Will Xbox Originals have Achievements?

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WAHsu — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:43:57 GMT

(((Q)))Why buy a game when I have on my games shelf?

(((A)))Because they have achievements.

Too bad Microsoft, you could have sold me.

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Inigo Montaco — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:39:10 GMT

Terrible idea...

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Sharpened Steel — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:15:13 GMT

Major, while I still agree that this is a cool idea and that it makes sense NOT to add achievements and things (who would do it the developers?), I must say that a hard copy is not an inconvenience. It is a benefit. I can find these Halo: CE and Fable: The Lost Chapters on Amazon for $9.99. Just saying because I was thinking of repurchasing halo: ce, I would definitely buy the hard copy if I ever did.

Halo $9.99

www.amazon.com/.../104-2937487-7874314

Fable: The Lost Chapters $9.99

www.amazon.com/.../ref=pd_sim_vg

re: Will Xbox Originals have Achievements?

Flybird — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:12:42 GMT

Well, no-one is going to buy the crap now. Come on, games like SOTN and UMK3 have achievements, and they came out well before the Xbox 360. Many people were only going to buy these game if they had live features. If you guys are just going to use the Xbox BC emulator to play these games, it's a waste of time, and money on your part.

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xbox originals known issues not fixed — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:07:57 GMT

In good faith, you should mention to people that all problems that are within the backwards compatability bug list are still in these games. No bugs were fixed . Link = www.xbox.com/.../issues.htm

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BC — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:04:27 GMT

All known bugs that occur during the current emulation of backward compatability will stick in the downloaded games.

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DRM guy — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:01:09 GMT

I would consider it if it wasn't for the Digital Rights Management issue. Since I haven't been able to play the games I bought on Live while I'm offline, I haven't bought anything on there. Thank you HeXBox.

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LawnXGnomeXMan — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:55:04 GMT

wow, that sucks terribly, I'm DEFINITELY not buying any games unless mystically Bethesda remakes morrowind so it is coded well enough to actually be played and only releases it on xbox live, but i know for damn sure that isn't happening, so it's basically a waste of money to buy original xbox games on xbox live for $15 when you can get them for like $3 on ebay or something.

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Number1Gunn — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:43:06 GMT

Major,

I just looked up Fable and Halo 1 on bestbuy.com and they are both on sale for $9.99. Why would microsoft sell us the downloads at a higher cost? Makes no sense.

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Gooser711 — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:40:16 GMT

At this point it'd probably be better if MS released this as a rental service. Rent Xbox original titles for 240 points for 2 weeks or so. Kind of like they do their movie downloads. Maybe that would be more financially beneficial.

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RDLee — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:23:37 GMT

Count me and everyone I know that I told about this out! Way overpriced for no reason. Lack of ANY upgrades make this as pointless as anything Microsoft has done in the past. Major, If you have any pull whatsoever in Microsoft then pass along the news that this is a huge waste of time for way too much money. Thanks.

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Lawnsdale — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:13:19 GMT

Will you be able to use your friends list by pressing the guide button Major? Or will that be disabled when playing originals just like on the actual xbox games? I don't really need achievements but the thing i don't like about the actual xbox games is that you cant check your friends list/messages in the old games the same convenient way that the 360 games do.

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xCAPTSTONERB91x — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:00:51 GMT

haha..........this is so gay no achievements,we already own the games,way overpriced i can just go to the store, want us to live in the old game.......so y do arcade games have achievements.......woah microsoft looks like ur trying to rip me off again

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Jaww Shoe Ahhh — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:58:04 GMT

Major, what about the 50hz issue with Halo CE I can't play this game on my 360 because the VGA does not support 50hz, now if I bought this game from XBLM would it work on 60hz? Thanks

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Fire — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:51:28 GMT

Wow, what an incredible amount of flak the readers are giving! Just to clear up some issues:

1. These are not "remakes" of games. So the Pac-Man analogy doesn't hold. It's the original code, possibly compressed some more, that's finding it's way online. It simply would not be feasible to have the original developer go back, clean up the code, add multiplayer, add achievements, etc. Yes, I said original developer. You don't want some random person deciding that it'd be cool to award 250 gamerpoints for successfully completing a Warthog launch, do you?

2. Burnout 3 (unlike most other EA titles) never had it's online functionality turned off. This means that the Originals version should play online just fine.

3. The very vocal minority of the readers of this blog do not represent the opinion of the general Live populace. Most people will sign on in December, see an ad saying, "PLAY THE ORIGINAL HALO! Xbox Originals are here!", click it, see what's offered, exclaim, "Wow, the entire game for $15? Sweet!", and just buy it. Besides, everyone here has owned or, at the very least, played all of these titles, fans that we are of great games. We're just not the target audience.

Hope this causes people to ease up on the hatin'. Microsoft's trying something to rival what Sony's doing with full-games on PSN. Give them a chance. :-)

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Escobar4LifeX — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:10:28 GMT

By the way, MS should make 'Xbox Original' service follow the same rules for regular 360 games and Xbox Live Arcade games. That is atleast 720p HD resolution, Live Aware, Achievements and Online Multiplayer. That would warrant a $15 purchase from most of us.

"In order to preserve the integrity of the original gaming experience they provide, they will have the features available at the time of their initial release." That completely contradicts Live Arcade!!! Like others said, Pac-Man, Contra, and many other classic games didn't have achievements, online multiplayer, live aware and all the other cool stuff.

So why change that now? MS and especially you are spitting out PR BS. I personally find that disrespectful and I know alot of us feel the same way.