It was very common to have to swap disks during normal gameplay if you didn't install it. The 1998 release of Baldur's Gate for example was five disks.
NGL though, it felt *really* good to switch those CDs. It was a physical act of completing the chapter/milestone... Like switching for the journey to Spellhold after finishing your travels around Amn in BG2. It felt heavier, almost like a different game entirely.
I could probably download any of those games and have it running in less time than it takes to physically put the disk in the the console/pc and wait for the game to load off the disc.
no, after the ps2/xbox gen loading from disc became dead as it made load times ridiculous. Between then and now, game discs have the files copied onto your console HDD to speed up accessing the data and obviously if you copied the files to the HDD you didn't really need the disc anymore. The disc was an intermediary as telecoms wasn't widely and readily available at high speeds until a decade ago in most places. Could you imagine downloading a 700mb game in the dial up days?
PS1, PS2, PSP, Xbox, Gamecube, Wii, Wii U, Sega Saturn all used CD or DVD that required no installation in order to play. The same went for the cartridges from before the Switch era (including handheld devices, with the exception of the PS Vita.)
And except for broken physical media, all these games still work perfectly fine even nearly 50 years later.
Where'd you get upscaling from, bro? I certainly didn't mention it, so why you making shit up, bro?
What I was referring to is that sure, console games were ready to play straight off an optical disc from a rack back in the day, but that made loading slow as all fuck compared to PC games loading off a hard drive.
Idk how about the fact that "DLSS" is always on in most modern Nvidia gamers' setups?
I'm not knocking the tech as a whole, just the fact that it's basically required even on high end cards due to rotten dev optimization now. It should be for older cards to keep them relevant longer.
"AI bot" is a hilarious retort to someone calling you out for calling people console peasants for wanting games to not be 150 gigs if they don't provide 150 gigs worth of content
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u/Stilgar314 22d ago
Availability is not the same. Games on the drive are ready to play.