Waypoints: Anticipation's Antidotes

Bigger isn't always better, says Adam LaMosca, especially when it comes to inexpensive, downloadable gems like PixelJunk Eden and Geometry Wars 2.

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So true

I quite often find myself going back to my dashboard and going to the arcade games after most £40 games are making my mind bored senseless that I couldn't continue. And as you said arcade games can't fail to disappoint mainly cause theres not high expectations, no cinematic cutscenes and to me their main selling point is the actual gameplay which alot of developers seem to forget when making a game.