pinata242

Picked up the Defense Grid: You Monster DLC tonight and played with it for a bit. It's wildly different (well, as different as it can be, I guess) from the previous entries in the game. It's tough as shit, even in the intro/prologue level. When you get to the 3rd level, that bitch GLaDOS does some crap that has never happened in DG before and it's frustrating.

Still, worth the $5 to me to play some more of this great game AND hear GLaDOS ridicule me even more.

marginal

Yeah, the very first level of the DLC will just hand you your ass. But at least that level is still standard DG, with lots of room to experiment. The GLaDOS "surprises" are pretty funny, even as they're infuriating. I think I just about wore out my BACK button on Interference Pattern.

UncleGramps

Hopefully Joe Danger won't be overlooked on XBLA. I played a bit of it last night and it's still just as awesome as it was on PSN.

I believe that the "Lab" content is new to this version, unless it was patched into the PSN version at some point post-launch. I played through the first block of that and it was pretty fun.

Shagrath

I tried Joe Danger yesterday. I was really excited to try it out, but it fell completely flat for me. Give me my Trials Evolution!!!

Liver&Onions

Lookie Lookie - Trine 2 is up early.
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/Pr...5-d80258410a9b

Decker

And like that, it's gone.

Liver&Onions

I queued it up from the office, i'll turn the xbox on later and see if it still downloads.

Liver&Onions

It's downloading as we speak....the trial version, because that's all I queued up. But it's still something.

pinata242

I've got a gold on all of them except Interference Pattern. I can't wrap my head around it. I finished it with ... 12-15 fully upgraded towers and that was it and I still fell 12k short! Clearly that was a terrible strategy. I think it must come down to letting the cores stay in the reactor during the final three waves to keep earning interest, relying on the orbital laser to save your ass isn't enough, you need to protect the cores. Frustrating but fun!

marginal

I resorted to watching a YouTube video to figure out how to gold on Interference Pattern, only to discover that it was about 90% the same as what I was already doing... but that last 10% is a killer! I tend to forget about Command towers, and I think they're essential for that one. You need to kill everybody in a tight space covered by Command towers.

For some reason, I couldn't actually do what the guy did in the video and make it work, so I changed it around a bit, mostly by adding more Temporal towers around the core area. I think I'm #7 on the Story Challenge leaderboards for it right now, but there's LOTS of room for improvement, so I imagine I'll drop like a stone pretty soon.

pinata242

I got it earlier today as well. I changed my strategy from blocking the exit ramp to protecting the cores and then just pigeon-holing the last 10% in an orbital laser kill-box. It worked well enough. What a shitty level! I LOVE IT!

Mok

Lots of big sales so far Bastion, Insanley Twisted Shadow Planet, Bloodrayne, and Renegade ops are 600pts

pinata242

Ok, I'm getting Bastion and ITSP.

Mok

Beware Bastion is only a one day sale according to the developers twitter.

Jcheckel

Looks like Portal is 600 again too.

pinata242

Then again, I wonder what the amazing EOY deals are going to be... Maybe this is a way to get us to pay 600 instead of 400 or 200

Matt

Oblivion and Lego Star Wars are $22.49 each (normally $29.99), and Bastion is indeed on sale today only.

Kedrix

Stupid question time, what is in the L.A. Noire Rockstar Pass?

Shagrath

Basically a "season pass" that gets you all of the LA Noire DLC currently out.

Kedrix

Okay that makes sense. So basically the game + the season pass and I should have no need to buy the complete edition, I assume?

boredsilly

Dude, how is this game not getting more coverage? Granted, I don't read gaming websites, and mainly get my gaming news from the podcasts I listen to, but I haven't heard a peep about this until today! Defense Grid and Portal mashup? Two of my favorite games from this generation? Merry fucking christmas to me!

Guru Askew

I believe the Complete Edition has that PS3-exclusive "Consul's Case" mission and so far it hasn't been made available as DLC.

Corey31

I'm in for Bastion. I hope to finally use some points up as the Live Deal of the Week has been dreadful for the past few months.

Jcheckel

Santa ATV add-on available free for Joe Danger for gold members.

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Pr...3-13915bc510eb

I think this is only going to be available this week.

chuckd21

Tried Bastion, Rock of Ages and After Burner last night and couldn't get into any of them. I think XBLA has lost me, except for Pinball tables and Alan Wake.