Week o Games, 7/12: NCAA Football, Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman, Unbound Saga

slash000

Another week, another 7 days of new game releases!

Welcome to the 73 edition of G&T's newly traditional "Weekly Games Release Thread!" - Week 7/19 - 7/25!

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

Art Style: ZENGAGE
G-Force

PC

Farm Frenzy 3
G-Force
Sudoku Ball Detective

PS2

G-Force
Rock Band Country Track Pa

PS3

The King of Fighters XII


G-Force
Rock Band Country Track Pack
Watchmen: The End is Nigh Complete Experience
Shatter

PSP

G-Force

Wii

Little King's Story





Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord

Rock Band Country Track Pack

5 Spots Party
Battle Poker

G-Force

Xbox360

The King of Fighters XII


Cyborg Mice Arena
Ice 9
Math Gardener
G-Force
Rock Band Country Track Pack
Watchmen: The End is Nigh Part 1 & 2

KING OF FIGHTERS XII

Cherrn

You forgot the Monkey Island remake, but, yeah, not really an interesting week.

Edit: Oh, you didn't forget the PC version. No, it's not out, that's the Telltale episode (Monkey Island 5, essentially)

slash000

Cherrn wrote: »

You forgot the Monkey Island remake, but, yeah, not really an interesting week.

Edit: Oh, you didn't forget the PC version. No, it's not out, that's the Telltale episode (Monkey Island 5, essentially)

Which ones are coming out and which aren't? I'm confused by all of the varieties of MI games and platforms.

Cherrn

Monkey Island: Special Edition, the remake, is coming out this wednesday for PC and XBLA. That's it. Tales of Monkey Island episode 1 came out last week

Fig-D

slash000 wrote: »

Cherrn wrote: »

You forgot the Monkey Island remake, but, yeah, not really an interesting week.

Edit: Oh, you didn't forget the PC version. No, it's not out, that's the Telltale episode (Monkey Island 5, essentially)

Which ones are coming out and which aren't? I'm confused by all of the varieties of MI games and platforms.

The remake of the original game will be coming out this week.

The new Monkey Island game by Telltale is an episodic release. The first episode of the new game was released last week and a new one will arrive each month for the next 5 (?) months.

UnbreakableVow

Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! is a strategy game by NIS, and there's a demo on the PlayStation Store for the PSP.

Haven't tried it, don't really dig strategy games.

brynstar

I'm really excited about Monkey Island SE...and that's about it.

Bartholamue

Postman Pat, Postman Pat, Postman Pat and his black and white cap...early in the morning, just as day is dawning, he pick up all the postbags in his van.

I don't even know how you make a video game out of an 80's TV show that not many people remember.

slash000

the Badman game, all I know is that Kotaku has been making a big freakin' deal out of it. (Also, thanks for the info Unbreakable, btw :^: At least I know the gist of it now!).

RainbowDespair

Ikaruga XBLA is this week's gold deal and is only 400 points ($5 USD). For one of the best shmups of all time, that's a fantastic deal.

darleysam

So is Science Papa some attempt at sounding like Cooking Mama?

Darlan

I would be all over the Monkey Island remake, but the rumors about an iphone version are making me wait on it.

Lunker

darleysam wrote: »

So is Science Papa some attempt at sounding like Cooking Mama?

You tell me!

darleysam

Lunker wrote: »

darleysam wrote: »

So is Science Papa some attempt at sounding like Cooking Mama?

You tell me!

Our survey says:

YES! It's our top answer!

Lunker

Darlan wrote: »

I would be all over the Monkey Island remake, but the rumors about an iphone version are making me wait on it.

I'm curious as well ... honestly, I might end up double-dipping if the game is good enough (and I've the feeling it will be; I've never played the original). I was honestly expecting $15 or $20 on XBLA, so having it drop at $10 and then later picking it up on iPhone for another $10 or so would still feel quite fair to me.

Sorenson

And one week and a month since first I asked, I ask again: Who the hell keeps buying these Nancy Drew games?

EDIT: Christ allmighty wikipedia says that there's 22 of these fucking games out or due shortly for release, with another two Drew games and one for the fucking Hardy Boys slated for later this year. When the hell in the last 30 years have the HD/ND franchies been anything resembling relevent to warrent all of this?

Darlan

Lunker wrote: »

Darlan wrote: »

I would be all over the Monkey Island remake, but the rumors about an iphone version are making me wait on it.

I'm curious as well ... honestly, I might end up double-dipping if the game is good enough (and I've the feeling it will be; I've never played the original). I was honestly expecting $15 or $20 on XBLA, so having it drop at $10 and then later picking it up on iPhone for another $10 or so would still feel quite fair to me.

I haven't played it either, but my understanding is that the game's fun is derived mostly from puzzles and funny dialogue, which doesn't scream "replayable" to me.

Lunker

Darlan wrote: »

Lunker wrote: »

Darlan wrote: »

I would be all over the Monkey Island remake, but the rumors about an iphone version are making me wait on it.

I'm curious as well ... honestly, I might end up double-dipping if the game is good enough (and I've the feeling it will be; I've never played the original). I was honestly expecting $15 or $20 on XBLA, so having it drop at $10 and then later picking it up on iPhone for another $10 or so would still feel quite fair to me.

I haven't played it either, but my understanding is that the game's fun is derived mostly from puzzles and funny dialogue, which doesn't scream "replayable" to me.

Horses for courses. I can see why some people don't replay these kinds of games, but I treat them more like books/short stories and tend to enjoy replaying linear games because the experience is still fun for me several times through. Like owning a favorite movie on DVD and watching it every few months, even though you know the dialogue inside and out.

greeble

I'm looking forward to Badman. Its kind of got a sim life meets dungeon keeper feel. You build out your dungeon to try to kill the heroes, but you don't make traps or anything, what you do is grow monsters so you have to manage your dungeon's ecology and food chain to grow the bigger ones. Its also fairly funny.

The demo is incredibly small, so if you are curious at all, just download it. (Like 10M)

RichardTauber

I like how you equate hours of playtime and money.