my torment is that installing a game from disc doesn’t give you anything for a later download of the game to work with, like it seem you just gotta completely delete and download fresh
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at this point i guess i mostly buy disc media for the inevitable possibility that i won’t be able to play a game otherwise
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I remember reading about how this is down to how fine a game chunks its file structure — for some tooling you have to replace a several-gigabyte container file to change one component
sad part is the 1.0 version on the disc is almost always at least a little broken. the best way to prepare for a no online situation is piracy and data hoarding but that defeats the simplicity
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yeah the only meaningful advantage of physical media on consoles is that you can lend and resell them. that’s not nothing! it’s weird that we’ve wound up with that specific carve-out for using discs as a license totem, as opposed to steam refunds. but there is absolutely nothing else they confer in terms of preservation or ownership, especially against stealing
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vita games on cartridge wete very useful, since they didn’t install, beyond your save file and a home screen icon. so for games bigger than a gigabyte, it was much nore convenient to get them on cart than have them taking up multiple ps1games worth of space on your memory card.
so the lesson is to go back to cartridges
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I have resurrected the ritual of buying physical copies of games on the Switch and I don’t hate it.
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always buy the disc so you can sell it later, also Amazon’s return policy is more lenient than Steam’s
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Yeah my internet ain’t so hot so file size alone tends to put me off of anything AAA-ish and new, disc space is probably the main system requirement I actually pay attention to on Steam store pages anymore.
Though as @eska said, installing from disc isn’t necessarily a guarantee of anything either and it’s not specifically a new game thing, I remember years ago wanting to play Half Life 2 again and after reinstalling I fire up Steam and oh hey 4 gigs of updates and this is when my internet was even worse than it is now.
has anyone compiled a list of all famicom games with simultaneous two player modes? all i can find is “best multiplayer” lists
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Why do people still make controllers vibrate during cutscenes in 2022
What do you do
- I keep the controller in my hands at all time
- I sometimes put the controller down, like during cutscenes, and I panic when it begins uncontrollably vibrating / writhing and shrieking
- I keep the controller in my hands at all time, but only because I’m afraid of the shriek
- Other
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I put it on a soft surface like a mousepad
I turn off vibration. Leave me alone
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I both skip the cutscenes and turn off vibration.
edit: also, only half of my controllers have vibration motors to begin with.
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my hands are already messed up from playing games too long so i turn vibration off
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as much haptics as anyone can shoot into me, I live to be shook
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Sony QuadSense now with adhesive TENS electrodes to attach to your forearms
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please remove this photo tho
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can i interest you in microsoft’s hottest new upcoming technology?
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Sorry about that.
Some games are soo obnoxious about haptics on mobile. I turned the sound off because I want to game unobtrusively I don’t need my phone vibrating like an angry hornet whenever I complete a level