VEGEMITE 98 wrote:

Wow, a lot of people a dissappointed that these games wont have achievements, have people every heard playing a game for fun! I will be buying all these games the same as I bought all of the XBLA games for one simple reason these games have gameplay!

Sure I play for fun, thats why we play games. Its just for that price I'll get the real disc for less money. I can see how this will cater to people that don't have the original though.

 MightyMango wrote:

 VEGEMITE 98 wrote:

Wow, a lot of people a dissappointed that these games wont have achievements, have people every heard playing a game for fun! I will be buying all these games the same as I bought all of the XBLA games for one simple reason these games have gameplay!

Sure I play for fun, thats why we play games. Its just for that price I'll get the real disc for less money. I can see how this will cater to people that don't have the original though.

might cater to people that dont have the original... i am satisfied with the whole BC thing having a few bugs b/c i already payed for those games, i can always play them on my original xbox, and of course MS did the best they could since they were forced into running emulations b/c of hardware differences... y would i pay for this kind of sub standard service though? im glad they did it for BC discs (but that was expected of them since the competition offers the same thing) i would never pay for this shoddy service though

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"The coolness is that you can download it over Xbox LIVE"

-MS understanding coolness since 2007

I just want to say that I think Microsoft and Xbox are turning their backs to their loyal customers by not putting in the extra effort to have Xbox Live Support for Halo.

Ever since the inception of Xbox Live Halo fans have been calling for this progression. Microsoft and Xbox Live are now presented with the oportunity to please their fans and make a buck doing it and they again disregard calls from the people they owe their jobs to. They call Xbox live a community, but it is nothing of the sort, it is whatever they want it to be, I think MS can easily gain more revenue and make fans happier and possibly more loyal to xbox if they actually listened to the people that bought their products.

At the very least, tell us you thought about it and give us a viable reason for why you didn't. You owe us that.

    Will this soon mean that MS will be charging via this service for future backwards compatible games instead of doing it for free? I guess that is what happens when you let someone from EA take over Peter Moore's job tho huh? God I miss that man! Xbox has been going down hill ever since he left. -cries-

I also feel sorry for our american friends because we will get video marketplace this year and ther biggest update will be this crap.

I aint gona be buying this, and MajorNelson has confirmed that there will be NO achievements on these games.
MajorNelson said:
'I have gotten quite a few questions about yesterday’s Xbox Originals announcement. Specifically, folks want to know if these games will have additional functionality like Achievements and Gamer score. The answer is no. These are the original games that were created before Xbox 360. In order to preserve the integrity of the original gaming experience they provide, they will have the features available at the time of their initial release. I hope that clears that up.'
Im my opinion, i think that was one bs excuse... they have ruined the Fall Update, and i aint gona be spending 10pounds for one game, to play it through and get no achievements, no online, no HD, nothing extra. Way a go MS

   I hope you know that if you added xbox live to  Halo CE, I would almost be willing to pay the original price for it again, wich equals money ($$$$$$$) for you, Microsoft. I also have to say that I still have my halo CE disc and I have no intention to pay you $15 for the same game I already have, even if it does not require a disc.  If you really think that I am going to pay you for doing nothing to the game then you are sadly mistaking. Many halo fans would likely do the same.

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"The coolness is that you can download it over Xbox LIVE"

-MS understanding coolness since 2007

 trixie360 wrote:

Enjoy the full game experience without having to root through bins of used games. And all at a single, affordable price that makes getting onto Xbox LIVE a reason to stay home and play.

It must be rough for people like Trixie & Major Nelson who are aware of the xbox community and have to sling company lines like this and read the backlash. 

News flash -  The original xbox Halo:CE was popular in the long term because of online play

 AndrewWK67 wrote:

I just want to say that I think Microsoft and Xbox are turning their backs to their loyal customers by not putting in the extra effort to have Xbox Live Support for Halo.

Ever since the inception of Xbox Live Halo fans have been calling for this progression. Microsoft and Xbox Live are now presented with the oportunity to please their fans and make a buck doing it and they again disregard calls from the people they owe their jobs to. They call Xbox live a community, but it is nothing of the sort, it is whatever they want it to be, I think MS can easily gain more revenue and make fans happier and possibly more loyal to xbox if they actually listened to the people that bought their products.

At the very least, tell us you thought about it and give us a viable reason for why you didn't. You owe us that.

 

reason: they thought about doing the work... but it was way easier to just throw the emulations they already were using for BC at us and pretend that it was a cool feature...

i was so excited by this feature than i read the independent article that stated something like "xbox originals not launched, Microsoft already warning about problems" now im just a bitter customer... why even pretend like this is a worthwhile feature MS?

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"The coolness is that you can download it over Xbox LIVE"

-MS understanding coolness since 2007

 trixie360 wrote:

 WhiffleBallTony wrote:

Will Halo have Xbox LIVE functionality? Please, tell me! I need to know!

No, this isn't a new or updated game with new code. This is the classic Halo: Combat Evolved. The coolness is that you can download it over Xbox LIVE--you don't have to mess with a disc.

No offense... but is this for real?  That is what is considered "cool" about this?  Seriously??  Really??

~telengard

well Since the game would have to be rewritten in order to support XBL, I wonder, just wonder, if XBL-classic emulation is somehow going to support Internet system-link games. In other words, since the 360 is emulating an Xbox classic, perhaps the emulation could also be written to support/use a MS-written or licensed 3rd party type of tunneling software.

That way, any pre-XBL titles would be "playable" online, but not need to each be re-written with full XBL support or certification

PLZ add online play/achivment point.  Even if we have to wait one more year it would be worth it for both us and Microsoft.  I think every one on this forum or on Xbox Live would tell u the same thing.  If u did add these fetures you would to just halo that game would most deffenitly be the most downloaded game ever and break one more recored in sales.  PLZ PLZ Listen we dont want the origanals that you are offering.  We all have Live PLZ let us use it and play together online, and as for achivment point if it ant broke dont fix it.  In other words PLZ dont change the formula.  We bought it for the 360 and achivment *** would be =' ( 

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~This Is How We Do~

have yet to read one positive independent article about xbox originals since the revelations about the bugs today... some were neuteral but most of those were still not sure of the real point of this service. all aknowledged MS is not pushing any boundaries with this service

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"The coolness is that you can download it over Xbox LIVE"

-MS understanding coolness since 2007

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-IWSICP!
Xbox Ambassador - MD

trixie: No, this isn't a new or updated game with new code. This is the classic Halo: Combat Evolved. The coolness is that you can download it over Xbox LIVE--you don't have to mess with a disc.

OMG I WILL DIE IF I HAVE TO PUT A DISK IN MY XBOX PUTING A DISK IN IS SOOOOO MUCH EFFORT (sarcasm) do you really think that people will buy halo on XBL market place and waste there money and memory space so that they dont have to put a disk in their xbox. if you give it XBL abilities it will be a gold mine. i would pay $60 for halo 1 with XBL though i wouldnt really want to spend that much but

I was excited when i saw halo, and i would have happily payed 1200 points for it but then i hear there is no acheivments? i dont realy care about online, it would be nice, but i would pay for it without it. but im not paying for a game i had for 6 and a half years (which most people also have) without something new to draw me in, and that would be acheivments. at least make it worth our while!

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GOOGLE IT!!!!

Yeah, straight ports of the games kinda water down my enthusiasm for the idea of downloadable original xbox games.  Especially since some of the initial games listed can still easily be purchased for less than the download cost. 
Also, you can resell a physical game to recoup some of your money once your over the glee of playing an original xbox game on the 360. 

There is also the issue that most people have either no hard drive or the 20GB flavor which means for most of us with updates and some XBLA games on their hd's space is at a premium.  I guess I'm gonna give this entire announcement my personal rating of     "meh"

Now if only this announcement mentioned a hefty price drop on the 120GB drives...

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Red Ring 'o' Death Club
1st 07-2007
2nd 12-2007
3rd 05-2009

I would really like to see these xbox games for marketplace to download. Names of the games I would like to see for download is 25 to Life, 50 Cent Bulletproof, Area 51, Beyond Good & Evil, BloodRayne 1 and 2, BMX XXX, Burnout 2, Colin McRae Rally 2005, Colin McRae Rally 3, Colin McRae Rally 3, Crash 'N' Burn, Crime Life Gang Wars, Dead or Alive 3, Dead or Alive Ultimate, Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball, Destroy All Humans!, Destroy All Humans!2, Dino Crisis 3, Dinosaur Hunting, Evil Dead A Fistful of Boomstick, Fight Club, Forza Motorsport, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, Juiced, Jurassic Park Operation Genesis, LA Rush, Leisure Suit Larry Magna *** Laude, Max Payne, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition REMIX, Midnight Club II, NBA Ballers, Need for Speed Underground, Need for Speed Underground 2, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2, Need for Speed Most Wanted, Ninja Gaiden Black, Ninja Gaiden, Predator Concrete Jungle, RalliSport Challenge, RalliSport Challenge 2, Second Sight, SegaGT Online, SpyHunter, SpyHunter 2, Street Racing Syndicate, Terminator 3 Redemption, Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines, The Chronicles of Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay, The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind, The House of the Dead 3, The Simpsons Hit and Run, The Terminator Dawn Of Fate, Top Gear RPM Tuning, True Crime Streets of L.A., True Crime New York City, Turok Evolution, Urban Chaos Riot Response, V-Rally 3, Worms 3D, Worms 4 Mayhem, Worms Forts Under Siege, Wreckless The Yakuza Missions, Xbox Music Mixer and  Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny

whats the point of downloading something from xbl if u cant play xbl with it

@ Urban Stryker13

Thanks for making your post huge and ugly for no reason... I’m sure we all appreciate it.

 

 

np

 CollapseControl wrote:

 trixie360 wrote:

 WhiffleBallTony wrote:

Will Halo have Xbox LIVE functionality? Please, tell me! I need to know!

No, this isn't a new or updated game with new code. This is the classic Halo: Combat Evolved. The coolness is that you can download it over Xbox LIVE--you don't have to mess with a disc.

Just to let you know (if you didn't already) that if the Xbox games were treated like Arcade games with Online & Achievements it would be a huge amount of $$$ for the service. 

Now that I know we can't connect to our friends through LIVE, you lost 30+ people on my list that would of forked over the $15.

Looks like I'll just be picking up (err...downloading) the single player games, is there a release date schedule in the works?

I'd say more like lost half the target market.

no achievements!? wahhh!!

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xbox 360 rulez!!!

Who would actually want to waste money and HD space for old games? If they updated Halo and added xbox live I would definetly spend my money on it.

Come on Microsoft... You spoiled us with an amazing online service 5 years ago. You spoiled us with achievements. You spoiled us with all the other enmities you ingeniously though of. Why take us back before all of this and expect us not to complain?

Retaining original integrity and ingenuity? That's the most creative explanation for laziness I have ever heard of.

 x EoC PhoeniX x wrote:

Come on Microsoft... You spoiled us with an amazing online service 5 years ago. You spoiled us with achievements. You spoiled us with all the other enmities you ingeniously though of. Why take us back before all of this and expect us not to complain?

Retaining original integrity and ingenuity? That's the most creative explanation for laziness I have ever heard of.

I think it's absolutely HILARIOUS that this is the cornerstone of their 5 year anniversary.  This is like the laughing stock of the internet right now.

Pay more for a virtual game than owning the real thing.  Will use up your hard disk and have probably more bugs than with the original DVD games.  Download via XBL but it has no XBL functionality!!!  But hey, there is something cool though.  You don't have to "mess with discs" anymore.   Whoooooa

~telengard

so im guessing there wont be any demos for any of the original games.

well, all this feedback on the community must make Microsoft think a little.

 thatsgerman wrote:

well, all this feedback on the community must make Microsoft think a little.

yea, probably not.

due to the fact that the probably dont think.

 

I mean they dont put XBL on Halo CE. That is pretty good proof that they are brain dead

this is a huge joke i dont understand how microsoft could honestly not make the game for live