Okay, serious question here.
Who exactly chooses the Xbox Original games at Microsoft? Does anyone have the slightest clue? How is the selection made exactly? Is it a committee decision?
Because if they release Zapper as an Xbox Original and then this:
Xbox Originals
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The Xbox Live Marketplace and the Xbox 360's compatibility with certain Xbox games are utilized to make Xbox Originals - Xbox games that can be downloaded to and played on the Xbox 360.
Xbox Originals = Baffling Insanity
It's like with the Virtual Console service, how they keep releasing shit-tastic games when Earthbound hasn't even hit yet, or Majora's Mask.
What is wrong with these people?
"I'm thinking they are trying to help recoup some money on games that didn't do as well as expected. Or... just maybe it's easier to slip these games through for some reason (less costly, or less of a licensing pain)."
Maybe I can sort of understand that but I'm sure it's more cost-effective to just not re-release these crappy games at all and just work on having great Xbox Originals come out every few months or so. Like make the release of an Xbox Original AN EVENT so people will be all like "OHMYGODOHMYGOD THERE'S A NEW XBOX ORIGINAL COMING OUT WE ARE GUARANTEED RETRO AWESOMENESS WHERE'S MY WALLET?".
Instead of the concept quickly becoming a massive joke.
"JJOR64 said:It isn't? Man, I just bought the Xbox version last month for a few bucks. Thankfully I still have my Xbox"Agreed. Give me Stranger's Wrath or Conker Live and Reloaded already!"You took the words right out of my mouth. And the former isn't even backwards compatible!"
For some incomprehensible reason, they have Jade Empire but not Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
"Bucketdeth said:It was on Amazon.ca for 10.99 I think, so I impulsed bought it, it was a budget game, but was half decent like I said, I remember it being pretty hard and the enemies respawning like crazy."I owned blowout for the gamecube, it was very repetetive but a half decent game."
Wow. I'd never even heard of the thing. What brought you to purchase it?"
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