ShogunGino said:
I had just got a new 360, and I saw Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath in a Best Buy bargain bin for 10$, and it was only afterward that I learned of Microsoft's incredibly bullshit backward compatibility system, and that Stranger's Wrath was NOT on their list of playable games.
How hard is it to make a fully backward compatible system? The Wii and PS3 do it fine, for the majority, so why can't Microsoft give us a system that can play games of the last gen without having to download the ability to play the old games that often times have more glitches than when they were for the first Xbox?
Same thing happened to me, exact same game too, and another one that also wasn't backwards compatible. I returned them to the Gamestop where the employee taking them back then informed me that all xbox games that were backwards compatible had a (BC) on the tag after the title. Useful information for making a purchase, but a source of further chagrin when it gives an immediate reference to how many titles I can't play on my 360, not that I wouldn't think twice anyway, I'm really tired of the ghosted cutscenes over the levels of Halo 2.
On a sidenote though, I've heard the PS3 doesn't do backwards compatibility well either, with the titles restricted in a similar fashion, not to mention they don't make a PS3 that is backwards compatible anymore, you have to buy it used, and it is somehow more expensive than the used 40G harddrive package without backwards compatibility.
Another I'm so stupid moment: I bought a copy of Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia when it first came out. A week later I read a review of it calling it mediocre. I still like it, but it sold poorly, so now you can buy it for $9 used at Gamestop, if I had waited less than a year I could've saved $40 on a game I can never finish due to crappy response to controls and a poorly designed final level.
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