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your mother on 30 July 2007
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IllegalPaladin said:
your mother said:

If you wanted to play a game that required 23 floppies, you had two options:

  • Don't play it
  • Swap 23 floppies for the install, and play it

Swapping can be a pain, I admit - that's not the issue here. The issue is many of you make it like swapping is such a bad thing when in fact it's been around forever - and we lived with it and still played the games we wanted.


I totally agree that disk swapping can be a pain. However, I see you're talking about installing games. I think that's a bit different since you really only have to install that once. Yes, 5 disks (cd's) of installing F.E.A.R is a freaken pain in the butt, but once you do that it's over and you only have to use one disk to play the game until you have to re/uninstall it.

Kind of related, I'm assuming you ment Half-Life 2 in your post, but I thought that the retail version only came in CD, but I'm not 100% sure on that as I went the downloadable way and had to wade through a crapload of 'pre-loads' (forgot how many there were).

Installing games is certainly different from swapping while playing. However, I don't see it as a major stumbling block as long as you are not asked to constantly swap discs. Additionally, with hard drives (Xbox WILL get around to it, it's inevitable!) parts of the game can be "installed" on the hard drive to mitigate the swapping.

However, my point was more along the lines of (as with some multi-disc PS/PS2 games): If MGS4 came in multiple discs, would I pass on it if I wanted to play that game? Certainly not. I am willing to put up with the minor aggravation if in exchange the game provides me with hours of fun. I wouldn't let 10 seconds here or there ruin hours of entertainment!

Actually, this happens all the time with VCDs (and with some longer movies, with DVDs as well) and VCDs are still selling all over Asia. Again, it might just be me, but I don't see the issue.

Half-Life 2 came in two retail versions - the 5 CDs and 1 DVD version; having said that, the DVD version may just be the Asian retail box.