JOKA_ said:
SvennoJ said:
JOKA_ said:
I don't understand this....at all. Its not inherently more fun to play a game from a disc than from a hard-disc drive. This doesn't change the game, just how it gets to you. In the 80/90/00's data on a cartridge or disc was the easiest way to get you a game, so thats how it was sold. 10 or 20 years from now, the easiest way to get you a game is going to be over a highspeed internet connection.
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It is for me. I love browsing through my collection, discover dvds I forgot I had. Or look through the old PC boxes stored away somewhere, trying to find something I vaguely remember.
I love going to the store on the way home and bring back a new game, instead of looking at a download progress bar. I resell games I don't think I'll play again to get half price of the next purchase. With digital games, they sit there and mock me in my purchase list / library / take up hdd space.
Taking out the old gamecube and playing Ikaruga with the original controllers just feels better than emulation and upscaling. (Not that I mind remasters, windwaker HD is awesome)
As for HDDs, through my years 50% of my HDDs have failed after 5 years. None of my CDs/DVDs/Blu-rays have failed. I'm paranoid now, I have my important data (mainly photos and videos) on my pc, laptop, external HDD and SDHC cards. Consequently I don't have a lot of room for games, nor the bandwidth to (re)download them. When my PS3 failed, it took months to redownload just my indie games. Plus I couldn't get everything back. Some things were simply not available anymore or had disappeared from my purchase history.
For movies, I also don't trust the myriad of different services I'll end up with to get the digital versions of movies. And exactly why do those digital copies have an expiry date... When I walk in to my theater room and see my collection grow over time, yes that is more fun then seeing the amount of HDD space left decrease. Re-organize it now and then, put my favourites in a prominent spot. It's more than a bunch of data on shelves, it's a memory wall.
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I get where you are coming from, I remember my mom driving me home from GameStop while I opened up a brand new game and flipped through a nice color manual. That seems supurfluous to actually playing and enjoying the gameplay of the game though, which is what I was getting at.
Also, I don't know how long it takes (years according to wikipedia), but there is apparently data rot to keep in mind. Those cartidges/discs may stop working some day no matter how well you take care of them.
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Not if you store the cartridges & discs in a dark, cool location with low humidity.
And I'm definitely saving some of Shadow1980's posts the next time someone brings up, "you don't own anything."
