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Samurai Shodown II Price Update

SNK's bloody sword fighting game goes for twice the initially announced price, and I happily buy it anyway.

This man needs an extra five bucks to keep his hair looking nice.
This man needs an extra five bucks to keep his hair looking nice.
Just a quick update here. When it was originally announced for release this week, SNK's Samurai Shodown II was listed by Microsoft as a 400 point ($5) purchase. It has, in fact, released at 800 points ($10).

This has led to a flood of people complaining about it over on Major Nelson's site.

I'm too busy cutting fools to complain too much, but getting things like pricing incorrect is probably one of the worst kind of errors. Also, as it fits into the old "emulated game with lightly updated graphics" mold, 400 points is probably the perfect price for it. Unless you're me. Or at all like me. Because having a version of Samurai Shodown II with blood and online play, even for ten bucks instead of five, is one of those thing that if I had heard it from you ten years ago, I would have said you were high on the drugs. The bad drugs. Because something like this would have had to have come from outer frickin' space.

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This man needs an extra five bucks to keep his hair looking nice.
This man needs an extra five bucks to keep his hair looking nice.
Just a quick update here. When it was originally announced for release this week, SNK's Samurai Shodown II was listed by Microsoft as a 400 point ($5) purchase. It has, in fact, released at 800 points ($10).

This has led to a flood of people complaining about it over on Major Nelson's site.

I'm too busy cutting fools to complain too much, but getting things like pricing incorrect is probably one of the worst kind of errors. Also, as it fits into the old "emulated game with lightly updated graphics" mold, 400 points is probably the perfect price for it. Unless you're me. Or at all like me. Because having a version of Samurai Shodown II with blood and online play, even for ten bucks instead of five, is one of those thing that if I had heard it from you ten years ago, I would have said you were high on the drugs. The bad drugs. Because something like this would have had to have come from outer frickin' space.
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Edited By Artie

I hate arcade releases that are just "IT'S THE SAME THING BUT IN 800x600 THIS TIME!!!"

That's not a $5 dollar difference.

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Edited By cann3dheat

I too will be buying it anyways.

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Edited By FuzzyFace56

Dammit, i was ganna buy this for sure...now i guess ill just try the trial and think about it, a part of me doesn't wanna buy it just because i know it was prob just 5 bucks but they are being greedy and want the 10 because they think ppl will still buy it.

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Edited By AndrewJD

Ye it's the same game, but with online play so 800 points seems fine. Anyway, they can charge what they want so quit complaining, it could be worse.

In fact it could be much worse and just not have been released at all....

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Edited By MasturbatingBear

wow. Samurai shodown II I havent played that in a while. That game is great. only 800 points? why are people complaining about a DEAL?! thats amazing especially with online play.

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awww my purchase WILL depend on your review now jeff
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I'll try it first.

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Edited By lordtaco

i spent more than ten bucks on this game on a saturday at the arcade back in the day. I don't think ten more bucks is going to hurt.

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Edited By ratzombie

The problem is that I think a lot of us were willing to fork over 400 points for the achievements and online play, but at $10.00 that is most likely half the price of what the Samurai Shodown Anthology will be, which includes all seven games.

So the question is, is an extra $5.00 worth online play... which from what I'm hearing is not very reliable?

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The online play is pretty smooth based on my experience so far - its worth the extra five bucks

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Edited By DukeTogo

It's 900 points on VC so this version for $1 more is a bargain, and is probably a factor of the upped price.

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I'm surprised how rarely confusion like this happens.

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Edited By Stealthoneill

It looks pretty cool, dependant on reviews I read I will probably still pick it up even with the higher price tag.

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Hmm guess I'll have to play the trial now first...

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Edited By HTTenrai

I'm not going to bitch about the point cost. It's only 10 frickin' dollars anyway.

Besides, I've got my eyes planted firmly on a new XP compatible copy of Fallout 2 for 6 bucks. AH HA HA HA! No more crashing the game in Trapper Town for me!

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I love SNK fighting games.(most of them)

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Edited By MindChamber

I was hooked on SS2 for a long time back in the days when it was in the arcades.  Its a nice game thats for sure, and 10 bucks is worth it if it has solid online play.

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Okay Jeff, which drugs aren't the bad drugs? Alcohol?