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See, I never get posts like this. The first Monkey Island remake was 800 points last year? What price were you expecting for the second one? I'm not saying it's a bad price or an unreasonable one, but I certainly wouldn't describe that pricing as "Great". You can certainly expect this game to drop to 400 for a sale before the end of the year, BTW. I'm thinking about waiting for that. I liked the first game, but don't feel like I must Buy It NOW!

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Mods, can we get an avatar change for Decker?

http://67.18.219.83/image_hosting/we...bie_Downer.jpg

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Adequate price on MI2!

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:lol: That's better!

Out of curiosity, do you sometimes walk by vending machines and shout out "$1.50? That's a great price for a 20 oz bottle of Diet Coke!"

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I'm not allowed outside due to the incident.

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Puzzle Quest 2 - 411mb - 1200 space bucks.

download link

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Glad I got my 1600 point card in the mail today from Amazon.

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411 mb? That's a great size!

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I don't get posts like this. How big were you expecting it to be? The first one was only 80MB. Do you really think this game will be 5 times better? Sure, some growth is to be expected, but this just seems like a ploy by Microsoft to fill up the proprietary hard drives faster. NO SALE!

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Ancients of Ooga - 63mb - 800 space bucks.

Demo download link

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I really don't think Game developers are trying to fill up your hard drive on purpose. Call me crazy, and I thought Starman was making a joke about the filesize, 411mb....411 is the number for information. It's an easy joke...get it? *sigh*. Puzzle Quest 2 should be awesome, not sure about a first week purchase but it will probably be part of my library at some point.

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I think it went over your head, Kedrix. It's ok, you'd have to scroll back like 5-10 posts to see it.

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See, that would take like effort and it's too early in the morning for that :). I've already exceeded my research effort for this morning when I posted my column. I had forgotten what the heck Ancients of Ooga was actually about and had a wondrous time finding information on it. Sarcasm, it's a lovely thing.

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:lol:

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Thanks for the laughs this morning! :)

Anyway, I just tried Ancients of Ooga for a few minutes. It's made by the same folks who made Cloning Clyde and that's pretty obvious when trying this game out. It plays in a very similar way to solve puzzles. It also has the same quirky style and humor. It certainly looks better as well. I'm just not sure it's enough to make me want to buy it right away, but maybe when it goes on sale I'll pick it up. OXM reviewed it this month and gave it a 7.0, saying basically that it gets old after a little while. I could see that. Still the demo is worth checking out. Anyone else try it yet?

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Enough about Puzzle Quest 2's file size. Let's focus on what matters: "Puzzle Quest 2" - that's a great title! It's like...Puzzle Quest, but with a 2 on the end! Kudos to the devs on that stroke of genius!

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Space bucks spent. :)

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Bought Chime last night. I have no idea what's going on in that game, and yet I love it. I ended up playing for hours.

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So I still play Game Room. Today one of my favorite childhood Intellivision games, Star Strike, was released. I instantly bought it and was taken back again. Ah good times.

As you know, Game Room has a meta-game of "leveling up" and going for medals for attaining a certain score, surviving a certain amount of time, and just playing the game a bunch.

Well, in order to get the Gold Medal for survival in Star Strike, you have to stay alive for 4 minutes. This is actually impossible given the nature of the game and 3:40 is the most I could muster.

Kudos, Krome, for failing on yet another level!

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Bummer dude.

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It's not a huge deal in the grand scheme, but it just sucks those morons don't have the skills to test their own shit and they obviously just make wild assumptions based on incompetence.

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Game Room is one of the biggest gaming disappointments ever for me. This had so much awesome potential and has not even come close to it. I have enough pain to deal with thanks to the Virtual Console. I still want to give it another try, but I haven't even wanted to launch the program recently.

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Awww, sorry to hear that. I'm sure it's far better than I can do though. By the way, if anybody is interested the following are also released this week: Crackpots, Juno First, Kaboom, and Warlords. I'm sure I'll give these a try, the problem is I have a feeling that these will suffer the same fate as nearly every other Game Room release outside of the first two packs. :(

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Juno First is interesting and I'd never heard of it before. I may end up buying it.

Warlords (Arcade) is ruined by lack of adequate controls - AGAIN. D-pad is your only hope of playing it.

The other two are Atari games and, therefore, utter shite. I say that winded after punching myself in the gut.