A few more new (old) games have made their way to Games on Demand service this morning. According to
Major Nelson, EA Visceral’s mining spaceship simulator
Dead Space and Codemaster’s
DiRT have joined the ranks of the other old titles on Microsoft’s console-side digital distribution service.
Dead Space is being sold for 20 bucks.
DiRT on the other hand, is priced at 30 bucks. Both digital videogames aren’t available in Japan for whatever reason and weigh in at a healthy 6 GB respectively.
While the prices are wrong, we can’t discourage people from checking out Dead Space. On top of being a brilliant bit of simulation software, it also functions as an excellent alien anatomy-teaching tool.
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12:20 PM on 10.27.2009
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One big issue being my DLC will get blocked sometimes if I'm not connected to Live. That's bull.
Dead Space is priced ok, but some games are crazy. Rockstar Table Tennis is $30. The point stands. Why would you pay the same price even? I'll buy dlc or xbla stuff, but I never buy digitally when a physical version is available.
Now loosen the DRM noose to where I don't have to drag my HDD with me to a friends house or give me a permanent way to store my gamertag on someone elses machine so I can have a copy downloaded at a friends house I could get behind something like this.
But as it is... Meh. Good start.
I can't speak for Games on Demand specifically, but I've deleted XBLA games in the past and re-downloaded them later (both through my 360's dashboard and the Xbox website) without any trouble at all. Just log in, look through your download history, and press A to re-download it.
Just my two cents.
I believe you can keep your gamertag/profile on a memory card, so you could keep a game on both hard drives, and when you want to play at your friends, you would just need to sign in with your profile on the card.
Of course there is the stupid thing of having to pay $40 for a fucking memory card, seeing as how Microsoft doesn't allow you to put it on a flashdrive...
Though, seeing as how it's just the gamertag, you could get a old 64MB for cheap on ebay or something. I dunno...
Yes, all transactions are tied to your account. Anything can be redownloaded for free as long as you're signed into the same gamertag.
But yeah, those of you that haven't played it yet, $20 is a damn good price for a damn good game.