Microsoft's Avatar Game Room

Microsoft's Avatar Game Room

Microsoft has decided to screw us 'old school gamers' with the release of what should be our Heaven on Earth. Instead they mock us with false promises and world changing promises that we should buy old games again to put it in our Avatar's "GAME ROOM".

That's right people... you are going to have to buy all of those 'classics' you already bought for the XBLA again if you want to put them in your Avatar's Game Room. And I already own them all! Now I have to rebuy them to add them to my Avatar's Arcade? To whom must I impress with my Avatar clothes and Arcade light show? Isn't it enough that I own over 60-70% of the XBLA games already?

Personally, I'll be buying a few of them again. BUT I'm not the doomsayer here... lots of original games from Atari and Intellivision will be showing up to start. Dreamcast too. Straight ports with no new graphics. And there will be others... lots of games that haven't; and won't ever be added to the XBLA.

At least not now.

Did I mention that they will most likely be added to the small, but growing selection of Windows LIVE games? That will make them portable with all new achievements!

Let's take a step back here... old games; new price; might own, fanboy buy... same old Microsoft over-the-barrell screw job. Did I mention noob pricing?

Will we buy it? Indeed!


Comments

Well, I havn't bought any of

Well, I havn't bought any of the classic atari games or anything, so thankfully I wont have to buy them.

When games room comes out, I will be waiting to see if they release genesis games like road rash etc. If they do end up releasing genesis game and want me to pay for the ones I already bought (sonic, streets of rage) then thankfully I bought sonics genesis classic collection :).

E10+ for Everyone 10+

It is rumored that the Game Room will not feature any retro games with a rating over E10+ for Everyone 10+ by the ESRB. So you can forget Killer Instinct.

When asking a Microsoft representative, they responded with: "Games available for download within “Game Room” will carry either E or E10+ ratings", "We currently have no plans to feature titles of those higher (Teen and Mature) ratings".

Most likely the reasoning for this is that each title costs around $800 to rate, so apparently Microsoft had the Game Room rated itself and not by each individual game.

For the full breakdown on this rumored rating system, check out our good friends site over at: http://www.gamerbytes.com/2010/01/microsofts_genius_rate_the_gam.php

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They are cheap, and you can

They are cheap, and you can play them with friends and they even have cheivos'.

Sounds like a deal to me.

Hmm, buy again every single

Hmm, buy again every single xbl title? wow what a ripoff... even if arcade titles are cheap it is a slap in the face for loyal consumers, the old MS money who***

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I'm certainly not rebuying

I'm certainly not rebuying any games, it's just a way to M$ rip some more money from the users accounts.

And I'm still eager to see what games they'll be adding to the Game Room. What they could do is lower the price of the ports already available on XBLA that would suit the Game Room environment (like Gunstar Heroes and Sonic games for the Sega Genesis or Soul Calibur for the Dreamcast), that would be awesome

I have downloaded the Game

I have downloaded the Game Room and I have bought only Asteroids, most of the games are too much old to are interesting -specially the Intellivion ones-.

I wanna buy other games but there are 6 weeks of stop..

Krome don't release any other update 'til the end of April XD

I like Game Room a lot more

I like Game Room a lot more than I though I would. I have only bought one game so far (Shao-lins Road). But will defintiley buy some more later on.

If someone's up for a challenge or compare high scores feel free to add my gamertag.

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