In my frequenting bored state I often find my self perusing all 6 aisles of my local gamestop in search of my next feed. So what do I find to much excitement. Otogi AND Otogi 2! Not an incredibly hard find I know but just the mere sight of the game sparked memories of completely destroying downs wall by wall and beam by beam. So in hopes to reel in the nostalgia I purchase both for a reasonable total sum of $20 (along with oddworld: strangers wrath). In my gleefull ride home a little voice of wisdom spoke these words "its probably not backwards compatable," however my extremely optimistic self though "no no no of course its going to work, it was supposed to be a rival for devil may cry and it was one of the most beautiful games on the system." So I rushed over to my 360, plugged in the game and much to my (lack of) suprise IT ISNT FUCKING BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE. "How can this be true?! Must be a mistake! Do I need to update?" So I upload my internets and checkup on the list of playable original xbox games. BMX XXX: Check! of course a classic (fuck you) Drake: Check! also a classic, best cel shaded game ever (not, fuck you) oh and of course Barbie Horse Adventures: Check! always my favorite, cant get me enough of that equestrianism. BULLHONKEY! SHENANIGANS! FUCK YOU MICROSOFT! god damnit.... How can they igonre such a classic albiet semi-flawed game in the backwards compatibility line up? Just get over yourselves and jump to full backwards compatibility. Is it too much to ask for to be able to play my originial xbox games? Games you wont even make a profit off of because the only way to get them is by purchasing them used, just fueling profits to the stores that sell them and not you? Or do you REALLY need to attempt imitate nintendo by reselling franchises on XBLA for unreasonable prices at massive file size (sadly I have the 20gb still)? God God Damnit Damnit. Part my fault for not doing the research and part MS fault for being MS. Way to go both of us.... MS you d-bag.
Also Strangers Wrath ended up not being backwards compatible -_-
But you know, Gamestop has the letters BC on all their used XBox games if they are backwards compatible. It's on the little yellow USED tag, for your convenience.
I only ever played the demos for the 2 Otogi's. I'd love to buy em but the only thing stoppin me is the lack of backwards compat. Hope they fix this...
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Microsoft doesnt care about anything from XBox that didnt sell.
Its obvious you need to have boobs to get onto that BC list!
This is why I still have my OG XBOX
Well that sucks.
But you know, Gamestop has the letters BC on all their used XBox games if they are backwards compatible. It's on the little yellow USED tag, for your convenience.
If only you knew about that beforehand.
I only ever played the demos for the 2 Otogi's. I'd love to buy em but the only thing stoppin me is the lack of backwards compat. Hope they fix this...