Live stuff was on sale. Now it's not. Use the XBLA thread instead.

maximumzero

All sales ovah. Current sales can be found in the XBLA thread.

Sega Sale - April 19-25

• Streets of Rage 2 - 200 MSP (50% off)
• Ecco the Dolphin - 200 MSP (50% off)
• Happy Tree Friends False Alarm - 400 MSP (50% off)
• Phantasy Star II - 200 MSP (50% off)
• Gunstar Heroes - 200 MSP (50% off)
• Crazy Taxi - 400 MSP (50% off)
• AfterBurner Climax - 400 MSP (50% off)
• Altered Beast - 200 MSP (50% off)
• Comix Zone - 200 MSP (50% off)
• Cyber Troopers Virtual On - 600 MSP (50% off)
• Golden Axe - 200 MSP (50% off)
• OutRun Online Arcade - 400 MSP (50% off)
• Shinobi - 200 MSP (50% off)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 1 - 800 MSP (33% off)
• Sonic Adventure - 400 MSP (50% off)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis original) - 200 MSP (50% off)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - 200 MSP (50% off)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - 200 MSP (50% off)
• Sonic & Knuckles - 120 MSP (50% off)

Deal of the Week: Spring Fling - April 19-25

• Your Shape: Fitness Evolved Toned Body - 160 MSP (50% off)
• Your Shape: Fitness Evolved Dance Workout: Bollywood - 200 MSP (50% off)
• 3D Ultra MiniGolf Adventures 2 - 400 MSP (50% off)
• Peggle - 400 MSP (50% off)
• Peggle Nights - 200 MSP (50% off)
• Plants vs. Zombies - 800 MSP (50% off)
• ilomilo - 400 MSP (50% off)
• Avatar Egg Hunt - 80 MSP (50% off)
• Avatar Bunny Outfit - 120 MSP (50% off)
• Monkey Prop - 120 MSP (50% off)

Special Offers on Microsoft Game Studios Titles

Arcade titles

Toy Soldiers - 800msp
Perfect Dark - 400msp
Magic: The Gathering - 400msp
South Park: Tower Defence - 400msp
Splosion Man - 400msp
Braid - 400msp
Snoopy Flying Ace - 400msp (buy this people)
Uno Rush - 400msp
Duke Nukem 3D - 400msp
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project 400msp

DLC

Halo Reach: Noble Pack - 400msp
Halo 3: Mythic II Pack - 400msp
Halo 3 Mythic Pack - 200msp
Gears of War 2: All Fronts - 400msp
Forza 3: Community Choice - 200msp
Forza 3: Sidewinder - 200msp
Forza 3: Hot Holidays - 200msp
Crackdown 2: Toy Box - 280msp
Crackdown 2: Deluge - 280msp
Alan Wake: The Writer - 280msp
Trials HD: Big Thrills - 200msp

Avatar

Halo Reach: Emile Spartan Armour - 200msp
Halo 3: ODST Marine Armour - 200msp
Gears of War 2: Locust Armour - 160msp
Gears of War 2: Ticker Pet - 120msp
Fable 3: Warrior Helmet - 120msp

Friday, April 15th's Deals

LIMBO - 600msp
Castle Crashers - 600msp
Shadow Complex - 600msp
Trials HD - 600msp
Monday Night Combat - 600msp

April 12-18 Deals of the Week

MVC2 600msp
Mega Man 10 400msp
Final Fight Double Impact 400msp
Bionic Commando Rearmed 1 400msp
SSFT2 HD Remix 600msp

Raijin Quickfoot

I'm definitely going to pick up Mega Man 10 and probably Monday Night Combat when it goes on sale. I need to see what my wife will be cool with me spending.

darleysam

I want to get both The Writer and the Noble pack, but won't be able to get points until tomorrow. Do we know how long they're on offer for?

CheesecakeRecipe

That Alan Wake DLC is irresistible at that price.

Bought.

Cantido

I bought Toy Soldiers. I should have paid more. I collect Action Strategy games. I'd burn it and sit it next to my copies of Sacrifice and Battlezone if I could.

MrDelish

Cantido wrote: »

I bought Toy Soldiers. I should have paid more. I collect Action Strategy games. I'd burn it and sit it next to my copies of Sacrifice and Battlezone if I could.

I tried the demo and was thoroughly underwhelmed in the few minutes I tried it. I love Battlezone, though. Should I give it another try you think?

Mulletude

I got Duke 3d. Just couldn't put it off any longer and for 400 points its definitely worth it.

Should I blow another 5 bucks and get perfect dark?

I also got Monkey Island 2 during the april first sale.

urahonky

Toy Soldiers is okay.... Lots of the levels start to feel... Same-y after a while. I dunno. If you didn't like the demo then I wouldn't spend the money on it.

Ranced

Will finally buy Limbo and Shadow Complex.

XBL finally getting decent sales regularly.

Shadowfire

Huh... guess I'll grab the YourShape stuff next week, then. Everything else we'd want we already have.

Drakeon

Bought Southpark's tower defense, might grab limbo when its on sale too.

Lucascraft

Gonna grab Duke 3D and the Alan Wake DLC. Too bad the Signal isn't on sale as well.

Drakeon wrote: »

Bought Southpark's tower defense, might grab limbo when its on sale too.

There's a South Park tower defense game? Is it actually any good?

Drakeon

Lucascraft wrote: »

Gonna grab Duke 3D and the Alan Wake DLC. Too bad the Signal isn't on sale as well.

Drakeon wrote: »

Bought Southpark's tower defense, might grab limbo when its on sale too.

There's a South Park tower defense game? Is it actually any good?

I thought it was pretty great, go check out the trial to see if its worth your money though. Its like pixeljunk monsters, but better (at least, i enjoyed it more than pixeljunk).

Ad astra

Fuck! I just bought both "The Writer" and "Limbo". Now they're on sale:x

Gaspode_T

My damage so far:

Final Fight: Double Impact
Mega Man 10
Bionic Rearmed 1 (never got this because it was always $$)
Marvel vs Capcom 2 (don't know why I never got this...I love fighting games)
Snoopy (this plays like Crimson Skies...it's way darker than I thought it would be, used to be 1200 or 1600 points I think)

Final Fight is AWESOME and it comes with a great game called Magic Sword as a bonus. It's the best arcade to console port I've ever seen, uncensored, great music remix, online co-op, great achievements + challenges on top of those that unlock things in a vault.

Thinking about Splosion Man and Trials HD too...I already have Perfect Dark, Toy Soldiers, Limbo etc

If only I worked on the Xbox team I would get the MGS games for free :P Even those guys have to pay for anything else though.

PaperLuigi44

Gaspode get Splosion Man, trust me on this one.

I might get Peggle, maybe Duke Nukem as well.

maximumzero

Tempted to pick up a few things tonight but I'd rather pick up a point card at Best Buy tomorrow because I'll at least get a handful of Reward Zone points out of it as well.

Steev

Toy Soldiers was fantastic. I played through it last year. It's pretty much a tower defense game where you can jump into the individual turrets to do manual aiming and do more damage. Also, when you beat the campaign you get a Pickelhaube as an avatar reward.

joshofalltrades

I hope I remember to get MNC on Friday...

Gaspode_T

Oh I forgot that I got South Park: Tower Defense too...it's kind of like a "loose" tower defense game, you move the characters around yourself and they auto-fire while you are not controlling one of them. They have special moves that you can only do after the fill up a little blue meter at the bottom. I only played the first two levels last night but it was pretty fun beating up ginger kids with snow balls. It does not have much profanity and the cut scenes are not animated - but you unlock videos from the real series as you play the game. I am trying to convince my friend to get it so we can do co-op...it's probably as good of a "gateway" game into tower defense as Plants versus Zombies is.

I can also recommend Toy Soldiers, I've been playing it here and there for a few months now and I'm still not 50% of the way through. I got a little frustrated trying to get challenges related to the bi-planes but they're pretty fun to fly as, I almost wish there was a dogfight mode in that game too. Before I bought that game I thought it was going to be violent world war game, it's actually more like Army Men or something if you remember that series.

I will check out Splosion Man...I know that I am enjoying Comic Jumper a lot, Twisted Pixel seems like one of the most reliable studios.

anoffday

Tempted to get Uno Rush. I use to play a lot of the regular Uno back in the day. Is rush what everyone has moved onto?

jclast

I should seriously reconsider buying DLC for games I haven't played. I am not the owner of Alan Wake's Writer DLC. Also picked up the Trials Big Thrills pack and I will get Ilomilo when it goes on sale. Everything else that I would want I already have.

UnbreakableVow

I'll jump on the Trials DLC

Dyvion

So jumping on Ilomilo.

I own Toy Soldiers and it's a blast. (herp) Some of the later levels throw curve balls at you. I enjoyed it immensely.

I think Ilomilo is the only thing I'm going to pick up though.

Kristmas Kthulhu

So I decided this was the perfect opportunity to purchase a buttload of Arcade games I wanted, and went ahead and determined which games I absolutely could not pass up, and in order to get all of them I would need 4000 Microsoft things.

Among the games I want that are on sale are Perfect Dark, Splosion Man, Snoopy Flying Ace (I had no reason to believe I wanted this until I read about it on Wikipedia), LIMBO, Castle Crashers, Shadow Complex, and ilomilo.

That leaves me with 600 spare things, and a bit of a dilemma I'm trying to resolve. I could see myself purchasing Marvel vs Capcom 2 again (I have a copy that doesn't work on my first-generation PS2), but I would also love to buy slash000 and RainbowDespair's RPGs, which would leave me with a measly 280 things left over.

I'd hate to have them just lying around, so are there any other decent XBox Live Indie Games that are worth getting that could shore up the difference in these things?

DoctorArch

Why can't Outrun go on sale before it's pulled at the end of this year....:(

Gaspode_T

There are tons of good 80 pt XBLIG games...just research here or at NeoGAF's XBLIG threads. It depends on what you like...Aban Hawkins is a great but very hard retro game, Tempura of the Dead is a little better if you don't like dying every 5 secs. Solar is a space sandbox game about smashing planets and stars together, it gets more epic later and has well designed challenges that can be completed in a few days. Square Off and Ska Studio's two ZP2KX games are probably the best multiplayer games. I like a little game called Hypership out of Control a lot, it is a love letter to NES overhead shooters combined with the "speed up" gameplay of Atari 2600 River Raid.

Back to the sale talk...I went ahead and got Splosion Man as commanded and I'm glad I did, it feels kind of bad to not have someone to co-op through it with though (since half of the game is apparently co-op only), I wonder if it would work to randomly match up against someone online? I had the same gripe about Tomb Raider and Castlevania HoD, just kind of felt like I was missing out on part of the game.

anoffday

So when is ilomilo on sale? All we know is sometime between the 19th and 25th? Or is it on sale that whole time?

Gaspode_T

Hey according to someone on CheapAssGamer Outrun will be included in the next week's DoTW sale:

"April 19th - April 25th "Sega Sale" OPEN TO ALL XBL MEMBERS?? (No details on exclusivity. I will update.)

Crazy Taxi - ??? Microsoft Points - ??% off - Metacritic - Quick Look
Outrun Online Arcade - ??? Microsoft Points - ??% off - Metacritic
Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 - ??? Microsoft Points - ??% off - Metacritic - Quick Look "

Gaspode_T

Ilomilo is one day only I think - the 19th...Peggle + Peggle Nights is a must buy if you don't have it on PC, very relaxing game to play when you're stressed out

<Edit: snip stuff that is apparently already in first post...>

UnbreakableVow

Plants vs. Zombies is 50% off at 800 points?

...

That shit is usually $20? That's insanity.

maximumzero

Gaspode_T wrote: »

Ilomilo is one day only I think - the 19th...again from CAG. Peggle + Peggle Nights is a must buy if you don't have it on PC, very relaxing game to play when you're stressed out

April 19th - "Spring Fling" GOLD MEMBERS ONLY

XBLA

3D Ultra MiniGolf Adventures 2 - 400 Microsoft Points - 50% off - Metacritic
ilomilo - 400 Microsoft Points - 50% off - Metacritic - Quick Look
Peggle Deluxe - 400 Microsoft Points - 50% off - Metacritic
Plants vs Zombies - 800 Microsoft Points - 50% off - Metacritic

DLC

Peggle Nights - 200 Microsoft Points - 50% off - Metacritic
Your Shape: Fitness Evolved Dance Workout: Bollywood - 400 Microsoft Points - 50% off
Your Shape: Fitness Evolved Toned Body - 600 Microsoft Points - 50% off

Avatar Store

Bunny Outfit (Male/Female) - 120 Microsoft Points - 50% off
Egg Hunt (Prop) - 80 Microsoft Points - 50% off
Monkey (Pet) - 120 Microsoft Points - 50% off

Not to sound like an ass or anything but that's all in the OP.

quovadis13

I'm getting Trials HD on Friday!

AZChristopher

Are there a lot of people still play Monday Night Combat? I'm thinking of getting it on Friday but not if it is a ghost town.

anoffday

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Plants vs. Zombies is 50% off at 800 points?

...

That shit is usually $20? That's insanity.

It is. Fun game, but come on. Let's stop milking it.

UnbreakableVow

That just makes me lose a little bit of faith, more than anything. The only game I knew that went up at $20 (aside from the Sam and Max games but come on, they're really like five games in one) was the first ep of PA Adventures, and it bombed. I thought other publishers would back away from that price.

Basically I just have this bad feeling now that RE4 and Code Veronica will be $20 a pop on XBLA.

Local H Jay

i just realized that microsoft has beaten me. out of all those games, instead i noticed the monkey prop on sale and contemplated buying it.

Gaspode_T

That must be wrong, I could have sworn PvZ was 1200 points but I just checked xbox.com and it just says "Already purchased"

Gaspode_T

They just dropped Comic Jumper from 1200 to 800 permanently...I don't know, maybe go bug Jeff Green or someone at PopCap Since it's released at retail they probably want to keep it at a similar price (or else why would anyone buy it at Target or Wal Mart)

http://www.target.com/Plants-vs-Zombies-Windows-XP/dp/B002AUC5ZQ

Reminds me that I actually paid something like $19 for Peggle Nights to send it to my neice as a Xmas present...

PaperLuigi44

I swear I didn't pay 1600 points for PvZ when it launched.

And why would you lose faith in it because of that price? It's a fun game made by a popular studio that's been out for several months now and was praised for its really good controls and features.

MrVyngaard

I'll endorse Final Fight Double Impact. Comes with Magic Sword, drop-in drop-out coop and quite a few challenges to work through. The remixed soundtrack is also excellent.