1UP writes: "I have a soft spot for the Mr. Driller games, those candy-colored spiritual successors to Dig Dug -- a fondness that has developed in spite of creator Namco's best efforts to dissuade me, it seems. The series' current-gen debut, the downloadable Mr. Driller Online for Xbox Live Arcade, is perhaps the company's ultimate effort in completely undermining any merit the series might once have had. It's a sloppy, half-hearted bit of slapdash effort that offers nothing more than the baseline level of entertainment inherent in the series' well-trod mechanics.
I hesitate to even call the game "current-gen" -- it runs in 720p high-def, sure, but not with anything like grace. The borders and menus are crisp and newly drawn, but the in-game visuals have a fuzzy look to them, as though they were taken from an older Mr. Driller title and scaled up to fit the HD dimensions. Talk about completely missing the point: One thing that made the series' debut so impressive was that the Dreamcast version ran in high resolution. It lent a clean, appealing style to a game whose simplicity might otherwise have seemed an ill fit for such a powerful console".
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...
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...
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.
