I bought MI2 first thing this morning. Loved the series on the PC and loved the SE of the first one last year. No-brainer for me, especially at the adequate price.

But since I also picked up Puzzle Quest 2 today, it may be a while before I get to it

I bought Monkey Island 2 without even playing the demo based on the fantastic quality of the first Special Edition. I never played the Monkey Island games back in the day, despite loving the Sierra "Quest" games, so these SEs are right up my alley.

Those Sierra games are harder than I remembered.


Or I'm just dumber now (which is entirely possible).

Yeah, the presentation is great, and the co-op mode is pretty fun, but the main component (multiplayer deathmatch) was just completely dull, generic, and frustrating.

Oh, Monkey Island is awesome. But this is one game (along with the other one released a bit back) that I want really bad put in retail form. Give it a nice box, retail disc with the two adventures (or possibly three if they go ahead with the next one) and sell it to me for $30. That's the only thing keeping me from buying both adventures, I'm hoping for a retail.

And I'm pretty close to buying Puzzle Quest 2, the $15 price tag is the only part I'm having a hard time with (I've only bought 3 $15 XBLA games, PQ1, Shadow Complex and Cellfactor). It's funny, I can buy a whole points card solely for RockBand or Lips related songs but $15 for a downloadable game, I hesitate (but if the game were in a retail form for $20, I wouldn't). It is a very fun game though, I played all the way through the demo and might do it again this weekend.

I still haven't bought an XBLA game since Shadow Complex and there's not one Summer of Arcade title I'm interested in this year.

All the cool shit has moved over to XBLIG (you just have to sift through mountains of liquid shit to find it, ugh).

Speaking of which, Avatar Liquid Shit is a pretty good XBLIG entry.

It was okay, I'm waiting for Liquid Zombie Shit of Double Rainbow Land!1! Featuring Avatars! 1080p!

PQ2 was eating up a lot of time, but then I got addicted to After Burner as well. MI2 probably won't get started for awhile.

I'll have a full review up in the next few days but DON'T WAIT, go check out Cross Fire from radiangames on XBLIG NOW.

Wait, my review should help sell the game, right? So wait for the review, then buy it. Yes?

Only positive reviews help sell games. It's science.

This is the first time I've seen or heard of the abbreviation XBLIG and I like it. It's short, looks cool and is actually pronounceable, which is always a plus for anagrams. It sounds far less douchey than "Indie Games", which has an air of pretension. I don't know if Pixy coined the term or not, but let's run with it.

He didn't.

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So glad Crossfire is finally out. Got to play a bit of it last night and will be picking it up tonight. So well done.

Started a demo game of classic Risk last night, and I was holding strong with North and South America, then the demo expired so I bought it...only to promptly have some jackass AI swoop in from Africa with a 39 troop army thanks to trading in his stars. Goodbye North and South America...Afghanistan, you're my only hope.

I know everyone says Australia is the key to Risk, but I really think that South America is. I've been playing a bunch of the Classic Risk (which to me was worth the price fo admission) and have been doing really well basing operations out of there.

If you check out their website, radiangames has temporarily (?) offered the soundtracks to both their games for free.

http://radiangames.com/

If any people want to get a game going sometime, let's do it. Do we need a fancy thread like those PS3ers have for scheduling games?

Cool thing about Risk is that even in ranked games, you can search for your friend's game and boot strangers from the lobby. Will make getting those achievements much more fun since ranked doesn't have to be random

Yeah, I started placing Australia - but That Yellow Bastard threw more at it than I was willing to risk...so I moved into Greenland and caught the early Continent Bonus. I think SA would be good to, with only two attack points.

I fully expect to enjoy every game they put out after their first two.

Speaking of XBLIG series, Arkedo 04 (The Legend of Zelda/Geometry Wars mash-up) seems to be MIA.

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For what it's worth, I think I would've paid $3 or more for that Crossfire soundtrack alone. So awesome.

The only problem with S/A is you can get boxed in by N/A and Africa w/o any armies elsewhere pretty easily. I personally prefer Europe or N/A (only 3 entry points and big bonus).

I'm down for some Risk. Haven't had a successfully completed Live game yet.

Doesn't EU have 4 points? I agree that NA is where it's at, 3 points, plus you can expand on those 3 easily.

In college I was a Risk junkie, so I may pick this up sometime this week. I'd love to knock out a few games with people if we're forming some sort of cohort.

I think Europe can be attacked from like 7 different contries, but has 4 countries you can stick armies in. The thing I like about Europe is that it is pretty easy to take out most parts of the world from there. You can hit pretty much anywhere but S/A or Austrilla w/o going through a lot of other people. Man, this talk really makes me want to buy Risk. Too bad every point I have is going towards the Rock Band sale.