Decker

I checked out the PSN demo of the Ghostbusters game. Yeesh, it's pretty bad. It has a long intro in comic book style with written text that takes forever to scroll through. All with "hip" characters that talk in slang. Then the game starts. It's a co-op twin-stick "shooter" from an isometric perspective, kind of like Zombie Apocalypse. But much more sucky. The weapons are underpowered and don't kill the ghosts well. You get cramped because between four characters and all the enemies, there isn't much room to maneuver around, which is kind of the whole point of the twin stick shooter. It might be fun with humans, but with the bots in the demo it was just tedious. A shame and really pissing on a cherished license. It's not like we don't know that it's possible to make a Ghostbuster game that doesn't suck. I need to go back to that one instead.

They also had Swarm up, but in typical PSN fashion, there's no demo for that one. I'm curious about it as it looks like potentially a pretty fun game.

chuckd21

I would just like to say that I stared down then destroyed Pinata last night in Texas Heat.

orangecrush

Sadly, I don't think most of the other humans like to play earlier in the evening like I will have to These kids of mine really need to learn to put themselves to bed. Their story time is very inconvenient for Texas Heat.

Mok

Swarm with demo

Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime

Kedrix

So....as I've perused this thread for the last week, I still have no clear answer (since I've seen both). You guys have now had a chance to play it for a little while; Full House Poker, yeah or nay? And if it is Nay, why not? I have the points, I just need to know if I should blow them or not.

orangecrush

I bought it last night and think it will be worth it. I can see Texas Heat being really fun with more live people. Also, if you have friends who are into poker and will play over live, easily worth it.

pinata242

It has issues. It's fun regardless. Do you have friends?

Kedrix

If I had friends for this game, it would be the dvdtalk forum. Lawls, I have a friends list, but we rarely seem to play the same games. They are all shooter games, I'm basically everything else.

MrX

If you're lucky enough to get a table with mostly human players and not have a game-breaking glitch during the game, it's fun.

For me that's been a rare occurrence.

pinata242

I think everyone is stuck on Texas Heat here. The bots are annoying. The game-breaking glitches haven't happened for me during it. The ranking is borked, but that may be fixed on the next round since it'll be "Hyperblind" and not "Beginner's Night".

I've played a lot of Ranked tournaments and had no problems. Apparently, however, people have begun quitting out instantly to secure a 2nd place finish and fucking everyone else that doesn't finish first. I haven't yet seen that, but I don't doubt it. Simple Q&A would have caught that and a patch could correct it (assuming there's support).

Beyond that, there are plenty of non-ranked playing options where you can get a group and have a good time. Where people won't quit to improve their ranking. I haven't even messed with those, but if all else fails, they're there.

It should be pretty easy to get a group of 6-10 here to play in friendly games.

Liver&Onions

Really?

Matt

I've finished in the final two of several tourneys so far and at least two of those times saw the third avatar show up in the award animation at the end who wasn't the same one who would have finished third. One of those times it was a guy who actually did drop out after the first hand. Didn't occur to me until now that there was a reason that was happening but it doesn't surprise me at all.

Shagrath

I've heard that there's a glitch to get you infinite bankroll too. Supposedly, you just have to..



I'm sure it'll get exploited to hell before they patch it.

pinata242

Yes, really. It goes back to that old "unplug your ethernet cord" trick. See, the game doesn't assume you did that intentionally, but rather you simply lost XBL or ISP connection so they don't punish you and your local game keeps going, even though there are no human players.

It's so gay what people will do. The programmers need to stop trusting the players because they're all assholes. If you aren't online, your shit gets forfeited.

tlwizard

Well, I'm not up for glitching the system, but anyone have any tips for making money? I know that's a silly question as this is poker, but it blows my mind seeing people above who have amassed tens of thousands or millions of chips, whereas I feel incredibly luck when I leave a game and come out ahead a couple hundred chips. My bankroll right now is about 3000, which I worked my way back up to after dropping to 900.

Liver&Onions

My bankroll is in the 200k range because of winning Texas Heat a while back... but besides that, playing in tournaments has been good to me. I'm consistently in #1 or #2. I play in the 5k or 10k games only now - perhaps there's less assholes up there because I've yet to see a screw job like you guys are talking.

pinata242

Texas Heat is free money. Costs nothing to enter and you get a moderate amount for finishing and if you get a Jackpot hand (particularly a Full House or better), it's huge bonus money.

I read the stats screen at the end of TH to read like they want to give you 15% of your table chips back, but that doesn't appear to be working along with the -1 ranking thing. In fact, that percentage may change depending on your ranking/medal. HOPEFULLY we'll learn soon.

Edit: Yeah, like L&O says. If I was getting 15% of my money back, I'd have over 750,000 from that since I've get the 5M chip achievement from the Spring 2011 season already. And that's only about 12 TH sessions.

Liver&Onions

15% for first place. Gold Medal is 5%, Silver Medal is 2% if I recall. The high hand is nice too.

Decker

Interesting number-crunching article from Gamasutra which uses Leaderboard numbers to estimate sales numbers on XBLA games in February.

Matt

Some great Ghostbusters avatar items available today for Sanctum of Slime. There's a Ghostbusters jumpsuit costume for $3 and a little Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man prop and a full-size Slimer for $4 each. The Slimer is particularly good. There's also a trucker hat with the GB logo and an Ecto-truck prop--which should have been the Ecto-1 but whatever.

I would never pay for anything like this myself but these are worth at least looking at if you like Ghostbusters at all.

Decker

There are worse things you could spend your points on in the Marketplace, like the actual game for example.

Matt

I was following the leaderboards on Pac-Man all during that DOTW sale at the beginning of this month. It was around 135K players the day the sale started and finished the sale at around 185K, so it sold about 50K during that week alone. Pretty good numbers, I thought. A ton of people must have been waiting on that one to go on sale.

It's currently sitting on around 186K.

astrochimp

Not a good day at FHP for me. Whether i was playing on Live or just the AI i was just donating chips

Matt

I just won a ranked tourney and instead of going into the animation and showing me what I won I sat at the table as it filled up with completely new live players. It showed that I was in 1st place with 9000 chips and everybody else was at zero. No dealer avatar was at the table and nothing was happening, for me or for anybody else. I waited around for a few minutes and then tried to force something to happen by sitting out. When I sat back in, it was the same except the confetti from the animation started falling. Waited for a little bit longer and bailed on the table. That triggered the winnings screen, which showed that I took third place.

pinata242

Ethernet-Plug-Pulling Cheater!