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Monday, May 28, 2007

What I want to see on XBLA ...

So, this is a little embarrassing.

After pimping Gamerscoreblog's solicitation for Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) feedback, I didn't send my feedback to them right away, and they closed comments to that post within a day or two of my post.

So I sent them Email.

And now, I'm sharing with you what I think XBLA "needs":

Text games -- Now that the Xbox 360 is getting the Chatpad peripheral, I'd like to see games like the Zork franchise on XBLA. I cut my teeth on all of the text adventures, and a lot o them are great, fascinating, creatively written, and creatively inspiring interactive works of art.

RPGs -- Role-Playing Games (Real-time; I'm just not into the turn-based stuff); I would so do Ultima over Live.

Dungeon Crawlers -- a la Dungeon Master, Diablo, etc.

The Psygnosis catalog -- Or at least a chunk of it (Baal, Barbarian/(s) 2, Blood Money, G-Police, etc.); This one'll likely be tough, because I believe Sony bought the Psygnosis IP.

Bundles/themes -- I'm thinking releases / or release weeks with a unifying them; things like like "comic book", which could include "Captain America and the Avengers", X-Men: Children of the Atom, etc..

Coin-up classics -- Capcom's Strider/2, SEGA's Golden Axe (though I suspect this latter one would be bundled with the new release in the franchise from Secret Level; and maybe it's just that I liked the artwork for the Mega Drive port).