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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Swapping discs or mandatory installs? What's worse?

Obviously installs, as swapping disks takes about a minute and installs usually take more time. Either way I have no problem living with either.



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they both suck.

but i would always install anyway
10 min stills it way more time that 10s each load for a 30hrs game



I hate waiting. Wifi on brawl/kart cements my opinion.

Disk swapping is a part of gaming; unless you only own 1 game. what do you guys do when you want to play another game? Really now -_-


I blame wireless controllers; making gamers more lazy than the usual stereotype.


I don't own a ps3, so i shouldn't comment on installs. But if i had to wait for Brawl to install for 10 minutes, i would have been really angry.




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Depends, how long is the install and how often do I have to swap disks?

If the install takes a minute then I'm okay and if I have to swap disks every 10 hours then I don't care. However if it's a thirty minute install or I have to swap disks every hour then I'll get annoyed.

Edit: However during game installs (if not hidden during gameplay or an interesting cutscene) are the worst. It takes far longer than swapping a disk does.



Seriously, how is this an issue?
There are 2, maybe 3, current gen multi-disc games. And all of them are jRPGs, and if you play jRPGs, then you should be used disc swapping and generally being abused by video games by this point.



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