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Johnw1104 on 25 May 2016
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Aquamarine said:
Johnw1104 said:

To be fair, while it's not expansive I actually found Splatoon's single player campaign to be a lot of fun.

But yes, I totally agree with this sentiment. It bothers me to some degree, as a person who is constantly going back multiple generations to my favorite games, that some multiplayer games have no single player (or offline) component (the biggest gripe I've ever had with a Blizzard product was their decision to not allow offline PC playing of Diablo III, for instance). There's just something frustrating about not being able to revisit these titles one day, though given every game released for the PS4 and Xbox1 (to a lesser extent the Wii U as well) at this point will not function in the future unless you have the games downloaded and patched on either the internal or an external hard drive (thus why I hope Sony gets with the program like Microsoft and Nintendo and allows full use of external hard drives to store game data), it might soon be a moot issue.

I definitely feel the same, then, but I suspect the sheer size of this games has rendered such a future borderline unavoidable. The Nx MIGHT buck the trend via memory cards, but that's about the best one can hope for with physical media going forward. If Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo decide to drop support (and lord knows Nintendo likes to do that almost immediately), your collection of games for the Wii U/PS4/Xbox1 become little more than decoration pieces.

Dude, imagine you bought a book.....and then 5 years from now when the publisher goes broke the book SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUSTS.

DVDs don't stop working, VHSs don't stop working, books don't stop working, CDs don't stop working...so why should we tolerate this with video games?

It's so fucking weird out of principle. Imagine how many millions of books we would have lost the instant companies went out of business.

Like I said in my post, I agree COMPLETELY with the sentiment. I'm the kind of person who still has healthy libraries for probably around a dozen consoles... let's see... Atari VCS, Nes, Snes, Genesis, N64, PS1/2/3/4, GC, DC, XboxOG/360, Wii/Wii U... I absolutely love and am obsessed with physical media lol, it's one of my favorite "hobbies" I suppose to collect for them.

Unfortunately, games have grown so large and highspeed internet so abundant that it has become easier to simply use the discs as little more than cd keys that enable the download of the actual game, meaning what you buy physically in the store is little more than permission to download. From what I understand the Wii U actually DOES usually come with a completed game, but it's a flawed completed game and I'm not 100% sure that they actually stuck to that (with games like Xeno X I doubt they did).

This basically means that going forward we're 100% dependent on continued support to keep them on our consoles unless we save them onto hard drives. I'd like for this trend to change as much as you, but the unfortunate truth is that not enough people care for it to change, and as a PC gamer as well I can tell you that, as far as PC games are concerned, few people even bother with physical media anymore. The Steam Library has replaced the CD rack, and that will probably (and sadly) soon be the future for consoles as well.

The only real hope I have is for one last generation of true phsyical media games via the Nintendo Nx and handheld. It would be a lot of fun if the memory card rumors are true and we get one last hurrah for physical media, but in all reality the medium is in its last death throes at the moment. :(

 

...then again, maybe I'm totally wrong and memory cards will catch on. The demise of physical books, after all, was predicted long ago, and they're doing just fine. Of course, people like reading paper, whereas I don't believe they really notice HOW the game appears on their TV screen.

Nah, physical media is coming back. I'll just keep telling myself that! :)