Topic: The Xbox 360 Thread

While on the topic of Spartan Ops, I would just like to say I just enjoy the cinematics. The gameplay seems very straightforward, almost boring at times, but Im glad to see that they started back up on making new episodes. I don't play Halo 4's versus much anymore, but they added a new playlist for testing player-made forge maps that may get put into matchmaking. That seems like a good idea, feels like free DLC at times. Looking forward to Episode 7!

Yeah I've satoped playing versus but still go back for Spartan Ops. Going to play the forge playlist tonight to respark my interest in the multiplayer.

Anybody else here play Happy Wars? Its a free-to-play game on the marketplace thats a 15v15 tower defense game. 3 different character classes to choose. Two teams fight against each other to destroy the opposing team's "Big Tower". It's fun, it's free. What more do I need to say?

I was in the beta and kind of but end out so I haven't played as much as the full game.

Pretty damn fun I usually switch between Warrior and Cleric.

Gamertag is shingi the 70 if any of you guys want to team up to play that or Sparten Ops

The game has gotten a few updates since its release, and they also recently gave away a 5$ equivalent amount of Tickets to everyone for buying stuff in the premium store. It gets events to try in every month or so, making it easy to come back to. With all that, I could see this game being popular. (Even though there is a new free-to-play coming soon for xbox)

Yeah it has been on the top 20 most played xbox live for a while now and then game gets a lot of updates.

I know the poker game and ascend are launching but I don't think they will effect HW that much.

Happy Wars has been fun, but it seems like I could put more time into a game like Ascend. I've been looking forward to it for a while now. I think Happy Wars really will still retain its community, while Ascend will just create more of a community for all free-to-play games. The poker game is, well, it's poker. No real big deal to me. Free is better though.

New Spartan Ops today.

I think at this point Catherine Halsey has become a character beyond redemption. She's so arrogant in her thinking that she can use the information from requiem to save everyone she's willing to ally her self with Didact's hand.

One thing I found odd about the CG was the lack of spartans on Infinity. In HAlo 4 and the first episode of Infinity they showed a lot of Spartans on the ship. I'm assuming that most of them are on world.

A little late on this one but finally decided to get some MS points and buy Mark of the Ninja. It is excellent, really don't know why I waited so long on it, one of the best stealth games I've played and I really enjoy the art style.

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My man. Picked it up during the Christmas sale and it blew me away,

I really wish I had bought it sooner, games like this need to be supported so we get more stuff from the team behind it. Everybody went crazy for Journey and The Walking Dead (I thoroughly enjoyed TWD myself) but I think Mark of the Ninja is better than both. Highly recommended to anybody who was like me and looked over the game, especially if you like both the stealth and sidescrolling genres, blends each perfectly. If it goes on sale again, download it, it's worth a purchase at 1200 MSP and an absolute steal at 800 or less.

Talking about Side-scollers and Platformers? I've got a favorite. Top of my list is Dust: An Elysian Tail. Was a great game, had a great art style, great soundtrack, and fully voiced dialogue. It had an ok story to it, felt like a basic written anime, but the gameplay was superb. Anybody else got one? I'll check back later, I want to see what everybodies favorite platformers are!

I agree with @Gamer83 and @BertTheBluBerry. Mark of the Ninja and Dust An Elysian Tail are both great 2D platformers, although they are both hybrids of genres. They are actually the two favourite XBLA games of mine out there (except for Minecraft!).

I think Shadow Complex is still my favorite xbla 2D game. Dead light is pretty good but really hard and linear.

Shadow Complex, Dust: An Elysian Tail, N+, Super Meat Boy, Nin2-Jump, and Fez are my favorite platformers on XBLA. 'Splosion Man was also pretty good.

Fez really isn't so much a platformer as it is an obscure puzzle game,e wrapped in a platforming skin,

If we're counting Dust as a platformer, I think Fez should count, too. It's even closer than Dust is, IMO.

I would consider both as platformers as terms of traversal around the environment.

However I would consider Dust from a gameplay perspective to be much more tradtional than Fez.

Fez after you hit a certain point becomes pretty obscure in terms of how to solve puzzles,

Probably my only complaint I have about Dust is that everything isn't connected as it is in metroid or shadow complex.

I'll check out Shadow Complex tonight, Fez was entertaining and had a great environment. The thing I was dissapointed in was that Dust (besides 6 trial areas) didn't have a new game+ or any other reason to come back to it after story completion.

Ok I have a quick question here concerning Boderlands GOTY edition. Not sure if anyone will be able to help but I will ask anyway.

So as I said I have GOTY edition of Borderlands (the first one) that came with two discs of the DLC. My friend has the original first release of Borderlands. He doesnt have internet so he couldnt download the DLC from XBLA. Now could just loan him my discs have him install the DLC to his Xbox and than still be able to use it on my Xbox or is it a one time use?