Microsoft Rewards throws up its fair share of weird objectives and strange bugs on Xbox. This one might take the cake though, as Microsoft's recent 'Animal Antics' punch card is asking us to earn an achievement in... Blinx: The Time Sweeper.
That's right, the official MS Rewards app is tasking us with earning an achievement in a game that doesn't support them. No original Xbox games support achievements, so this is a weird objective indeed.
Thankfully, the punch card features nine other games that do support achievements, so at least it's not completely broken like the recent Forza Horizon 5 punch card. Still, why such an objective exists in the first place beats us!
Although, if Microsoft wants to consider adding achievements to Original Xbox games, we certainly wouldn't complain at that. Unlikely, we know, but achievements added to Blinx: The Time Sweeper among others would be fantastic!
Would you like to see achievements in OG Xbox games? Let us know in the comments.
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Definitely would love achievements on original xbox games I'd happily replay through many of them
I'm 100% down for this, it'll give me more incentive to go back and play.
Maybe there's a hidden achievement? Either way anything that gets people to give more love to poor old Blinx is good. Even it involves a few white lies.
That's a weird oversight.
Achievements support in really old Xbox games would be a pretty cool addition, though.
Glad someone else noticed this too. It would be nice to have achievements on OG Xbox games.
Sony already has a patent on just this kind of thing. They were able to add trophies to their “PS2 on PS4” games by comparing memory addresses to pre determined values. This is why those trophies are all pretty basic. Now, given that the OG Xbox games are completely emulated, there is nothing to stop them from going back in and hard coding achievements. However there will probably be nobody that will deem that amount of effort to make that happen to be worth it.
This isn't the first time they have done this, I noticed the same thing a few months back but can't remember the game?
It'd be nice if they could add achievements to these games like don't Sony did with some of their old games.
More proof that the MS Rewards app on Xbox is actually handled by an algorithm, lol.
Damn i finished blinx in xbx, too dang hard
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