I finished Portal a couple of months ago on it and it was flawless. No crash or freeze. I also played a bit of half Life 2 and Team fortress They both seem to run as I remember them to back in the days.
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Xbox One Backwards Compatibility |OT| Who wants to pay for remasters?
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Thanks for clearing that up. I knew it was something not... "normal" (I guess someone selling an IP isn't "abnormal" but you get me). I knew it wasn't on steam either, which I always found disappointing. I wonder if that's related to the Majesco thingy.
XBLDB isn't around anymore, but looking at a google cache snapshot of a page from there seems to show that it was in fact available digitally and on sale at points.
edit: apologies for the double post
It's no longer available digitally?
Fuck.
I was holding off for a sale after it went BC.
I figured because the Microsoft store made it appear it used to be.XBLDB isn't around anymore, but looking at a google cache snapshot of a page from there seems to show that it was in fact available digitally and on sale at points.
edit: apologies for the double post
Nope, it's gone at least in the US region. It may be available in a different region for some reason.
I need The Darkness 1 in my life again almost jumped when I saw it's title on Major's tweet.then I saw the II ); the BC team should really,IMO, first focus on the games that are trapped on the 360/ps3 and did not receive a pc version.
Oh boy. I wanted to buy Spec Ops but I just noticed that Witcher 2 Enhanced is also bc...well...I've bought Witcher 2 ^^. I haven't played it since 2011 I think.
With the release of Spec Ops: The Line I only have one major ask from last gen left, Lollipop Chainsaw. I am sure that is a pipe dream so I am happy with backwards compatibility's batting average and will now (mostly) dream about OG Xbox games now.
There could very likely be technical or legal reasons why certain games will never make the jump. In this case, I very much doubt it was just a choice to work on the sequel first, as you seem to imply. They would probably have liked to start with the first game but simply can't.
Don't think that game is available digitally and it does have some pretty popular music tracks. Still, got Driver last week and that's delisted so hope there.
I played through HL2 and Portal last year and had no problems on the original Xbox One. The framerate ran fine.
The first Darkness seems to really be banished to the past, from a lack of PC port after 10 years to a further lack of backwards compatibility to date, besides the fact that if I'm not mistaken it was added alongside The Darkness 2 on PS Now. The name and impact of that game would really grow with a fresh audience that could access it again. The lack of a PC port is really baffling to me, though. Judging by its addition to PS Now where it was accompanied by the entire family of 2K published games, including Spec Ops, that might be a clue into whose hands it is in at present. To me it seems like it's firmly in the grasp of 2K and shouldn't be too much in limbo in terms of rights or licenses, but then again the PS Now fact is my only real basis for thinking that.
There's also the fact that 2K has a precedent in not being been totally consistent in porting console releases to PC like RDR as the biggest example, and that could also be the reason The Darkness hasn't been ported to PC yet while The Darkness 2 has.
Next up, bring on...to name a few
Blur
Ace Combat 6
Amped 3
Ninja Gaiden 3
Lollipop Chainsaw
Rez
Mark of the Ninja
I need the following games on BC
Ghost Recon Future Soldier
Tales of Vesperia
Nier
Resonance of Fate
Eternal Sonata
Charlie Murder
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection
Fight Night Champion
King of Fighters 13
Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 3
Resident Evil Code Veronica X
Prey
HAWX
The Darkness
GRAW 2
Dust
Mark of the Ninja
Transformers War for Cybertron
Crackdown
Resident Evil 4
Tony Hawk HD
I actually thought i had less than this that still needed the BC treatment but as i was going through the list i realised there was more. Imagine if Fight Night Champion got an X patch!
Ghost Recon Future Soldier
Tales of Vesperia
Nier
Resonance of Fate
Eternal Sonata
Charlie Murder
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection
Fight Night Champion
King of Fighters 13
Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 3
Resident Evil Code Veronica X
Prey
HAWX
The Darkness
GRAW 2
Dust
Mark of the Ninja
Transformers War for Cybertron
Crackdown
Resident Evil 4
Tony Hawk HD
I actually thought i had less than this that still needed the BC treatment but as i was going through the list i realised there was more. Imagine if Fight Night Champion got an X patch!
Is it worth playing Spec Ops if I know the major plot points?
I never played the game and it was hard to avoid spoilers.
I never played the game and it was hard to avoid spoilers.
That blows. I loved it being added to BC, but just never got around to buying it digitally yet due the holidays. I hate not getting a heads up on this shit.
Weird. They've seemed to erase the 360 game sales off that link now.
It is not. We here think it's because it's on 2 discs and the second disc is unable to be installed on Xbox 360.
You can but a disc or digital. With an internet connection, the disc will initiate the download. It also needs to be inside for validating launches.
Yeah. I noticed that too. I wonder if it's because they were having problems with 360 deals or something...
I believe it's going to be in the spring. So my best guess would be sometime in April.
I'm not sure about that movie specifically, but it was my understanding that the other movies in that game were old enough to be public domain, meaning that there would be no issues with licensing or any other sort of legality in regards to making the game BC (at least not when it comes to the movies it had).
On-topic; yeah, The Darkness II! I can finally finish the story now! I was actually tempted to play it on my 360 just a few days ago.
The sales tab is even inactive on the 360, must have changed their mind.
Yeah, I noticed this earlier today too when I hooked up my 360 to the TV on which I play games. Pretty disappointing since I'm almost certain Darkstalkers: Resurrection was supposed to be on sale for like 5 and I've wanted to try it for a while.
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Split/Second isn't free with Gold yet either despite Shadow Warrior being free for over 24 hours now. Must be having issues with the 360 storefront. I long for the day they retire that entire system and bring those games out of the Legacy storefront and into the new one.
I bet it will show up soon along with all the other 360 Deals With Gold games for this week that also haven't shown up yet.
I see it in the BC section of the XB1 store, is that because I already have it downloaded?
If you see it, def snatch it up. Worth the 20 bucks.
I'm hoping before that, but I'm willing to wait, especially if the next batch is larger than the first.
I think I'd also buy Morrowind if it's offered. Been wanting to jump back in to ES
Dammit. I was hoping that since this morning I bought another 360 specifically to play Ninja Gaiden 2 (my older S model kept freezing while playing it), that it would've been added today.
Oh well...
The last additions of 2017 which were on November 28th and 30th, those being:
Peggle 2
Marlow Briggs
Sonic Adventures
Earth Defence Force 2017
I have a question for you guys. I have never used the back compatibility on my Xbox before and I want to pick up the mass effect trilogy and on Amazon ive noticed it is cheaper to buy the French version rather then the English. Is language region locked to the system or is it locked to the disks?
I believe it just recognizes that it's Mass Effect 3 and downloads whatever region you have your console set to. So, if you buy the French version, you'll end up playing the English version on your console because that's what you have it set to. I'm not 100% sure on this though.
I know. It was a day late showing up and they only just fixed it so I was letting everyone know. I specified that I actually "bought" it in case it didn't work for someone else and wanted to head off any follow-up questions about whether I had gone through with the "purchase".
Probably late March or early April. They just said "Spring" but given the Duke controller is launching late March, I suspect the new OG games will drop alongside it.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's just giving a heads-up that the free period for claiming the game is now live, since it's come around late and there are still problems on the 360-side of the marketplace when it comes with Deals with Gold. I believe Major Nelson tweeted about issues or something. I saw something in a thread here.
edit: dammit! speaking of late.
Spring 2018, no date beyond that sadly.
Which reminds me, I need to beg for Dead Or Alive Extreme. I'll start doing that next week!
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