it actually ends up being pleasantly less than you expected.

traditional shareware I'd say yes the pricepoint does make it seem 'cheap for a reason', but XBLA is basically shareware for people more in tune with coughing up for mobile phone games via their pay as you go SIM credit which makes the price seem about right to me.

its cheaper in a lot of cases to get an XBLA game over a java mobile one and the games are higher quality.

Having worked on a helpline I've found traditional shareware just doesn't sit well with the general public.

'I've been using a 30 day trial of some tool. it's been fine for the last month but now it won't save. why is it broken?'

It's just funny that microsoft were the people to do it - I'm not 'M$ are teh evil' or anything, but its more something I'd expect from a smaller outfit than a sprawling giant.

Its only fair the bloke who nailed shareware the first time has another go isn't it? And to be fair I'd like to see him get the same support as well this time because it really did raise a warm smile hearing the whole llamatron story...

Jamesac · Post by **Jamesac** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 6:39 am 0

$5 is good, and I'm willing to go so far as to say great. I was planning to buy it anyway, though, so I'd have paid whatever it came to.

Thing is, worrying about price on Live Arcade is stupid. I'm not saying people don't do it, I'm saying it's a waste of time. Demos are free. Like it? Pay for it. Don't like it? Don't bother. On the fence? Play the demo some more, whatever.

Thing is, price is less of an object when you're buying a known quantity. The "pay less, get less" thing is only a concern when you don't know what it is you're getting, but a properly made demo kills those issues dead.

So- Yay, $5!

It's not 400 MS points, by the way, it's $5.

James

zbandito · Post by **zbandito** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 7:17 am 0

I think cost of admission for a lot of us will include an Xbox360 so a low price on the software certainly helps IMO! Kind of amusing the two games I'm interested for are ~$5 each on XBLA (GW2; this) though.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 7:25 am 0

zbandito wrote:I think cost of admission for a lot of us will include an Xbox360 so a low price on the software certainly helps IMO! Kind of amusing the two games I'm interested for are ~$5 each on XBLA (GW2; this) though.

Crazy isn't it, forking out Â£250 to play Â£3s worth of game!

mamemeister · Post by **mamemeister** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 8:06 am 0

I'm looking forward to this.

Spoongod · Post by **Spoongod** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 8:55 am 0

disciple wrote:Can I spy a magic spellcasting dude casting cunts at people or are my eyes playing tricks!

Damn, now I can see something like that too.

Gotta love Llamasoft. Not often enough do we get our minds truely stimulated, and this looks like damn-near visual overload. Plus, it's shooty.