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Even if the PC version is the same (which I doubt) there's still a large enough contingent of us who (for whatever reason) don't ever game on a PC, so good on ya, Red Lynx (and thanks).

Well Red Lynx say that the 360 version is more "refined" than the PC version. If it's really that much better I should check it out... although I wasn't a fan of the PC version, really :(

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However then I found that I could wall jump on top of those moving platforms, thus making the laser dodging not all that difficult at all.

Wow, thanks for that tip, I beat the boss in 5 minutes thanks to that!

So, the visual cue of the laser being interrupted by the platform is some sort of platforming game red herring ?:shifty:

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Well Red Lynx say that the 360 version is more "refined" than the PC version. If it's really that much better I should check it out... although I wasn't a fan of the PC version, really :(

The demo is free, why don't you just try it and then you'll know how different it is.

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Bought it and played it. It's pretty cool. I like that they've shaved down the time required to restart a level to the absolute minimum. It's essential to keep interest from dropping, but it's something a lot of developers seem to forget.

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I want to make sure the weird little dissonance in regard to Trials HD that exists in this thread doesn't discourage people from checking it out (not that I really think it would). Mostly I just want to say that game is FUCKFUCKINGING RADDDD, for serious. I downloaded the demo because it got a very high metacritic score, but I didn't expect much. I was like, "What? A dirt-biking game? I don't know about that. Well...since there's a free demo..." And then BAM!!! It grabbed me and still hasn't let go. It's the most addictive game I've encountered since Geometry Wars. Even if the PC version is the same (which I doubt) there's still a large enough contingent of us who (for whatever reason) don't ever game on a PC, so good on ya, Red Lynx (and thanks).

It has new levels and an updated editor and I think some other new stuff

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Like everyone else in this thread, I have purchased 'Splosion Man and Trials HD. 'Splosion Man is good, not amazing, but very entertaining in short bursts. Trials I bought this afternoon and spent about 4 hours playing before realizing that, shit, I had to go to work. Damn that game is rad. I have this obsessive bullshit impulse to get a gold medal on everything, and am finding myself constantly cursing Vimes and 'Blix as the two people on my friends list who are consistently scoring higher than me (although not by much, and I have beaten you bastards a few times) at the levels. I'm about 3 gold medals into the medium difficulty now, not allowing myself to move on to the next level until I've gotten gold on the one before it. I can't imagine that will last for much longer, given how long the last two gold runs have taken me to pull off, but dammit it's working so far. Great game. I'm excited to play it when I get home from work (on the office computer now) but also kind of scared that if I do I won't sleep. Conundrums...

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not allowing myself to move on to the next level until I've gotten gold on the one before it.

Yeah, I'm doing that, too, but then I hit a spot where my sessions started being shorter and farther between, and the levels so long that I got frustrated at having to restart.

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Yeah, I'm doing that, too,

Me three. And I almost never take that kind of completist approach to games.

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I'm almost glad my 360's still broken, I'd be fucking balls deep in XBLA stuff right now and I've got about fifteen PC games to play.

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After the demo, I'm not feeling the love for Shadow Complex.

Trial HD, however: YES. The little marker for the next closest friend actually acts like a pretty good guide as to where you're fucking up on the course. Also, showing high scores from your friends in the demo is probably a stroke of genius in terms of getting people to buy it.

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It just seemed a bit dull to me. I think it might be a genre thing, a friend tried to get me to play a Castlevania game on GBA a few years back, and that didn't grab me either. :getmecoat

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