New Xbox Originals: Ninja Gaiden Black, Sid Meier's Pirates! and BLACK

I am tempted, it's just those lack of achievements....
I can remember the good old days when I used to play games for fun!!

Damn you Achievement Points! And damn you Gamerscore!

Controller throwing game of the year, here I come. Ninja Gaiden FTW!

I was planning to get Black when it came out, but it was for Xbox, so I didn't bother because I got a 360. I regret that I didn't, and would probably download it, but I don't have enough HDD to download it, so I might look for a pre-owned, that is if it is BC via retail disc.

Pirates and Ninjas! ZOMG!

I can't wait to BEAT Black again.

I bought Ninja Gaiden Black before I got my 360, but I always wanted Black. I can't decide whether or not to try out the Xbox Originals or find it used. Also, I'm so busy playing COD4 I don't want to play anything else!

Stop messing around and release KotOR already!

Awesome. Black was a great game.

Pirates is awesome, but I found the PC version to be far superior.

If I didn't already own those games... and if they were cheaper... (you can get all of those games for under $10 each on disc...) I'd bite! ;)

I already picked up Black used... worst camera of any game I've played in like five years.

Ninja Gaiden Black I mean...

I would be all over buying NGB and Sid Meier's if I had the bigger hard drive.... :@

Ninja Gaidan Black sounds like the pick of that. Plus I've seen it used for around 30 bucks.

I've heard rumors that the three GTA titles will be out in the next coming months. You'd think it'd be before 4/29 to coincide with the GTA IV release, just like with Burnout. If it does happen, those might be my first XBO purchases.

Who ever said you can get disc copies of these games for under $10 hasn't actually checked. Ninja Gaiden is $9.99 used at Game Stop, but Ninja Gaiden Black is $24.99 used. Black is $17.99 used, and Pirates! is $19.99 used.

Makes 1200MP look like a pretty good deal.

Man fuck these achievementless poorly compressed games. Stop buying them and they'll either stop releasing them or add cheevos to them.

any ideas how much space Ninja Gaiden Black will take up on the hdd.

I am willing to bet it'll take up 2 to 3 gigs.

my brother just bought ninja gaiden black disc at gamestop day before yesterday. While in good shape, the disc won't play.

Granted, some of these xbox originals cost more than you would spend buying them used, but with the downloads, you don't have to worry about messing up a disc that's already endured several years of punishment.

Despite not having achievements, the guarantee that the game will not just break one day makes the extra couple bucks worth it in my opinion. The convenience of just starting the game on the fly without having to sift through what could be quite an expansive library also shouldn't be overlooked.

That said, I want BLACK.

@fight the good fight
What about the poor memory compression?
Or the fact that certain parts in the game don't run right? You praise the fact that its not a disc, however, what about when your 360 dies on you, and it will, then you send it in and when you get a different one back, that game, thanks to DMR issuies, really isn't yours anymore unless you are logged into xbox live? What if in 10 years down the road there is no xbox live? You lose on all these points and are stuck with a game that has no resale value. The lack of updated graphics, current 360 xbox live dashboard functions, poor compression, the lack of gamerscore and achievements and overall shady preformance make the xbox original program a total loss. If they fixed these issues I would own over 6 of these games right now, if you are buying them, you're showing them that what they are doing works and your ultimately part of the problem.