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Lumines, Neverwinter, and Knights On the Way
While it's not something we normally link to, some anticipated product-related news is making the rounds today. As 360 owners are likely already aware, Lumines Live! is available on the Xbox Live Marketplace. It's not entirely all it's cracked up to be, though, with some of the content yet to be rolled out and requiring a separate purchase. Neverwinter Nights 2 has gone gold, happily, with an October 31st release date placing it on the same day as Final Fantasy XII and making me very sad. Finally, November 21st will see the release of Knights of the Nine, new content for Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The content will come with the PS3 version of the game, will be released to the 360 and PC via normal channels, and will also appear in stores via a box loaded will all additional Oblivion content to date.
.. but you must defeat the Knights of the Nine to claim it. That'll be the way it'll go if it's anything like the other 360 content. The problem with all the 360 content has been that the various quests/items/lairs etc have just been given to you via notes or something. Which seems pretty damn contrived.
Vote early, vote often! Bioware (who are still involved at some level) have requested that all Linux interest is registered in this thread on the Atari forum - 1400 replies so far.
From the FAQ:
We have by no means made any decisions to abandon the Linux or Mac communities at this time. Nor is it such a black and white issue over whether Atari or Obsidian decides what happens. Atari has been very open and a fantastic partner.
Think of the Children; Sleep with your Sister
you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
None of them can see the clouds; The polished wings don't care.
Bankshot Billiards was 1200 points, and most games are 800 points not 600. The only games that are less then 800 are ports of old classics (Pac Man Dig-Dug Joust, etc.) or simple card games (Uno, Spades, etc.). The only exception was Geometry Wars which was priced lower then 800 points a game of that quality would normally go for.
Does the price honestly surprise you when you consider the price of the PSP version? Does it surprise you when you consider that the Xbox 360 version includes new content that the PSP version doesn't have?
400 MP = $5.00 USD
Lumines on the PSP currently costs $20
IIRC It debuted at $45
Lumines on the 360 will cost $15
The Extra content will run you $7.50 for a total price of $22.50
So lets recap: It's debuting on the 360 with extra content for HALF of what it cost new on the PSP and only $2.50 more then the bargain bin price that the PSP version is today.
Just because it's distributed on XBLA doesn't mean it's not worth as much money as it's PSP counterpart. I would think the online features and ease of running it from your console without a disc alone are well worth the extra $2.50, not to mention you can get it cheaper if you're not interested in the extra content.
Collector's Edition
Sounds like a 419 scam to me. I don't trust it.
Good. Cheap. Fast. Pick Two.
Look at the date stamps for those quotes. The ones saying "sure, we'd love to do Linux and Mac, and we're talking to Atari" are all dated about TWO YEARS AGO, way back before they had even settled on a design spec. And the one saying "if you want a port, post your support on AtariCommunity.com" is over a year old.
How many words about Linux or Mac have either Obsidian or Atari spoken since that time? Zero. None. Nada. Zilch. Instead, we have learned that the new graphics engine is entirely based on DirectX, there is no OpenGL code path, and the toolset is written in C#.
NWN2 is a Windows-only game. There is no maybe. Personally, I'm still going to buy NWN2, right after I install BootCamp on my not-yet-existing Core2 MBP, which will probably be in April.