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Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 05:36 PM
why did it take so long?Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 05:38 PM
It finally happens and you still complain? I shouldn't be surprised.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 05:39 PM
Finally! Such wonderful news!Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 05:40 PM
Can someone check if the JP version of Mass Effect 2 is also backward compatible.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 05:40 PM
Great news!Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 05:44 PM
I literally just finished the first game again yesterday. I was going to start Blue Dragon tonight, but I might just roll right on with the series. Only problem is that I don't own all the DLC, but I'm guessing they'll be DOTW. If so, I'll jump right into the second. :)Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 05:47 PM
I think #1 asked a valid question.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 05:48 PM
They are on EA Access also.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 05:48 PM
@1 You ungrateful bastard ;-) But seriously: I assume its pretty clear that longer games take longer to port over. If you followed the independent emulation scene in the early 2000s you were aware that when putting games on ZSNES or Project 64 there were sometimes complications and bugs that shouldn't appear which resulted in having to patch either the Rom, the emulator or both. I think its nothing different with the X360 emulator running on the One. So as a result every game has to be tested. Thats why we see a lot of small arcade games on BC while the mayor titles are only slowly rolling out. They have to play through the games intensively and eventually adjust the Rom or Emulator and then test again. If its a game like Pac-Man or Sonic you can do that in an hour but for these games it takes time. I think its especially complicated with the more demanding titles. There used to be a rule of thumb that you need roughly 10 times the original specs to emulate a game properly. On Ars Technica there were emulator programmers speaking of even needing 3GHz to faithfully emulate SNES games which is 1000x the original freq, so considering that it is quite a feat that they managed to run an emulator this stable and working on the X1.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 06:06 PM
Dont see why #1 is getting flak. Just an innocent question. Glad Mass Effect 2 is now available as its one of my favorites from the 360.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 06:08 PM
Anyone have ME 3 loaded that can tell me whether or not the online is still working? At work and can't check until later.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 06:14 PM
So, can I get these digitally, or do I need the discs?Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 06:18 PM
Never mind, found them in my ready to install section. I know what I'm doing this week :DMonday, November 07, 2016 @ 06:28 PM
Does anyone know if the MP portion of ME3 is also backwards compatible?? or just the single player campaign??Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 06:29 PM
@6 Hey, Pants - Blue Dragon is a lot of fun, but the next Sakaguchi offering is better - Lost Odyssey. Not sure if you played that one, but since it's BC as well, it's definitely worth a playthrough...two if you're me.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 06:30 PM
This is pretty awesome. However I am a little disappointed there is not a digital version of Mass Effect 2 & 3 available to buy. I don't have the discs available anymore. But would buy them again for $20 each. Would love to play them again. At least I already have all the DLC purchased for all 3 games.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 06:37 PM
AWESOME. I might load all 3 of the ME games to my X1 and just keep them there forever and ever, fucking LOVED these games, omg ME is great. Now we just need all the splinter cell games to be B/C and I'll be fairly in heaven.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 06:40 PM
I am intrigued. I have never played or bought Mass effect 2 or 3, and they don't appear to be on EA Access. Yet they have shown up in my 'ready to install' list??! Is this supposed to have happened? Is it a one day only deal? If I install them both, will I get to keep them to play at a later time?Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 06:42 PM
They wouldn't have held these back for months just to release them on N7 day would they?Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 06:43 PM
@9 I think your logic may be a bit flawed. If you think that these companies are spending that much time quality testing an Xbox 360 game just to make it backwards compatible, but then NOT spending that much time of Xbox One games, which would arguably make them more money, then that's just crazy. These companies definitely aren't paying people to play and test old games. I think the more logical reason taking so long to make games backwards compatible are the VIPs of the company trying to figure out if they should remaster the game to make more money or simply BC the game to please the old fans.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 06:45 PM
That's awesome. I'm gonna go to Gamestop later and get the Trilogy copy. I've been dying to replay ME2&3.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 06:53 PM
why can't you buy mass effect 2 and 3 digitally? i can't find them on the store only the dlcMonday, November 07, 2016 @ 07:11 PM
@22 multi-disc games have to be loaded from the disc; MS has no plans to make digital copies available. The good news is you apparently only need disc 1 to authorize the download, so you may be able to pick it up on the cheap through eBay.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 07:12 PM
@22 look at your 'ready to install' page, do you see them in your list, like I do in mine?Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 07:13 PM
Woo! We can all rejoice!Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 07:13 PM
Wish they remastered the trilogy, would buy that within a heartbeatMonday, November 07, 2016 @ 07:25 PM
@23 that can't be true. Max Payne 3 is multi disc and I own that digitallyMonday, November 07, 2016 @ 07:26 PM
@27 I think he means backwards-compatible?Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 07:28 PM
Please tell me now I don't need to disc swapMonday, November 07, 2016 @ 07:30 PM
I put my Mass Effect 3 disc in my Xbox One and it didn't give me the install option, anyone else having problems?Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 07:31 PM
Hmm, this is strange. Hearing some people say they've neither downloaded or played Mass Effect before but it's on their 'Ready to Install' list. I just checked and it's saying I bought them 05/01/2015?Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 07:38 PM
@14: All features of the game are BC (as with all games on the program). @15: Yeah, I already recompleted LO on my new tag when it went BC. :) @20: #9 is 100% correct in how the BC process works. Microsoft creates a dedicated emulator for each and every game from scratch, and each one needs to be tested and working before it can be released. The amount of man hours that have gone into this program at no cost to the Xbox community is absolutely staggering. Most people do not give BC the full credit it deserves. @21: Much cheaper to buy them all individually. The games are $20 total by themselves while the trilogy disc is $35 and does NOT come with any DLC. @22: As #23 touched on, multi-disc games are not available to purchase digitally. It's confusing because even when you put a disc in, it downloads a digital file that you use to play the game, but you're downloading the emulator based on your ownership of the physical product. You're not buying the digital license to the game. And they can't sell the digital license to an emulator that will only work on Xbox One, they'd have to have a proper digital version of the game that would work on Xbox 360 as well to be able to do that. @29: You don't need to disc swap! Multi-disc games will install and play off Disc 1 only. You could throw the others discs away if you'd like - box One doesn't recognize them, so there's no sharing of a multi-disc game. @30: Do a hard reset of your console. It usually takes a while for BC data to transfer to live consoles, but if you reset it, it gets the data when it boots back up. @31: The "Mass Effect Trilogy" is on the EA Access program so subscribers of that should have all three games in their Ready to Install. I don't know why it works this way for EA Access members, but the games are not available for sale digitally all the time as I just mentioned above. Weird loophole of some kind.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 07:39 PM
@14 can confirm online mp is workingMonday, November 07, 2016 @ 07:41 PM
All 3 digital games coming down free through EA Access :) Not a bad week for free shit, 3 mass Effect games today, Mirrors edge catalyst on Wednesday & UFC 2 on ThursdayMonday, November 07, 2016 @ 07:48 PM
@34: So you have to buy all the DLC individually? What a freakin ripoff. Thanks for letting me know. I'm trying to cancel my order now.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 08:01 PM
@37: Yeah, the Trilogy disc is literally just the three base games. It's fairly useless.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 08:07 PM
Do save files carry over with the cloud system? And is the dlc on access as well?Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 08:17 PM
I'll play these games when theyear give me a proper remastered version of all 3 games with all the dlc. I ll gladly pay for it but will not pay for them for the bc program. I've played none of them but would like too but sadly will only do so after a proper remastered version of the trilogy.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 08:33 PM
@38: So is there nowhere you can buy a complete edition of any game?Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 08:37 PM
@39: Yes, if they are already in the cloud. If not, you'll have to boot up your 360 and upload them first. @41: Nope. They never released any special editions with DLC included.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 08:43 PM
Just so I have this correctly, I know multi disc backwards compatible games can't be bought digitally but in this case if you have EA access you can play them digitally? I checked real quick and they're in my "ready to install" section. It'd be a little silly if they put them there but then required you to have a disc.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 08:47 PM
I actually squealed in excitement. I love ME but my 360 broke over a year ago and I replaced it with an Xbone. Super pleased about this, wish I'd checked the news earlier so I could already be playing.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 08:59 PM
does anyone know if the DLC is included in the downloads from EA access?Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 09:09 PM
nvmMonday, November 07, 2016 @ 09:28 PM
Awesome, thanks for the help Pants!Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 09:44 PM
@43: EA Access members don't need a disc. They get the digital versions (which apparently can't be sold to us normies, haha).Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 09:56 PM
Awesome, thanks Pants!Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 10:12 PM
@20 The way it works as far as I understand it is: Microsoft approaches a publisher, in this case EA and asks them if they allow for their games to be on the BC service. If EA says yes then a team at Microsoft whichs whole purpose is to program the emulators try to get the games working on the Xbox one. The original developers and/or publishers don't have any additional work to do, its just Microsofts BC-programmers doing any work on that. Microsoft spends the money, which may come from XBL subscriptions, cross-financing from revenue from their office and business software or whereever because the Xbox one was doing rather poorly compared to the Playstation so they invested in new IP, UI overhaul and BC to up the value for xbox customers in the hopes that new gamers would buy an Xbox one over a Playstation 4.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 10:24 PM
Finally! Such wonderful news!Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 10:44 PM
@1 because the games use multiple discs. They'll have had to do something clever to have the XB1 deal with the situations where the game asks you to change disks.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 10:44 PM
Nice! I can finally grab the rest of the achievements on all 3 games. I'm just gonna wait for dlc to be discounted again since I missed out those times. Good to have EA Access.Monday, November 07, 2016 @ 10:45 PM
The 360 had some pretty tight file limits in place, that's probably why you don't see multi-disk digital games on the 360, but the Xbox One clearly doesn't have that issue so they are probably able to do it nowMonday, November 07, 2016 @ 10:56 PM
I got the dlc when had 360 so mine just installed again.Tuesday, November 08, 2016 @ 01:08 AM
Nice that they are added to EA Access.Tuesday, November 08, 2016 @ 02:39 AM
When the FUCK are they gonna give us Singularity.Tuesday, November 08, 2016 @ 03:31 AM
Is anyone else not seeing some of the DLC? I can understand like the helmets and armor stuff, but Lair of the Shadow Broker, Zaeed, Kasumi and Overlord are all missing and it says I don't own Cerberus Network. I got it with the special edition day one.Tuesday, November 08, 2016 @ 07:03 AM
@34: Holy Hannah, Pants! Already?!? It hasn't been BC that long. Did you speed run LO? How did you enjoy it going that fast? :PTuesday, November 08, 2016 @ 12:12 PM
@59: Haha, I did sort of speed run it. I had completed it before, so I skipped the story and just went for the achievements. 42 hours!Tuesday, November 08, 2016 @ 02:05 PM
@60: A mere 42 hours? I'd say ol' Kaim's pants were on fire. :) I played it twice. First time was 172 hours. The second time on my new gamertag was a proud moment for me as I completed it in exactly 100 hours. I now know I was moving in quicksand. ;) However, the story and the Dream are some of the best writing I've encountered in a game. I'm glad it's BC now so hopefully it will be introduced to a newer, much larger audience. Need I even begin the discussions of a sequel up again? Sakaguchi-san? :)Tuesday, November 08, 2016 @ 02:41 PM
I wanted to play the multiplayer again, but apparently the ME3 save file doesnt transfer, and you have to do everything all over again. I just dont have the time, I spent over a year grinding ME3 multiplayer I was so looking forward to this too. :(Tuesday, November 08, 2016 @ 05:13 PM
@62 maybe try a hard reset or something. I checked my online progress (gun levels, character unlocks and consumables), even played a few rounds and everything was there and properly accounted for. I believe that stuff was stored server-side with EA so it shouldn't matter if you've transferred your save file to the cloud as that only stores your single player progress. Though you've probably already tried this, make sure you download all the MP expansions and Online Pass as this may account for your missing MP stuff. If not, I have no idea what's going on. Sucks, man. That would have killed my excitement for this as well. :(Thursday, December 29, 2016 @ 03:36 PM
Hi has anyone sussed out how to get me2 games save across to the xbox one? I've saved to the cloud but the me3 doesn't pick it up ?
Monday, November 07, 2016
As part of N7 Day - a celebration of everything Mass Effect - Microsoft has officially announced that Mass Effect 2 and 3 have been added to backwards compatibility on Xbox One.
Both games have all their respective DLC uploaded to the service, too, so you can play the complete Mass Effect experience from the second and third games uninterrupted if you wish.
There are now 276 backward compatible titles. See them all here.