Xbox 360 Marketplace and Arcade thread

Boom · Post by **Boom** » Tue May 09, 2006 4:32 pm

Uno is up.

They also appear to have changed the "Arcade Classics" section to "Camera enabled Games". I'm sure all of the Arcade games will be placed in the "Action Arcade" section of DLC.

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Tue May 09, 2006 11:21 pm

I downloaded UNO this evening. I freakin' love it! If anyone ever wants to play, I'm all over it. Four players can play so it shouldn't be difficult to find those who are interested.

It's just a fabulous chill game. My favorite arcade game so far.

By the way, I think there have been problems with people trying to download the game. It literally took me five times to sucessfully download it.

SoMisss2000 · Post by **SoMisss2000** » Tue May 09, 2006 11:23 pm

sportdan30 wrote:I downloaded UNO this evening. I freakin' love it! If anyone ever wants to play, I'm all over it. Four players can play so it shouldn't be difficult to find those who are interested.

It's just a fabulous chill game. My favorite arcade game so far.

By the way, I think there have been problems with people trying to download the game. It literally took me five times to sucessfully download it.

I love it too. I just had to break out the ipod though as the music in uno was driving me crazy!

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Tue May 09, 2006 11:24 pm

sportdan30 wrote:By the way, I think there have been problems with people trying to download the game. It literally took me five times to sucessfully download it.

I tried all afternoon...never got it to download completely. Will try late night tonight when everyone else in the nation is sleeping.

ddtrane · Post by **ddtrane** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:04 am

sportdan30 wrote:I downloaded UNO this evening. I freakin' love it! If anyone ever wants to play, I'm all over it. Four players can play so it shouldn't be difficult to find those who are interested.

It's just a fabulous chill game. My favorite arcade game so far.

By the way, I think there have been problems with people trying to download the game. It literally took me five times to sucessfully download it.

Heh heh, thought it was just me. It took 5 times and about an hour, but well worth it. I just spent 2 hours with this puppy. My fav arcade is Robotron but this one is starting to suck all my time.

If anyone wants a game, I'll be available this weekend.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Wed May 10, 2006 2:36 am

You're right on sportsdan, UNO is very addicitve and fun. Do they sell the real thing? I would buy this card game in an instant. Fun!

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Wed May 10, 2006 2:51 am

10spro wrote:You're right on sportsdan, UNO is very addicitve and fun. Do they sell the real thing? I would buy this card game in an instant. Fun!

I hope you're kidding. Of course it's a real game...I think this is the first time anyone is seeing a computerized version of it. It's one of the all-time classic card games.

Gurantsu · Post by **Gurantsu** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:47 am

Yeah, took forever to get UNO downloaded, I kept losing my connection. I'm sure you guys were hogging all the bandwidth!

Very cool game though, and I'll most likely be purchasing it, I just need to add some points to my account.

AcemanPR · Post by **AcemanPR** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:50 am

I downloaded UNO yesterday as well and love it. Even played a couple games online with B00M last night. Great fun. Nothing like trash talking in a game of UNO.

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:06 am

dbdynsty25 wrote:
10spro wrote:You're right on sportsdan, UNO is very addicitve and fun. Do they sell the real thing? I would buy this card game in an instant. Fun!
I hope you're kidding. Of course it's a real game...I think this is the first time anyone is seeing a computerized version of it. It's one of the all-time classic card games.

I've actually played it on the pc before, however it wasn't multiplayer and not nearly as fun.

The music can definitely get old. I thought I read though that you can download your own music in to the game. If that's the case, I wonder how that actually works. Do others hear your tunes, or maybe the host has the pick of the music.

I had a lot of luck playing with random opponents. I must have played for a good couple hours and only encountered one adolescent a**hole. I'm upset now that I didn't get his gamertag, because I would have surely given him a poor gamer review. He couldn't have been older than 14. He was a whiny little prick, but he drew the line when he started throwing in lines like "I keep getting jewed". I quit the game immediately, but I should have given him a piece of my mind. There's trash talking and then there's stepping over the line.

Boom · Post by **Boom** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:16 am

AcemanPR wrote:I downloaded UNO yesterday as well and love it. Even played a couple games online with B00M last night. Great fun. Nothing like trash talking in a game of UNO.

Draw two biatch!

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:18 am

I downloaded UNO! last night too. I was only able to play against the computer 3 times but it was a lot of fun. I tried getting in a multiplayer session but each time I tried there were no games for me to join and I didn't feel like waiting for a room to fill up.

jondiehl · Post by **jondiehl** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:24 am

Boom wrote:
AcemanPR wrote:I downloaded UNO yesterday as well and love it. Even played a couple games online with B00M last night. Great fun. Nothing like trash talking in a game of UNO.
Draw two biatch!

No doubt. Playing that game last night took me back to my childhood in the 70's, trash talking whenever I'd lay down a draw two or draw four.... or going back and forth with reverse cards with the guy next to you to keep the play away from the other 2 players. I even won an Uno challenge when someone forgot to call it, although it wasn' as much fun as doing it as a kid with all of the finger pointing and yelling when someone forget to say Uno.

It took me about 6 tries and an hour to download it, but it finally got there. I guess E3 and the huge amount of updates on the marketplace slowed their servers quite a bit.

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:29 am

ScoopBrady wrote:I downloaded UNO! last night too. I was only able to play against the computer 3 times but it was a lot of fun. I tried getting in a multiplayer session but each time I tried there were no games for me to join and I didn't feel like waiting for a room to fill up.

It's not that there weren't rooms to join. There was actual issues with the online play connectivity with the game. For a good 30-45 minutes, I couldn't join a game either. When I finally was able to, the game froze and then a message came up saying "connection failed". Tried again, and didn't have any more problems the rest of the night.

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:32 am

jondiehl wrote:
Boom wrote:
AcemanPR wrote:I downloaded UNO yesterday as well and love it. Even played a couple games online with B00M last night. Great fun. Nothing like trash talking in a game of UNO.
Draw two biatch!
No doubt. Playing that game last night took me back to my childhood in the 70's, trash talking whenever I'd lay down a draw two or draw four.... or going back and forth with reverse cards with the guy next to you to keep the play away from the other 2 players. I even won an Uno challenge when someone forgot to call it, although it wasn' as much fun as doing it as a kid with all of the finger pointing and yelling when someone forget to say Uno.

It took me about 6 tries and an hour to download it, but it finally got there. I guess E3 and the huge amount of updates on the marketplace slowed their servers quite a bit.

I too was able to challenge someone when they forgot to call UNO. I did find out that you can select the "blue button", X I believe to call out UNO before you dish out that second to last card.

JRod · Post by **JRod** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:48 am

Signs of of the apocalypse: DSP Uno Night.

Gurantsu · Post by **Gurantsu** » Wed May 10, 2006 11:47 am

Have any of you tried the Test Drive Unlimited demo? I played it for a bit last night and so far am impressed. The graphics are gorgeous, including a great cockpit view, and the gameplay was classic test drive. You can cruise around, jump into a single player race against the AI, or hop into a race with online opponents. I didn't notice any other players just cruising around on my map, so I don't know if that feature was impleneted yet, there were AI cars cruising around that you could race. Add to that the fact that the cops will come after you if you drive too wreckless and I was a happy camper. I already have it on pre-order and the demo so far makes me happy with that decision.

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Wed May 10, 2006 11:55 am

Gurantsu wrote:I didn't notice any other players just cruising around on my map, so I don't know if that feature was impleneted yet, there were AI cars cruising around that you could race.

That feature is implemented. When I was playing the demo I saw a bunch of other names on the screen and how far away from me they were. I started driving towards one and sure enough I drove right past someone. It was pretty cool. I thought the graphics were pretty sharp and I liked the cockpit view as well. I had fun while driving around the island.

vader29 · Post by **vader29** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:29 pm

Just a heads up that at 6pm eastern this Friday Verizon is giving away 1 million marketplace points at 500 points per person. I guess there will be something to click on the site and if you are lucky enough to get in they will email a code for you to redeem the points.

This is the site: http://www.richerdeeperbroader.com/xbox/

jLp vAkEr0 · Post by **jLp vAkEr0** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:40 pm

I downloaded UNO and after 1 game I went ahead and bought it.

But there was nobody on the online rooms.

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Thu May 11, 2006 2:02 am

I downloaded the Test Drive demo finally...and I'm happy I did. The game and the concept seemed like a good idea but I wasn't sure how it would turn out. It's freakin' amazing. The cockpit view is just as good as PGR3 if not better. The control is pretty good in the Lambo that they give you...so I can't really compare more cars, but so far so good. I'm definitely picking this one up when it's released next month. Definitely one of the games that I'm happy the demo was released, otherwise I probably wouldn't pick it up. Between it and Moto GP, it's gonna be a good June.

Badgun · Post by **Badgun** » Thu May 11, 2006 7:39 am

You guys must be playing a different Test Drive than me, I thought the demo was awful. I thought the framerate was terrible and the graphics were nothing like I had seen in some of the movies they released 6 months ago.

I thought the cars handled very sluggishly not to mention that if you do one of the timed challenges, they have traffic stopped everywhere. I just thought it was pretty stupid to be doing a timed challenge and have the female say "turn right" and then you're behind 4 cars at a stoplight.

I just came away very unimpressed since this was a game I had really been looking forward to. Hopefully, it will improve before they release it.

AcemanPR · Post by **AcemanPR** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:01 am

I like the TDU demo as well. You have to figure the demo is a build from earlier this year, so I'm sure many things have been fixed by now. My only real complaint is that the control of the car felt a bit stiff. But the game is certainly playable.

They pushed the release date of this back to September 12th, so they have another 3 months of solid tuning they can do before rolling this game out. I'm looking forward to this one much more than FORZA 2.

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:04 am

jLp vAkEr0 wrote:I downloaded UNO and after 1 game I went ahead and bought it.

But there was nobody on the online rooms.

There are still problems with the multiplayer game. It didn't work for me again last night for about 30 minutes and then around 10:15 central time, I finally was able to enter a ranked match. It's been hit or miss whether or not it's been working right. Hopefully, they'll get things ironed out.

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:09 am

I was really impressed with the Lost Planet demo. I thought graphically it looked very nice, and it was fairly easy to lock on to your target. It seemed the difficulty aspect of the game will be quite challenging.

It's not really my type of game, but I could see it being a hit with FPS fans.