Category: Xbox 360 to One BC

Most of us knew these two were coming, it was just a matter of when.  Tomb Raider: Legend is the better one of the bunch but at $1.99 (Tekken Tag Team 2 Specials), they are excellent pick ups.  I will say, I do think both of them will be future GWG candidates but $4 isn’t going to break the bank.  In addition, both of them share DLC packs (the achievements show up under Legend) but they are unfortunately still highly priced at $9.99 each.  Still a couple of worthy additions, and worth playing.  Enjoy.

• Tomb Raider: Anniversary $1.99 (on sale) (normally $19.99) (also on disc)
• Tomb Raider: Legend $1.99 (on sale) (normally $19.99) (also on disc)
  • DLC w/Achievements: Tomb Raider: Anniversary Episodes 1 & 2 $9.99
  • DLC w/Achievements: Tomb Raider: Anniversary Episodes 3 & 4 $9.99

Well, I finished Diablo III.  I ran through the remaining 30 bounties and never looked back.  The rest of the week I spent revisiting a couple of older games in Pinball FX3 (spending the bulk of my time on the Universal Classics tables) and Ziggurat (finally got all of the perks and all remaining items in the Armory).  I also started Minecraft Story Mode for some silly reason.  I got through half of it and then put it down.  I’ll try to make myself get through the first episode this week, but I can’t guarantee after that I’ll keep trying.  Compared to Batman or Borderlands Telltale, it’s not exciting or funny at all.

There are a ton of sales this week.  Lots of good stuff, especially if you have held out on Season Passes or the like.  On the X1 (and 360) side it should be noted that quite a few of the NeoGeo ports are on sale.  This is the first time they have been and if you like the ports at all, I would recommend buying one so hopefully we can see future sales of them.  $4.79 to me is a sweet spot and $7.99 is no offense, but not working for me.  Also among those NeoGeo ports is a Xbox original on sale as well (King of Fighters; Neowave).  One final thing, in the Non-BC department, the rest of the Sleeping Dogs DLC is on sale, woohoo!  Anyway, that’s it for this week, we should see a BC announcement today, hopefully it’s something good.  Remember to hit the -Read More- for all of the titles.  Take care kids.

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Well, not exactly the three I was hoping for, but games are games nevertheless.  Prince of Persia is the game where they actually charged you $10 in DLC to play the Epilogue.  It also has a glitched achievement which might or might not unlock for you too.  So we move on to Sine Mora which has a Xbox One port, so not too exciting there.  Finally, Earth Defense Force 2025 is about the only standout and is fairly easy to get on Amazon, brand spanking new even.  There we go, have fun, and again have a great week.

• Prince of Persia $19.99 (available on disc for far cheaper)
  • DLC w/Achievements: Epilogue $9.99 
• Earth Defense Force 2025: $49.99 (dear god, buy it on disc, it’s $12 @ Amazon)
  • Free DLC: Ranger Weapon Set
  • Free DLC: Air Raider Weapon Set
  • Free DLC: Wing Diver: Weapon Set
  • Free DLC: Fencer Weapon Set
• Sine Mora $9.99

Welp, I am down to less than 30 bounties on Diablo 3 before it is said and done.  This time next week I will have 100% the game (remember I had 100% the 360 version as well) and just maybe I’ll be finished with it.  I am also trying to get to 3000 challenge points (at 2980) as I never really tried for any of them until recently.  A nice way to end many hundreds of hours at this game.  I’m not sure what will be the next big game I’ll play, but we’ll see what happens.

So this week looks like a whole lot of Fallout and the usual Faery & Mars: War Logs (I own Faery but never got around to playing it) assortment.  Honestly, nothing much and hopefully we’ll get a good BC announcement today.  Take care, enjoy your week and I’ll try to do the same.  Take care.

Backwards compatibility, Tom Clancy style.  With Conviction getting the nod nearly six months ago, it was about time for these two to be added as well.  The first thing you will probably notice is Blacklist is physical only.  The digital got removed a while back but you can still obtain the disc for under $10.  Double Agent is still widely available, digital is $20 but physically is a lot cheaper, going for $5 in some cases (if you don’t care about condition).  So have a date with Sam Fisher and death the rest of the day, or don’t.  Enjoy 🙂

• Splinter Cell: Blacklist (available on disc only)
• Splinter Cell: Double Agent $19.99 (cheaper on disc)
  • Free DLC: 360 Downloadable Content (Looks like a couple of multiplayer maps/challenges and a new character w/3 outfits).

The last day of the month.  Yes, I’m still playing Diablo 3, I finally got another Greed Portal and I think I hit 87% on the bounties.  I’m about 50 left.  But on Saturday, I did actually play something else for about 2 hours.  Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown.  It was a former GWG and it looked fairly easy in the achievements.  True to its Sega form, it was just that.  This included even the two online achievements which thankfully still has a strong community.  I never played the same person twice in fact in my ten fights.  Even won four of them too.  (Yes, I was surprised as well)  Anyway, back to Diablo I guess, lol.

Well, this week can be called the Street Fighter sales week.  The only Street Fighter related items that are not BC is anything involving Tekken or Street Fighter II/III.  This might mean one of those titles goes BC this week, but we’ll see.  I’ve been disappointed many many times before.  Enjoy your week..

Looks like the new Games with Gold are being announced today.   A much better month in my opinion and hey we completed the whole set of Dead Space games as each one has been a GWG at some point.  Microsoft really loves giving away those racing games, huh?  Anyway, I’m digging the BC games, and there is lots to be happy about.  For Honor might be decent too (though I’m not a fan of “Souls” games at all).  Enjoy.

Xbox One

• Forza Horizon 2 Standard (August 1st-31st)
• For Honor (August 16th – September 15th)

Xbox 360

• Dead Space 3 (August 1st-15th)
• Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two (August 16th-31st)

To me, these are two of the best releases we have had this year.  I own Homecoming, but never got around to obtaining a disc copy of HD Collection, mostly due to all of the bugs I kept hearing the game have.  It mostly had to do with the fact that Konami lost part of the source code and the development studio had to recreate that lost part from scratch.  Extremely hard to do with a time crunch.  But I will say that I believe most of these issues were ironed out eventually.  Furthermore, for those like myself who don’t have the HD Collection, it is on sale this week for $7.49 (part of the Ultimate Game sale) which is far cheaper than any disc copy ($20-$25 typically).  So good stuff all around.  Enjoy.

• Silent Hill HD Collection $7.49 ($10.49 without Gold) (Normally $29.99) (also on disc)
• Silent Hill: Homecoming $19.99 (also on disc)

Welp, up to 82% on the bounties in Diablo 3.  I actually did take a break from it to play WWE Legends of Wrestlemania on the 360.  I am at the point where the only thing I have left to do is the Wrestlemania mode after finishing the Legend Killer mode.  Unfortunately, I’m running into a problem with the WM Mode and that is I’m not the quickest on the mini-games.  I’m actually pretty darn slow.  I got through the first two matches (which should be warmups) but it’s only going to get harder, much harder.  I might have to be honest with myself in the sense that I’m not going to be able to quite get it through all of the matches.  We’ll see, I’ll keep trying until I hit that wall.

Here are the deals for this week.   As you can tell on the 360 side, it’s a lot of recycled sale games (and no new BC sales).  Honestly it looks like all of the same games from before the Ultimate Game Sale which is still going on by the way.  I’ve already purchased 4 Pinball FX 3 packs, Count Lucanor for the X1 and Mini-Ninjas for the 360.  I probably won’t partake in anything else, but we’ll see.  Enjoy kids, hopefully we get a BC announcement today.

Well it’s that awesome time of the year where we get a ton of games on sale and hopefully there are a few that actually interest me.  Thankfully, there are a ton of BC Games here to look at, though I’m not seeing any Xbox Originals which I was kinda hoping for on some level.  There is a little bit of DLC, but unfortunately it looks to be the same DLC that usually goes on (example, Sleeping Dogs, Year of the Snake DLC but not Nightmare in North Point DLC).  The exception being some of the Castlevania stuff which would be nicer if it was BC :).  It will take me sometime as usual to get this all up here with pricing, but please enjoy.  I would not expect anymore BC games to be announced until next week with the sale going on.  Take care and hit the –More– for the full list.

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