Xbox Live Arcade launched with the Xbox 360 back in November 2005. At first it was populated with retro arcade games and modest (but awesome) new titles like Geometry Wars. But four and a half years later we've got first-person shooters like Battlefield 1943 and enormous efforts like Shadow Complex that continually raise our expectations of what a downloadable game can deliver. So XBLA games are getting bigger and more sophisticated -- but are they getting "better?" Downloadable games were new territory for consoles back in 2005, so as developers learn the ropes of what does and doesn't work are the fruits of their labors getting sweeter?
EA: "As we close in on 15 years since the release of Battlefield 1943, and Bad Company™ 1 & 2, we are announcing that their journey is coming to an end."
This reminds me... I have ME on my PS3 hdd. Never really played it, but it was free.
And it still says nothing about being able to downloaded even when it's off the storefront, that's a huge ouchie for some who somehow still have it in their backlog...
Dont make it an issue when it's not. If you haven't played it in 15 years, chances are you'll never play it.
Online game servers shut off eventually all the time. Doesn’t matter if you have the disc or not. Even if you have the disc, it’ll be just paperweight unless the game lets you connect directly to a friend or LAN play.
Read the article bro. They are delisting the games, including mirrors edge which is an offline game. Online servers i can understand, not being able to buy/download the games anymore? Completely separate issue, especially seeing as how some these games had lengthy sp campaigns and not just mp.
Some brilliant minds created servers to keep these old online games alive. A lot of ps2 and ps3 games that had there servers shut down a long time ago have been restored by fans to keep it going. Warhawk, killzone 2, socom 2/ confrontation, resident evil outbreak series, etc.
The disc still exist. I don’t understand the issue. You guys are upset about that “all digital future” yet these games are not “digital only”. Hell digital only is a minority in the gaming world and so far we haven’t moved into it, the only digital only games are games as a service or online only games, which end up failing in the end.
This is no different than a store that stops selling old games, just go and buy a copy somewhere else. So which is it, you hate all digital or you like it? Make up your mind.
Talk about missing the point entirely. I'm not going to sit here and explain it to you, figure it out.
Talk about whining about something and not wanting to explain from an off handed sarcastic original comment.
I got the point just fine. You’re literally complaining about something that has an easy alternative to it.
@ManMarmalade
No I got it, it has to do with the push towards a future of all digital and reprocussions of losing games. Something I already stayed that hasn’t happened nor is it large enough right now to cause any issues as the games that are all digital are online only to begin with or make up the minority of games
So I’ll say it again, the disc still exists for these games that are over a decade old and can still be played easily. You guys are contradicting the whole “we don’t want a digital only future” crying when the dude I originally responded to stated:
“Read the article bro. They are delisting the games, including mirrors edge which is an offline game. Online servers i can understand, not being able to buy/download the games anymore? Completely separate issue, especially seeing as how some these games had lengthy sp campaigns and not just mp.“
So again, which is it? Do you hate all digital or do you want it?
On PC I don't think it's much of a problem but I'm sad to see BF43 being shut down. I haven't played it in a while since it's stuck on PS3, but i preferred it way more over BF3. It was the lack of invisible barriers which made it better for me.
Does anyone play the last BF anymore? I searched crossplay servers and it was 20 people the most on all the servers? Can never find a game
The last BC you mean? I was still able to find 10v10 on ps3 2 years ago on NA servers during the evenings. I have all the free and paid dlc installed, but there want any matches in the Vietnam dlc.
Although the Xbox has less exclusives than other platforms, it has some absolute gems. Read to find out what the 10 best Xbox Exclusives of all time are!
Not ranked
1. Alan Wake
2. Gears of War 1
3. Lost Odyssey
4. Quantum Break
5. Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
6. Jade Empire
7. Halo 3
8. Forza Horizon 3
9. Gears 5
10. Gears of War 2
For the disliker
Alan Wake
Gears of War
Quantum Break
Forza Horizon 3 and
Gears of War 5 aren't exclusives either
Carlos writes: "In terms of Battlefield, the past 10 years has seen the series go from strength to strength, and whilst there will be many who would argue that the hit and miss adventures of Battlefield: Hardline didn’t quite live up to the excitement that the series is so well known for, each and every entry has at least provided plenty to shout about. Should you look back far enough and manage to take your mind away from Battlefield: Bad Company 2, what you may well remember is a small, online-only multiplayer adventure that lit up the Xbox Live Arcade – Battlefield 1943."
Great little game but yet again, no offline bots so once the servers went, so did all its players. What a waste.
i played a few trails on some new games including toy soldiers and kept saying i want this
a huge major release, gonna be the greatest arcade game of the year, maybe ever
xbla ftw
I've liked the idea of XBLA games right from the beginning really, I'm glad that games over the last 2 years have stopped this thing where you have to unlock bits that were already in the game, a bit like what happened with Lumines Live and Bomberman Live. These kind of things were very annoying.
As it stands my 360 has Geometry Wars, Geometry Wars 2, Space Giraffe, Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, Lumines Live, The Maw, Rez HD and Shadow Complex. I admittedly have a much larger list of games bought from PSN.
If I have a choice, I mainly choose to get multiplat digital games on PSN because of having more hard drive space as I've been stuck with a 20GB HDD on my 360 and game installs really do help get rid of the noise, but also get rid of space and I can use the online features for free on PSN versions. PSN releases of the same games on XBLA months, or even years later are worth the wait because you often get additional features.
I'm considering of getting Serious Sam HD, but I hear it's a big game and I know I'll have to get an equally sized game when Second Encounter, probably as an expansion pack comes out and I already own every game of Serious Sam on nearly every system, because each one plays or looks a little bit different.
I have about 7 GB left on my 360 and that rapidly decreases when I do a game install. Other XBLA games I can't wait for are Doom 2, Quake III and possibly Perfect Dark because I never played it properly before, I'm also very tempted to get both the old Banjo Kazooies.
Yes . They always are .