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Is there still a reason to keep owning a X360?

AppleSeason said:
Not a lot of space, or time to play. My PC is on the bedroom and there's a steam link on the living room (apart from the wii and snes). I mostly play Overwatch on weekends and my 3DS during commutes. I just come home to cook and sleep.
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yeah, sounds like you don't need it. Sell or trade it in. I keep all my old consoles, I have this vision of the future when gaming is all VR or some shit and I just want to play video games on a TV like the good ol days. Hoping that they still work at that point
 
I will keep mine because of:

- Rock Band 3. Haven't upgraded to 4 because it's still not better than 3.
- Dance Central 1-3 (and a few other Kinect games)
- the many amazing games that are still not BC, like After Burner Climax, Senko no Ronde, Ridge Racer 6, and all of the Cave shmups.
- original Xbox BC.
- the thousands of Xbox Live Indie Games, many of which are actually worth playing, and none of which are BC.

That's a lot of reasons right there.
 
AppleSeason said:
Scott Pilgrim is that game I have played so many times that I have memorise it. But supposedly is coming to PC or PS4, right? Did a few endings on Nier too.
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Last year, Bryan Lee O'Malley mentioned something about trying to regain the rights for the Scott Pilgrim game, but it's been such a long time... I surely hope it does, but I'm not counting on it. :(
 
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Been PC exclusive for years now, but my 360 will never get packed away so long as EA refuses to bring PGA to PC.
 
I never get rid of older consoles, if I don't use them often I'll simply put them in the closet and take them back out whenever I feel like indulging
 
LinkSlayer64 said:
Someone else who played the outfit! that game was... kinda hilarious. I mostly used it for dumb multiplayer.
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*secret The Outfit appreciation handshake*

I haven't gone back to it but I sorta loved that game. Me and my nephew co-oped the whole thing (That mordor-esque final level!) and it kinda felt like a third person Return Fire to me. I'm afraid to try it again if it's stilted and awful now, but I've voted for it for BC on the uservote site. Me and like.. 300 others. :>
 
I just checked CEX and I could get a second-hand 360, Blue Dragon and Lost Oddyssey for under 60€. If my backlog wasn't in the hundreds and my TV actually had free jacks, I'd totally go for it.
 
Tarrin said:
I keep mine for the games that are not BC and you can't get on PC (yet). Not much, but enough to keep the console. These are:

50 Cent: Blood on the Sand
Chonicles of Riddick: Dark Athena
Crackdown
Driver: San Francisco
Splatterhouse
Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom.

Also I can play all the Xbox Tony Hawk's on 360. (since I no longer own a PS2 or BC PS3).
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You can definitely play Driver: San Francisco on PC, because that's where I played it. Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena is also available on PC.

To the OP's question: yes, there are still games worth playing on the 360, but also I think you'd be okay to make a clean break, especially based on your expressed preferences. Sure, you might miss out on a game or two, but you're ALWAYS missing out on games. All the time. Everywhere. What's one or two more for a system you don't really want to have in the house?

Who knows, by the time you realize you've made a mistake (if indeed that ever happens), maybe Xenia will be in a decent state and you can just play that 360 game on PC anyways. Win-win!
 
The original Saints Row multiplayer & the original Gears of War..(yes I know...GoW1 is BC..HOWEVER it does not play the same...wall bouncing and backpacks are easier with a 360 controller) not sure if it can be fixed or has to do with emulation..possibly..
 
split screen marathon multiplayer, halo reach framerate, and one frame less input lag on some xbla games are the only reasons i have left
 
SimonM7 said:
*secret The Outfit appreciation handshake*

I haven't gone back to it but I sorta loved that game. Me and my nephew co-oped the whole thing (That mordor-esque final level!) and it kinda felt like a third person Return Fire to me. I'm afraid to try it again if it's stilted and awful now, but I've voted for it for BC on the uservote site. Me and like.. 300 others. :>
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It obviously has its flaws, but I still find the territory capture gameplay in multi to be fun. Shame my 360 broke before I could ever complete it.
 
My Fable Anniversary mid-game save still floats around in the cloud, waiting for the day it becomes compatible with the bone.

I already got rid of the 360 a while ago but that's the only reason I look back. I know it exists for PC but that doesn't have my save file.
 
I had a similar scenario with the PS3, knowing that in all the years since I brought it in 2008 I never bothered upgrading the hard-drive, (had only 40 gig) and so it was a balancing act on what I could keep on there...

Then Yakuza 5 came along free on PSN and gave fresh impetus to my PS3 and the past couple of months that has been the only system I've been playing on ahead of my Xbox-1 and PS4...only on the PS3 could you experience Ridge Racer Type 4 and 7, also the definitive Wipeout collection ahead of the new re-release, Streetfighter 3....

And with the 360 only there can you play from a Microsoft console perspective:

Metal Gear 2 and 3 HD
Burnout Revenge
Ace Combat 7 which I must complete someday soon!
Sonic Generations..

And many others!
 
UpperCaseN said:
yeah, sounds like you don't need it. Sell or trade it in.
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That's the plan, but I want to be sure I'm not missing anything and I find out just after kissing it goodbye. My time is super limited, so I keep it to the absolutely mandatory stuff. I already sold the ps4 because I had no time to play with it.

My best memories of 360 are hours and hours of Castle Crashers and Scott Pilgrim with friends. Bus Crashers is on Steam and we ended accepting that Scott Pilgrim does not have too much replay value.
 
For me personally I've never played a halo or gears game all the way through and I would like to play them so that's why I keep my 360 around. I sure wish all of them were on pc though
 
I keep my 360 for Outrun Arcade and Asura's Wrath. Also the Cave shooters.

Best reason I can think of to keep a 360 are the Dance Central games.
 
Better custom soundtrack implementation. I haven't downloaded a single BC game on the Xbox One because its custom soundtrack sucks ass. Why settle for a crappy version when I have superior version still available?

MastaKilla said:
I keep all of my consoles so i can replay whatever i want when i have the random sudden urge to do so lol
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And this
 
Think I'm down to Nier as the only reason I still have a 360 hooked up, and I'm being real slow with that. Maybe The Darkness too (I don't think that hit BC?)

It was also AC Rogue too, but I ended up finishing it a few days before it hit BC!
 
Personally, I can't get rid of mine due to the sheer number of arcade games I own that won't be backward compatible coupled with my Cave shoot em ups. I don't own an Xbox one and can't imagine wanting one unless it were 100% backward compatible.
 
Well, I think I'm going to keep it, at least until I play some of the things mentioned here. In any case, right now if disposed of it I would have an empty space on the A/V rack with nothing else to fill it. It's my last "moden sized" home console, after all.

But the next time I move? I'm afraid it won't be coming with me :(
 
There are still many games that aren't backwards compatible on Xbox One so yes.

For me though, the majority of the games that I enjoyed on the 360 are either backwards compatible, have current gen remakes, or have true sequels that make going back to play them pretty pointless (especially in the case of games like Rock Band 4 that let you use last gen DLC).

I sold my Xbox 360 a few years ago.
 
Mine is still hooked up because

- Huge library of non-BC games in my backlog that I'm still working through.
- No compelling reason to box it up.
 
i sold mine off for $50. only game i'll really "miss" is is Child of Eden

like literally 95% of my 360 library i have on Steam
 
PantsuJo said:
Only few ones, 3 games I'd say (the region free ones).

Other ones are on PC, thanks to Degica.
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CAVE not on PC:

Mushihimesama Futari
Espgaluda II
Ketsui
Muchi Muchi Pork & Pink Sweets
Akai Katana
Deathsmiles II
Dodonpachi Saidaioujou
Guwange

and probably something I've forgotten. By my ranking, approx 3 of the best 5 shoot'em ups of all time are still only on the X360.

Outside CAVE games I have on XBLA:
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown
Hard Corps: Uprising
After Burner Climax

These and the now-on-PC Deathsmiles/Dodonpachi DFK/Vanquish/Bayonetta are why I bought the console in the first place. I have never booted up a Halo, a Forza or anything of the sort. So the console retains nearly all value it ever had for me.
 
Wait, the main argument of the OP boils down to "Well the games I want to play I bought on Steam so I don't need my 360". That brings up some really good reasons for keeping a 360. You don't have a computer capable of gaming, or even if you did it might not be anywhere near your TV where you really want to play your console game.

There would be no way I could get enough for my 360 and all my games to make up for giving it up. I've got a separate and complete working game system that I can hook up to any TV totally independent of my computer or PS4. Not giving that up.
 
Rockstar Table Tennis, of course.

Also, Rock Band custom DLC if you're into those games. I think these days you don't even need to mod the console for it.
 
I still use my 360 for YouTube and Netflix.

Of course I could use my PC and PS4 for it as well, but only my 360 is connected to my TV.
 
Water said:
CAVE not on PC:

Mushihimesama Futari
Espgaluda II
Ketsui
Muchi Muchi Pork & Pink Sweets
Akai Katana
Deathsmiles II
Dodonpachi Saidaioujou
Guwange
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Preach. If you are a fan of shmups then the 360 is / should be an absolutely essential part of your setup for years to come.

And the pc versions of deathsmiles and mushi are worse than the 360 ports on which they are based.
 
Ton of games worth playing that still aren't BC or on PC. If you're aware of what the library is you'd know that though, so for your purposes probably not.
 
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