Microsoft's recent announcement of delisting XBLA titles has surprised some people in the industry but the staff at Married Gamer thinks it is a matter of simple economics even though MS seems to be skipping a step...
Microsoft has once again released another trio of backwards compatible games which are now ready to play on Xbox One and Xbox One S consoles.
Waiting for Lost Odyssey. I thought Blue Dragon was already added. Guess not.
Rubbish. If you're doing BC do it right. I don't own XB1 but they should add Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Midnight Club LA, Burnout Paradise, and Modern Warfare 2.
Bad Company 2 is on Steam still...however Bad Company 1 has never had a release past ps3/360
MS would love to just add game , but something tells me the ones holding up the games are the publishers & developers of those games .
okay, i can understand their position on not adding new games that people want, so why no go public with this info and basically shame the publishers into releasing the stuff for BC, its not like they are going to remaster everything
Could be, but publishers of games that no longer sell would be open to an all new market and those who do own the games may purchase an expansion they never got around to buying... Seems to me this would be a win for publishers but you never know.
They should never have asked publishers in the first place. Backwards compatability is basic computing. I know they have to emulate but that's irrelevant.
This way we get like 5% of the games. Let the publishers sue. They'd lose.
Craig H writes: "The Xbox LIVE Arcade has done a lot of great things. Among the accomplishments of the download service was bringing downloadable games to the mainstream of this generation’s consoles. Of course, the year head start did help blaze the trail. Sadly the service suffers from the same type of bad games that every platform has to deal with. We’re looking at those games and listing all the reasons you should avoid ever picking them up. We might lose a couple friends in the PR departments of these title’s publishers, but we’re sure they’ll understand."
If you're trying to get at who made download games mainstream on consoles, it was on XBL, not the Dreamcast. Beyond VMU, the DC played Discs only.
That list needs to be 10 times longer at least. I love many games on XBLA but there's A LOT of junk out there.
Yaris might have been free, but it was so bad that it got removed from the lineup. That game was awful.
Yeah that game was terrrrrrrible, despite being free.
I have friends that, for whatever reason, just HAD to get the 200 gamerscore for that game. I didn't even bother :\
Fortunately the game is not available for download anymore. No more wasted resources...
Console Monster writes: "There is definitely no shortage of brick based puzzle games on the Xbox LIVE Arcade, and we only seem to be getting more. This makes deciding which one to buy quite a task. Is the latest addition to the genre worthy of your precious Microsoft Points? Read on to find out.
For those of you not familiar with the background of the Mr Driller series of games, here is a quick history lesson. The drilling gameplay mechanic began back in arcades back in 1982 with the introduction of Dig Dug. The star of Dig Dug is Taizo Hori, who is the father of Susumu Hori, who is carrying on the family business of drilling in Mr Driller.
Mr Driller Online is the latest in the series of games, and whilst the gameplay remains a fairly solid formula, the game is ultimately let down by far too many issues.
The gameplay in Mr Driller Online should be instantly familiar to anyone who has played any of the previous games in the series, and for those who haven't, it's a breeze to pick up. The basic premise is that you have to drill down to your objective height, without running out of air or being crushed by falling blocks. To do this you are equipped with a trusty drill which you use to drill through the various coloured blocks, and along the way you will find air canisters which will replenish your air supply..."
M$ should lower the cost of ALOT of those XBLA games, and I'm sure more people would make those "impulse" purchases. $12+ for a pinball game with like 2 different tables? then charge me for each additional table? no thanks. I bought a pinball game for my wii with 10+ classic machines that were actually in arcades for $20. Most of the games on XBLA are either some kind of puzzle game or "re-done" old '80's arcade game for $10 a piece. Sorry M$, but most of those puzzle games are either free or $1 or $2 and I have complete complilations of the old '80s classics a generation ago so why should I pay $10 a piece again because its in "HD"? NOT. Geo wars, assault heroes, mutant storm, outpost kaloki x, etc, are fun and I show that by buying such a fun original title. M$ should actually rip a page out of SONY's book and put certain titles on "sale" at certain times to get those "impulse" buys. M$ is all about fast cash and it shows. Charging for themes, pics, etc. its all about nickle and dimeing you. $8-$10 for 3 maps for every shooter that comes out? give me a break. please.