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Just ordered my first game that comes on a DVD...

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Insane3D

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Anyone tried Colin Mcrae 2005 yet? GoGamer just had a sale on it...$29.90 and it comes on a DVD-ROM.

Impulse buy....

😱
 
Speaking of DVD games, I've been searching unsuccessfully for the DVD edition of Schizm. What a pity I settled for the low quality graphics on the CD edition.

:frown:
 
Low quality graphics of the CD edition???

WTF? The graphics are different on the different storage mediums?
 
Originally posted by: ming2020
Eh? Played it before? They downgraded the quality level so it could fit onto something like 5 CDs.
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Ahh...wasn't familiar with the game. It looks similar to Riven...static 2D rendered backgrounds correct?

Is it any good?
 
Originally posted by: Insane3D
Originally posted by: ming2020
Eh? Played it before? They downgraded the quality level so it could fit onto something like 5 CDs.
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Ahh...wasn't familiar with the game. It looks similar to Riven...static 2D rendered backgrounds correct?

Is it any good?
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If you don't mind adventure-puzzle games, it's well worth a try. For reasonably IQ-ed gamers it is quite the challenge, with puzzles that border upon the very cryptic. The world is 2D-rendered, first-person viewpoint. I.e., you can't look around freely, so when you look left/right/up/down the game basically plays a movie to show how your view changes. Which I guess is the reason for the humungous disc space consumption (now that I've re-read the review, it actually takes up both sides of a DVD, by golly).

 
It's completely nuts. Tribes: Vegeance(a good game BTW, get it) comes on 4 CDs in America, but a DVD(and only a DVD) in Europe, with a nice Jewel case vs. paper sleeves here. Game publishers are so afraid of alienating DVD-less customers here, that we'll be to 10 CDs and beyond and have still not moved over to DVD.
 
Originally posted by: ViRGE
It's completely nuts. Tribes: Vegeance(a good game BTW, get it) comes on 4 CDs in America, but a DVD(and only a DVD) in Europe, with a nice Jewel case vs. paper sleeves here. Game publishers are so afraid of alienating DVD-less customers here, that we'll be to 10 CDs and beyond and have still not moved over to DVD.
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Agreed. Far Cry makes no sense to me. Apparently it did come on DVD at one point, but only in some bundles or something. If you buy it, you have no choice but the 5 CD version. I mean why can't they just make both? The people who want the DVD version are happy, and the no DVD-ROM types are happy too.

 
hehe, kinda like when cd rom was just coming into it's own, but for the same reason game pubs were putting out 30 disk games instead of 1 cd.
 
Originally posted by: ViRGE
It's completely nuts. Tribes: Vegeance(a good game BTW, get it) comes on 4 CDs in America, but a DVD(and only a DVD) in Europe, with a nice Jewel case vs. paper sleeves here. Game publishers are so afraid of alienating DVD-less customers here, that we'll be to 10 CDs and beyond and have still not moved over to DVD.
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In the case of Schizm, not only did they downsize graphics to fit into 5 CDs, they downsized some game content as well. :frown:

Anyway I only recall one other title that came in 5 or more CDs: Gabriel Knight 2.
 
Originally posted by: Insane3D
Originally posted by: ViRGE
It's completely nuts. Tribes: Vegeance(a good game BTW, get it) comes on 4 CDs in America, but a DVD(and only a DVD) in Europe, with a nice Jewel case vs. paper sleeves here. Game publishers are so afraid of alienating DVD-less customers here, that we'll be to 10 CDs and beyond and have still not moved over to DVD.
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Agreed. Far Cry makes no sense to me. Apparently it did come on DVD at one point, but only in some bundles or something. If you buy it, you have no choice but the 5 CD version. I mean why can't they just make both? The people who want the DVD version are happy, and the no DVD-ROM types are happy too.
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My guess is that there's too much risk selling 2 versions in the same market, unless it's going to be a AAAA sure-fire hit(The Sims, UT 2004,etc). Otherwise, they keep the CD's around for compatibility, and only do DVD when the situation demands it(pack ins, and fitting in Jewel cases for the space-concious Euro market).

PS The Star Trek "Academy" games both weighed in at 6CDs; DVD versions were made, but were pack-ins only. It's a shame too, with a DVD the video quality would be higher since you could have gotten away with MPEG2
 
Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
<-- has an old 7-CD game.

Didn't one game recently come out with both a CD and DVD varients?
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Sims 2

but the DVD version had a lot of problems

no I do not play that crap.
 
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