4200 MSP to burn

[chiefohara]

Just treated myself to 4200 MSP

I plan on frittering the whole lot away on xbox live so i can play different games over christmas.

What would my fellow escapists reccomend i buy?

My initial thoughts are Bastion and GTA San Andreas, however i am open to all suggestions.

 

[MetalDooley]

Just treated myself to 4200 MSP

I plan on frittering the whole lot away on xbox live so i can play different games over christmas.

What would my fellow escapists reccomend i buy?

My initial thoughts are Bastion and GTA San Andreas, however i am open to all suggestions.

Well for starters the countdown to 2013 sale starts on the 18th so there'll be a different item on sale every day until the 31st.You can usually pick up some good stuff during this.I got Bastion last year amongst others for half price

Recommendations?Ok I'll just name some arcade stuff I enjoyed

Bastion
Trials Evolution
Renegade Ops
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Outland

 

[chiefohara]

Just treated myself to 4200 MSP

I plan on frittering the whole lot away on xbox live so i can play different games over christmas.

What would my fellow escapists reccomend i buy?

My initial thoughts are Bastion and GTA San Andreas, however i am open to all suggestions.

Well for starters the countdown to 2013 sale starts on the 18th so there'll be a different item on sale every day until the 31st.You can usually pick up some good stuff during this.I got Bastion last year amongst others for half price

Recommendations?Ok I'll just name some arcade stuff I enjoyed

Bastion
Trials Evolution
Renegade Ops
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Outland

I didn't know about the sale! Thank you! ill hold off for 48 hours so

 

[MetalDooley]

I didn't know about the sale! Thank you! ill hold off for 48 hours so

Might wannna keep an eye on Major Nelsons blog so http://majornelson.com/ as he usually announces the offers there.From what I remember of last year some of the offers weren't advertised on the dashboard(at least not here in Ireland)so it would be easy to miss them as they only last 24 hours

 

[chiefohara]

I didn't know about the sale! Thank you! ill hold off for 48 hours so

Might wannna keep an eye on Major Nelsons blog so http://majornelson.com/ as he usually announces the offers there.From what I remember of last year some of the offers weren't advertised on the dashboard(at least not here in Ireland)so it would be easy to miss them as they only last 24 hours

Buddy, thank you. Go raibh maith agat!

 

[MetalDooley]

Buddy, thank you. Go raibh maith agat!

Tá failte romhat

 

[SilkySkyKitten]

If you have not played Dust: an Elysian Tail yet, do so. It's a fantastic 2D hand-drawn hack-n'-slash platformer with RPG-elements that I cannot recommend enough to anyone with access to XBLA games...

 

[TrevHead]

Bastion
Outland (buy a retail boxed set for slightly more and get 2 other Ubi games)
Dust
Guardian Heroes
Skull Girls

also
REZ HD
Hard Corps: Uprising
Pac Man CE DX
Xotic

Akia Katana is only £12 on GoD and about the same price retail.

 

[Sassafrass]

The Walking Dead.
You can either get it now for about 2000 MSP or you could wait a bit as it's part of the XBox sale in December, not sure on the date exactly but it's gonna be cheaper than it deserves to be.

If not that, can't go wrong with Trails Evo. That's a really fun challenging game.

 

[josemlopes]

Some XBLA games that I liked:

Renegade Ops (top down car shooter, very good at what it does and its great on coop)
Perfect Dark (for the Goldeneye and Timesplitters fans, may feel a bit dated though but it has a lot of content)
Serious Sam games (for the Doom and Duke Nukem fans, a bit pricey but if you catch them on sale they worth it)
Section 8 (generic as fuck but the amount of content is great and the bots are fun to play with, there are also some very good design choices in it)
Trials Evolution (the game is fun and the content for it is endless)

 

[Full]

Mark of the Ninja.

Buy that. Right now.

 

[The Rookie Gamer]

As people have said, Bastion. One of the best games I have ever played.
Beyond Good & Evil HD, if you haven't played it.
Castle Crashers is supposed the be the quintessential XBL arcade game.
Orcs must Die.

The Walking Dead.
You can either get it now for about 2000 MSP or you could wait a bit as it's part of the XBox sale in December, not sure on the date exactly but it's gonna be cheaper than it deserves to be.

If not that, can't go wrong with Trails Evo. That's a really fun challenging game.

Been thinking about getting TWD. Would you say it's worth the expense if I have $100 USD to blow for Christmas?

 

[Solo-Wing]

Dust An Elysian Tail.
Super Meat Boy.
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World.
Castle Crashers.

All good.

Also you can use the points to buy some Games on Demand. So a lot of AAA games there as well.

 

[major_chaos]

Shadow Complex is an excellent Metroid alike and IMO one of the best XBLA games

the second "DishWasher the Dead Samurai" game is an amazing stylized beat-em-up that manages to stay challenging without being frustrating. it's predecessor is not nearly as good however.

Bastion is a good pick if you somehow haven't played it yet.

EDIT:

you can use the points to but the Games on Demand. So a lot of AAA games there as well.

I would actually advise against this. Last time I checked (which admittedly was awhile ago) the prices for games on demand were awful and I could get far lower prices plus the convenience of a disk by buying used.

 

[Solo-Wing]

Shadow Complex is an excellent Metroid alike and IMO one of the best XBLA games

the second "DishWasher the Dead Samurai" game is an amazing stylized beat-em-up that manages to stay challenging without being frustrating. it's predecessor is not nearly as good however.

Bastion is a good pick if you somehow haven't played it yet.

EDIT:

you can use the points to but the Games on Demand. So a lot of AAA games there as well.

I would actually advise against this. Last time I checked (which admittedly was awhile ago) the prices for games on demand were awful and I could get far lower prices plus the convenience of a disk by buying used.

I ahve gotten games that are pretty hard to find this way though. i remember looking every so often for a few months for Legend of Spyro Dawn of the Dragon. Could not find it anywhere. Got it on XBL for $20. not even cause it was like $16 worth of points.

 

[Sassafrass]

Been thinking about getting TWD. Would you say it's worth the expense if I have $100 USD to blow for Christmas?

I would, but then again I love the game so I'm more than a little biased. XD
Really though, I'd get it. Couldn't hurt, as I think it's only going to set you back $20/$30, something like that. If needs be, you could always wait til the 28th of December as it's supposed to be going on sale then. [http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news/news-13658-Microsoft-Prepping-for-Huge--Countdown-to-2013--Sale.html]

 

[Evil Smurf]

buy Bastion, I hear Sid Meier's Pirates has an Xbox port also.

 

[Sack of Cheese]

Mark of the ninja - it's a well-made stealth game with simple mechanic yet it works.
Also, I really liked Bionic commando. Have yet to play the second one though.

Don't buy Castle Crashers, the online is dead the last time I boot it up, it's still fun playing alone but I think most people would prefer playing it cooperatively.

 

[TakeshiLive]

Games on demand, Dragon Age is a meaty RPG with lots of hours.

For arcade games, Castle Crashers or Boom Boom Rocket is good but BBR is more for music geeks I suspect.

Bottom of the price list would probably be I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MBIES 1N IT!!!1 is worth every MSP. All 80 of them.