It seems that the Fall Update brought with it more than we realized. A befuddled Knuckles Dawson IMed us the other day, noting that backwards compatible Xbox games are now showing up on Xbox 360 Gamercards. We checked our own console, and sure enough, a recently played Xbox game (Ninja Gaiden) was displayed. The games do not appear on Xbox.com Gamercards, only on the 360 itself (under the Games Played tab in the Games blade). Also, only games you've played since the Fall Update will show up. In other words, our jaunt with the Halo 2 maps released earlier this year isn't recorded. The most curious bit of all is that the games are listed with the notice "0 of 0 Achievements."
There are a few possibilities here. The most likely is that Microsoft thought it was a good idea for all games to show up on the list, especially given the arrival of the Xbox Originals service. Much less likely is that Microsoft is looking for some way to implement achievements in old Xbox games, which Major Nelson has stated isn't the case. No, we imagine it's there simply for convenience (or inconvenience, depending on whom you ask).
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12-19-2007 @ 4:18PM
sillymikey said...
Im thinking that it has something to do with the xbox originals downlodable games and not the B/C ones. To show user which of the xbox originals downlodable games you bought and played.
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12-19-2007 @ 10:27PM
xenocidic said...
disc based versions (including games not available for download) show up as well
12-19-2007 @ 4:34PM
HALO 3 ROCKZ said...
i knew this a long time ago too. this is even worse than the live arcade games showing up
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12-19-2007 @ 5:25PM
webster1990 said...
i dont see how it is worse than that
with the xbla games it it showed up as 0/(how ever many gamerpoints were possible to get)
it looked as though you just sucked at the game
with the xbox games showing up as 0/0
it just lets people know what you have been playing
not if you suck at it or not
12-19-2007 @ 5:19PM
hellvector said...
Too bad I still can't put my Halo 1 and 2 saves on my memory card...
Not to mention Forza 2 either! :(
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12-19-2007 @ 5:22PM
ken said...
Or it could be that since the game has zero out of zero achievements, and that portion of the UI is programmed to list X out of X achievements, it says zero out of zero.
I am not a programmer, I just play one at work.
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12-19-2007 @ 5:31PM
HALO 3 ROCKZ said...
@webster1990
yea i guess ur right
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12-19-2007 @ 6:32PM
Doom3killer said...
Guys, this doesn't show up on Xbox.com.. it only shows up if you compare achievements with someone, which works much easier on xbox.com then through the guide... If you don't like it, just compare through Xbox.com or any other 360 online site...
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12-19-2007 @ 7:55PM
colin said...
play more alien hominid!
soviet missile mastar and headchomp are pretty tough
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12-19-2007 @ 9:01PM
CDN Crockett said...
This sucks ballz!!!
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12-19-2007 @ 11:20PM
Bidz99 said...
sounds interesting?!?!?
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12-20-2007 @ 7:48AM
Ian Charles said...
....... I cant belive how some are reacting to this. Its not really that big of a deal
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12-20-2007 @ 4:02PM
refinedsugar said...
Tell that to xeno, lol.
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12-21-2007 @ 1:38PM
James said...
OK, dumb-ish question: can XB1 games that had Live support be played multiplayer on a 360? I never had a Gold account on my XB1 (running XBMC was more important ;-) so I don't know a lot about the multiplayer experience there, but could I take e.g. Halo 2 and play it online via my 360? If so, maybe it makes sense to list XB1 games in your Games Played tab, so that you can see if your friends own any of the same Live-capable games you do.
Maybe?
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