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yo_john117 on 17 May 2011
osamanobama said:
RolStoppable said:

The more important questions are:

1) Can the game be played immediately or does it need to be installed? (It's a shame that this even has to be asked for a console game.)

2) How long are the loading times in each version?

Because those are the things that can really cost the player time. Swapping discs twice is a matter of at most one minute.


i dont know about you, but quiting out of a game, then ejecting it. takes up a little, up to 30 seconds getting to the consoles main menu. then putting in a game having it load up, and get into the game where you actually play takes up to several minutes. the whole proccess could very well almost take 5 minutes. 

which is not a substantial amount of time, but can definitely remove yo from the experience

Lol yeah it would take 5 minutes if your the slowest person in the world xD

Seriously though no disc swap has ever taken more then a minute for me. 



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A Bad Clown on 17 May 2011
osamanobama said:
RolStoppable said:

The more important questions are:

1) Can the game be played immediately or does it need to be installed? (It's a shame that this even has to be asked for a console game.)

2) How long are the loading times in each version?

Because those are the things that can really cost the player time. Swapping discs twice is a matter of at most one minute.


i dont know about you, but quiting out of a game, then ejecting it. takes up a little, up to 30 seconds getting to the consoles main menu. then putting in a game having it load up, and get into the game where you actually play takes up to several minutes. the whole proccess could very well almost take 5 minutes. 

which is not a substantial amount of time, but can definitely remove yo from the experience

Actually the way they do it now is they freeze the game until you put in the other one so you don't need to quit out. I'm pretty sure Bioware did that on Mass Effect 2 and I just saw a video of it happening on Dead Space 2.



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yo_john117 on 17 May 2011
A Bad Clown said:
osamanobama said:
RolStoppable said:

The more important questions are:

1) Can the game be played immediately or does it need to be installed? (It's a shame that this even has to be asked for a console game.)

2) How long are the loading times in each version?

Because those are the things that can really cost the player time. Swapping discs twice is a matter of at most one minute.


i dont know about you, but quiting out of a game, then ejecting it. takes up a little, up to 30 seconds getting to the consoles main menu. then putting in a game having it load up, and get into the game where you actually play takes up to several minutes. the whole proccess could very well almost take 5 minutes. 

which is not a substantial amount of time, but can definitely remove yo from the experience

Actually the way they do it now is they freeze the game until you put in the other one so you don't need to quit out. I'm pretty sure Bioware did that on Mass Effect 2 and I just saw a video of it happening on Dead Space 2.

Thats exactly how they do it now...takes a solid 30 seconds usually at most.



usrevenge on 17 May 2011

its not like they left xbox out of any content. they compressed it to save people from getting up and changing disk production cost.



yo_john117 on 17 May 2011
RolStoppable said:
yo_john117 said:
A Bad Clown said:

Actually the way they do it now is they freeze the game until you put in the other one so you don't need to quit out. I'm pretty sure Bioware did that on Mass Effect 2 and I just saw a video of it happening on Dead Space 2.

Thats exactly how they do it now...takes a solid 30 seconds usually at most.

Are you guys for real? Which games actually do it different to this?

I'm not sure....I've never encountered a game that does it any differently.



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A Bad Clown on 17 May 2011
RolStoppable said:
yo_john117 said:
RolStoppable said:

Are you guys for real? Which games actually do it different to this?

I'm not sure....I've never encountered a game that does it any differently.

So basically ABC was trying to undermine my argument by implying that disc swapping was a tedious process at one time without any facts to back him up. I thought he was a 360 fan, so why would he do that?

"i dont know about you, but quiting out of a game, then ejecting it. takes up a little, up to 30 seconds getting to the consoles main menu. then putting in a game having it load up, and get into the game where you actually play takes up to several minutes. the whole proccess could very well almost take 5 minutes. "

He thought that games with disk swaps needed to be quit out of



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osamanobama on 17 May 2011
RolStoppable said:
osamanobama said:

i dont know about you, but quiting out of a game, then ejecting it. takes up a little, up to 30 seconds getting to the consoles main menu. then putting in a game having it load up, and get into the game where you actually play takes up to several minutes. the whole proccess could very well almost take 5 minutes. 

which is not a substantial amount of time, but can definitely remove yo from the experience

Do you even know how multi-disc games work? Apparently not.

Once it's time to swap the disc, a screen comes up and prompts you to change the discs. You eject the disc, put in the one you are supposed to and the game continues immediately. It's similar to a loading screen midgame with the only difference that it doesn't load until the correct disc is in the drive.

Loading screens that last ten or more seconds take away much more from the experience than a disc swap can ever do.

apparently i do not.

i thought it would be like loading up a normal game. like killzone for instance, when my ps3 is turned on. i put in the disk and by the time i actually get to game play, its been a couple minutes.

thats cool that it not like that. i never experienced any disk swaps, so im glad its not like that.



osamanobama on 17 May 2011
A Bad Clown said:
osamanobama said:
RolStoppable said:

The more important questions are:

1) Can the game be played immediately or does it need to be installed? (It's a shame that this even has to be asked for a console game.)

2) How long are the loading times in each version?

Because those are the things that can really cost the player time. Swapping discs twice is a matter of at most one minute.


i dont know about you, but quiting out of a game, then ejecting it. takes up a little, up to 30 seconds getting to the consoles main menu. then putting in a game having it load up, and get into the game where you actually play takes up to several minutes. the whole proccess could very well almost take 5 minutes. 

which is not a substantial amount of time, but can definitely remove yo from the experience

Actually the way they do it now is they freeze the game until you put in the other one so you don't need to quit out. I'm pretty sure Bioware did that on Mass Effect 2 and I just saw a video of it happening on Dead Space 2.

dead space 2 was on 2 disks?

was the pc version as well?

also yah, i didnt know disk swaps worked that way



A Bad Clown on 17 May 2011
osamanobama said:
A Bad Clown said:
osamanobama said:
RolStoppable said:

The more important questions are:

1) Can the game be played immediately or does it need to be installed? (It's a shame that this even has to be asked for a console game.)

2) How long are the loading times in each version?

Because those are the things that can really cost the player time. Swapping discs twice is a matter of at most one minute.


i dont know about you, but quiting out of a game, then ejecting it. takes up a little, up to 30 seconds getting to the consoles main menu. then putting in a game having it load up, and get into the game where you actually play takes up to several minutes. the whole proccess could very well almost take 5 minutes. 

which is not a substantial amount of time, but can definitely remove yo from the experience

Actually the way they do it now is they freeze the game until you put in the other one so you don't need to quit out. I'm pretty sure Bioware did that on Mass Effect 2 and I just saw a video of it happening on Dead Space 2.

dead space 2 was on 2 disks?

was the pc version as well?

also yah, i didnt know disk swaps worked that way


The vid I looked at for Dead Space 2 was for the Xbox, I'm not sure about PC.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 17 May 2011

Oversensitive fanboyz of a megacorp that must never be named in negative contexts to avoid hurting their feelings, trying to persuade themselves that disc swapping is not passé and annoying, but instead vintage and cool: priceless.  O-) 



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