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murray731 08-31-09 10:38 AM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
Originally Posted by pinata242 (Post 9679153)
I'm not sure if that's a bug, but it's definitely an inefficiency in the map. There are a couple of squares on the map that actually house 2 power-ups, and getting the first will remove the ? and you'll miss the other.
Hm, okay, thanks. I'll have to go back to each passkey then, I probably missed one.

pinata242 08-31-09 10:40 AM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
I can tell you exactly where you missed it if you want...

Spoiler:
When you get the scuba mask early in the game, you can jump over the shelving it was on and go underwater. It's to the right.

murray731 08-31-09 11:39 AM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
Originally Posted by pinata242 (Post 9679389)
I can tell you exactly where you missed it if you want...

Spoiler:
When you get the scuba mask early in the game, you can jump over the shelving it was on and go underwater. It's to the right.
I'm pretty sure that's the one. I just watched a video of it and I do not remember getting that one.

/me watches the time tick by slowly at work.

pinata242 08-31-09 01:48 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
http://kotaku.com/5349557/shadow-com...e-sales-record

Chair Entertainment's Shadow Complex is officially the most downloaded single-player title in Xbox Live Arcade history, with 200,000 copies purchased since the game went live on August 19th.

We loved Shadow Complex, and so did you folks apparently, with stellar review scores and one-week sales so spectacular that Microsoft had to issue a celebratory press release. Multiplayer titles dominate Xbox Live Arcade, and single-player games generally don't perform nearly as well, but Chair seems to have knocked this one out of the park.

"Congratulations to Chair Entertainment and Epic Games for creating an outstanding game," said Scott Austin, director of digitally distributed games at Microsoft. "As the capstone title of the second annual Summer of Arcade program, "Shadow Complex" has raised the bar for downloadable games. We're proud to offer such high-quality content on Xbox LIVE Arcade."

I found the game to be one of the most complete game offerings ever made available on Xbox Live Arcade. I would have easily paid full price for it, which makes the 1200 Microsoft point ($15) so much sweeter. If you've not yet played it, it comes highly recommended.

PixyJunket 08-31-09 01:58 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
It sucks to see that little "internet" boycott hurt the game's sales so much. :(

Matt 08-31-09 02:12 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
200,000 copies purchased since the game went live on August 19th.
Cha-ching.

Announce the sequel already, Chair.

fumanstan 08-31-09 02:46 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
Good to hear, I wonder what the previous was for a "single player" game and what the top sales are for a multiplayer game are.

superfro 08-31-09 03:05 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
At this point I'm getting more and more sold on the fact that they did "underprice" the game and take a lower profit than they normally would've just to make it up with volume and advertising/word of mouth/press release opportunities. (Like the above.)

Decker 08-31-09 03:39 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
That's impressive, until you figure that with 30 Million units sold worldwide, that means only one game was purchased for every 150 Xbox 360s. What the hell is wrong with those other 149 people? (Of course, I expect that nearly half of those 360s are dead by now, but still).

GoVegan 08-31-09 03:59 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
Originally Posted by pinata242 (Post 9679153)
I'm not sure if that's a bug, but it's definitely an inefficiency in the map. There are a couple of squares on the map that actually house 2 power-ups, and getting the first will remove the ? and you'll miss the other.
Harumph. I've been trusting the question marks/dots and they pulled the two items in an area thing?

JasonF 08-31-09 04:10 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
Originally Posted by Decker (Post 9680039)
That's impressive, until you figure that with 30 Million units sold worldwide, that means only one game was purchased for every 150 Xbox 360s. What the hell is wrong with those other 149 people? (Of course, I expect that nearly half of those 360s are dead by now, but still).
Keep in mind that given the RROD rate, of the 30 million units that have been sold, there's probably not too many more than 200,000 still in service.

;)

murray731 08-31-09 04:31 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
Originally Posted by GoVegan (Post 9680096)
Harumph. I've been trusting the question marks/dots and they pulled the two items in an area thing?
Same. There are also two items in save rooms, which are easy to spot assuming you are actually in the room. You can't tell from just the map, though.

Liver&Onions 08-31-09 04:33 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
said Scott Austin, director of digitally distributed games at Microsoft. "As the capstone title of the second annual Summer of Arcade program, "Shadow Complex" has raised the bar for downloadable games.

I can't believe no one said that before.

foxdvd 08-31-09 04:38 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
Those numbers have to be a record for one week, not overall. Bionic Commando is single player only, and that was over 210,000 back in July according to VGchartz. Most games on XBLA do have a mulitplayer or co-op component, so it is difficult to say what the best selling is, but I would guess it would be Braid. That's single player right? I heard that topped 300,000 in sales, though VGchartz does not update their site like they use to.

Still there are games on XBLA that have sold over a million copies....

superfro 08-31-09 04:38 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
Originally Posted by Liver&Onions (Post 9680148)
I can't believe no one said that before.
I'm starting to think you think you created the phrase "raised the bar".

All I can hear is this....

Gareth: What ones are yours that I use?
David Brent: Same shit, different day, that's mine. Exsqueeze me, instead of excuse me.
Tim: Wank you very much.
David Brent: Yeah, I invented that.
:lol:

superfro 08-31-09 04:40 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
Originally Posted by foxdvd (Post 9680156)
Those numbers have to be a record for one week, not overall. Bionic Commando is single player only, and that was over 210,000 back in July according to VGchartz. Most games on XBLA do have a mulitplayer or co-op component, so it is difficult to say what the best selling is, but I would guess it would be Braid. That's single player right? I heard that topped 300,000 in sales, though VGchartz does not update their site like they use to.

Still there are games on XBLA that have sold over a million copies....
Bionic Commando Rearmed has MP. Local only, but it would still probably qualify.

Liver&Onions 08-31-09 04:41 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
that's it! I'm throwing down the gauntlet!

foxdvd 08-31-09 04:50 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
Originally Posted by superfro (Post 9680160)
Bionic Commando Rearmed has MP. Local only, but it would still probably qualify.
Does Braid have local MP? If not, then Braid would be it I guess....

superfro 08-31-09 04:54 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
Originally Posted by foxdvd (Post 9680172)
Does Braid have local MP? If not, then Braid would be it I guess....
No MP on Braid. Although I never heard any final numbers for Braid. If it is in fact 300K then I'm completely blown away. I seem to remember it only doing like 50-60K in it's first week.

foxdvd 08-31-09 06:30 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
Originally Posted by superfro (Post 9680181)
No MP on Braid. Although I never heard any final numbers for Braid. If it is in fact 300K then I'm completely blown away. I seem to remember it only doing like 50-60K in it's first week.
XBLA games that are good do not fall off the charts as fast as many retail games. That could mean that this game probably has a chance to approach 1 million.


Here is the last chart I can find of Braid...as you can see back in Feb is was getting close to 300,000. It may be closer the 400,000 now..

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=3061

foxdvd 08-31-09 06:34 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
I take that back, Braid is at 324,000 at the end of april...

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=3527

foxdvd 08-31-09 06:36 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
I forgot about Castlevania SOTN...that is single player and in april on the above chart it has almost sold 500,000 copies.

foxdvd 08-31-09 06:39 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
Feeding Frenzy...1 player, also near 500,000..

Decker 08-31-09 07:28 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
Originally Posted by Liver&Onions (Post 9680148)
I can't believe no one said that before.
If you're a limbo fanatic and you think a game is really cutting-edge, would you say it "lowered the bar"? :hscratch:

Liver&Onions 08-31-09 07:31 PM
Re: The Official Shadow Complex Thread of "Until Metroid Dread is Released"
 
Originally Posted by Decker (Post 9680484)
If you're a limbo fanatic and you think a game is really cutting-edge, would you say it "lowered the bar"? :hscratch:
That's not really a game changer. Set the bar on fire, or added razor wire to the bar might be a better analogy.


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