Xbox/PS2 and Xbox 360/PS3 era games

[Deadlysub]

The current era of consoles is a bit of a dud in my opinion, with very few new releases so I ve found I have played very few games in recent years.

I cancelled my gamepass subscription since the high price increase as I couldn t justify it anymore.

During Christmas I had a look through the Xbox store and Splinter Cell Blacklist was available for something like £5, it’s a game I somehow missed when it came out and thought I would give it a go. I started playing it this week and it made me appreciate how good that era or gaming was. There were huge numbers of game releases, which were varied, innovative and ultimately fun to play.

The major plus with the current systems is with the online stores (Xbox store and steam) you can go back and play this era of games for relatively little money. I’ve just bought the original splinter cell for the Steam Deck.

Edited by Deadlysub on Sunday 22 February 09:42

[Xcore]

I wouldn’t mind revisiting Max Payne

[Jamescrs]

I have the current gen of XBOX and i've also cancelled my Game Pass subscription because i just wasn't using it and the price increase killed it for me too.

I have a few single player story games stacked up to play at some point but I too hanker after playing the older consoles instead now. My Switch has had more use than my Xbox recently where i've been replaying some of the side scrolling 2D mario games again

[C5_Steve]

For all the criticism he had in the role, Phil Spencer was the driving force behind backwards compatibility. No one else at the time felt it was important and was bothering, then in he comes and unbundled the Kinect and introduced backwards compatibility.

I've still got all my old 360 and Xbox One games. Played Transformers Devastation only recently (but I'm stuck on a certain level so got annoyed and sacked it off).

I also really love the Switch for this, it's worth the Nintendo Connect price for the library of old games they have, including the old Sega stuff.