And yet, I do feel as if the collections as a whole are just short of truly great, for reasons they may have had no control over. The physical Flashback consoles have some of the licensed games that are missing here, for instance, and that's probably some convoluted IP issue (I think some of those other Atari games might be offered as extras in other XBox Live offerings associated with the license).
And the control adaptation issues on some of the games are vexing, sometimes in ways that could have been fixed--I haven't dug very deep into the options menus here and it's possible that in some cases the settings may be adjustable in ways that make the game more playable.
This seems to be a problem with many of these commercial arcade emulation collections: the Midway collection I mentioned (which actually has a bunch of Williams and Atari arcade games as well--it's an XBox 360 release, playable on the One through backward compatibility) has some glitches in mapping Defender's oddball control scheme to the XBox controller, though, strangely, it does better with Stargate even though that's basically the same.
Another thing that bothered me with Flashback is that the default sound volume settings are VERY LOUD even by XBox videogame standards. But this is adjustable.
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Date: 2019-04-20 01:34 pm (UTC)And the control adaptation issues on some of the games are vexing, sometimes in ways that could have been fixed--I haven't dug very deep into the options menus here and it's possible that in some cases the settings may be adjustable in ways that make the game more playable.
This seems to be a problem with many of these commercial arcade emulation collections: the Midway collection I mentioned (which actually has a bunch of Williams and Atari arcade games as well--it's an XBox 360 release, playable on the One through backward compatibility) has some glitches in mapping Defender's oddball control scheme to the XBox controller, though, strangely, it does better with Stargate even though that's basically the same.
Another thing that bothered me with Flashback is that the default sound volume settings are VERY LOUD even by XBox videogame standards. But this is adjustable.