Alby_da_Wolf on 01 January 2014
| Naum said: How beeping lazy are people today that they can't even bother swapping discs? |
Not just laziness: in linear or partially linear games, where once past a level or a given hub (like in Quake games, Hexen, Heretic II) you won't ever come back, a few discs to be swapped isn't too bad. But with open worlds (continuosly connected or with hubs), with places that you can visit again many times, disc swapping can become very annoying, besides ruining the sense of immersion. A complete install on hard disk, if available (even with unofficial patches, in PC case) totally solves the problem, anyway, that's probably the reason why BD is not widespread yet on PC (although it could be a cheap and useful alternative to additional USB HDDs for backups of large disks and partitions, that aren't viable anymore on DVDs).
