2006-10-16 17:22:51 Mutant Storm Empire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAU-7NODelU&eurl

Lookin pretty good..own the first, never play it anymore (GeoWars is just..better). This looks a bit more involved/interesting than the first though, I may just have to grab it. Not my video--unfortunately had to skip out on Digital Life..

2006-10-16 22:46:07

Looks pretty good, co-op should be great on this :-)

2006-10-16 22:54:13

Yea..this looks great, doubt I'll ever touch the original again though. Co-op is the #1 thing making this game hold my interest.

In a way I think that's one of the arcade's lesser flaws, that you're pretty much stuck owning a title once you own it..well, atleast for the life of the console. People who participated in XBLA on Xbox 1 don't re-get Ms. Pac-Man for free if they've already purchased it on a previous version--which I think is another flaw. It turns the model into a glorified rental system. I sorta hope that changes. I would like to be able to play these games on my next Microsoft console.

2006-10-16 22:59:18

I actually think next time around that will be catered for given the penetration of Arcade / Marketplace in general. After 5 years, it's safe to say I will probably have invested quite a lot in Arcade titles and so will a lot of other users. It would be a lot of people to piss off if they lost all that investment.

The XNA stuff should make stuff more portable onto a new console anyhow.

2006-10-16 23:00:13 In reply to deftangel (2006-10-16 22:59:18)

2006-10-16 23:49:35

I'm sure they couldn't confirm such a thing until they confirmed the next console. You can imagine them announcing it and getting a barrage of questions about Xbox 3000.

The Live Anywhere demo has used continuing a game of Zuma from Xbox to Vista to mobile as a usage scenario and I think even confirmed you wouldn't have to pay extra to play games you had purchased on different platforms, which is kinda the same thing if you think about it.

2006-10-16 23:57:01 In reply to deftangel (2006-10-16 23:49:35)