Xbox Live Summer of Arcade Titles Have Prices, Dates

fruit ninja for $10? Huh.

Mmmm, can't wait to play me some From Dust. 27th COME FASTER!

Will Bastion be coming out on Steam at the same time?

Bastion, the others not that interested in to be honest.

These games looks great. I can't wait until that Trenched game comes out. I hear it's pretty good.

-From Denmark with love.

So three of those games are must buys. But 2 of them are definite not buys. Its been at least a couple of summers since there was such polarization in the Summer of Arcade. But there is all most all ways a bad game in there. I all ways wonder why they do that.

Buying Bastion, unsure of the others.

As much as I like Greg I still fail to muster up any interest in Bastion :(

@Meowayne said:

From Dust looks amazing. But charging $10 for Fruit Ninja? Seriously? O_o That game better had a lot more content than its iPhone/Android counterpart.

Yeah, I've seen that game played. You slice fruit. With your finger. I guess it's for toddlers or something. Anyway, it's 99 cents on Apple's App Store. Fuck Microsoft at $10. Fucking bullshit.

Reminder: the best game of the summer, (Ms. Splosion Man) will release a week before these other less-wonderful projects.

Hope Retro City Rampage comes out soon.

Wow that's a pretty lame bonus, sure I wont complain about a free game but no way I was going to buy all of these, the obvious odd one out is fruit ninja kinect, have no interest in that. In the past they have done points for buying three or all of the games I think that would have been a better route.

Man, that's a pretty crappy summer of arcade deal. I wouldn't buy an overpriced Kinect game, even if I owned a Kinect, just to get the deal. Whatever happened to this being a promotion?

Buying Bastion, and maybe Shadow Planet and From Dust.

I will be buying bastion and from dust, I have heard little about the others but if the demo is fun and reviews on gb say its worth it I will probably buy them all, I am looking forward to bastion the most, pleased its coming first.
 
I have had some great expierences on xbla and the prices are great, 800-1200 points for games like limbo,braid,shadow complex, trials hd, geo wars, alien hominid,castle crashers plus many more have been well worth it, XBLA & PSN titles have been one of my fav things about this generation.

Definitely getting Bastion and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. Maybe From Dust as well, I'll need to find out more about it first.

From Dust looks amazing. But charging $10 for Fruit Ninja? Seriously? O_o That game better had a lot more content than its iPhone/Android counterpart.

Some of these titles are interesting, like Bastion and Pixelpon Patajunk, and I'll consider giving them a spin if they're released in an online store that doesn't charge money for me browsing their catalogue.

@sofacitysweetheart said:

@Bwast said:

@sofacitysweetheart said:

Was hoping for good games :(

So you've played them already? You must be a really important person.

Great start. Now go reply to all of the people who say they look like good games :)

You didn't say they looked bad, you implied they were bad, giving the impression that you had already played them. So instead of being a really important person, you're just a liar. Shame on you.

I'll probably get those first 3, they seem interesting.

Bastion and from dust are the only two that interest me.

Fruit Ninja gets boring in maybe two minutes...

Will be picking up Bastion and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet.

Definitely buying Bastion. Might eventually get Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet.

@Bwast said:

@sofacitysweetheart said:

Was hoping for good games :(

So you've played them already? You must be a really important person.

Great start. Now go reply to all of the people who say they look like good games :)

Thanks Microsoft, for making us have to own a Kinect to take advantage of the promotion.  For the last two years I have bought all the summer of arcade titles and gotten introduced to some great games I would have never played due to this incentive, but this year I guess all I'm getting is Bastion.

@sofacitysweetheart said:

Was hoping for good games :(

So you've played them already? You must be a really important person.

Was hoping for good games :(

Im pretty much sold on Bastion, I like what Greg Kasavin said hes trying to do with it replicating the feel of classic SNES games and such

Bastion and From Dust are the only titles I'm interested in. Bastion is the only game I'll probably buy. Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet also looks like it could be cool but we'll see.

Damnit! I was hoping 3rd Strike would be among these. I just want to know when it comes out.

Bastion will be a day one buy for me. Haven't spent 1200 space bucks on a game in a long time but I know it'll be totally worth it with Greg Kasavin as the creative director. That and I've been itching for a good dungeon crawl and this looks like a breath of fresh air in that genre. I'll trial the others. If there's anything I like I'll wait till it's on sale.

Was hoping for good games :(

getting Bastion

I'm definitely getting Bastion for sure. It was a blast to play at PAX.

Bastion, From Dust and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet look good. Toy Soldiers 2 will probably be alright, but I got my fill with the first one. Fruit Ninja could stand to lose a decimal.

The "Get X if you buy them all" deal was more appealing back when you paid for 4 games and got 5. Now it's 5 and 6.

Will at minimum be getting From Dust. Unless it's secretly terrible somehow.

Bastion and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet are must buys for me. I'm interested in From Dust, but not 100% sold on it. The other two? Meh.

@Kyle said:

I think I'll grab From Dust, Bastion, and Shadow Planet.

Am I the only one who feels like the summer of arcade release dates are always way late? Like, not only do you have to wait through a good portion of the actual summer before you can play them, there is also barely any July retail releases of note at all. It would be the perfect time for a deluge of quality downloadable titles. What's up with this?

I think its because they already have pretty good arcade games recently and in the coming weeks, we got Trenched last week, half min hero this week, Ms. Splosion man on July 13th

Bastion and From Dust.

I only want Bastion of these. Weakest Summer of Arcade lineup so far

@Pop said:

I'll get Bastion on the PC, weird that they started the show with a show stopper, is toy soldiers actually that good all I saw was that trailer of it which looked ok, idk I kind of can't get excited for shooting games anymore.

Toy Soldiers isn't a shooting game, it's a tower defense game in a similar vein to Trenched, Sanctum etc.

It's a pretty good line up.

@Vortextk said:

Xbox charges you for browsing the marketplace?....?

Uh, no? Not sure what you mean.

I think I'll grab From Dust, Bastion, and Shadow Planet.

Am I the only one who feels like the summer of arcade release dates are always way late? Like, not only do you have to wait through a good portion of the actual summer before you can play them, there is also barely any July retail releases of note at all. It would be the perfect time for a deluge of quality downloadable titles. What's up with this?

I'll get Bastion and I'll look into Toy Soldiers since they nailed a very interesting era.

I'll get Bastion on the PC, weird that they started the show with a show stopper, is toy soldiers actually that good all I saw was that trailer of it which looked ok, idk I kind of can't get excited for shooting games anymore.

Bastion and Shadow Planet both look great, but the rest are pretty meh. Not as good as the last 2 years of SoC promotions

@YOUNGLINK said:

WORST summer of arcade lineup EVER. There are better xbla games that come out before and after this promotion. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah except Bastion, that looks good ;)

idk, From Dust looks cool, I liked the first Toy Soldiers. TBH the last Summer of Arcade didn't do much for me, I'm at least looking at if not buying those three.

Some of these titles are interesting, like Bastion and Pixelpon Patajunk, and I'll consider giving them a spin if they're released in an online store that doesn't charge money for me browsing their catalogue.

WORST summer of arcade lineup EVER. There are better xbla games that come out before and after this promotion. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah except Bastion, that looks good ;)

Bastion and From Dust are the ones I know I'm getting. Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet looks cool, but want to hear a little more about it before I decide one way or the other.