Three more Xbox Originals coming News
Xbox 360 News by Ellie Gibson
Microsoft has announced three more original Xbox games will soon be available for download from Xbox Live.
The titles in question include Ninja Gaiden Black, Tecmo's super-hard, super-fast fighting game, and Black - the 2006 shooter from Burnout boys Criterion. The third game is action RPG Sid Meier's Pirates!
All three will be released for download on February 11th, each priced at 1200 Microsoft points (around GBP 10 / EUR 14).
Meanwhile, you may have noticed the Internet afire with rumours Jade Empire and Conker Live & Reloaded are also joining the Xbox Originals collection. The rumours are rubbish, it turns out. Ah well.
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Hmm £10 sounds pretty dear to me - pick most of these up pre-owned for half the price.
The game developer would get zero from such a transaction though. £10 is a bargain for most of these games. Plus the convenience of having them sat on your hard drive ready to go is not to be underestimated.
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groovychainsaw
06/02/08 @ 14:19
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The trouble is the convenience of having all your hard drive space taken up by one game, leaving the xbox unable to anyhting else is less appreciated... I know there's a bigger hard drive out there, but its too expensive, so can't justify keeping my hard drive virtually unusable until I complete the xbox 1 game. Anyone else found that the hard drive space appears to 'creep' smaller and smaller? I cleared everything that I was able to the other day (every single thing from the delete menu, barring a couple of downloadable content things) and still only had 8Gb left... Starting to see the benefit of the PS3's easily swappable hard drives now...
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GordonCaladan
06/02/08 @ 14:55
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Can anyone report on their experience with Black on the 360 wr to framerate etc?
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SlackMaster
06/02/08 @ 14:55
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I've always wondered how long on average the originals take to download... I know line speed and size of the download will affect, with most games clocking over 3Gb, so I'm guessing it might take all day.
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@ groovychainsaw:
"Anyone else found that the hard drive space appears to 'creep' smaller and smaller?" You want to try clearing your cache, mate. Go into the options by pressing Y on the HDD icon then press X,X,LB,RB,X,X I think Anyways I'd actually quite like to try all three of these. I've still got the original ninja gaiden disc but is black better enough to warrant expense of a tenner?
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Call me a geek, but I really dislike the ulgy logo that gets printed in one's games list after we play an Original. It wasn't like that before Fall's update.
SlackMaster: I've been able to download them within 4-6 hours, and my connecton isn't very fast.
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Whats gonna happen to all these gigabytes of downloaded games and all the other stuff when MS bring out the successor to the 360?.
I cant see an easy way of transferring 20GB+ onto a new consoles HD, (assuming it has one, Flash drives anyone?.) Actually come to think of it, i cant see the 360's successor being BC anyway... |
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I tried Ninja Gaiden Black on my 360 a year or so ago and it lagged like piss. Hopefully they've sorted that out.
Anyway, I suggest anyone who appreciates challenging and skill-reliant gaming to get NG: Black simply because I expect Ninja Gaiden 2 will be nerfed, and so the great experiences of NG: Black will never surface again. |
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Emilia'sHorse
06/02/08 @ 18:46
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WoW I am happy to see all three titles.
Think I will buy NG Black and Pirates. Now hows about bunging some achievement points in to add spice? And put me down for Outrun 2006 and Conker, and Project Zero when you get around to it MS. |
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i already own Ninja Gaiden Black but will be buying it yet again on this. i love digital distribution and the game is absolutely brilliant. The people who had tried it using BC but found it laggy should rest assured that thankfully it was fixed some time ago and runs fine now, only problem is the FMV cutscenes run at 30 fps.
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@moggsy
"The 120Gb hard drive was £80 on Amazon the other day and you could sell your 20Gb for about £35 profit on Ebay meaning a total outlay of £45. That's what I've done anyway..." £80 for a 120gb hard drive is still robbery... Can get stadnard 500Gb hard drive for less than that! Anyway, where the hell is RSC2?? Get it sorted MS |
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SomaticSense
07/02/08 @ 20:26
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I'm hugely interested in NGB. I loved the original version, yet missed out when Black came out. I'd be well prepared to pay a tenner for it.
But 6 gigs? My 20gig (or rather, 12 gig) says no way though. |
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