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ZerokkuZerokku Registered User regular
edited April 2009 in Games and Technology
All right. Back when I had the original Xbox, I was a silly stupid teenager who tended to trade in all of his games after he beat them once or twice. I'm wanting to remedy that fact, so I'm looking for some good xbox games to add to my collection. If you could, please only recommend games that are backwards compatible for the 360.

These games do not need to be mentioned, I already have them.

Halo
Halo 2
KotOR
KotOR 2
Fable

I'd love some good rpg recommendations if anyone has any, I know that wasn't exactly a strong point of the oxbox, but if there were some good ones I missed out on, please tell me :lol: I'm pretty eclectic and like most every genre, though I'm not huge on shooters or basically anything tom clancy.

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    Greg USNGreg USN Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I still trade games in, don't see why its silly or stupid.

    more on topic though... I think Panzer Dragoon Orta is a cool guy. eh blows shit up and doesn't afraid of anything.

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    ZerokkuZerokku Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Greg USN wrote: »
    I still trade games in, don't see why its silly or stupid.

    more on topic though... I think Panzer Dragoon Orta is a cool guy. eh blows shit up and doesn't afraid of anything.

    Mostly because you don't tend to get the greatest value back out of it, and I've also now become a bit of a collector.

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    xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Too bad you don't like Tom Clancy, because Chaos Theory is the best sneaky assassin game either xbox has ever had.

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    AuburnTigerAuburnTiger Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Jade Empire

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    Greg USNGreg USN Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Zerokku wrote: »
    Greg USN wrote: »
    I still trade games in, don't see why its silly or stupid.

    more on topic though... I think Panzer Dragoon Orta is a cool guy. eh blows shit up and doesn't afraid of anything.

    Mostly because you don't tend to get the greatest value back out of it, and I've also now become a bit of a collector.

    But for me its the best option. I'm busy with work and what not a lot. Collecting is ok but I wouldn't make a blanket statement that its a stupid thing to do. The loss in value I incur from a trade in is worth it in time I save trying to sell an old game via other means.

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    truck-a-saurastruck-a-sauras Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Deathrow, not sure if it is backwards compat though. Future sports done right.

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    HaikiraHaikira UKRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Damn, i was typing up about Jade Empire, then i noticed a whole bunch of posts already listing it. But yeah, if you didn't excluded the KotoR games on your OP, because of dislike. Jade Empire is really worth a look.

    Though i could perhaps be the first to recommend Hulk:Ultimate Destruction. 8-)8-)

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    ZerokkuZerokku Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Haikira wrote: »
    Damn, i was typing up about Jade Empire, then i noticed a whole bunch of posts already listing it. But yeah, if you didn't excluded the KotoR games on your OP, because of dislike. Jade Empire is really worth a look.

    Though i could perhaps be the first to recommend Hulk:Ultimate Destruction. 8-)8-)

    Nah the games I included in the OP are ones I already have :P

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    The Burnin8orThe Burnin8or Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I started making this list before I paid attention that you wanted BC only titles, but, I left the non BC titles in anyway (the BC titles are in bold). Not all console specific . . .

    Otogi
    Otogi 2
    Phantom Dust
    Metal Arms
    Black
    Crimson Skies
    Freedom Fighters
    Oddworld Stranger's Wrath
    Star Wars Republic Commando
    Deathrow
    Street Fighter Anniversary Collection

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    LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Black. Action packed, brilliant looking FPS that plays and feels just like a really good action movie.

    I don't care about pretty much any game with Tom Clancy in the name, but Chaos Theory is incredible.

    Mercenaries is brilliant explodey open world fun.

    Psychonauts is a great game. In pure gameplay terms, it's a pretty much straight up platformer, but the characters are all ace.

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    HaikiraHaikira UKRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I can personally back up Crimson Skies and Freedom Fighters. I played Freedom Fighters on the pc though, but i imagine it works just as good, if not better on the Xbox.

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    The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    God damn Freedom Fighters is a great game. Seconding that.

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    FightTestFightTest Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Amped 1 and 2 got more played time on my old black house than any other game. Really I liked the first one better in terms of controls but the second one had way more content.

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    SteevLSteevL What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Thirding Freedom Fighters. I only ever played it on the PS2, but I played through it multiple times.

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    NailbunnyPDNailbunnyPD Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Ninja Gaiden Black?

    Also, despite your lack of interest in Tom Clancy games, Splinter Cell is worth a consideration. Chaos Theory is the best in the series, and you'd be fine just sticking with that.

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    BiosysBiosys Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Fourthing Freedom Fighters, which is probably the only decent squad-based game I've ever played, and Jade Empire, because if you liked KOTOR, you'll love it.

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    HedgethornHedgethorn Associate Professor of Historical Hobby Horses In the Lions' DenRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Thief Deadly Shadows

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    FawstFawst The road to awe.Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Black
    Freedom Fighters
    Burnout 3: Takedown (digital crack when it first came out, jesus...)
    Ninja Gaiden Black
    Panzer Dragoon Orta (FULL of win, one of the greatest shooters ever made)
    Conker's Bad Fur Day (if you never got to play it on the N64)
    Mercenaries
    Any Splinter Cell
    Thief: Deadly Shadows
    Call of Cthulu

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    Delta AssaultDelta Assault Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Splinter Cell Chaos Theory's really good if you like stealth.

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    ZerokkuZerokku Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Delta Assault wrote: »
    Splinter Cell Chaos Theory's really good if you like stealth.

    I loved MGS, but had a hard time getting into the splinter cell games I tried. Don't ask me why o_O

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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Zerokku wrote: »
    Delta Assault wrote: »
    Splinter Cell Chaos Theory's really good if you like stealth.

    I loved MGS, but had a hard time getting into the splinter cell games I tried. Don't ask me why o_O

    Because Splinter Cell actually has more focus on stealth than MGS? :P

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    Delta AssaultDelta Assault Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Zerokku wrote: »
    Delta Assault wrote: »
    Splinter Cell Chaos Theory's really good if you like stealth.

    I loved MGS, but had a hard time getting into the splinter cell games I tried. Don't ask me why o_O

    1. Hide in shadows
    2. ???
    3. Profit!

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    The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    If you have big speakers and a strange desire to be deaf then buy Black and turn it right up.

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    h8b1llg8tsh8b1llg8ts Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I second Crimson Skies ... wish more people would play online.

    Also, am I the only one who wishes MS would come and and say we no longer care about BC. I mean we haven't had an update since Nov '07.

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    cwapfobrainscwapfobrains Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Armed and Dangerous (2 words - Shark Gun)
    Secret Weapons Over Normandy

    and a second for Star Wars Republic Commando and Phantom Dust

    edit: Secret Weapons Over Normandy isn't BC, so never mind :(

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    SynthesisSynthesis Honda Today! Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Zerokku wrote: »
    Delta Assault wrote: »
    Splinter Cell Chaos Theory's really good if you like stealth.

    I loved MGS, but had a hard time getting into the splinter cell games I tried. Don't ask me why o_O

    Because Splinter Cell actually has more focus on stealth than MGS? :P

    Lack of pantsless men and crotch grabbing in Splinter Cell?

    In complete seriousness, there is a remake of MGS2 available for Xbox, if OP hasn't played it on the PS2 already.

    Ninja Gaiden Black (definitely)
    Soul Calibur II (if you like 3D fighters)
    Dead or Alive 4 (see above, add 'with four people playing')
    Phantom Dust
    Hitman II: Silent Assassin (one of the few modern stealth action games in which you are NOT a government agent--and you can freaking kill someone with a golf club. Come on!)

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    FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    As much as fans of Thief 1 and 2 hurf durf about it not being as good, Thief 3: Deadly Shadows is a fun game in its own right and I highly recommend it.

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    LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Splinter Cell 1
    Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory

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    cwapfobrainscwapfobrains Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    oh also Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction.

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    an_altan_alt Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I really liked Gladius, which is a SRPG. It has a great mix of a complicated enough RPG combat system without needing outside assistance to keep track of everything. The fights were long enough be involving without lasting an hour past when the outcome was clear. It isn't a prefect game, but it was a lot of fun.

    I don't know if it's BC or not though.

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    guarguar Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
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    The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
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    LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I swear no one liked Black when it first came out. Maybe it has aged really well or something, but I am sure as time passes from when it was made, it gets more popular.

    Maybe it's because EA are not dicks now as much as they used to be.

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    FawstFawst The road to awe.Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Black was good but it didn't live up to the hype at the time. That being said, there aren't really that many FPS games that do. So now people can look at the FPS's that have come out, see them for what they are (cookie cutter copies of each other... with ALIENZORZ!!!) and realize that Black was actually pretty specifically made for one reason and one reason only: to do for guns in video games what Sasha Grey does for women in porn.

    They render the competition obsolete.

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    HedgethornHedgethorn Associate Professor of Historical Hobby Horses In the Lions' DenRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Fawst wrote: »
    Conker's Bad Fur Day (if you never got to play it on the N64)

    I bought this a month or two back when Gamestop had a 25% off coupon on original Xbox games, and I must say that I simply do not understand how anyone ever thought this game was good. The first 2/3rds of the game consists in terribly-designed platforming and every five minutes there is yet another cutscene that is wayyyy too long and has terrible voice acting that is spoken at the rate of two words a minute.

    I did force myself to play through the entire thing, and while the last two levels (Saving Private Ryan and the Matrix) were alright, they certainly don't make up for the game's other sins.

    It was the worst $8 game I've ever bought.

    And the hoverboard level can go die in a fire.

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    TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Crimson Skies
    Indigo Prophecy
    Psychonauts
    Black
    Ninja Gaiden: Black
    Dreamfall
    Metal Arms
    Jade Empire

    What a coincidence... they're available for download as Xbox Originals.

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    FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Taramoor wrote: »
    Crimson Skies
    Indigo Prophecy
    Psychonauts
    Black
    Ninja Gaiden: Black
    Dreamfall
    Metal Arms
    Jade Empire

    What a coincidence... they're available for download as Xbox Originals.

    Salmon'd for lies. Do yourself a favor and save yourself the disappointment.

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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Fiaryn wrote: »
    Taramoor wrote: »
    Crimson Skies
    Indigo Prophecy
    Psychonauts
    Black
    Ninja Gaiden: Black
    Dreamfall
    Metal Arms
    Jade Empire

    What a coincidence... they're available for download as Xbox Originals.

    Salmon'd for lies. Do yourself a favor and save yourself the disappointment.

    Or maybe just play the first half and make up your own ending.

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    The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Black has aged well. And a potential sequel would be incredible eye sex the likes of which you haven't seen before.

    Burnout 3 : Takedown is also probably on my top 10 games of all time list. 100%'d that motherfucker. So eye blisteringly quick.

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    LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Yeah, it certainly doesn't look much worse than a lot of 360 games.

    A sequel has been confirmed, but we haven't seen anything about it yet.

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