Will every Xbox 360 game eventually be available via backward compatibility?
It's up to gamers to tell us what they want. We do all the work, but there is a little bit of work and part of that involves talking with the publisher and making sure that this is consistent with their goals for the game as well. So, as gamers ask us, we will deliver.
ie. Do they want to rape their customers for more money?
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
My kid's is currently under my desk. I plan on breaking it out, installing his games, and getting everything patched up prior to Christmas so hopefully he can just plug it in on the 25th and just start playing.
And also a couple games that are XBone exclusives.
3 of his friends are also getting XBones on xmas, so they will all be able to play together.
I can't help but be reminded of the times I told Cake that MY KID WONT BE PLAYING CONSOLES, HE WILL BE OUT PLAYING BASEBALL WITH HIS FRIENDS. Turns out kids dont go outside and play any more, they are all on XBox Live. All of them.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I have an Xbone.
For kids, I'd recommend Minecraft. Heck, I've had many hours of fun with Minecraft.
Star Wars Battlefront is popular with the PVP crowd, as is Halo 5. I haven't played the new Battlefront, but Halo is pretty cool (I only do story mode, not PVP).
My main game is Destiny. The problem I see with being a new player in Destiny though, is that teamwork is required for a lot of stuff that has no automatic matchmaking. This would make it really hard for a new player who wants to do the early raids or any of the Prison of Elders stuff because most players nowadays are high level and have no need to do those things. (I go to DestinyLFG.com to find players, or DestinyLFG.net, but most listings are for the new raids/missions/Nightfalls not the old stuff)
The Xbone is starting to implement backwards compatibility with certain Xbox 360 games (though an emulator). I only have about 2 of the 100+ titles that are currently available for backwards compatibility (they need permission from the game owners to allow compatibility). One of the Xbone people did hint at the possibility of original Xbox games being available for play on the Xbone in the future.
That reminds me, the Halo: Master Chief Collection has Hale 1-4, which is great for nostalgia. I only played part way through the original Halo before getting distracted by other games. I really liked how you could push a button to switch back and forth between the original and the updated graphics. I don't remember Halo being *that* bland on the original Xbox.
What I didn't like were the button configurations. Halo 5 uses the same configuration as Destiny, but Halo 1 doesn't have an "aim" button, so every time I try to aim I throw a grenade and blow myself up.
GORDON wrote:My kid's is currently under my desk. I plan on breaking it out, installing his games, and getting everything patched up prior to Christmas so hopefully he can just plug it in on the 25th and just start playing.
So this is what I am doing today.
Powered up, set the settings, and entered in his XBox Gold info: about 10 minutes.
Ran updates on the XBone OS: about 30 minutes.
Installed the game it came with, Gears of War Ultimate Edition, and that took about an hour to install and update. Then it won't launch, I get an error code, and xbox.com says if you get that code then you got a corrupted update, and uninstall/reinstall. So I am currently uninstalling.
So far... meh.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I can't understand why Sony and Nintendo keep kicking their ass.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Malcolm wrote:I can't understand why Sony and Nintendo keep kicking their ass.
Because they're not?
The WiiU has done terribly. Nintendo is already building their next console and have even discussed licensing their games (Mario, Zelda, etc.) to other systems.
The PS4 is beating the X-Box One, but not by as large a gap as the 360 beat the PS3.
End of the day, it really doesn't matter because the PC trumps all of them, and for anyone stupid enough to argue that, remind them that their precious consoles are nothing more than dumbed down PCs.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
You mean X-Box Live? I enjoyed watching it fail spectacularly on PCs.
Honestly, it's just due to ignorance and convenience. I don't mean ignorance in a mean way either. Folks just don't know how much more PCs offer for gaming. And it's pretty nice to walk up to a console, throw in a disc, and just play.
Of course, that gap is closing dramatically as people struggle with the new trend of downloading games.
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“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Live... Gold... not sure which is which, as my kid is the xbox genius in the house... I just know that his one buddy can't get on voice chat with them because he doesn't have Live Gold, or whatever it is called.
Fucking voice chat. Can't do it for free. Insane.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Gold is what you pay for, and yes, it's fucking insane that people pay for something that's free.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
And that's the part that baffles me as to why it has been successful. My only experience is that all the kids have been using XBox 360, and they want to multi, so more Live-Gold time is a typical birthday/xmas present from gramma.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
You know what's even worse than having an Xbox live account? Having TWO Xbox Live accounts!!
Yep, in my house both of the older boys have their own Xbox, a 360 and a ONE, and of course they both have their own Xbox live accounts... Oh yeah, and they both have to have the latest version of Call of Duty, so TWO versions of each of those games too!! This doesn't even mention the Xbox points they need for some stupid map pack.
My wife and I refuse to pay for Xbox live anymore, they either ask for it on their birthdays or Christmas or pay it themselves. Which is just money that they so called "earned" from doing chores. Either way, I end up having to pay for it in the end.
I have played League for 4 years or so now and I know that I have kept my total in game purchases under $150. Kids now pay that for each Call of Duty Game and map packs that come out every 6 months!
