Xbox 360 Fanboy

Definitely...we like our options. :D

Yes, this really irks me too, Knuckles. Luckily I had forewarning by way of the Xbox.com forums, so when my backwards compatible version of "Leisure Suit Larry" I bought off eBay arrived in the mail, I played it on my silver account.

For what it's worth, they don't seem to show up to others when they are using 'Compare game' via the Friends list.

Sorry for not sending this in as a tip, it slipped my mind.

Yes, they do appear in the Compare Game option. I saw my comparison of KOTOR with another person. I was 0 and they were --.

@jonah

that's not what I meant. of course it's going to show up to YOU when you compare yourself to someone else.

compare games with Knuckles

You will not see his burnout 3.

Good for you.

Next time, save us all the eye-rolling and don't comment.

Why the ef do you people care so much? Honestly, you guys need to grow up and realize how stupid it sounds when you complain that a game showed up on your games list... Jesus Christ!

@elmers

I have gamercard OCD, and I'm ok with that.

"MS is just to [sic] lazy to work on it."

pretty much says it all.

minimum effort for maximum profit.

You don't know how difficult it is to do that type of thing.

Lazy? Dude, i wanna see you try programming that. And collaborating with publishers. And testing the feature. Good luck.

And by the way, look out for people bitching at you because your effort sucked.

it really doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to read a save file, determine what level the player is on, and grant an achievement based on how many levels they've completed.

sure the achievements might not unlock until you got back to the dashboard or something, but it would be way better than the zero effort they've put forth as it stands.

Achievements are very heavily integrated and coded into the games themselves, it's not a simple case of reading save files because how the save files are read is goverened by the game not the xbox itself, thats why the only thing you can see about a save file is the name of the game (and maybe date etc i cant remember off the top of my head).

For BC xbox games to have achievements would mean title updates from the developers themselves, not a 10 minute job for microsoft.

I'm pretty sure that if an individual poked around in a save file with a hex editor you could determine what level the player was on.

and you're telling me a multi-national billion-dollar corporation like Microsoft can't do better?

come on...

Well, for one thing, as others have said, it's not Microsoft's code. I don't think MS is particularly eager to be hacking other people's applications, and I doubt most people would prefer that the companies that do own the source code work on adding achievements to these games rather than working on new games.

For another, if the developers really were going to get into these games, I doubt they'd be able to get away with only adding achievements: graphics, controls, live play, co-op play ...

as I mentioned above, they only show up to the local user and not when comparing games.