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[GoodCoffeeJoey]

Is this the first multi-disk game added? Glad to see Guwange added. Hopefully most of the 360's shmup library will be back comparable soon.

 

[Ogawa-san]

The most Final Fantasy game that came out after IX, it's one hell of a ride. Totally worth hunting a physical copy (and putting up with all the discs).

 

[Lord of Ostia]

Cool, I will hunt down a physical copy. Really hoping Tales of Vesperia finally makes it on there, only other game I'm waiting for on BC

 

[Neff]

IS this game actually good is it nostagia for JRPGs from the 00s?

It's MS throwing a ton of cash at a bunch of key ex-Final Fantasy staff and asking them to make a gorgeous HD PSone era Final Fantasy game. And that's what it is, plus a whole lot more.

One of the top five JRPGs imo.

 

[KiraXD]

Finally, hopefully blue dragon isn't far behind

oh man i fucking hope so... i need to finish both these games at some point.

 

[Hx93]

YES FINALLY

 

[Effect]

It's MS throwing a ton of cash at a bunch of key ex-Final Fantasy staff and asking them to make a gorgeous HD PSone era Final Fantasy game. And that's what it is, plus a whole lot more.

One of the top five JRPGs imo.

This.

There are two JRPGs that were must plays I feel back during the Wii/PS3/360 era if you were a fan of the genre as far as home consoles were concerned. Xenoblade on the Wii and Lost Odyssey on the 360. I put both way above Final Fantasy 13 and it can be argued LO was the "true" Final Fantasy that was released that gen while Final Fantasy 13 was something else.

 

[AlexBasch]

JESUS CHRIST, YES.

 

[jbug617]

Installing

 

[T.O.P]

Goddamn BC keeps on delivering

 

[kitschykitty]

Is this the first multi-disk game added? Glad to see Guwange added. Hopefully most of the 360's shmup library will be back comparable soon.

Nah Deus Ex Director's Cut was first, we've know they've had the ability to do multi-disc for a while.

 

[Mufausa The 3rd]

Guwange being B.C. is the true news here.

This ^

 

[MatrixMan.EXE]

In. Tales of Vesperia and Blue Dragon next please.

 

[etta]

Xbox One purchase validated.

Guess I'm buying an Xbox One tomorrow.

Guys, stop behaving so irrationally! Who buys a new generation console to play old generation games?! As such backward compatibility is such an unimportant feature!

Spoiler

This is fantastic news!

 

[sangreal]

finally! never played it on 360 and it was at one time one of my most anticipated games. hope it runs ok

wtf @ not putting it on the store though

 

[shiftplusone]

IS this game actually good is it nostagia for JRPGs from the 00s?

It's fine. Not great in a lot of ways but some really cool stuff in there

 

[Montresor]

Microsoft making a niche JRPG with no digital copy on the storefront BC. Good guy Microsoft.

 

[Rellik]

I still have my copy, but sold my Xbox, lol.

It was such an amazing game I refuse to ever get rid of my copy.

 

[ViolentP]

Guys, stop behaving so irrationally! Who buys a new generation console to play old generation games?! As such backward compatibility is such an unimportant feature!

Spoiler

This is fantastic news!

Shit, man. Been asking for this for a long time. My day has come.

 

[dancrane212]

Beat the game for the first time about two years ago and despite the main plot falling apart for me towards the end I did enjoy the game. It's one of the very few traditional JRPGs I've ever actually stuck with to the end.

Those dreams are as good as folk say too; they're great stuff.

 

[Samurai G0SU]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kromeo]

finally! never played it on 360 and it was at one time one of my most anticipated games. hope it runs ok

wtf @ not putting it on the store though

It didn't run great on 360, not sure if BC can make any difference to that, guessing not..

Was my only real complaint with the game, except for 2 certain characters but nevermind that

 

[Alec]

+1 for digital please.

Wait, is this port begging?

 

[Simon Belmont]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

 

[Conezays]

Nice, any word on any performance differences between 360 and XB1 yet?

 

[kadotsu]

IS this game actually good is it nostagia for JRPGs from the 00s?

It's a game with gorgeous art that is dragged down by a pre-SNES battle system and some pretty cringey event direction.

 

[Akzel]

We really need a Real HD port or a sequel.

 

[jrush64]

This is good news. Now what about Vesperia? Is any Namco game backward compatible?

 

[Aeana]

Very cool. I hope Blue Dragon follows shortly. It was announced at the same time before.

 

[jshackles]

I'm literally drowning in RPGs I want to play, but this one is going on the short list

 

[purseowner]

This is good news. Now what about Vesperia? Is any Namco game backward compatible?

Pac-Man CE DX+ is, so we can only hope...

 

[StMeph]

Finally RDR, now Lost Odyssey.

Now the only things I need are Ninja Gaiden 2 and Tales of Vesperia.

 

[jet1911]

I found a used copy for 14$CAD!

 

[AndyMoogle]

It didn't run great on 360, not sure if BC can make any difference to that, guessing not..

Was my only real complaint with the game, except for 2 certain characters but nevermind that

BC can and has already improved the performance for some games. Red Dead Redemption is one example.

 

[Simon Belmont]

It didn't run great on 360, not sure if BC can make any difference to that, guessing not..

Was my only real complaint with the game, except for 2 certain characters but nevermind that

Might improve load times? Installing the original to the HDD improved them a lot!

 

[AAMARMO]

No way.

 

[TEJ]

It's currently installing, i'm excited to replay it.

 

[The Elite]

They fucking did it.

 

[def sim]

ah it's physical copy only

i might just wait

 

[Vincent Grayson]

Get me Blue Dragon and Tales of Vesperia (and all of them digital), and I'm sold on an XBO.

 

[Caayn]

Whooo, there's a god!

 

[ss_lemonade]

YES! I just bought the game for 9 bucks at gamestop last weekend because it was the only time I found a cheap copy with the box and manuals intact. Perfect timing

 

[Garlador]

A game I loved so much I bought my friend an Xbox 360 and a copy of the game so she could enjoy it too.

VERY happy with this news.

 

[TheAggroCraig]

Dang. I lost all my 360 saves years ago and I ended up selling my copy because I couldn't do the first 2 discs again....... why am I tempted to grab it again......

 

[AgentOtaku]

Already beat it on 360 and felt it collapsed on itself towards the end
That being said, still very much worth playing, especially for that GOAT battle theme alone

 

[Tain]

Guwange is also a good game.

Guwange is a much better game, even.

Cool to see it with XB1 support. oneida lag-tested VF5FS and showed that BC only added a frame of lag (impressive given the tech hurdles IMO), probably the same case with other BC games.

 

[PIMPBYBLUD]

Fucking awesome!!! The dream is alive! Never finished Lost Odyssey, that will now change!

 

[CoolZombie360]

For people in the UK, grab it ASAP if you are going to CEX cos it won't be £2.50 for much longer. They are routinely raising the price of newly BC games. It'll probably quadruple in price by tomorrow. They did it with World At War the other day.

 

[inner-G]

Installing

How does it work - does it have you install all 4 discs at once? Then put one in to play it?

 

[Sephimoth]

Big fan of ps1 era Final Fantasys, never played this. Installing now