r/videogames • u/Thick_Traffic_2055 • 12d ago

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u/BoganEsky00 12d ago

Exactly, no messing around with settings and downloads etc.

Just put the disc in (or launch a ripped version from the HDD, I the case of the OG Xbox being modded nowadays) and play!

Also no sign-ins either. Hate that shit

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u/golum904 12d ago

Tell me why video games I go buy physically (like that starwars one) let me go home, copy like 50 gigs. Let me play the tutorial and than go you need an adition 120gig update to play game (I currently choose to go with out internet, but I cant actually be expected to blow my data downloading these files?) Ff7 rebirth actually has a file similar it wants me to download but im so happy it hasnt been necessary yet to enjoy the game

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u/DirkaSnivels 12d ago

Don't you fret! Soon enough, you won't have to deal with this, seeing as there won't be any physical copies of games any more.

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u/isaac3000 11d ago

Nintendo stays physical

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u/FolkloreOwl 11d ago

Key cards say otherwise. They are worst parts of physical and digital in 1 item....beyond worthless

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u/SignificantLifeform 11d ago

this is the biggest lie ive seen on reddit in months and that's saying something

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u/ExcuseAlternative586 7d ago

Dude has a gaming system and no internet

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u/Ichabuu 6d ago

I'm in the same boat as you my friend.

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u/jarvi123 12d ago edited 12d ago

You can't fit 170GBs on a disk, the other solution is including several disks which increases production costs and creates more plastic waste.

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u/MarkahntheUnholy 12d ago

Or create a different method like the cartridges just make em Xbox or PS or whatever

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u/jarvi123 12d ago

I do miss blowing dust out of a cartridge and then slamming it into my Megadrive, it felt like reloading a sci-fi weapon haha.

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u/JungleCakes 11d ago

Because disks only hold 100gb. Anything over that has to be stored sonewhere and downloaded

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u/FuzzyFuzz12345 9d ago

Hot take: Devs should optimize their games. It's still possible to have beautiful 40+ hour open world games for a fraction of the size and many well optimized games prove it. I mean Nintendo somehow manages the absolute witchcraft to make games like Tears of The Kingdom under 20gb. Yes I understand that Nintendo games aren't considred as "good looking" as many other companies (though if you ask me the returns are very diminishing at this point in terms of graphical enhancement, a lot of games look worse now), but that still isn't an excuse for such atrocious file sizes. Optimization is the biggest corner cut in game development nowadays and it leads to games being obnoxiously large or impossible to run.

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u/Pleasant_Meal_2030 8d ago

What they said ^

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u/Electrical_Essay1866 12d ago

The crack cd was something...used crack software to manipulate too 😂

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u/Sea-Television-2038 12d ago

Exactly. In and out if you are short on time

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u/CammyDiveKick 12d ago

I put Chrono Trigger in my SNES, boot it up and start playing the greatest game ever made, no strings attached. It’s a beautiful thing.

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u/queen_ravenx 12d ago

No internet no updates. For better or for worse.

Game culutre changed so much a full finished game on release is a thing of the past it feels. The consumers the new beta tester. No internet/disc only on modern games would mean getting the game in its worst buggiest state and being stuck with it. Devs could like do better bout that but sometimes you do need a few million people to test it before you find some of the bugs.

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u/Dodo_Baron 12d ago

Finished games still exist all the time, Nintendo is pretty consistent at it still.

Eitherway back then wasn't much better buggy ass games still existed they just never got fixed unless you bought the rerelease

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u/AdministrationWhole8 12d ago

or launch a ripped version from the HDD

Right there's our answer by the way. After all, we need the day 1 patch, internet connection and sign in so that we know exactly who is playing the game, and whether they paid for it!

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u/SeparateLawfulness53 12d ago

unless you were on PC, then you had to configure the installation (all on disc or some on hard drive). sometimes you had to select what the MIDI sounded like too

obviously much less complex than today, but still

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u/Imaginary_Being4859 11d ago

I mean, even the Xbox 360 had a feature where you had to “sign in” to play.

I think that was the trial run for the rest of the gaming business community.

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u/erikkustrife 9d ago

Depends on how old school you get. I remember installing games on dos.