The Bluffer's Guide to Xbox Cult Classics Comments by Kristan Reed
Top of the Flops, if you like. [updated!]
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I'm all with the Project Zero things. Makes anyone who has played the game cry a little inside... they deserve no sympathy for the mess that was #3, but the first two are simply above and beyond the competition...
Great list. Wonderful to see Beyond Good And Evil get a mention as well... most of these games really badly need to be backwards compatible. Who knows, a few years down the road gamers might actually find out what they were missing... |
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"The developer, like so many of the teams behind the games on this list, went out of business not long after. Cruel, considering the quality of its game."
Didn't Swinging Ape get bought by Blizzard after being signed up to work on their console version of Starcraft? Metal Arms is a great game that was sadly overlooked. The Xbox version was by far the best. Edit: Blizzard aquires Swinging Ape
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TriodeBliss
15/11/06 @ 12:05
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Are there any Sega games except HotD III that Microsoft has bothered making backwards compatible?
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Dr.Haggard
15/11/06 @ 12:07
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There I was, fingertips poised to declare my indignation at the omission of Enclave, and there it is. Yay etc \o/
Great article. Otogi 2 is also rather good. Saw a copy of Deathrow in Gamestation a couple of weeks ago, and wandered around clutching it for a few mins before putting it back on the shelf, thinking it probably wasn't actually as good as people told me it was years ago. Doh. |
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I bought quite a few of these games and the problem I had with a lot of them, was that they nearly all had some flaw that annoyed me enough to give up on them. The other games on the list all had either such mixed reviews or demos that gave a bad impression that I never bought them.
The only game I haven't bought but want to is Psychonauts, I played the demo on the PC and loved it but don't really like playing games my PC (stuffed in the corner of my office, small screen etc) and don't have an XBox anymore, so I'm waiting for it to be backwards compatible on the 360. |
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Dr.Haggard
15/11/06 @ 12:14
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No Breakdown?
Good call. Though I never finished it I really enjoyed it for a while. Quite atmospheric, some nice set pieces and the combat is satisfying and fun. Might go back to it on a rainy day sometime. |
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Could'nt agree more about "Kung Fu Chaos"!! One of the funniest and most entertaining games I've ever played, loved it to bits, easily one of the best games released on the Xbox (bought it twice). Shame it never sold well, a sequel playable over Live would have been really something.
"XIII" was excellent too, and "Fusion Frenzy" was a great game to play with a bunch of mates (which is why I'm looking forward to its sequel witrh full Live support this time!)... this is where I'd normally start hurling abuse at people for not buying them, but, I never picked up the apparent gems such as "Beyond Good & Evil", "Panzer Dragoon Orta", "Fahrenheit", etc... so I have no right to moan at other people.
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repairmanjack
15/11/06 @ 12:16
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This list needs Sniper Elite, imho.
The BC is borked on it... but rumours of a next-gen sequel fill me with hope. |
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Dark_Stranger
15/11/06 @ 12:37
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So only a small percentage of the xbox games Eurogamer says a cult classics actually work on the 360. Shows what they know then!
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The_Programmer
15/11/06 @ 12:39
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"Get Rallisport Challenge 2 in there quick Kristan, no one has noticed it's missing :) "
I agree with you there. It's a great game. |
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barnard666
15/11/06 @ 12:40
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Links 2004, I still play it, I finally gave in though and purchased tiger woods 07 on 360, sadly I cant stand it...I'd kill for another links game...
cromson skies I guess deserved a mention (or did I miss it?) and outrun 2 without doubt did. Even though it seems a little redundant some of those tom clancy games were and are still are astounding, although with their 360 couterparts does anyone really care? GR 1 was the best in the series gameplay wise, shame its one of the ugliest things ever made.... Me and some friends still get together and lan up these old games even though our 360's sit there, those games are still great. amd yes quantum redshift was better than f zero.....jesus I sound like a fan boy now...Nooooooo! |
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Mad. You've listed nearly every Xbox game I currently own, and a few I did. (Still kicking myself for trading in XIII.) Currently playing through Beyond Good & Evil. It's a real beaut. Even the people watching me play are enjoying it. It'd be good to see some of these released again in budget or compilation format, unlikely as that is.
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guest informant
15/11/06 @ 12:47
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Rallisport Challenge 2 is the best racing game ever, especially the hill climb bits.
Only ever met decent people on Live as well. It's criminal that there won't be a 3rd version. |
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I bought 8 of those, but took Racing Evoluzione back because the car handling was all over the place. I seem to remember I exchanged it for Colin McRae 4, but was sufficently disappointed by that too that I exchanged it for PGR2, which is still great.
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chemicalcaveman
15/11/06 @ 12:57
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I have seven of these, must make a list and see can I pick up the rest cheap as the xbox fades into retirement..........
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Aside from Halo and Ninja Gaiden which are obviously too popular to make such a list, that list contains within it every game I like on the Xbox.
If I like a game you can almost guarantee it wont sell. Also this illustrates why next gen hasn't enthused me yet, seems to be all by the numbers games with better graphics and nothing(to my knowledge) with the character of many of the games of this list.
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Carpathian
15/11/06 @ 13:08
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Just grabbed Quantum Redshift for £2.18 on Amazon.... I figure I might just get at least my moneys worth !
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Royal Fool
15/11/06 @ 13:09
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Wow, fantastic article. Outlines so many of those cult games that nobody ever played... many of them are sitting on my shelf. It's atrocious that these games aren't playable on the 360, although I can understand it's silly for Microsoft to emulate them when they never sold to begin with. But that's really Microsoft's fault for doing backwards-compatability via software, isn't it?
Also, you forgot Blinx! Yes, I'll be damned, it's not really that good a game, but the time manipulation was unique enough - and was also one of the few MS-published titles that actually got a marketing campaign, oddly enough. |
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spookyzombie
15/11/06 @ 13:17
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Making the same mistake I did. Black was a hit, not a ignored title.
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SirStanley
15/11/06 @ 13:18
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Ah yes, Freedom Fighters. Very much enjoyed that game, and surprisingly found myself sticking with it all the way to the end.
And, perhaps worth noting, all this excellence was in glorious 720p as well. |
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GrandpaUlrira
15/11/06 @ 13:19
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Quantum Redshift is NOT better than F-Zero GX. And certainly not better than F-Zero X.
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NemesisZero
15/11/06 @ 13:20
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You know, this might be a bit of a fluff piece (and I'm fine with that), but still, by which criteria did you decide a game was unsuccessful?
Fahrenheit had two weeks as the top-selling XBox title in North America before it dropped rather abruptly (dare I say because word of mouth on that ending spread?). Crimson Skies actually carried a good deal of the Box' sales in those days. It certainly never reached Halo status, but that does not mean it was a failure. I just find it strange to bemoan games that spawned sequels or scored its developers prestigious contracts (BG&E and King Kong, anyone) as disasters. Sure, none of those games were blockbusters, but logically, there should be some space between the Mt. Olympus and Hades of sales. |
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prettyboytim
15/11/06 @ 13:25
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What!? No Steel Battalion?
Bunch of my favourite games on there, though... |
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