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Castle Crashers: Raising Dead People and Swinging Chainsaws
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1. If I buy Castle Crashers, will I be able to take the game with me to a friend on my memory stick? (We do most our gaming at his place, and he does not have his 360 hooked up to Live)
2. Just roughly, how long does it take to play through the game once with four players?
A couple hours on normal mode.
Then you're done. Because despite all the skin swaps, they've created a game where virtually every character player is identical to the next. Sure, the Red Knight has one slightly different attack from the Orange Knight, but it's all pretty much the same deal.
Kind of upsetting; so many characters, so many unlocks, and replaying the game feels like slogging through the same damned thing again. Great art, terrible character design.
If your pal doesn't have an internet connection hooked up to his xboxen you won't be able to access anything other than the trial version. One work around I could suggest is temporarily hooking his xbox up the the internet, moving your profile over and and buying it then. It'll be tied to his console to be used by any account, online or off, and tied to your account to be used as long as you're logged in and connected to the internet. However if you're ever without internet access, or want to play it with a different account, you'd be out of luck.
Bringing my harddrive over probably won't work either?
Bringing your HD is fine.
Errr... no? Unless his friend's xbox is hooked up to the internet it's the same thing. His friend's console won't have the licence and his account won't help unless it's signed in to xbox live.
Edit: if you brought the console itself over that'd work fine but obviously it's not as handy to transport as a hard-drive or memory card. If your own xbox is perpetually signed into xbox live then purchasing content on your friend's console isn't a bad option, it's only if you don't have internet access or don't want to play with your main account it'll restrict you to the trial version.
You can use the license transfer tool on xbox.com once a year, so you could migrate the game licence to your own console some time down the line.
Um, I have done this plenty of times. I brought my HD to my friend's place, took his out, put mine in, and we played my arcade games.
Unless you are talking about being signed into each other's accounts to play the arcade game, then yes, you will have to transfer one of your accounts.
He'll unlock it soon. He locked it to make a blog post.
Saw that, but it's also crashing hard now
edit: aaaand it's blocked. My friends are safe again...for now.
Wait... Wait that sounded terrible.
But I stand by it nonetheless.
What say people on having arena battles?
At max magic, the Red Knight is probably the strongest caster in the game, simply becuase the only way to dodge it is to never stay on the same horizontal level as he is on, making sword fighting and archery impossible.
Let me know how it goes, I'd be happy to be wrong.
Redfield are you sure your friends xbox wasn't connected to the internet at the time? Or maybe your friend also owned the same game? If neither applies then I guess I'm stumped.
I'll know for sure tomorrow hopefully, bought it today and will probably have a game night on saturday. I tried it out a little and this game is great!
I'll post back here when I find out.
Even your friend owning the same game doesnt work. My friend has been coming over to play 2-player 'Splosion Man. He recovers his gamertag at my place and we play. He left his gamertag on my HD, because he didn't have internet at his place.
Both of us have 'Splosion Man, but we wanted to keep going with our progress, so when I went to play it at his house, we needed the save from my XBox.
I took my HD over there, and used it on his XBox. Dispite the fact that he has his own copy of 'Splosion Man, and was using his profile, it wouldn't let him do anything but a trial because it was my HD, and he didnt have the internet.
I'll present the other side of the argument. No it certainly fucking doesn't. I can't even connect to a game or have a friend join my game.
Steam - Talon Valdez : Xbox Live & LoL - Talonious Monk
I've already bought it... Why should I buy it one more time just because we want to play through it once on one gaming night we're having at a friends house?
Do a test on your connection (and your friends). Sounds like a NAT issue.
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Done and done. Several times. Eh well, at least that issue has cleared up for most people.
Steam - Talon Valdez : Xbox Live & LoL - Talonious Monk
T'was awesome fun!
1. Four of us. Three of us are 30-50 in level. Another guy picks a level 99. You know how that went.
2. Guy sits on a level 1, so I pick my level 1 King. We have a really fun match.
3. Guy picks a level 60 something Metal Man wannabe. I pick my Level 50 Dragon Looking Guy. We have an epic battle. We each were down to our last hits. I think the fucking cat hit him and I ran in for the kill. Haha. I really thought he had me. He used a strategy that involved using the magic jump and I couldn't find a way to block it besides keeping space.
I never knew arena mode could be so fun. It was actually the first thing I played of Castle Crashers back at SD Comic-Con in 2008 and never really played it since. I am playing it now for the 40 win achievement. Almost 100% the game (achievement wise). Woo.
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