For some reason, MN specifically said that Halo Anniversary was disc only. Not sure why it's not available digitally.
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For some reason, MN specifically said that Halo Anniversary was disc only. Not sure why it's not available digitally.
always crazy bacon
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They'll fix that. I assume because how the multiplayer linked to another game.
I'm pretty sure they have said it's coming "this Fall" which doesn't technically even start until tomorrow and lasts until December 21st so they have a few more months to get it ironed out.
Backlogger
Member
Glad we got something this week
NYCmetsfan
Banned
you have all the games on the MCC, why do you need more?
Sweet. I still need to beat Halo 4 on Legendary and the last chase in Anniversary with like... a minute to spare or something. I don't think I'll be able to get the Vidmaster challenge achievements in ODST, though.
I don't think it was ever available digitally. Only the original Xbox version was downloadable on the store.
CRZYSPZ
Member
It's actually going to be available digitally fairly soon.
They mention it in the Halo Community Update from today.
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/back-mentality
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Im curious to see how Halo 4 performs. Especially split screen, the frame rate goes pretty low on 360.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Likely nothing particularly noteworthy. Theyre bumping everything up to the August 2017 build or newer. Odds are theyre just setting a new baseline build. They did this last summer with the June 2016 emulator build. Most games should basically be the same as before, but some may get minor performance boosts from 14+ months of accumulated work on the emulator.
Also, BC updates are basically always that size. They replace the full emulator, which is about a half-gig.
RyanHardy101
Banned
How's the frame rate in Halo 4 split screen on the MCC?
PositiveGamer
Member
Does anyone know when my Xbox should update to download the latest Xbox 360 games?
The last games in my list are The Walking Dead games. Is this a glitch?
The last games in my list are The Walking Dead games. Is this a glitch?
So can someone explain to me why all my Halo 3 DLC isnt showing up?
Missing some map packs.
Same here.
Heroic Map Pack and Cold Storage not showing up in the manage game section. Pretty annoying.
always crazy bacon
Banned
A button should appear on the top of ready to install saying show newest titles. Sometimes it takes a while to show.
PositiveGamer
Member
Forgive me..
I meant the newest titles..
Like I still haven't seem saint rows from last week. Last update selection for me was walking dead week.
PositiveGamer
Member
If I search halo, I only get halo 5 and collection.
Search "halo 3".
poodaddy
Member
MS if you don't put this game on your OG XBOX BC is a waste of everyone's time.
This is an example of how to form a true statement.
PositiveGamer
Member
No, like I said earlier. I think my xbox is glitch. I don't see any new selections for the game list for 360.
mdsfx
Member
+1MS if you don't put this game on your OG XBOX BC is a waste of everyone's time.
Yes please. Might be my #1 choice
go to the in-game marketplace (start game>settings>marketplace) and "buy" them there. they should be free if you already have them, and it'll tell you after you do to go to manage game to install them. They'll show up there afterwards.
I had to do the same thing for each and every car pack for Forza Horizon 1 and Gears 2 or 3 season pass. It was really tedious.
Dead Man Typing
Member
Can't go back to normal Halo 3. MCC just has too many perks.
Frame rate, image quality and custom controls just make it difficult to go back. Still nice to see the game it it's original form.
If anything it's just made me really want Halo Reach to get the MCC treatment. Which is something I'd finally learned to accept isn't happening.
EDIT - The Essentials disc from Halo Collectors Edition doesn't work. This is an outrage!
Frame rate, image quality and custom controls just make it difficult to go back. Still nice to see the game it it's original form.
If anything it's just made me really want Halo Reach to get the MCC treatment. Which is something I'd finally learned to accept isn't happening.
EDIT - The Essentials disc from Halo Collectors Edition doesn't work. This is an outrage!
DAMN. Ah well. Glad I still have my 360 at least.
yankeehater
Member
Got home from work, turn on the One, notice my ready to install list is +1. I had halo 3 even though I never bought it. Man Ms is the best.
Fox Mulder
Member
Too bad halo 4, MCC, and halo 5 killed the franchise for me.
SlipperyMoose
Member
Updates made it really good in the later months but the player base had left by then. Which is a damn shame
Definitely gonna try and get a few matches in
The MCC is just way too neutered in terms of game modes
I'm just not a fan of Halo 5s arena. Maps aren't there for me. Weapon sandbox is pretty good though
Cool, time to check a couple of those games and see how well they've been emulated.
edit: Halo 3 is not in my Ready To Install anywhere?... edit2: oh, guess you have to manually go get them
edit3: "Halo 3 is currently not available"
edit4: apparently just had to wait for it to pop into Ready To Install
edit: Halo 3 is not in my Ready To Install anywhere?... edit2: oh, guess you have to manually go get them
edit3: "Halo 3 is currently not available"
edit4: apparently just had to wait for it to pop into Ready To Install
Installing it on the 360 would slow down your load times, but otherwise didn't cause any actual bad issues.
And no, it was never fixed, because Halo 3 was super optimized to handle the situation the 360 was in at the time.
ODST and Reach could be installed and had faster load times because they had the benefit of being made aware of installation being a thing.
Anyway, they made Halo 3 (and Reach) Games With Gold a while back, so a lot of people have those via that.
Head.spawn
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The Real Napsta
Member
Installing H3 to a flash drive also fixed this issue.
yeah. the exact issue was that Halo 3 always copies data to the hard drive when you load a map or campaign level. So it was copying the data to the same drive the data was already on, it halved the throughput.
This is also why you couldn't install Titanfall 360 at first - they used the disc drive and the HDD in tandem like a RAID array for more throughput. After a while they just said fuck it and let you install it + buy it digitally.
theDeeDubs
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Never liked the Halo games, but I hear ODST is a little different. Any thoughts about it from a non-Halo fan?
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Deleted member 47027
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More chill. That's the best thing. Much more relaxing and you have time to poke around.
I liked ODST a lot.
It's slower-paced much more atmospheric than the other Halo games. The story is played out through flashbacks, which is also unique to the series. It also has, in my opinion, some of Marty O'Donnell's best soundtrack work in the entire franchise. But it still does feel very much like a Halo game, so if the other Bungie games didn't grab you from a gameplay perspective, I'm not sure ODST will either.
But hey, for a lot of Halo fans it's their favorite game in the series, at least from a single-player perspective. Personally, I love it.