Here it is - 375 games in the list to end all lists. Included is all known, mentioned, talked about, rumoured and in development games that anyone knows about as of September 2008. Feel free to link to it, recommend it, flaunt it and use it till your heart's desire. :D

For the biggest Xbox 360 listing - click here.

Just like the dude in Star Wars with his little targeting computer on getting closer and closer to that infamous exhaust port, I'm almost there... 770 points and rising.

I'd like to drop a note in here - for any Aussie / NZ members looking to win some easy prizes, head to http://x360.mybb3.org/index.php and get posting. It's the forum for XboxOZ360-Gamer and with a bunch of stuff on offer, you'd be silly not to head over there.

Also, I've created a new object, one that I thought would have been thought of by now. BLOOD. Get adding games to it, seriously. It's going to be a huge list...

Thought I'd try my hand at article writing, I'm yet to see it gets approved although I'm hopeful :D I'm going submission crazy right now, it's truly addictive.  GB has done to the online gaming community what Microsoft did to in-game achievements...

Besides that, I'm slowly getting there, I can't wait till 1000 points, I'd like to option to just submit something straight away and know that yes, my work will get in there ASAP as opposed to sometime later, quite possibly after another 1000+ person has submitted something.

Anyways, ciao ciao :D

      ~DarkArmada

Original thread here...

I'd read the above thread and it got me to thinking. Where did the Monkey Island franchise go wrong? On one hand, it's great that the series is still around and as such, is still played by (dare I say) millions around the world. But ask any fan of the series what their favourites were and 9 times out of 10 they'll tell you... The first 2 with the 3rd not far behind.

Sometime last year I had the pleasure of stumbling over this article, written by the one and only Ron Gilbert, which he gladly allowed me to re-publish on XboxOZ360-Gamer as I felt it was a great read. The general feeling from that article is that there are inherent flaws in adventure games in general and balancing entertainment and difficulty is well, difficult. It's been a feeling of mine that even today, almost 20 years on, these beliefs in adventure gaming still very much apply today and should be heeded. But enough of that...

The Curse of Monkey Island was, well, it was the logical evolution of the series. As MI2 from MI1, the 3rd iteration was the next step in the series and one that held true to the concept of point & click. Plus, although the quality of the visuals from the 3rd was a massive step from the first 2, there was no such "step" from the 3rd to the 4th.

Sure - make something 3D and like WOW, it looks soo awesome, but the truth is no, the quality of the art within the game suffered dearly with the move to 3D rendering. The art and style in MI3, although departing from the obviously aged (and classic) look of the first 2, still held true to the IP and even moreso, allowed for further artistic flair. Why the move? And an even better question, why not make another Monkey Island for the fans instead of for the $$$.

Why not? Why not work on and develop another addition to the series holding true to it's origins? It seems that (as raised in the original thread) that if it's not Star Wars, then it's not worth bothering. Which is sad, as I don't know how many times I've gone over and over finishing the first 3 titles just for the heck of it, each time finding something else that I'd missed and having a little giggle to myself. Where is that quality? If anyone knows, please come and tell me as I'd like to know myself. :)


          ~DarkArmada

As Giant Bomb is my debut to wiki style contributing in general, it's almost experimental for me to hit that "submit" button and prey it gets approved. So far I've managed to scrape together 10 points through various concept and image submissions. For me, the problems arise when the delay for approvals is so long, I'll spend quite some time adding in to areas that haven't yet been filled, only to find days later that these holes had already been filled, but not yet approved and as such, alot of time is spent "doubling up" on submissions.

This by no means is a complaint, just a result of a massive peak of submissions that occurred in the first week of Giant Bomb. My understanding is that the ModSquad and GBStaff are catching up on the backlog and their SLA of 24 hours will become the norm once again, but it's with disappointment that this morning I had found that the majority of my submissions had been rejected or will be rejected based on the fact that they had already been in the submissions queue at some point before mine. Which by all means is fair, I wouldn't want the system any other way, it's just a little piece of feedback I'd like to post here. Understandably the GB Staff would already be experiencing similar feedback from many other members, but I'd just like to say my 2c :)

Besides that, wow. The GB experience so far has been amazing, the Moderation team have been nothing but helpful and responsive, the forums have been friendly and the information snowball is uh, snowballing. So yeah, thanks to the GB team so far, you're doing a wonderful job and just keep working at it... I'll just have to start diversifying and filling in my own little niches in the GB archives... :D

         ~DarkArmada