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Old 17-12-2015, 18:16
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No Bioshock??

What a total let down.

Ever since they mentioned the likes of black ops and Bioshock would be coming next I've been waiting and now like most of us, disappointed.

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Old 17-12-2015, 18:21
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...but sometimes they don't really do themselves any favours. After the November titles were announced and mentions were made re Bioshock and BlOps, it would have been the easiest thing in the world to address the expectation that these were coming in December. Their own wording was what led many to that conclusion in the first place...
But they never said anything regarding what games were coming out when, nor what would be due this month, that's been down to fan speculation gathering momentum, as far as I saw. The official line was simply: More titles are on the way, including fan favorites like Halo Reach, Halo Wars, Call of DutyŽ: Black Ops 1, Bioshock, Bioshock 2, Bioshock Infinite, and Skate 3.

Just need ME2 & ME3 next and I can get rid of my 360...
That won't happen for a while whilst there are still issues with multi-disc games

Ever since they mentioned the likes of black ops and Bioshock would be coming next...
They never said they'd be coming next, just that they were on the way...
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Old 17-12-2015, 18:49
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The full quote was;

Our launch of 104 titles on Nov. 12 is just the beginning. You can expect new Xbox One Backward Compatible games to be announced on a regular basis, starting in December. More titles are on the way, including fan favorites like Halo Reach, Halo Wars, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Bioshock, Bioshock 2, Bioshock Infinite and Skate 3. Stay tuned because this just the beginning of a long list of Xbox 360 games that will run on Xbox One.
It's not difficult to see why many thought Black Ops and/or Bioshock were coming this month. Beyond the ambiguous language though, they could have addressed the rampant expectation on the Xbox forums where talk of Black Ops and Bioshock in December has been discussed as almost a matter of fact since the November announcement.

BC is a brilliant concept, and a big thumbs up to MS for going down this route, but they can hardly be surprised at people voicing disappointment when thus far they haven't actually delivered into live a single game within the top 40 requested titles.
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Old 17-12-2015, 19:57
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I reckon they are still tweaking the emulator for backwards compatability. Probably all the full games suffer from frame rate issues like in gears.

And yeah boooooo for no halo wars. Think I added another 6 more games
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Old 17-12-2015, 20:21
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ME2 and ME3 would be ideal. Add CoD4 and RDR and that would have me retiring mine as well!
Cod4 and I don't think any of my other games would get a look in!!
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Old 17-12-2015, 20:34
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... they could have addressed the rampant expectation on the Xbox forums where talk of Black Ops and Bioshock in December has been discussed as almost a matter of fact since the November announcement.
They didn't have to address anything and the only folk who have made this an issue is fans talking as if what was 'ambiguous' was 'fact'. MS never said which titles were coming in December, just that more games would start coming in December and which titles are on their way. If they'd said "You can expect new Xbox One Backward Compatible games to be announced on a regular basis, starting in December with these titles..." then that would be a different matter but they clearly differentiated between the two points being made.

BC is great but folk making such a big thing over certain titles are looking at a "tail wagging the dog" situation...
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Old 17-12-2015, 20:42
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Disappointing about Bioshock but a replay of Halo Reach will keep me going for a bit
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Old 18-12-2015, 09:50
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Cod4 and I don't think any of my other games would get a look in!!
Well of course!

mred2000, I hear what you're saying, but given that MS tout the XB forums as being a key communication tool between themselves and the playing community, I still think they could have corrected the 'assumption' at any point in the past month. However the original language was used, clearly, people HAVE misinterpreted them. Again, from the forums, and through Major Nelson's Twitter engagement, this must have been perfectly obvious to MS.

Of course MS are under no obligation to do so, but it hardly endears themselves to the community when they seemingly don't see the value in keeping expectation levels realistic, or in check. And of course, the community is under no obligation not to be disappointed when the list of games announced isn't what they thought it might be.

As for 'tail wagging the dog' - that's what happens when they set up a poll asking what games people wanted
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Old 19-12-2015, 16:41
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Very disappointed.

The Backwards compatibility was trumpted just over 6 months ago with talk about many games being made compatible.

So here we are and only a handful of "full games" (ie not arcade games) are backward compatible

Sadly, "this next gen Xbone" seems to have been disappointing in terms of delivery: from the first OS being way behind that of the 360, the initial lack of proper headphone support plus the laggy gaming experience (not solved by the famous dedicated servers) and now the backwards compatibility roll out!!! The improved graphics are great but beyond that I don't really see much improvement.
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Old 20-12-2015, 20:18
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Cool. Picked up Fable 3 for a fiver last month.
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Old 21-12-2015, 16:49
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Splosion Man - Say no more, bit long in the tooth now, but if you've never played it, its worth a shot
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Old 26-12-2015, 17:54
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I just voted for Left 4 Dead since I'm getting a XB1.
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Old 01-01-2016, 22:32
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Very disappointed.

The Backwards compatibility was trumpted just over 6 months ago
with talk about many games being made compatible.

So here we are and only a handful of "full games" (ie not
arcade games) are backward compatible
It's only been two months since Backwards Compatibility was officially launched, and there are 1,000+ games
made for the Xbox 360. To actually expect a large selection of these games to be made playable on the XB1
so soon is silly, especially as the 3rd party publishers need to give Microsoft permission to port the games.
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Old 02-01-2016, 06:52
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Very disappointed.

The Backwards compatibility was trumpted just over 6 months ago with talk about many games being made compatible.

So here we are and only a handful of "full games" (ie not arcade games) are backward compatible

Sadly, "this next gen Xbone" seems to have been disappointing in terms of delivery: from the first OS being way behind that of the 360, the initial lack of proper headphone support plus the laggy gaming experience (not solved by the famous dedicated servers) and now the backwards compatibility roll out!!! The improved graphics are great but beyond that I don't really see much improvement.
It's early days to be fair, BC only launched a few weeks ago, and you were never going to get the 360's full library from day one. MS have to persuade publishers to give them their games for a start. I'm sure more and more games will be added over the coming months and years though.
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Old 02-01-2016, 10:56
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The above quote is from 22 june on this thread

Understand I may be a little impatient when reading the two replies above. However, it has been launched 6 months ago (as we can see from earlier pages of this thread ) and if the above article is true, then once permission is granted from the producer, then making the game backwards compatible should be very easy....

Anyway, we are in the same boat that we are all waiting for more games to become backwards compatible
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Old 02-01-2016, 12:47
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The above quote is from 22 june on this thread

Understand I may be a little impatient when reading the two replies above. However, it has been launched 6 months ago (as we can see from earlier pages of this thread ) and if the above article is true, then once permission is granted from the producer, then making the game backwards compatible should be very easy....

Anyway, we are in the same boat that we are all waiting for more games to become backwards compatible
I suspect it's a marketing/PR decision to slowly drip feed games. It's helps MS create talking points, builds anticipation, gets them headlines and social media attention, keeps forum threads like this one running....etc.

On a quiet release month, or if PlayStation has a big announcement they can pull a BC card out of their sleeve.

They can hold big names back and use them to tie in with new releases. Example - PlayStation have COD marketing now, so MS might add MW2 when the next game is revealed, capturing a slice of the press attention.

You can only play so many games at once. No point releasing 1000 games at the same time so everything gets lost in the crowd.

It might be frustrating but it's in MS's best interest to make us wait.
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Old 02-01-2016, 17:29
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I think the fact of it been easy and just flicking a button to allow backwards compatibility is a myth. This has been shown by the awful performance of halo reach which they are trying to sort out.
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Old 04-01-2016, 18:34
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i wish fable anniversary was backwards compatable
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Old 05-01-2016, 10:00
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Couple of questions!


1 - Do Back Compat games actually look better on the Xbox One- thinking of replaying Assassins Creed 2 on my Xbox One but wondered if I would notice any graphical enhancements?!

2-Do Back Compat games also offer achievements on the Xbox One?!
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Old 05-01-2016, 11:14
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1 - Do Back Compat games actually look better on the Xbox One- thinking of replaying Assassins Creed 2 on my Xbox One but wondered if I would notice any graphical enhancements?!

2-Do Back Compat games also offer achievements on the Xbox One?!
I've only played a few but no and no...

You boot up the game and it basically switches to 360 mode and the games looks as they did on the 360... they're exactly the same games, not enhanced versions.

I think they still have X360 achievements which still add to your gamerscore... but no specifically new XB1 achievements...
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Old 05-01-2016, 14:50
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I've only played a few but no and no...

You boot up the game and it basically switches to 360 mode and the games looks as they did on the 360... they're exactly the same games, not enhanced versions.

I think they still have X360 achievements which still add to your gamerscore... but no specifically new XB1 achievements...
...ok, cheers for that.
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Old 05-01-2016, 15:05
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I have a question.

I have 2 profiles on my 360, one is a gold account, one isn't, that obviously means that one can play online and the other one can't. Now, if i move both profiles on to my Xbox One, they can both play Xbox One games online because all you need is 1 gold account on the console. So does the same apply to Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One, can you play Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One with a silver account as long as you have a gold account on the system ?
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Old 05-01-2016, 17:15
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i do think they are better than they were on the 360. mass effect now has no screen tearing, no texture, pop in and the load times are greatly reduced
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Old 21-01-2016, 16:57
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New Xbox One Backward Compatibility Titles;

Aegis Wing
Age of Booty
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Jeremy McGrath's Offroad
Sam & Max Save the World
Skullgirls
Small Arms
SoulCalibur
Space Giraffe
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings



owners in select regions can download The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings for free on Xbox.com anytime between now and February 5.
Xbox will now release backward compatible games as they become available, no more "monthly wave"
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Old 21-01-2016, 18:04
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Hmmmmm. Take it we are not one of the select regions then?.

I think it is better to release these as and when rather than in batches though. Might look at soul calibur, loved that back in the day.
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