BC News over the Weekend: Bullet Soul and Blue Dragon!
Well, it’s a little abnormal to have anything about Backwards Compatibility over the weekend, it’s completely rare to have two pieces of news about it.
The first piece of news comes from 5pb and their Western Release of Bullet Soul on the Xbox 360. Bullet Soul is a shoot-em-up from Japan that’s received lots of praise. In addition, the Western Release is also going to contain all DLC which is an added bonus. My guess would be that it would be digital only though despite the Japanese release was also available in physical disc format. I will say though if it gets a disc release, I’m there due to the Day One BC. (But that’s hard to fathom with any remaining 360 releases)
Our second piece of news comes from Phil Spencer who tends to drop hints on various Microsoft related news. Blue Dragon is coming to backwards compatibility. We aren’t sure exactly when, but eventually we will see it. This is great news as multi-disc games are starting to come along now. The only question I have is when we’ll see some other multi-disc games like Lost Odyssey, Infinite Undiscovery and more. Anyway, enjoy your week.
Mr. Driller Online, New Rally X and NIN2 – Jump added to Backwards Compatibility!!
Welp, we got three titles today as announced by Major Nelson. A couple more Namco games and then an odd one I haven’t heard of before.
Mr. Driller Online – $10 game, tough achievements on this mediocre title. However, this one is on the Namco Virtual Museum Arcade disc (which you should own by now) and that’s going to be your best bang for your buck.
New Rally X – $5 title, and very easy achievements. It’s still not a good game, but it is also available on the Namco disc.
NIN2 – Jump – our final title, also $5. Achievements are also pretty easy. This is a platforming title made by Cave and is supposed to be pretty decent. It supposedly plays out like the player is in a Japanese shadow theater complete with commentary from the audience when the character gets hurt. The story is you are a ninja and you are saving the princess from another evil ninja. I might give it a shot :).
BC Deals with Gold for the Week of August 2nd, 2016
Welp, I have finally managed level 50 in Project Spark, somehow before the D-Day of August 12th. I don’t know if I will try to clean up some of the other achievements, but at least I can say I finished what I set out to do. The sad part I was really starting to learn some of this creation stuff through the daily tasks. Anyway, I’m still sorta working on Dangerous Golf and getting all of the Golds, I’m about 25 off in the single player (out of 100). Anyway, we have a bunch of BC deals this week. To me, it’s a whole bunch of nothing unfortunately. For all of the Fallout 3 and New Vegas stuff, the player is still ten times better off buying the GOTY package and calling it a day. There are some nice deals on the Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell stuff but none of them are actually backwards compatible. Quake Arena is bound to become BC at some point, but its a multiplayer game at its core…you have to have other people to play with. But just maybe this is the week that Oblivion becomes BC as a consolation prize to the remastered Skyrim. Enjoy kids.
Doom 50% $2.49
Doom II 50% $2.49
Fallout 3 50% $7.49
Fallout 3: Broken Steel 25% $3.74
Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta 25% $3.74
Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage 25% $3.74
Fallout 3: Point Lookout 25% $3.74
Fallout 3: The Pitt 25% $3.74
Fallout: New Vegas 50% $7.49
Fallout New Vegas: Courier’s Stash 25% $1.49
Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money 25% $7.49
Fallout New Vegas: Gun Runners’ Arsenal 25% $2.99
Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts 25% $7.49
Fallout New Vegas: Lonesome Road 25% $7.49
Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues 25% $7.49
Wolfenstein 3D 50% $2.49
Triggerheart Exelica added to Backwards Compatibility!
Sorry I missed this one earlier, as it turns out I had to babysit the young one and couldn’t really get near a computer like I needed to. I apologize. Anyway, Major Nelson tweeted about Triggerheart yesterday.
Triggerheart Exelica – $9.99 vertical shoot em up, Japanese style which means quite the difficult game and a tiny screen surrounded by anime girls. I’ve always liked the horizontal ones more myself, see Gates of Thunder and R-Type but these can be fun too. Enjoy.
Boom Boom Rocket and Syberia added to Backwards Compatibility!
Apparently today is full of news. Another couple of arcade games for us, Syberia being clearly the more interesting of the two.
Boom Boom Rocket – $9.99 rhythm game, and not a very good one by the looks of it. It also uses the Guitar which won’t work on the XB1, but hey..it’s on BC, right right?
Syberia – Another $9.99 game, but this one has seen sales from time to time as did its sequel (which is a shoe-in I would think at this point). Achievements are super-easy (and it’s a 1,000 point title), and it’s a nice story game. Just not too much replay value though.
BC Deals for the week of July 26th, 2016
Deals have finally been posted and there is a little bit here, but not too much. I would imagine that both Lords of Shadow eventually become BC if you want to speculate. Same with the three episodes of Alien Breed (though only the first episode is on sale). It is what it is. Maybe we’ll get some juicy announcements later. Enjoy.
BC Games with Gold for August 2016
Well, Games with Gold got announced for August 2016 (still haven’t seen a complete list of deals yet for this week, sorry). It’s really good for the Xbox One but 360 pickings are pretty meager this time around. (And no surprises either) Here is what we got (if you don’t like clicking links :))
Xbox 360
August 1st-15th – Spelunky
August 16th-31st – Beyond Good & Evil
Xbox One
August 1st-31st – Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate
August 16th – September 15th – WWE 2k16
I’m sure I will have more later once the deals get posted. Enjoy.
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode I and II, Capcom Arcade Cabinet, Pacman Museum, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, NeoGeo Battle Coliseum, Crystal Defenders, and Fret Nice added to Backwards Compatibility!!
Wow, another round of eight. How wonderful. True, they are all arcade releases, but it’s 8 games people. Not to mention two of them are compilations (Capcom Arcade Cabinet and PacMan Museum), so that’s actually more than eight games technically. Anyway, this is a nice list. Let’s go through them (after the more tag):
Le Tour de France 2009, Half Minute Hero and Flock! added to Backwards Compatibility!!
Wow, haven’t had a Tuesday release in quite sometime. But I guess after last week being completely pitiful, they had to at least try to make up for it. Not that these three games are much but its the volume that keeps us happy.
Le Tour de France 2009 – It’s a $5 game for bicycle enthusiasts. The only important thing here is that its yet another Focus Home title which is good for those not on the BC list yet.
Half Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax – A $9.99 rpg game with moderately difficult achievements but is much different in its approach and weapons. I would gladly pick it up in a sale, but it doesn’t appear its ever had one.
Flock! – A $14.99 game that’s available both digitally and physically (Capcom Digital Collection). The achievements are brutal but those who snagged it on the Collection are probably pretty happy right now.
BC Deals for the week of July 19th, 2016
So, we are well under a month now for the end of Project Spark. I crossed level 45 yesterday in my quest to get to the level 50 threshold. I would feel pretty darn good about making that level 50 if my experience wasn’t glitching out. By glitching, I mean not getting credit for all of the experience I get through dailies and milestones. It’s quite frustrating actually. I am close, I’ll keep gunning for it but this recent setback might be too much to overcome. In other news, I beat the single player mode for Dangerous Golf. I will finish co-op mode this week (I have 6 holes left) as well. Outside of a few collection achievements, I will be pretty much done with that one. I have no interest to try to get EVERY single gold medal out there. The fact I have about 30 per mode is more than enough. BTW, if you haven’t played Dangerous Golf since it was released, download the patch immediately. The Fast restarts are a true time saver, and they added more destruction too which means the scores do come a bit easier.
Anyway, sales…not much. The only draw here is the Phantom Breaker game and its DLC. The good thing is that it is a fantastic game and well worth $3 and $2.50 for the DLC. I’ve played through all of it, have almost all of the achievements (the one where you fall through the end of the stage and grab everything is still giving me fits and I’ve tried it about 10 times). And yes, you should grab the DLC. The new character is fun and the DLC also increases the level cap. (Trust me, you’ll need the extra levels when you beat the game in Hard) So, spend $5.50 and don’t look back. I spent $10 (7.50+2.50) and I easily got my money’s worth. Maybe I’ll try that level a couple more times *fingers crossed*. Enjoy kids.
