You know what I miss?

Odale

Odale

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Buying games on a disc.

In my SWTOR vent... all day today and all day yesterday everyone has been complaining how D3 has been "so buggy this..." and "my character is/is not doing this..." and "this isn't where I logged out!"

Honestly. I miss the days of yore where you bought a bug-free game because the developer couldn't be lazy and "just patch it" later on.
 
I'm with Ewoks on this one. I'm a big fan of the digital age. However, I do agree with you Odale that developers are continually adopting a mentality to hype up a game, pre-sale, and then release a sub-par version to patch up later.
 
Discs were a pain to keep up with, but even with steam developers can slack off now and patch later.

With discs the product had to be complete. MMOs were the only caveat.
 
Bah! My copy of Ultima 3 came on like 10 3.5" floppy disks. Wizard 7 was 13 plus an additional 5 for the expansion pack.

(and both had bugs so...)

I like digital copies but they are hard to take to Gamestop for store credit.
 
I remember games that had bugs, Police Quest one of the best early games had issues with drawing your weapon and some sound issues with the code 3 response.
 
yeah you still had crazy patches with the disks. Then you had to go to gamecopyworld and get the NOCD.exe
 
Odale, you are a fool...

Digital is way better. I cannot remember a game that came "finished" since Mario Brothers.

They all get patched. They all have bugs. Welcome to reality.
 
I miss discs too actually. I guess I got lucky because I never patched any of my dos games and they all worked. (Wing Commander 1-2, Monkey Island 1-4, Sim City 2000 etc.) Re-purchased Monkey Island on Steam because I can't actually play them because I don't have a floppy drive (or probably compatible OS, I'd have to use dos box or something). They are probably de-magnitised or whatever too. T_T

I also hate having to have an internet connection at all but that's another story...

I can respect more complex games need more patching nowadays. Still I think most patches are more of a case of developers laziness and heartless corporate shovel-ware than anything else.

Actually I miss manuals more than discs. That new game smell just is not the same with streaming XD.
 
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Diablo seems pretty bug free as far as I can tell. Sounds like your friends are only complaining because there are millions of people on the server at one time. It has never been very laggy, even.
 
I think everyone was complaining because Diablo 3 caused ALL Battlenet games (including WoW) to crash last night for several hours.
 
Yea, I had crippling lag on SCII the last couple days. Couldn't play any Battle.net matches cause my units would respond to my commands after 2 seconds. Killed my micro!
 
tagtarsis said:
I think everyone was complaining because Diablo 3 caused ALL Battlenet games (including WoW) to crash last night for several hours.
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If it was on disc and didn't require an internet connection... hugemongus problems like that wudda never happened... just sayin'.
 
You're presuming that games on discs didn't have bugs, and I think that's a faulty statement. Games have always been plagued by bugs at release, and the games of the 90's and early 2000's are no exception.

I didn't realize that it caused lag for EVERYthing on battle.net. That's actually really impressive lol.
 
You know what I miss......









I must have missed it .. I forgot... it'll come back.. gimme a sec.
 
Might want to remember that developers are not releasing Oregon Trail nowadays. Your average game now involves a lot more coding and graphics (and story - lousy gamers always want story. . .). Not to mention the sheer number of hardware versions that it must be made to support. Some of it is just impossible to test for without the general gamer population playing. Some of it might be laziness on the developer's part, but I think much more of it has to do with the factors above.

Personally, I gladly gave up my disc's for Steam. It unclutters my desk which makes my wife happy.
 
Let's see I went from entering my own code using peeks and pokes and check sums, to a couple of cartridges that plugged into an expansion on the back of the comp. Then to some 5 1/4" floppy drives. 3 1/2 floppy discs, onto CD's, then DVD's, now digital. I still prefer discs with manuals. Yes I can't find half my stuff in this rat's nest computer armoire, but I prefer discs. Would I refuse advantages of digital, never! That's how I got the gift of GW Factions from friends in England. Plus extra goodies for GW2. All media have their advantages, and one must almost be a programmer to realize that ALL software will have bugs, and fixing one bug may cause other bugs. What matters is how much the developers care about their work. All I miss is certain games, like Dolphin Speller.
 
While I don't miss it - I do remember learning Fortran and punched card stacks - that when you dropped them it was worse than accidentally hitting format on your 10meg hard drive.

I remember when Pong was the only video game they had in stores.

I do miss playing the original dos based Doom and Star Wars.
 
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