NOSTALGIA FEELS

anyone else remember that feeling when you opened a new game and saw it was more then one(1) disc?

i used to think to myself "man, this must be a really long game"

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>that booklet art

Why. Why can't we have more greatness like that?

FF VII's booklet is particularly long. When I was a kid I thought it was weird that in the character descriptions they put their blood types.

I remember when games had good and creative cover art and manuals. Felt like unwrapping something amazing.

Nowadays, it's a recycable piece of plastic with a piece of paper saying 'please buy the DLC!' with a 'season pass' sold separately because nobody wants to give you the complete experience when they can sell it separately

Because artwork included in a game is now inherently digital, the artwork on FFVII is embedded with the traditional spirit of hand made artwork. (especially from japan)

Remember big boxes for PC games?
I loved analyzing every bit of the inlaid covers.

the dope art on the install screens for Final Fantasy XI was literally the best part of the game

All I thought was, "damn, this is going to take forever to install"

How do I open a game if its inside my PC?

I remember being confused as fuck when I opened Yu-gi-oh Forbidden Memories and it was a multi-disc case, but there was only one disc.

That game was a pile of fucking shit.

But MGS Legacy Collection. I know that feel again. The feeling is made even better with the inclusion of download codes and an artbook.

Did you know that before broadband internet was commonplace (before you were born), people used to buy PC games in stores? They came on CDs and later games even came on DVDs!

I just want thick manuals back, man. I want to read about a game by the people making the game to get hyped for it before I play it. I don't want to read press release bullshit or minor spoilers leaked on forums. God damn, it can't have cost that much to put them in.

Thank God CDs came around. Games on 5+ floppies took forever to install

Before the millennial generation reached the teenage stage, games mostly came in physical form. This was before you were born though (around 2004) so it makes sense that you wouldn't remember it.

Nowadays with high speed internet you need to install another service called Steam and then you can download your games anywhere and anytime you like

>Nowadays
>thread title is NOSTALGIA FEELS
reconsider your shitposting

Sounds similar to firing up the old modem and dialing a BB to get my games.
>tfw hundreds of floppies with pirated Amiga games

>thick manuals

But that goes against the purpose of the thread. It doesn't make you look smart at all. I bet you never seen a biiig PC game box.

>posts on Sup Forums
>'look smart'

THHHIIICK

>tfw GTA3 was 300mb and took a week to download on your 56k with getfastjetcar or whatever it was called because you had to keep stopping the download so the phone was available

>installing... in the ps1 generation

PC video games was a thing then.

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>>that booklet art

It's showing off a scene that NEVER happened.

Aerith never got to see the Highwind. When I realized that I got really depressed.

oh my god that manual

I'm sorry, the only thicker manuals that I know of are /tg/ territory

This is why consoles were superior back in the old days.

Because you also had to burn the disk after pirating it?
Sorry, I don't follow...

Which always made me wonder just how badly butchered the game was during development.

Not likely something that was ever planned, but the game was a bloody mess with a shitty translation and a fucked-up disc file system.

>pirating games

I wouldn't know because I'm not poor

I downloaded Photoshop 6 on my 56k modem. Which took a little over 2 weeks.

I have no idea how I convinced my family to NOT use the phone for 2 weeks.

And yet you owned the inferior platform

And yet you owned the inferior platform

I downloaded 12gb of D&D pdfs on mine. Took roughly 5 monthz

Lel, hardly.

I remember downloading Final Fantasy VII Gold with full texture mods.

My PC was only 4GB, and that thing was around 1.5GB total.

I was so shocked after my toaster died and my next PC wound-up with a 256GB HD.

Lel, hardly.

I still thumb thru the we

>WinMX
worst
>DC++
best
>Revconnect
ok
>Limewire
shit

These were my tools

Let me see your ps1 play Tomb Raider at 800x600 without dropping frames

When you say floppy, you mean the 5.25" floppies?

Let me see your ps1 play Tomb Raider at 800x600 without dropping frames

Let me see your ps1 play Tomb Raider at 800x600 without dropping frames

>but the game was a bloody mess

?

Let me see your ps1 play Tomb Raider at 800x600 without dropping frames

I'll never forget buying ffvii
Changed my gaming life and that of my friends too
Despite all the stuff we played on SNES

Would you two stop sucking each others' cocks?

No. I quite like the taste of semen

Let me see your ps1 play Tomb Raider at 800x600 without dropping frames

My cousin from the Ozarks returned it to the store after a day. Said there was "too much readin'."

You mean you adapted to overly long combat animations and shitty, unnecessary complex storylines?

Lel, hardly.

I've never felt like there was an accomplishment in a game bigger than beating a disc. Somehow I've always gotten more out of beating a disc than a game.

These days all you get is an achievement. It might mean something if every other one wasn't just "die for the first time" or "get 5 headshots".

Last time I experienced this was when I bought The Witcher 3 as a hard copy. I don't think I'll ever get to buy a DRM free, multi disc game again.

Blood Money had the easiest first disk out of any game. But I never made it too the second.

Lel, hardly.

Nostalgia

>no phone for two weeks
that's entirely ridiculous
and mildly unbelievable if you did that in one shot, I sure as fuck could barely get a 5MB file (which took a bit under an hour) to keep the connection the entire time, what kind of dialup ISP let you keep a connection going for two straight weeks?

if the file was in chunks and you did the downloads in the night and stopped during the day, sure, it'd be believable

>Overly long combat animations
I died 1 hit away from killing sepheroth and this is the reason I never retried. Fuck that bullshit planet destroying animation

How I originally purchased Elder Scrolls.

Welcome to Dark Souls - Die

Ignore him. Just a contrarian

>Tfw had dialup until 2007
I've never had a problem keeping the connection going for over a month

This has the biggest instruction manual I've ever seen at 510 pages.

Mine is stored in a box but I'm not going to dig it out at this hour of night.

Ooo, now that's pretty thick, but does it really count since it's a combination of 12 manuals?

>Buy special edition of a game
>Comes in a nice thick box
>A hardcover artbook and other goodies
>Full package is nice and weighty
>Open the actual game case
>No manual just a health and safety notice

thicc

Over 20 lbs of stats and lore

Brilliant.

what game?

>Doesn't even have a disk. Just a code for steam

Holy Shit, I just realized that you play as an ISIS member. You bomb a powerplant.

Also Cloud gets gang raped: m.youtube.com/watch?v=tWVdv4Qalcg&feature=youtu.be&t=24s

Pretty much any Nintendo special edition in recent years. They have those nice big boxes and some cool bonuses, but they always trip up on that.

How comes PC games used to install but now you can play as soon as they download

Now realize that if it were released today each of those discs will be sold separately, then weep for humanity.

They install as you download or are downloaded in a playable state

but how?

Instead of copying the data from discs to your HDD you're copying data from a server to your HDD.

Yeah. I also always used to think multiple discs or one of those extra wide PS1 cases meant that I was in for something good. Honestly, while I can definitely think of terrible multi disc games from later gens, I think I was basically right when it came to PS1.

This is literally happening with this very game.

>This is literally happening with this very game.
Source? I think you get the other parts of the games as updates

>mfw I bought Half-Life 2 in SIX CDs
Thank god for DVDs.

Good one

Nah, you could see the Highwind at Junon. It was docked there for Rufus' Presidential ceremony. I think there's even a cutscene showing it?

To be fair, I can't remember if Cloud is still "on his own" during that sneaking in part of Junon or if he had some party with him. But I'd say Aeris probably caught a glimpse of it as Junon in one way or another.

It's going to be an episodic game. It might have a season pass that gets you every episode as it comes out, but they're still selling it as episodes rather than one complete game. Based on what they've said about adding more content to justify releasing it that way, I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing ends up being more expensive than a normal game.

I'm surprised you still think they're making episodic so they can sell you a single game in a dozen parts and not multiple games like they've bloody said time and time again

It's a very japanese thing to do. A cultural belief that those with matching bloodtypes are compatible in a relationship with each other or something along those lines.

I never owned any jrpgs so I never had more than 1 disc.

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>be me a lot of years ago
>Visiting grandparents and took my psone with some games
>Play Driver, struggle a lot
>Finish some mission
>Insert disc 2
>Tfw I only took first cd with me