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  • Blerk Moderator 19 Dec 2012 13:07:48 47,714 posts
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    agparrot wrote:
    Spong wrote:
    Just bought LEGO Indy 1 from the LEGO sale \o/
    I meant to ask about the Indy games.

    Why is Lego Indy 1 £11.99, and the more recent sequel £8.99? Are they pricing them based on quality?

    Obviously! It looks like Rayman Origins is going to be 800 points/£238.54+VAT tomorrow along with the other platformer deals, incidentally.

    Don't screw me over on Mark of the Ninja and/or Hell Yeah pricing, Microsoft! Half price. All regions. Make it so!

    Edited by Blerk at 13:08:03 19-12-2012
  • Spong 19 Dec 2012 13:08:03 387 posts
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    agparrot wrote:I meant to ask about the Indy games.

    Why is Lego Indy 1 £11.99, and the more recent sequel £8.99? Are they pricing them based on quality?
    The Indy games are great. Personally, I think the original is much much better than the sequel (not that the sequel is crap), so the price difference doesn't surprise me. The original features Raiders, Temple & Crusade. The sequel features mainly Kingdom, with smaller levels covering the first three movies.

    I haven't played Indy 1 since my PS2 bricked a couple of years back, but I recall it being larger than Indy 2, not having so many vehicle levels like the sequel does, and more enjoyable because it's based on the more popular movies.

    I can't wait to start collecting LEGO studs again :D
  • agparrot 19 Dec 2012 15:54:48 11,818 posts
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    Blerk wrote:
    It looks like Rayman Origins is going to be 800 points/£238.54+VAT tomorrow along with the other platformer deals, incidentally.

    Don't screw me over on Mark of the Ninja and/or Hell Yeah pricing, Microsoft! Half price. All regions. Make it so!
    Heh, that's a decent exchange rate!

    As one of those philistine, heathen people who hasn't got Fez, I'm also curious to see if it'll be an 800 -> 600 reduction or an 800 ->400 one. Not that I can really turn my nose up at either. Perhaps it'll even be 560, just so they can get every last drop.

    Thanks also, Spong, for your recap of the LEGO Indy games. I'm sorely tempted by the first one, now.
  • Kay 19 Dec 2012 15:57:30 15,571 posts
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    Rayman Origins for 800pts would be an absolute steal. I'd be very surprised if that happened.
  • RedSparrows 19 Dec 2012 15:59:16 16,848 posts
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    Rayman for 800 would be instabuy.
  • agparrot 19 Dec 2012 16:06:24 11,818 posts
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    RedSparrows wrote:
    Rayman for 800 would be instabuy.
    Indeed.

    Given that is is Games on Demand though, here in the UK it'll probably be £11.99, or 1440 points I guess. If we're really lucky it might be £8.99 or 1080 points - pretty close to the dream!
  • Blerk Moderator 19 Dec 2012 16:09:58 47,714 posts
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    Do get Fez - it's well worth 800, so whatever the discount is it'll still be an absolute steal. :)
  • kentmonkey 19 Dec 2012 17:06:07 18,583 posts
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    Stupid question I should know the answer to but...can you copy XBLA games to a USB memory stick and run them from there?

    I'm nearly running out of storage on my 60gb HDD and don't want to buy another drive.
  • oceanmotion 19 Dec 2012 17:08:32 13,111 posts
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    Yeah, just another storage device. Copied a few over when I got a new box, still worked. The license should still be on the console I imagine so offline should work as well.

    Speaking of license transfer, what a load of shit. Tried it recently, error screen but it then said I can't do it for another 4 months. I wouldn't have minded if it worked as advertised first time you cocks.

    Edited by oceanmotion at 17:10:29 19-12-2012
  • nickthegun 19 Dec 2012 17:09:01 44,250 posts
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    Yes but with the caveat that the xbox formats them to some bespoke file system, making them unusable with a laptop and its quite volatile, failing every now and again and requiring a reformat (although that may be down to the transcend ones I had).

    The moral is, yes you can, but keep your saves on the hdd.

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  • robthehermit 19 Dec 2012 17:20:19 3,352 posts
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    Or the cloud.

    Also, don't forget you can use 32gb for storage now instead of the measly 16 you could before.

    I still wish they'd just unlock it though, but if they did that, then they wouldn't be able to sell overpriced hard drives.

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  • kentmonkey 19 Dec 2012 17:25:16 18,583 posts
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    Oooh, corrupting sticks sounds a bit shit. Considering I only have one.

    I'd forgotten about the cloud option. How much storage is that?

    Essentially I could just delete stuff that I no longer play but I worry that they'll remove it from the store at some point and I may want to play it again in the future (Outrun, for instance, or can you still obtain that if you bought it?). Although I never really play games I've played before, as I just don't get time. Very rarely anyway.
  • dancingrob 19 Dec 2012 17:26:44 949 posts
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    the cloud is only 500MB or so, so only really suitable for save games.

    If you've bought it, you can always re-download it through your 'bought items' list, so there isn't anything to worry about from that side.
  • kentmonkey 19 Dec 2012 17:33:05 18,583 posts
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    Is that even if they delete it like Outrun? If so, I'm not going to worry and just ditch loads of stuff.
  • brainbird 19 Dec 2012 17:42:34 1,994 posts
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    agparrot wrote:
    If only there was some sort of international system of currency, some form of points that Microsoft could use where all the prices could be the same, internationally!
    For those who bought either Lego Indiana Jones 2 or Lego Batman: How much did you pay? The pricing seems to be all over the place to be honest. I've paid 320 MSP here in Switzerland, it would have been 5 Swiss francs in real money. What's funny is that on our dashboard there's no mention of the daily deals and only a banner advertising the XBLA Xmas deals.
  • kentmonkey 19 Dec 2012 17:48:35 18,583 posts
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    I can't find any mention of the daily deals on my dashboard in the UK. I just have to search for the games I'm interested in. Not even in the 'Sales' app. Poor promotion of this thus far.
  • brainbird 19 Dec 2012 17:51:47 1,994 posts
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    Oh, I thought they only screwed it up over here.
  • agparrot 19 Dec 2012 18:39:05 11,818 posts
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    brainbird wrote:
    For those who bought either Lego Indiana Jones 2 or Lego Batman: How much did you pay? The pricing seems to be all over the place to be honest. I've paid 320 MSP here in Switzerland, it would have been 5 Swiss francs in real money
    /shakes fist!

    Each of those titles is 1080 MS Points in the UK, and I think 800 points each in the US.

    Jammy sod!
  • Red_Bool 19 Dec 2012 19:16:01 969 posts
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    kentmonkey wrote:
    I can't find any mention of the daily deals on my dashboard in the UK. I just have to search for the games I'm interested in. Not even in the 'Sales' app. Poor promotion of this thus far.
    Here in Holland there a big Christmas tile on the home page. Enter that and you get to the (daily) deals. Is this not there on the UK dash?

    It seems that brainbird got the best deals. Here the Lego games are 9.99 / 14.99 euros, which is a one-to-one conversion of the dollar prices...
  • brainbird 19 Dec 2012 20:03:55 1,994 posts
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    320 MSP is only for the two Lego games I mentioned though. The others are more expensive.
  • Blerk Moderator 19 Dec 2012 20:15:26 47,714 posts
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    Just got an email from Microsoft with 160 free MSP to "put towards Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC". Was targeted at my US account but I redeemed it against my UK account no probs. And then didn't buy Dragonborn. I'm such a rebel. :D
  • kentmonkey 19 Dec 2012 21:26:11 18,583 posts
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    Red_Bool wrote:
    kentmonkey wrote:
    I can't find any mention of the daily deals on my dashboard in the UK. I just have to search for the games I'm interested in. Not even in the 'Sales' app. Poor promotion of this thus far.
    Here in Holland there a big Christmas tile on the home page. Enter that and you get to the (daily) deals. Is this not there on the UK dash?

    It seems that brainbird got the best deals. Here the Lego games are 9.99 / 14.99 euros, which is a one-to-one conversion of the dollar prices...
    Nope, nothing. The big tile on my home page is 'Join XBOX Live now for just £3.33 a month'. Brilliant.
  • DiSC0_JeRk 19 Dec 2012 22:19:43 121 posts
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    It's there on the home page for me (UK)

    Gold only maybe?
  • kentmonkey 19 Dec 2012 22:36:40 18,583 posts
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    Probably. They've obviously got to peddle the AMAZING live deal they're offering at the moment over a really decent sale.
  • RedSparrows 19 Dec 2012 23:02:47 16,848 posts
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    Yeah, big Christmas tile is there for me.
  • barchetta 19 Dec 2012 23:40:34 1,218 posts
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    Lego Batman in the download queue now too..... and I thought I'd pretty much covered all the Christmas stuff for the kids.... :)

    At least I save on the wrapping!
  • Beetroot_Bertie 19 Dec 2012 23:46:37 213 posts
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    Nowt for me, just the gold offer, but I'm just a silver pleb though.
  • richardiox 20 Dec 2012 00:51:48 4,955 posts
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    FEZ is at 400 points now. Not buying it at that price is subhuman behaviour.

    Mark of the Ninja is 600. Downloading now. It did say Rayman Origins is on sale today but its showing as 19.99 for me. Unless that is the sale price?!
  • robthehermit 20 Dec 2012 01:07:17 3,352 posts
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    Okay, I've grabbed Fez. I'm doing this blind, I haven't demoed it, I;m going purely on all your recommendations. If it turns out that I really hate it, I shall expect a full refund from everybody who said it should be bought.

    Considering Mark of the Ninja as well. At 600 points is it demo first or just buy it?

    I've got 4730 points left to spend, with another 2100 arriving on chrimbo day. How many do you reckon I'll need for the complete Walking Dead?

    GT: robthehermit

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  • PenguinJim 20 Dec 2012 01:12:10 3,486 posts
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    robthehermit wrote:
    Okay, I've grabbed Fez. I'm doing this blind, I haven't demoed it, I;m going purely on all your recommendations. If it turns out that I really hate it, I shall expect a full refund from everybody who said it should be bought.
    Me too.
    robthehermit wrote:
    Considering Mark of the Ninja as well. At 600 points is it demo first or just buy it?
    Me too!

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