would you buy more Xbox Originals if they had Achievements?

Post by Origina1Penguin (1,245 posts) See mini bio

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I still own all of my Xbox games, and I pretty much bought all of the ones I wanted. If achievements were somehow possible and applied to them, then I would go back and play ALL of them again.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by Newten (351 posts) See mini bio

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LordAndrew said:

"Here's an interesting blog on this same topic.Unfortunately, I don't think they can do it. Each game is nothing more than an emulation of the original. They were all intended for the original Xbox, and thus I don't think they'd be able to put Xbox 360-specific code in them."

Yeah but, there are achievements in Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection and all those games are emulated.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

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BiggerBomb said:

"jakob187 said:
"I would absolutely buy games like Black, Stubbs the Zombie, and a couple of others off the Xbox Originals if they had achievements.

Man, achievements in Black would be AWESOME!!!"
I don't know, I think they would be too hard to see if they were in black."

OH HO! HE THINKS HE'S WITTY, EH?!

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by Hexpane (1,111 posts) See mini bio

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Nope, but it's never going to happen anyway

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by TheGreatGuero (3,014 posts) See mini bio

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Totally. Well... I would if I could, but my 20GB hard drive is down to less than 1GB and I hardly have anything on it. It's all pretty whack.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by Alexander (726 posts) See mini bio

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No. Most games I would consider playing again are backward compatible and cheaper to find second-hand.

[edit] plus HDD space.

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Post by PercyChuggs (927 posts) See mini bio

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I can honestly say I have no reason to ever play any Xbox game ever again.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by JJOR64 (6,001 posts) See mini bio

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I would buy more easily. There was a rumor flying around late last year that Xbox Originals where going to have 500G. I can't remember where I read it.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by Br3adfan (3,166 posts) See mini bio

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It depends. At the moment there is not one Xbox Original game that I would purchase on the marketplace.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by pweidman (257 posts) See mini bio

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Maybe I guess although there aren't many I haven't played or would be willing to play over just for points............................ but I would really rather they spend the energy/resources to make some games online capable........for instance Halo CE online capable for the co-op campaign(on 360)......omg w/a friend on legendary...great fantasy I spose.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by TooWalrus (2,858 posts) See mini bio

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Yes, I would, but I don't expect it to happen, especially after they've been around for so long.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by Maxszy (1,216 posts) See mini bio

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Naw. Not only do I only have a 20gb but the main reason I don't buy originals is that, they don't have anything I want.

Start putting some titles out that people want on Originals (KOTOR anyone?) and I think a lot more people would be buying them.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by Kush (6,796 posts) See mini bio

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I haven't bought one Xbox Original because I can get the same thing on disc for cheaper most of the time...if they added achievements, at least that would make them unique (besides the ability to play without a disc). I know my friend Rob would go crazy and buy all of them if they added achievements.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by DuhQbnSiLo (932 posts) See mini bio

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pretty sad hunting down useless points that mean NOTHING

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by Randolph (251 posts) See mini bio

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No, the only thing that will get me to buy more Originals is if they stop uploading pure and absolute fucking crap like Zapper, Blowout, Grabbed by the Ghoulies, and Sega Soccer Slam.

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Post by BananaKid (334 posts) See mini bio

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I would buy so fucking many.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by Muze (155 posts) See mini bio

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I play so many classic games that I don't even care about achievements as much anymore.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by Kush (6,796 posts) See mini bio

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I think it would be nice to see MS drop the price of the 120GB HDD first...so I would actually have space to download these games.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by WilliamRLBaker (2,542 posts) See mini bio

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If they could add achievements to xbox originals i see no reason why they couldn't add them to disc emulated games since the same code is there and things are being emulated in nearly the same way. The way achievements are given in quite a few of these emulated classics even XLBA games is that certain memory addresses are monitored when those memory addresses are ticked on then the achievement is unlocked.
so achievements wouldn't be hard to impliment in that way as for that i doubt you'd have to buy them all over again since it would just require an update.

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Post by Red (2,952 posts) See mini bio

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Definitely. I've been lookin' for an excuse to buy Psychonauts.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by j0rdan (150 posts) See mini bio

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achievements would be nice, but certainly not a big enough incentive for me, the one thing they do need is to add 60hrz support for PAL territories, or just make its so we can play em over RGB or HDMI.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by DazbotAthertron (621 posts) See mini bio

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I would definitely buy more of them, San Andreas with achievements FTW.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by Meowayne (2,818 posts) See mini bio

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I would long have bought Xbox originals if the asshats at Microsoft would let me play them with my VGA cable.

But they won't.

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Post by suneku (2,515 posts) See mini bio

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I would definitely.

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Post by Ubergeist (289 posts) See mini bio

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I have never bought one and don't really plan on it. Had fun with those games last gen.

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Post by MB (5,999 posts) See mini bio

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Newten said:

"LordAndrew said:
"Here's an interesting blog on this same topic.Unfortunately, I don't think they can do it. Each game is nothing more than an emulation of the original. They were all intended for the original Xbox, and thus I don't think they'd be able to put Xbox 360-specific code in them."
Yeah but, there are achievements in Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection and all those games are emulated."

Yeah but the Ultimate Genesis Collection was made as an Xbox 360 game, so it can have achievements. Achievements in original Xbox games would involve the developers going back and rewriting code and putting the hooks in for them - this is simply not going to happen. This is a subject that's been brought up time and time again since the Xbox 360 first came out in 2005, and the answer is always the same - it can't happen because Xbox games were not designed with achievements in mind.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by BiggerBomb (5,747 posts) See mini bio

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MB said:

"Newten said:
"LordAndrew said:
"Here's an interesting blog on this same topic.Unfortunately, I don't think they can do it. Each game is nothing more than an emulation of the original. They were all intended for the original Xbox, and thus I don't think they'd be able to put Xbox 360-specific code in them."
Yeah but, there are achievements in Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection and all those games are emulated."
Yeah but the Ultimate Genesis Collection was made as an Xbox 360 game, so it can have achievements. Achievements in original Xbox games would involve the developers going back and rewriting code and putting the hooks in for them - this is simply not going to happen. This is a subject that's been brought up time and time again since the Xbox 360 first came out in 2005, and the answer is always the same - it can't happen because Xbox games were not designed with achievements in mind."

This may very well be the case; this may very well not be the case. What with all of the technical complexities of modern media (specifically: gaming,) I would be very surprised if there were not a way to circumvent this. Playstation 3 games were not made with Trophies in mind, yet "they" have gone back and programmed Trophy-support into a handful of games.

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Post by L (536 posts) See mini bio

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If they were to do that, I would hope the disc ones could work too, since the games are exact copies on Xbox Originals.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by Wolverine (3,346 posts) See mini bio

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No, I'm not that desperate for a fix.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Post by RedSox8933 (1,521 posts) See mini bio

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i bought two of them already, but achievements would be pretty sweet. it sure would take a long time to put achievements into original xbox games, though.

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

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would you buy more Xbox Originals if they had Achievements?