I miss the old days

[Damian]

I miss the old days when you had a CD, put it in your PC, started the game and just play the game.

No 30GB updates, No bug fixes because mostly the game was good to play not now half assed releases with no content and bugs...

DLCs everywhere... bruh

[Zefar]

No, I don't miss the old times.

The limited space I had on my harddrive.
The OS getting slower the longer you used it so you had to re install the OS yearly.
Blue screen of death was common.
Having to find the actual patches for games.
Having the MP part community being split up between several different patches. Original Call of Duty 4 had this issue.

[Crazy Tiger]

Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥) původně napsal:

Damian původně napsal:

No bug fixes because mostly the game was good to play not now half assed releases with no content and bugs...

You must have missed something more if you believe this was true.
Bug fixes via Patches were very much a thing back then, except you usually got them via some Gaming Magazines bonus disc.

Yep. Plenty of unfinished, crappy, buggy games back then.

Must be nice to have the nostalgia goggles OP has.

[Sassanid]

I miss those old days too but it's just not viable anymore today. Imagine how many CDs or DVDs a modern 50-60gb game would take up. Imagine having to reinstall it when you only have one CD drive. 10-20 years ago sure it made sense but with the size of modern games and the nature of DLCs and updates, online digital downloads makes much more sense.

Personally I feel like when we buy a game we should be send a physical Bluray or DVD hard copy just to have as a back up and actual property but also be allowed to download the game whenever want. Obviously they won't do this for cost reasons.

[Kargor]

Damian původně napsal:

I miss the old days when you had a CD, put it in your PC, started the game and just play the game.

I don't, because that's NOT how it worked. You had to generally deal with increasingly problematic copy protection schemes that sometimes dug deep into your operating system. You had to get a no-cd crack so you didn't have to insert the CD every time you played. You had to manually get the updates -- on occasion, you even had to get all of them and install them in order because they were too stupid to make one that just updates whatever you have to the current version.

On Steam, things just work out of the box. No hassles. Steam high-handedly blocking access from Win7 and before is a comparatively small price.

[BJWyler]

Damian původně napsal:

I miss the old days when you had a CD, put it in your PC, started the game and just play the game.

No 30GB updates, No bug fixes because mostly the game was good to play not now half assed releases with no content and bugs...

DLCs everywhere... bruh

You don't really remember the good ole days do you?

Temple of Elemental Evil says hello.
Configuring your graphics and sound card options before you could play the game say hello (hoping you picked the right options)
Hunting backwater usenet sites for a patch that fixes hardware conflicts says hello.
Horse armor dlc says hello.
Hoping your dial-up doesn't hiccup in the middle of your download (or raid) says hello.
The only way to learn about a game was via an article in a print magazine (and a demo disk if the publisher put out the cash) says hello.
Incorrect disc's packaged in the box says hello.
Bargain Bin shovelware says hello.

Yeah, the good ole days weren't all that much better than today. In fact, they were a lot worse, Sonny Jim.

[THE LORD]

Really? I would rather be living in the 70s with no computers, smart phones or any nonsense.

[inpurpleshadows]

Dude, setting up PC's back then were more frusturating than downloading an update for a video game in the modern age. When I got my first PC (which ran on Windows 7), it took me two weeks to get the damn thing running and three more weeks to be able to run a game. In today's age, you can buy a pre-built PC (albeit for an expensive price) and all the work is already done for you.

I do kinda miss physical games because it's more satisfying to actually own a copy of a highly-anticipated game, but digital wins in the convenience department.

[Damian]

inpurpleshadows původně napsal:

Dude, setting up PC's back then were more frusturating than downloading an update for a video game in the modern age. When I got my first PC (which ran on Windows 7), it took me two weeks to get the damn thing running and three more weeks to be able to run a game. In today's age, you can buy a pre-built PC (albeit for an expensive price) and all the work is already done for you.

I do kinda miss physical games because it's more satisfying to actually own a copy of a highly-anticipated game, but digital wins in the convenience department.

Have you ever had the thought that maybe the PC wasn't the problem but the person sitting on the chair?

My first PC was actually one that ran Win98... but my Gaming started actually with Windows XP (as far as I remember) I played Doom on it and HalfLife, duke nukem 3d etc

When I had Windows 7 it never crashed, never had any issues, ran always without any issues.
Also it takes me less time to install ArchLinux than you needing 2 weeks to make Win7 run, honestly for your own sake and people laughing at you...

[Rin]

CDs were so great I had to turn my PS1 upside down in order to get a FMV to play on Disc 1 of FFVIII else I couldn't progress. Ahh... the days of figuring things out before having access to Internet at home. It only took me 6 or so months as well.

[zirkustier]

I really like flat screens. These heavy monsters from back then, "Röhrenbildschirme", are welcome to stay on the scrap heap. ^^

[rawWwRrr]

Damian původně napsal:

I miss the old days when you had a CD, put it in your PC, started the game and just play the game.

Forget all that. I don't miss those days one bit. Between disc swapping either to load from CD or install from CD, to keeping the CD around for the verification, don't get a scratch or else you need to buy a new copy. CDR was still expensive so no back up. I've had a few games bite the dust because of all that. Some cheaply made CD flakes off a microscopic piece of its label and you're screwed.

Give me that fat download any day.

[RSebire]

Sinclair Spectrum… loading cassettes was always a gamble.
Atari 2600 carts where semi indestructible

[nullable]

Damian původně napsal:

I miss the old days when you had a CD, put it in your PC, started the game and just play the game.

No 30GB updates, No bug fixes because mostly the game was good to play not now half assed releases with no content and bugs...

DLCs everywhere... bruh

The grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Personally I liked continued development and support. It's much better than a few months of support and then whatever state the game was in, that was it. No more content or updates or fixes. Googd luck!

Also games had expansion packs. And what is DLC but the evolution of expansion packs?

Also I'm not sure what games you're playing that have no content (without DLCs?)

[Kargor]

nullable původně napsal:

The grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Personally I liked continued development and support. It's much better than a few months of support and then whatever state the game was in, that was it. No more content or updates or fixes. Googd luck!

Not much has changed here, though -- there are plenty of games with bugs on Steam because developers never updated them.

[Lone Wolf]

one the down sides to dvd / cds with age is disk rot...........