xbox original rip-offs! +poll - do you play xbox games?

so i was in cex today and i saw splinter cell chaos theory for £1.50. i was like WHAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!!!

i bought it obviously and then i checked marketplace and this thing is 1200 ms points which according to oxm is £10.20.

also some other games like halo etc. are much cheaper to buy and obviusly don't take up hdd space.

wondering if anybody else has been avoiding the originals for the same reason or why are some people buying these overpriced game? i was impresses with xbla prices but this........just ott.

I'm not a casual gamer so I wont buy used gamed.

Most (if not all) of the games offered are more expensive new at stores.

Yeah CeX always sell cheap games !

It's better to get the game in my opinion , because it cant get deleted if incase you get RROD

Yeah CeX always sell cheap games !

It's better to get the game in my opinion , because it cant get deleted if incase you get RROD

fabfabregas

yh i agree about the deleting thing and also if you get bored you cannot trade it in when it's on your hard drive so youre stuck with it or you delete it and its a waste of cash.

also nice to see your a fabregas fan. hes getting a hat-trick today against hull!

I'm not a casual gamer so I wont buy used gamed.

Most (if not all) of the games offered are more expensive new at stores.

Jaysonguy

i'm not a casual gamer which is why i buy used. there are so many games out that you can't buy each one new. if i bought the whole of my game collection new i probably wouldn't be writing this thing on the internet now. i hav loads of games and if i times that by £40 my bank statement wouldnt be looking so good.

I actually just bought KOTOR 1 and 2 to play on 360! I have them both for pc, but I miss my controller so I picked them up... Which gets me to thinking, are there any other must haves from the original xbox for my 360?joke_man

the first two halo's are still worth a go. i recently got nfsu2 aswell. awesome game - used to play it loads on ps2. other games which i havent played like fable, ninja gaiden are meant to be great games but i havent played them. kotor is meant to b the best games anywayz.

I still have all my original games for the xbox and if I feel the need to play them, I will do so on the original xbox as opposed to the 360. If I purchase any games, they come from brick and mortar stores as they are ridiculously cheap these days.MsCortana

Exactly what I would do. Original xbox games are sooo cheap now that it's not worth the bother of downloading them off xbox live. Plus I would have to transfer all my save files from my old Xbox to my new one if I wanted to play my old games on my new 360, which I just cannot be bothered to do as my Xbox still works perfectly fine, (The only slight problem is the disc drive gets stuck now and then, but it's not a big problem.)

I'm not voting because your choices are two extremes and no middle ground. I play a few Xbox origanals off the marketplace but that doesn't mean that I only play Xbox origanals.

Also with gas prices what they are it is actually cheaper for most people to just download xbox origanals for $15 than to spend $25 on gas and $10 on a game.

Yeah CeX always sell cheap games !

It's better to get the game in my opinion , because it cant get deleted if incase you get RROD

fabfabregas

if you payed for it you can re-download it for free. This is how i keep my hard drive free while still playing a lot of the classics.

I actually just bought KOTOR 1 and 2 to play on 360! I have them both for pc, but I miss my controller so I picked them up... Which gets me to thinking, are there any other must haves from the original xbox for my 360?joke_man

These aren't must haves, but they're really really good games. Especially considering that you can get them for like $5 or less:

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

NBA Street 2 (2 is the best one by far)

Phantom Dust (only if you have someone who lives with you who would also play it)

Jet Set Radio Future

Jedi Academy

Jade Empire... this was rated well and has realtime action, but the action is like... imagine the most generic and bland beat-em up ever made... thats the quality of the action in the game. But the story is interesting and if you like all the dark side light side stuff of KOTOR, you'll have fun with this.

It's better to get the game in my opinion , because it cant get deleted if incase you get RROD

fabfabregas

People always mention that as a knock against digital distribution, but can you tell me one service that doesn't let you re-download stuff for free? PSN, Wii, XBL, Steam, Direct 2 Drive, Amazon.com, iTunes... all of them let you redownload stuff you've already purchased yet people always bring up the complaint of, "if I erase the files, i'll have to buy them again." That rumor/lie needs to get taken out to pasture already.

I've bought Burnout 3 and Black from the Xbox originals. I know it cost me more than what it would've cost from a shop but I don't care because I can afford it. There's no way I'd put a used game in my 360 so I don't buy Xbox games from CEX, Gamestation and GAME. Mostly because they're always scratched really badly. Obviously most people don't look after their games.

If I want to buy a retail Xbox game (because it isn't on Xbox originals) I look for it on ebay. I try to get it sealed. If I can't find a sealed version I look for one in mint condition. Xbox games I've bought from ebay recently include GTA3, Vice City, San Andreas and KOTOR 1 + 2. I've still got my original Xbox. I never sold it. I'm glad I kept it too because my 360 is away being repaired so I'm playing KOTOR on my original Xbox.

No mostly due to the graphics HD is to good can't play in 480p.