{"id":71,"date":"2006-12-15T01:35:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T08:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=71"},"modified":"2006-12-15T02:07:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T09:07:44","slug":"back-to-thepresent-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Psycho 360&#8230;and puglilism!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft released a new <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/games\/backwardcompatibilitygameslist.htm\">backward compatibility update<\/a> today, adding support for a boatload of excellent Xbox games that will now run on Xbox 360. Three of my favorite fighting games&#8211;<em>DOA Ultimate<\/em>, <em>Soul Calibur II<\/em>, and <em>MK Armageddon<\/em>&#8211;and the oft-cited <em>Psychonauts <\/em>are among the new batch. That last one is one that I&#8217;ve had for a long time and only played a little. I got bored with the hop-and-bop-and-collect thing and really lost my taste for what grew out of the &#8220;platform&#8221; genre, but Tim Schafer and his team at Double Fine are not your average developers, and the game has a wonderfully twisted sense of humor that makes me really, really glad that it&#8217;s on the latest hardware, so more people might enjoy it. I&#8217;m gonna dive in and play.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the key&#8230;you have to play these games once they support them on 360. A lot of people like to make a lot of noise about &#8220;oh, this game&#8217;s not supported, neither is this one&#8221; but then they don&#8217;t actually play the games once they become compatible. I was not too far into my <em>MKA <\/em>career so I am tempted to restart that. And if you missed <em>Psychonauts<\/em>, why, you can <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.doublefine.com\/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&#038;Category=8\">buy it for full price<\/a> and know that you&#8217;re doing a good thing. This one really was worth all the critical hype it got, even if the sales didn&#8217;t follow suit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.doublefine.com\/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&#038;ProdID=25\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shop.doublefine.com\/productimages\/xbox_game.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft released a new backward compatibility update today, adding support for a boatload of excellent Xbox games that will now run on Xbox 360. Three of my favorite fighting games&#8211;DOA Ultimate, Soul Calibur II, and MK Armageddon&#8211;and the oft-cited Psychonauts &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=71\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}