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  1. Posted

    Obviously, YMMV, but....

    Defense Grid never crashed for me until I installed Game Room back on my 360. And it would completely freeze everything, had to manually power off the system and restart.

    Game Room also does nothing but freeze for me anymore, as of the newest update. I can get one, maybe two short games of Space Duel or Amidar or Crackpots in, and everything completely locks up. And until I deleted Game Room, every other game I had would freeze after about 5 minutes, stuff that never has frozen before. Castle Crashers, Halo Wars, whatever I played. Once Game Room was deleted, Defense Grid no longer freezes, nor anything else.

    Thus my comments on Game Room being a serious problem. Not scientific to be sure, but with some cause.

  2. Posted

    And on that note, I agree with Tempest that I really enjoy the 2600 port of Tutankham to the arcade game. But not because it is technically comparable by any means, it's almost a wholly different game. But I find it addictive, weird and fun, whereas I find the arcade game to be cool but missing the addictiveness of the 2600 version.

     

    I won't say that I prefer the 2600 version of Tapper, in fact I kind of think it sucks. The bonus stage in particular is nearly unplayable. But I find the off-key music on the 2600 to be absolutely hilariously awful, and it gets major points for this badness.

     

    I also think the person who prefers the 2600 version of Moon Patrol is insane, but hey, it's just an opinion, you likes what you likes.

     

    And I'm in the boat of people who prefer the 2600 Space Invaders. I don't even mess with the variations, I just like how it looks by comparison. I like the blockiness, the movements, the sound effects, the control, all much much better for me than the bland arcade game, but know it's a divisive game and issue.

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  5. Posted

    And, I don't have a need to be extremely, pointlessly mean to anyone here and this is certainly going to sound like it...

    But from reading all of the main thread on Star Castle, and the amount of praise thrown the guy's way for his previous works (which were ports of arcade games to the Lynx, if I understood correctly), and the hunger and greed with which he ate up the praise, I've got to say....

     

    I respect the craft of porting games, but he's got nothing on those who create original games. _Nothing_. Seaweed Assault? Fifty gazillion times better than this port of Star Castle. As are a whole ton of the games available right now in the Homebrew section of the AtariAge store. Sure, he did something that HSW _said_ couldn't be done _in the day_, before he went on to make the amazing Yar's Revenge. But maybe he partially said that because he wanted to make something new, on some level, maybe he had ideas for Yar's. In any case, what he did with Yar's Revenge was way beyond what this guy thinks he's done with Star Castle, and he doesn't get it. At All. He truly thinks he's bested Howard Scott Warshaw, and it's so disgustingly asinine, I don't know if I'd pay $1 for his Star Castle port with LED lights on the cart etc, the more I think on it.

     

    So please, cut the chatter about raising the intensely absurd amount of $ for this guy's port of Star Castle. If he ever decides to sell it straight up like any other homebrew author would do, fine. But as it is, this self-declared king of all programming deserves exactly the amount of $ he's getting for his work currently. And even less does he deserve any praise for porting Road Blasters to the Lynx, or whatever supposed masterpieces he thinks he's achieved.

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  7. Posted

    Well, that's fine, but not only do I have no wish to engage in "party chat features"

     

    The only thing I can't get for free is the multi-player over Live and I think I used that a couple times in two years of Gold.

     

     

    Yep sounds like neither of you have much of an interest in anything Live Gold has to offer. Your points been well made. Good thing no one forces anyone to subscribe. :thumbsup:

     

    I'm still digging the new dash. Got my Kinect hooked up and I think it's a lot of fun. Controlling the dash just by talking is a real...hoot.

    The dash is considerably better than the last in my opinion. Still wouldn't mind the option to switch between dashes. I'd love to pull up the old blades dash for shits and grins.

     

    Well, maybe that's the point of contention. No, no one is holding us at gunpoint and forcing us to subscribe. But they are sure trying their damnedest to force it, with all of the constant dashboard messages and linking of minor features that _would sure be nice if they were free to Silver members_ as gold only. My whole point for complaining currently is how they went about releasing the YouTube app. They basically had it on the front page, saying download me, no restrictions listed. So I did, then launched, then it let me know I've got to "Go Gold" to run the app I just downloaded.

     

    But we've established that I'm a cheapskate, and that obviously, if I want the harassment messages to go away, and to not have to wait to download demos, and to have YouTube on my 360, and to be able to send Xbox Live messages from my PC, I should just cough up the dough for a discount Gold card (or put it on my Xmas list). I still contend that the level of harassment and such to get me to go gold are significant enough for me to complain about, that's all. And maybe I'm being a whiny bee-hatch and ought shut my trap. :) So be it, trap shut, complaint lodged (and re-lodged, ad nauseum).

     

    And a side note, I don't think the new dash was what was crashing my 360; I happened to re-download Game Room, which I used to love dearly and which basically got me back into retro gaming. Now it is a toxic, broken application which _will_ crash and freeze your 360 if you download it... _even when not playing it_. Just having it downloaded will somehow cause other apps to freeze and crash. It's _real_ bad news.

    So, back to un-complaint status about the new dashboard from me.

  8. Posted

    Dragon's Fury (pinball port from TG-16, completely awesome)

    I just got this one in the mail yesterday and have probably logged 3 hrs on it already.

    It's the most fun I've had with video pinball without getting Elvira and/or the Party Monsters involved.

     

    Glad you dig it! If you're a fan of this, I would first recommend _against_ the pseudo sequel, Dragon's Revenge. I'm not sure offhand which game (if any) on the TG16 this was a port of, but it's just simply not as good.

    I would secondly recommend checking out the downloadable Virtual Console for the Wii versions of the TG16 games (if you've got a Wii), Devil Crush and Alien Crush. They are like Dragon's Fury (since Dragon's Fury is a port of Devil Crush I believe?) but a bit more satanic in nature. :)

  9. Posted · Edited by Curious Sofa

    And just for perspective's sake, the guys saying "It's only <$5 per month..." Well, you could also say it's $180 for 3 years, I mean, you can play the numbers around however you wish. I find it very offensive as a person who's got no interest in... what did onlysublime say....

    "the party chat feature alone is worth the cost of Xbox Live Gold. Sometimes I'll boot up the Xbox just to talk to people. No gaming involved."

    Well, that's fine, but not only do I have no wish to engage in "party chat features" (I'll do my talking on a computer on forums like this, thanks), but I'm not going to pay for a "no gaming involved" membership on a game console.

    But hey, apparently I'm a cheapskate, so be it. I do only tend to buy a new game or two per year, and then I get it used for neighborhood of $40 tops. I buy lots of XBLA and XBLIG games, but for a consumer like me $50 or whatever per year for Gold is crazy. but if you buy ten new $60 games a year, perhaps it's just a drop in the bucket.

  10. Posted

    And also, yes I'm a bit of a cheapskate BUT....

    Do I _seriously_ have to have a gold f'ing account to use the YouTube app? I have NO desire whatever to play with / against people online, so I've never "gone gold" as I am CONSTANTLY encouraged to do. Then they start making "silver" members wait an additional week for demos. Then they make it so that silver members can't take advantage of special deals like sale of the week or whatever. All fine, but annoying.

    But they seriously aren't going to let me take advantage of the YouTube app if I don't pay them $60?? Beyond asinine.

  14. Posted

    I'm in. :) Just found out about this a bit late.

    And I'm in for all the right reasons, as well as to thwart The Video Game Critic. He reviews a lot of games, sure, and it's nice that he does Classics.

    But anyone that would give Cosmic Ark a C-, the Dreadnaught Factor (5200) a D-.... he's clearly not giving some games a shot, and/or is completely insane.

    I respect not pulling punches, but some of the homebrews he rips on, he's just simply wrong, both in principle and in accuracy (helps to read the instructions, dude). Off to PM huggy I go.

     

    Oh, and LOVE the instructions / info page, RT!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

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  16. Posted

    Mild funny note -

     

    Just saw Horrible Bosses on DVD the other night - Steve Wiebe of King of Kong fame has a cameo and even has a line in the movie.

    No cameo by Billy Mitchell. ;)

     

    As to some posts above indicating Billy Mitchell is a cool guy in real life who's simply made to look bad by this movie, uh...

    I don't want to get too elitist or fashion police about it, but that simply can't be entirely true based on the guy's hairstyle and tie selection _alone_.

    Much less taking into account a lot of what he says and does, no matter how it's framed in the movie. $0.02, just my opinion there.

  17. Posted

    I go between CIB games on real hardware and emulation on a PC. I've been thinking about multicarts for years but never have quite had a way to fit them in, mentally. If I want to select from a menu and emulate, I use the computer. If I want to play on real hardware, I go for the real cart.

     

    Now, don't get me wrong, I do understand the appeal of a multi. It's better than emulation, it's on a real hardware console. But for me I view it as kind of a stop-gap. I can't rationalize it, but if I want it to be real I want the box & instructions. And if I just want to play it....I can be happy enough emulating, especially for intensely expensive games. Just my $0.02

  19. Posted

    I really like the new blades for "My Games", easier to navigate and pick games from my XBLA, Indie Games, etc.

    I don't like the interface for the Game Marketplace at all. You can't tell when looking at a game if it's really a game, or a video for a game, or an add-on for a game... they've really messed that part up. You've got to click on a game and only if it has an option to buy is it available; it doesn't tell you before you get into it what you're getting into. It shows Alice: Madness Returns and I was thinking the game was available for download now. But no, just the older Alice game and some Dress pack. Weird.

  25. Posted

    $25 or so is about right; don't get misled by the asshat sellers trying to burn you for $70.

    $20 plus $3.50 to ship is definitely a good deal though, no doubt about it.

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