Best Year for XBLA yet?

This year has been terrific for XBLA!

My personal favorite has been Snoopy: Flying Ace (but a person with a 3-1 K/D ratio would say that)

Monday Night Combat looks to be a fun take on c-lass based TPS, Tango Down looks like a cool customizable futuristic take on the modern warfare formula, Limbo looks like the Braid of this year (with a great art direction), Puzzle Quest 2 needs no explanation, Castlevania looks to add new gameplay mechanics to the old formula, and games already released this year like PB Winterbottom are fanastic

Do you think this is the best year so far of XBLA games? I feel like i'm downloading a new one every week and with Tomb Raider, Monday Night Combat, Tango Down, Limbo, i think i'm going to keep downloading them

(my only gripe is a lot of these games are $15 and not $10. )

Combine that with awesome weekly sales on older XBLA titles, and i'm broke.

It's a decent year, but not the best. The last two years were better, and Summer of Arcade was much better than it's looking this year. Last year we got Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Splosion Man, Trials HD, Shadow Complex, and Turtles in Time Re-Shelled. Then 2008 was Braid, Castle Crashers, Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2, Bionic Commando Rearmed, and Galaga Legions. 2008 was definitely the best year for Xbox Live Arcade because of that strong Summer of Arcade line-up alone. That's not taking into consideration other games that released in the year like Rez HD and Ikaruga, Most of the 2008 Xbox Live Arcade games are the highest rated XBLA games on the console.

Nope, last year was better.

Well, we do get DeathSpank this year.

yes this is by far the best year for XBLA, comic jumper, breach, blacklight, snoopy, puzzle quest 2, toy soldiers, doom 2, duke nukem, limbo, shank, death spank, monday night combat, tomb raider, hydrophobia, i could keep going and going.

Limbo's lookin good as is the Doom 2 release. Toy soldiers is also a winner in my book. So all in all so far so good I'd say.

Last year had Peggle, but if this year had Peggle, it would be the clear winner due to other games like Toy Soldiers, Gyromancer, Puzzle Quest 2, and the Summer of Arcade games. Andrn

In the iPhone version, when you spun his wheel both the left and right sides of the wheel were Magic Hat, the top was Triple Score.

But in XBLA version, only the left side is Magic Hat usually, and that stops awesome combo's on stages for high scores using the Triple Score/Magic Hat combo

Perfect Dark XBLA....... it's 10 times better than a Goldeneye remakeJJnyg24

This year has been terrific for XBLA!

My personal favorite has been Snoopy: Flying Ace (but a person with a 3-1 K/D ratio would say that)

Monday Night Combat looks to be a fun take on c-lass based TPS, Tango Down looks like a cool customizable futuristic take on the modern warfare formula, Limbo looks like the Braid of this year (with a great art direction), Puzzle Quest 2 needs no explanation, Castlevania looks to add new gameplay mechanics to the old formula, and games already released this year like PB Winterbottom are fanastic

Do you think this is the best year so far of XBLA games? I feel like i'm downloading a new one every week and with Tomb Raider, Monday Night Combat, Tango Down, Limbo, i think i'm going to keep downloading them

(my only gripe is a lot of these games are $15 and not $10. )

Combine that with awesome weekly sales on older XBLA titles, and i'm broke.

darth-pyschosis