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Ronster316 on 05 August 2008
Gnizmo said:
Ronster316 said:
No doubt Origional N64 Version of banjo on xbla will make it 14.... Left 4 Dead will make it 15, Gears of war 2 will make it 16 and perhaps portal: still alive will make it 17.... bottom line is the 360 is the daddy when it comes to AAA titles and will remain so for the rest of this generation

 If Starcraft starts counting games like Banjo-Kazoie then technically he should also count the VC games for the Wii in his signature.

Edot: Why did I say entire the first time? What a ludicrous assertion!

 

Wether XBLA games are included or not..... 360 has 12 xbox 360 games that have 90%+... thats still more than the Famicom-Playstation 3 & wii combined.... the bottom line________ is this....... 360 has more games this gen that have scored 90% than the Famicom-Playstation & wii, theres no sugar coating over that no matter how hard you try..... not bad considering its only microsofts 2nd console



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Desroko on 05 August 2008
agabara said:
Gnizmo said:
gebx said:

 

if those games are 90+ on metacritic then yes.. he should count them

 Lets see if he will start doing it then. Currently he clearly doesn't so I am betting he won't. I don't think it will stop him from counting Banjo-Kazooie though.

This is Metacritic's judgment, not Starcraft's. Currently, there aren't any Virtual Console games that have a 90 average on Metacritic.

 


Currently, there aren't any Virtual Console games on Metacritic. Not that this is a meaningful exercise in any case. Do you need someone else to tell you what's good?

ToastyJaguar on 05 August 2008

Xbox live arcade games should be counted because some of them are totally new games by small dev studios. It just so happens that the big companies like Rare and Namco like to re-release their old games on Xbox Live arcade from time to time.




sinha on 06 August 2008

Do VC games ever get leaderboards? Achievements? HD? Or are they just ROMs? There's your answer.
VC games are like Xbox Originals, not like XBLA games, and those games don't get Metacritic scores either.


Also, this VC discussion is relevant because SO MANY of the 90+ Metascore 360 games are re-released arcade ports......

1 Grand Theft Auto IV 98
2 BioShock 96
3 Orange Box, The 96
4 Gears of War 94
5 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The 94
6 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 94
7 Halo 3 94
8 Guitar Hero II 92
9 Rock Band 92
10 Mass Effect 91
11 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 90
12 Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 90
13 Forza Motorsport 2 90



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

Gnizmo on 06 August 2008
Ronster316 said:

 

Wether XBLA games are included or not..... 360 has 12 xbox 360 games that have 90%+... thats still more than the Famicom-Playstation 3 & wii combined.... the bottom line________ is this....... 360 has more games this gen that have scored 90% than the Famicom-Playstation & wii, theres no sugar coating over that no matter how hard you try..... not bad considering its only microsofts 2nd console

 Supposing you discount VC games yes I suppose it would. That is an inaccurate way to list the number of great games for the console though as it discounts a large number of games you can buy for the system via a method used for other games that are counted.

Do VC games ever get leaderboards? Achievements? HD? Or are they just ROMs? There's your answer.
VC games are like Xbox Originals, not like XBLA games, and those games don't get Metacritic scores either.

 I really don't even know how to respond to this. It is astonishing how you said nothing in so many words. My rebuttal will be "How many Wii games get any/all of that?" The asnwer is a few of them get one or two parts, but none of them have all 3. Whether or not a game has had anything added to it is irrelevant to whether or not the game is readily available for purchase by anyone who wants to spend the money. Xbox Originals, VC games, and any gme that is backwards compatable with the system and is still in print should be counted.



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shakarak on 06 August 2008

I really need to pick up this game when I get the money. What's the cheapest you guys have seen it.



NNN2004 on 06 August 2008

so many 90+ games for 360.



MrBubbles on 06 August 2008
shakarak said:
I really need to pick up this game when I get the money. What's the cheapest you guys have seen it.

 

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sinha on 06 August 2008
Gnizmo said:
Ronster316 said:
 

 

 Supposing you discount VC games yes I suppose it would. That is an inaccurate way to list the number of great games for the console though as it discounts a large number of games you can buy for the system via a method used for other games that are counted.

Do VC games ever get leaderboards? Achievements? HD? Or are they just ROMs? There's your answer.
VC games are like Xbox Originals, not like XBLA games, and those games don't get Metacritic scores either.

 I really don't even know how to respond to this. It is astonishing how you said nothing in so many words. My rebuttal will be "How many Wii games get any/all of that?" The asnwer is a few of them get one or two parts, but none of them have all 3. Whether or not a game has had anything added to it is irrelevant to whether or not the game is readily available for purchase by anyone who wants to spend the money. Xbox Originals, VC games, and any gme that is backwards compatable with the system and is still in print should be counted.

 

I've said nothing?  Do you really not understand?  Because it's pretty fucking simple.  Yes, Wii games may not have any/all of those things, that's irrelevant.  An Xbox 360 disc game would be counted  on Metacritic even if it didn't have leaderboards or achievements, way to miss the point. 

Are Wii and 360 disc games ROMs?  No.  Are XBLA games ROMs?  No.  Are VC games?  Yes. 

Do you see the difference now?  Jesus fucking Christ... 

 



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

mrstickball on 06 August 2008

...Looks like Braid will be joining GeoWars as another 90%+ title.

Man, August really has been delivering as the best XBLA month ever.



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