Official Xbox 360 Thread.

[Schlep]

I like the idea of the achievements, but I wish they would unlock something. What I was talking about was playing games you wouldn't ordinarily play just to get achievement points.

[Glass Joe]

I can't for the life of me remember where I read it, but I'm sure I read that Dungeon Explorer was coming to XBOX Live Arcade. Can anyone confirm this?

I found the info. It was in Hardcore Gamer v1i12 in the "News Bits" section. It says: "Dungeon Explorer, the classic TurboGrafx-16 Gauntlet-esque RPG game, is coming ot XBOX 360 and Sony PSP."

Hopefully this shows up and is playable over live. That would be bad ass.

[kedawa]

So backwards compatibility is being abandoned apparently...
grain of salt and all that, but that's a shitty thing to do.

[ElCapichan]

So backwards compatibility is being abandoned apparently...
grain of salt and all that, but that's a shitty thing to do.

This is the biggest POS news I have ever heard. The fact that there some pretty damn shitty games (AKA Barbie) on the list, they have no right to call it quits after proclaiming that every game will be playable on the 360.

[Brand X]

So backwards compatibility is being abandoned apparently...
grain of salt and all that, but that's a shitty thing to do.

This says otherwise.

[Diff-chan]

This is the biggest POS news I have ever heard. The fact that there some pretty damn shitty games (AKA Barbie) on the list, they have no right to call it quits after proclaiming that every game will be playable on the 360.

They never, ever, ever proclaimed every game will be playable on the 360. They actually said the "top-selling" would be. Stop making shit up.

Anyone who brings up the Barbie game is an idiot. They worked on getting the big games playable, then saw what ran. Barbie was there.

[AaronChance]

They said they would _try_ to get every game compatible, though apparently someone found out by trying demos (which the xbox emulator will load for some reason) that there's quite a few games that could be compatible right now if the emulator allowed you to load them. Also, Pete Moore said they would give up on BC _eventually_. Probably after another hundred games make the BC list. Nothing is definite at this point.

[ElCapichan]

They never, ever, ever proclaimed every game will be playable on the 360. They actually said the "top-selling" would be. Stop making shit up.

Anyone who brings up the Barbie game is an idiot. They worked on getting the big games playable, then saw what ran. Barbie was there.

Whether what I said is stupid or not, they have no excuse to abandon BC wiith so many great titles still unplayable on the 306.


Go play some Mortal Kombat.

[Diff-chan]

Whether what I said is stupid or not, they have no excuse to abandon BC wiith so many great titles still unplayable on the 306.

No excuse?

Lets think about it.

First of all, the amount of extra units the BC sells is unknown, but probably not that high. They're not making much money off it. They're basically doing it to be nice.

The complexity and difficulty of emulating an Xbox on a 360 is staggering. The BC project was done by Microsoft's top engineers, pulling them off projects that could make the company more money.

It did generate good press at launch, but launch is over. The BC was a bonus and MS never said X% of games will run or that 100% of games will run on 360. We all knew from day one that the best way to play Xbox 1 games was to keep your Xbox 1 around. I think most people thought that 30-50 games would be playable, tops. I know I did and Im an Xbox fan. If you threw out your Xbox 1 because you heard of BC, LOL.

[RoleTroll]

What great titles are unplayable on 360?