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Old 07-19-10 | 12:42 PM
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

Spoiler filled review under here: Audio is OK, video is spoily.

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Old 07-19-10 | 01:01 PM
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

In my opinion - DO NOT WATCH THAT REVIEW! It's way too spoilery.
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Old 07-19-10 | 01:06 PM
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

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In my opinion - DO NOT WATCH THAT REVIEW! It's way too spoilery.
Agreed. Listen if you must, but don't watch.
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Old 07-19-10 | 01:13 PM
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

Destructoid gives Limbo a 10

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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

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Agreed. Listen if you must, but don't watch.
You should use your awesome moderator-powers to spoilerize his video clip.
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Old 07-19-10 | 01:14 PM
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

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You should use your awesome moderator-powers to spoilerize his video clip.
Or, people just don't have to click play. It doesn't autoplay from what I can tell.
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Old 07-19-10 | 01:17 PM
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

Originally Posted by Liver&Onions
Or, people just don't have to click play. It doesn't autoplay from what I can tell.
So people should read threads from the bottom up so they're aware of the warning before viewing the video?
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

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So people should read threads from the bottom up so they're aware of the warning before viewing the video?
yes.
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

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So people should read threads from the bottom up so they're aware of the warning before viewing the video?
fine. fixed it for you.
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Old 07-19-10 | 01:24 PM
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

Giant Bomb Limbo review 5 out of 5

http://www.giantbomb.com/limbo/61-30380/reviews/
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

Originally Posted by Liver&Onions
fine. fixed it for you.
@ the "fix"
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

Because of the near-universal praise, I now hate Limbo.
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

You're the only 47 year-old emo kid I know.
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

Originally Posted by Liver&Onions
Or, people just don't have to click play. It doesn't autoplay from what I can tell.
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

By the way, you probably shouldn't watch that if you haven't seen The Sixth Sense yet.
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Old 07-19-10 | 04:20 PM
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

The point of the game is to experience the game. Listening to a review that, as a backdrop, solves many of the puzzles and shows many of the unique moments is not exactly the same thing as intentionally viewing the ending to a movie.
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

Hey, I hadn't seen the Sixth Sense yet and didn't see the warning until AFTER I watched it! Now that movie is ruined for me!

Oh well, seeing as it was that director's first movie, I'm sure his films only got better from there! Off to watch them immediately!
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

Originally Posted by pinata242
the point of the game is to experience the game. Listening to a review that, as a backdrop, solves many of the puzzles and shows many of the unique moments is not exactly the same thing as intentionally viewing the ending to a movie.
qfmft.
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

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Oh well, seeing as it was that director's first movie, I'm sure his films only got better from there! Off to watch them immediately!
Skip that overrated POS Unbreakable and jump right to the Happening. Two words... Crowning. Achievement.
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

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Skip that overrated POS Unbreakable and jump right to the Happening. Two words... Crowning. Achievement.
Spoken like somebody who's never watched The Last Airbender....In 3D!
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

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Spoken like somebody who's never watched The Last Airbender....In 3D!
Spoken like a dude who never watched The Happening with me blowing sickly warm air on the back of your neck. 4D!
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Spoken like a true asshole!
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

So I decided I was going to take a run at the hard achievement in Limbo this evening which also constituted my 2nd playthrough.

After only having gone through the game once, it didn't take long to remember how to solve each puzzle. My total time was around 1 hour, 40 minutes and that included around 20-25 deaths. Most of which occurred at the very end which will be the most frustrating thing about this effort - getting that far just to exceed the death threshold. It's mostly because at the very end
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it's just a god damned lot of timed gravity switches and you have to really have it down pretty precise, not to mention the electrified I (or sideways H) that kicks it all off!
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Old 07-21-10 | 09:44 AM
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Destination Arcade is up. You actually launch it from your Games list. I had thought it would be like the Rock Band store and accessable from the dashboard, but it's not. I thought it was plain and clunky to use the interface (though seeing you avatar run out at the beginning is nice). Very clearly the interface is designed primarily for the Kinect, with big card-like sections you flip through. Two things that are nice is that they have a "card" that shows games on sale this week (apparently Boogie Bunnies is on sale, who knew); the other is that your XBLA games list propagates very quickly here compared to your Games list. The downside is it doesn't designate which games are trials and which are full games, only how many Achievements you've earned (trial games show as 0/200). The bummer about where the Destination Arcade is placed is that it won't save you any time browsing through your XBLA games list since you'd have to go to your games list first to find Destination Arcade and then load that application. Overall, I'm concluding this is just an add on to search for XBLA games with the Kinect. If this is what the new dashboard is going to look like (and I bet it is), color me disappointed.
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