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SciFiBoy on 21 August 2009

hmm, interesting, tbh it wouldn't bother me that much, i mean, so i have to change discs to play on-line, who cares?



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largedarryl on 21 August 2009
kicks1989 said:
maybe sony should pay off people to develop bluray pc games maybe then microsoft will be forced to adapt bluray discs

What would be the point of blu-ray PC games?  All computer games are installed to the HDD so it doesn't matter what format the games come on, preferably the cheaper one, and last time I checked 2 or 3 DVD discs is still cheaper than 1 BD disc.  So Sony and the rest of the BD group would need to really change the way they think to compete with DVD discs for PC games (this is also ignoring the increased D2D services for PC gaming).



COKTOE on 21 August 2009
justinian said:

Geez, get real. Everyone would prefer the game on one disc. Most of you are just trying to pretend it doesn't matter because you don't have a choice.

There is nothing really wrong with that but just be true to yourself.

IMO if you want the game on x360 then brilliant, get it. Just stop pretending 2 discs offer an advantage because that is silly.

If 2 disc really offered any advantages then why the hell are more games not on multiple CDs rather than one DVD?

If 2 disc is so bloody great and getting up to swap a disc is something you really enjoy then write to MS and ask them kindly to keep the same DVD drive for their next console pointing out the reasons for doing it.


Well said. Not that big of a deal, but also not even debatable which scenario is better.



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areseris on 23 August 2009
KillerMan said:
areseris said:

It was ok to swap disks on the PC.

It was ok to swap disks on the PSOne.

It was ok to swap disks on the PS2.

Now it's a big deal when swapping disks on the 360?

Why is this a big deal all of a sudden?  We've been doing it for decades...

 


You don't have to swap disks on PC after you have installed game.

 

In the past, yes, sometimes you had to disk swap on PC.  When I first got Baldur's Gate 1 (1998), I didn't have enough free disk space to install the entire game which was quiet huge for the time.  I had to disk swap.  

The point is that we've always had platforms where disk swapping was perfectly acceptable, but for some reason, it's the end of the world when the 360 has to disk swap.

 



KillerMan on 23 August 2009
areseris said:
KillerMan said:
areseris said:

It was ok to swap disks on the PC.

It was ok to swap disks on the PSOne.

It was ok to swap disks on the PS2.

Now it's a big deal when swapping disks on the 360?

Why is this a big deal all of a sudden?  We've been doing it for decades...

 


You don't have to swap disks on PC after you have installed game.

 

In the past, yes, sometimes you had to disk swap on PC.  When I first got Baldur's Gate 1 (1998), I didn't have enough free disk space to install the entire game which was quiet huge for the time.  I had to disk swap.  

The point is that we've always had platforms where disk swapping was perfectly acceptable, but for some reason, it's the end of the world when the 360 has to disk swap.

 


It's not end of the world but when you can choose to play with one disc versus three disc then of course you choose first option. Also if DVD's capacity causes to SE remove some features (like dual audio) then it is at least to me not acceptable.



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Grey21 on 23 August 2009

I don't see what the problem with changing discs is, isn't that what we're doing now? When I play Oblivion and I want to play online then I switch to Halo 3 and when I'm done with that then I switch to GTA4. Changing discs isn't the problem, it's constantly having to change discs and as long as they can prevent that then it's not an issue. It's the same with the PS3 games that needs ot be installed, waiting a couple of minutes is not a problem imo and all the seconds you've used to switch discs add up to a couple of minutes and those aren't a problem either.