Week o Games, 7/5: SF IV PC, Arma II, Monkey Island, Trine, The Bigs, BF 1943

slash000

Another week, another 7 days of new game releases!

Welcome to the 71 edition of G&T's newly traditional "Weekly Games Release Thread!" - Week 7/5 - 7/11!

Where we discuss what we're looking forward to, what we're going to buy, and what we're just now realizing is being released this week that we had forgotten about!

NDS

nothing

PC

Street Fighter IV




Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal





ARMA II




Trine



Memento Mori


Agatha Christie: Peril at End House

The Hardy Boys: The Perfect Crime

PS2

The Bigs 2


CID the Dummy

PS3

The Bigs 2




Battlefield 1943 (PSN)





Trine (PSN)

PSP

The Bigs 2



CID the Dummy

Wii

The Bigs 2



CID the Dummy

Xbox360

The Bigs 2

Battlefield 1943

Decent week.

Gotta give a shoutout to the digital distro game Trine. Looks like a really good physics-puzzle based platformer. Give it a try! PSN and PC only I think.


The definitive version of Street Fighter IV arrives for PC this week. The demo ran fantastic on my computer! I'll be getting it for sure.

PC also gets Arma II as well as Monkey Island.



Sports game "The Bigs 2" comes out for everybody (but NDS) this week.

aaaaaaaand..... Apparently Battlefield 1943 comes out for the 360/PS3 via digital distro this week?

Spoit

So basically, the only non DD game this week is the bigs 2? (and SF4 and arma2)

freakish light

Monkey Island comes out this week? Shit. I was finally at the point where there weren't any more games that I really wanted.

Bartholamue

Yeah, Street Fighter 4 was the only one I really wanted this week.

UnbreakableVow

I didn't know Trine was this close to release!

Also, The Bigs was really fun, I should give 2 a shot sometime.

Cherrn

Monkey Island riiiiiiiiiiiiiii

I've got my pre-purchase down.

RainbowDespair

3 new DLC chapters (Yang, Edge, and Palom) for FF4: After Years on the Wii is the main thing I'm looking forward to this week.

XBox Live Gold deal of the week is $3 off N+ (so 560 points or $7 total). N+ is one of the best XBLA games there is so if you don't have it and like platformers I highly recommend picking it up.

Mr_Grinch

Monkey Island and Trine are definitely on my purchase list. Methinks it'll be PSN for Trine and PC for Monkey Island.

Also RainbowDespair speaks the truth, N+ is a piece of platforming magic.

Peewi

I can't wait until Street Fighter IV unlocks on Steam. I don't know if you care, but Trine came out on Steam last week.

Blue map

I didn't think that Trine was coming to PSN so soon, ill have to get it when i get the cash.

Also thirding the love for N+, if you have even a slight interest in 2d platformers it will be 7$ very well spent.

Lunker

Wait, fuck, Tales of Monkey Island is this week? It's not mentioned in the Nintendo Downloads PR.

EDIT: The PC version comes out tomorrow; maybe the first episode will be on WiiWare next week? Hmm, I might have to hold off on Bit.Trip Core to save points for this.

Green Destiny

Doesn't Cid the Dummy come out tomorrow for the Wii?

slash000

Green Destiny wrote: »

Doesn't Cid the Dummy come out tomorrow for the Wii?

It might. What is it?

Lunker

I was listening to Retronauts this week, and Chris Kohler mentioned that the WiiWare version of Tales of Monkey Island's first episode is promised for "sometime this month." I'm kind of hoping it's later in the month, as I'll be working on the XBLA Monkey Island next week.

slash000

Lunker wrote: »

I was listening to Retronauts this week, and Chris Kohler mentioned that the WiiWare version of Tales of Monkey Island's first episode is promised for "sometime this month." I'm kind of hoping it's later in the month, as I'll be working on the XBLA Monkey Island next week.

Sooooo....... not out on wii yet?

Green Destiny

slash000 wrote: »

Green Destiny wrote: »

Doesn't Cid the Dummy come out tomorrow for the Wii?

It might. What is it?

It's a platformer where you play as a crash dummy.

slash000

Green Destiny wrote: »

slash000 wrote: »

Green Destiny wrote: »

Doesn't Cid the Dummy come out tomorrow for the Wii?

It might. What is it?

It's a platformer where you play as a crash dummy.

Well, I can only find a listing for it on Amazon, but I guess it is out. I'll add it but it doesn't seem many people are aware of it or what it is. Is it supposed to be any good? I've never heard of the developer.

UnbreakableVow

Be honest, Green Destiny:

Were you involved in development of Cid the Dummy?

Lunker

slash000 wrote: »

Lunker wrote: »

I was listening to Retronauts this week, and Chris Kohler mentioned that the WiiWare version of Tales of Monkey Island's first episode is promised for "sometime this month." I'm kind of hoping it's later in the month, as I'll be working on the XBLA Monkey Island next week.

Sooooo....... not out on wii yet?

Not yet; this week on WiiWare is Bit.Trip Core along with one or two other games. And the DSiWare game is Base10, aka Decode from the awesome Art Style series.

slash000

Lunker wrote: »

slash000 wrote: »

Lunker wrote: »

I was listening to Retronauts this week, and Chris Kohler mentioned that the WiiWare version of Tales of Monkey Island's first episode is promised for "sometime this month." I'm kind of hoping it's later in the month, as I'll be working on the XBLA Monkey Island next week.

Sooooo....... not out on wii yet?

Not yet; this week on WiiWare is Bit.Trip Core along with one or two other games. And the DSiWare game is Base10, aka Decode from the awesome Art Style series.

oh OK.

Well Bit Trip Core is good news!

brynstar

I'm buying Monkey Island this week, and maybe some of those other Lucasarts titles announced for Steam.

RainbowDespair

Well, this came out of nowhere, apparently Band of Bugs (one of the earlier XBLA games) just recently got a big update that adds an avatar mode as well as some new sci-fi(!) DLC for 240 pts ($3US):

11) How does Tales of Kaloki differ in features/size to the other BoB DLC Packs?

Tales of Kaloki is 3-4 times bigger than the previous "campaign" DLC we've released ("Ninja Sticks of Fury" and "Red Kingdom"). Like them, Tales of Kaloki has new stories, characters, scripts, unique mission objectives, and more. Unlike the previous DLC, Tales of Kaloki has a new look and *very* different gameplay elements from the core game, including (for example) the ability to destroy buildings, and the ability for one unit to damage nearby units when it explodes. There's a lot more to it than that, even, but you'll just have to try it to see.

I'm actually tempted to buy the game now.