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LIMBO: If you don't buy this on Steam, I will feed you to the spider
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This is not a sense of entitlement, but rather simply expectations based on typical market behavior. Old games are perceived as being worth less than newer games, therefore, they are sold at a lower price.
You say that the consumer should pay what the developer asks or bugger off. That's a little backwards. The consumer doesn't need the game more than the developer needs the consumer's money. I'm not saying the dev should bend to my personal whims or what I think it should cost. If they want to charge more than I am willing to pay, and never lower the price for as long as the game is available to download, they are completely within their rights. I'm just not going to buy it. They can do the buggering off.
Oh wait, we're still talking about 1200 Microsoft points. I'll see my way out.
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Ya know, I have no problem with this game being 1200 points. I won't be getting this game, but I have purchased other games with similar price:length ratios. I'm just annoyed how people are being told that their opinion of something that is totally subjective (the value of a game) is somehow invalid. The problem is that the people who DO think the game is worth the 1200 won't just accept it when someone else doesn't.
I think the main reason why you don't see much discussion outside of pricing arguments is because there isn't a whole lot of actual content to discuss. Game length burn.
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Unless you are using a completely Time to Dollar equation, how can one know if a game is worth the cost or not unless they play it? I didn't know Halo 3: ODST wasn't worth $60 to me until I played it and determined that.
You can have a different opinion about the quality and value of a game, but to make such a claim sight unseen is silly. Look at it this way: If you wanted to know if Limbo was "worth it" or not, would you ask the person who played it or the person who hasn't played it?
[EDIT] Damn, I am now fully participating in the conversation I was originally criticizing! Well played, you!
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It's almost as if you're trapped in some sort of
Limbo.
It's like you're not even reading my entire post. I was never offering my opinion of the game. I wasn't saying that it wasn't worth $15. I even said it was a fair price. I was merely arguing that there is nothing wrong with having the opinion that the game is worth less than $15. I just get pissed off when people tell other people that their opinions are wrong. it's bullshit is what it is.
My opinion of the game is not relevant to this particular conversation.
Please allow me to redirect you.
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Poor Limbo.
I didn't just choose this thread at random. I saw some other people being berated for having the audacity to have a different opinion of this game. All I was trying to say was if someone says the game you love isn't worth the price it's going for in their opinion, then you don't need to go out of your way to tell them how much of a idiot/cheapskate they are. It's really the people that love the game that send the conversation on these tangents of price discussion and away from the game itself.
Did I go off-topic? Yes. Could this go in the bitching thread? Sure, but I'd rather take my complaint to the source when possible.
Uh, you're not even talking about the game now, you're complaining about the XBLA pricing structure. It's a valid complaint, but has nothing to do with Limbo itself.
"Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." -HST
The achievement actually says "in one sitting", so you fail if you restart the game in any way, including going to the dashboard.
Someone mentioned that if $15 is too much then they should wait until the price goes down, he was only talking about XBLA to say that those prices don't really change.
Oops, sorry I forgot it actually says that.
"Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." -HST
The Road
Does pausing the game break the "one sitting" condition? I was attempting one run and got a phone call in the middle...failed it later on deaths, but I was wondering if the pause had already ruined me.
I highly doubt it.
So if you find yourself on the main menu, you've missed it
How would I have wanted Limbo to end? Aside from having some sort of confrontation with the last enemy who dogged you through the industrial sections (the first encounter with the spider was a pretty good “boss fight” model, I’m sure they could have come up with something clever involving a room full of those machine guns on movable pulleys manipulated by the enemy in a control box or something), I would have liked it if the game didn’t end immediately on finding the object of your quest, which was old and hoary back in the late NES days. Just… some sort of interaction, either you walk up to her and she fades away, followed by the boy, or there’s some sort of danger following you and you have to use the grab button to lead her way from it and something happens… anything, really. I mean Karateka, a 1984 game that also told its story entirely without dialogue or text, had a better use of gameplay in its ending (if you approached the princess in your usual fighting stance she would kick you in the head and kill you).
I don’t mean this to say I didn’t like the game, it’s still one of my favorite titles of the year. But I can’t shake the feeling that it’s merely a good game which could have been a great one with a little fleshing out of the later sections and ending.
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Haven't seen the movie, but yeah. That book is mind fuckingly depressing.
Making the look more explicit or whatever.
I liked it.
Let me summarize:
a) Some people thought the game was worth $15
b) Some people thought the game was not worth $15
c) Both sides drew swords and insulted each other
d) Both sides lose because it's dumb argument
e) The rest of this thread moves on
OK, that last one is wishful thinking, but I can hope, right?
Oh good, I get to use this again
So hey guys, I finally scrounged up $15 to buy this game and it's pretty good so far
Haven't had a whole lot of trouble with the puzzles yet, so far the part I died the most at is
that log looks more like a platform than a log, and I couldn't tell that I was supposed to push it into the water for a long while
Tons of fun though, definitely worth the funbux
It is a spider
Original image
Did you think it was a vagina?
If that looks like the vaginas you're used to seeing, you might live in a town too close to the nuclear power plant.
Or on another world.