Try €30

Anyway, with Trine, FUEL (well, it should be moderately entertaining) and Call of Juarez (interesting? Hopefully), this will be a decent week to be me.

Edit: Holy damn. Trine is tons of fun! Just to be sure, this game will have *online* co-op, right? Playing this with two friends would be utterly fantastic. I'm buying it either way.

Local only.

Trine is utterly charming. Fuel is an abomination IMO.

Trine was compared to The Lost Vikings, which I remember very fondly. Any thoughts on the validity of the comparison?

I'm getting the pitchforks and torches out. I've been waiting so long for some more good 2D brawling with quirky characters.

Trine really surprised me and I was instantly sold after playing the demo. It's beautiful, charming and utterly entertaining.

Honestly though... I feel like I just can't catch up this year. I have a huge stack of games still shrink wrapped and that doesn't include all the digital downloads. Steam and Impulse are really killing me with all the sales and impulse buys.

That does seem like a lot of work, but I think you're mis-representing it. I mean, my Steam is on all the time, so I never run into the point where I have to update it in order to play a game. Sometimes once I'm done playing a game it asks me to restart steam to update, but I just press the buttona nd its done. No waiting there. Of course you have to wait for it to download, but the Steam servers are very quick if you have a good internet connection. If you don't want to have to download a game, you can just as easily run to the store and pick it up. Then the initial start up with Direct X configuration has never taken more than 3 minutes for me.. I don't know. I think the biggest problem is the GfWL. I hate it, and it makes EVERYTHING take forever. Growl.

Actually, this post almost has nothing to do with you or the complaint it takes a bit to get a direct download. Mostly I just hate all the hoops you have to jump through for GWL.

woops double post

Also Dawn of War 2 is not the standard for how digital distribution works. It's the poster child for making it way more convoluted than it needs to be.

Chiming in to agree that the Trine demo was an absolutely wonderful surprise and that I'm excited about its release (it comes out this week? Seriously? Glee!).

Though I do have to ask - if I have a concern, it's that at least in the demo, co-op play is limited to local multiplayer. Does anyone know if the full release has co-op play over the tubes with Steam? I can't imagine getting a bunch of pals crowded around my PC to play this, so if this is the sort of thing where 'net multiplayer is only coming with the XBLA version - or even if not, since at least getting friends locally around the 360 is easier than the PC - I might have to just wait for that.

Big Download is saying Trine will sell for $20 on PSN. Now, I'm not ashamed to say that I am a total cheap-ass. My question having not yet played the demo is whether the PC version is superior enough (or at all) to justify a 50% premium on the price. Any thoughts?

Local co-op = definitely getting Trine on PS3 instead of PC.

I downloaded the Call of Juarez theme on Xbox Live. But only because I'm trying to pretend that it's a Red Dead Redemption theme.

I know what Blazblue is, and I'm not ashamed to say that I'm picking it up tomorrow

While I don't think I'd like playing the mage with a gamepad for an entire playthrough, the knight and thief handle just fine. When I get the game I'll be inviting a friend over to see how it works. (Guess who doesn't regret buying a 360 pad exclusively for the PC?)

In other news, I just tried Bound in Blood. Now, I enjoyed the first one, but it had all sorts of things wrong with it. Not the least of which was a tremendous performance issue. That is completely gone in this new one. I'm on an 8800GTS 512, Q6600 @ 2.7ghz with 4 gigs of RAM. Not too shabby a system, but certainly outdated, and everything runs smooth as butter at all maxed out.

The gameplay is largely the same, but with a lot of neat new additions. It's heavily accented with a pretty cool cover system. In first person. Not perfect, but so far it works. Bullet-time is still in there, though different. While there's the same old gauge-fill-up-then-shoot-in-slow-mo, there are also times when you and the brother you're currently not playing will team up to storm a room, and the effect is definitely appreciated.

The graphics are... better? I'm not really sure. They're not worse by any means, but they do look very similar to the first title. There's only really one thing that bothers me, and that's your own shadow. Like the other game, it looks just wrong. Strange thing to nitpick at, but there you go.

Bottom line: It's a totally new game with some cool ideas, and a really cool setting (it's a western, for God's sake). There also looks to be a lot more depth here, and--aside from the bug fixes--I think that's exactly what the first one needed. So if you played that and actually gave it the time of day, this is absolutely worth checking out.

Oh, who else but me LOVED playing with the bow in Call of Jaurez? That thing felt so bloody right.

Trine sounds interesting, but I think I'll wait on the 360 version that's in development. My gaming backlog has gotten a bit too deep and my wallet a bit too thin. I look forward to enjoying some impressions from everyone though.