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Its not a Switch in the article. There's also this bad trend where publishers literally leave pieces of the game off the disc/cartridge and force you to downloa
by goosedragons 4y ago
Its not a Switch in the article. There's also this bad trend where publishers literally leave pieces of the game off the disc/cartridge and force you to download the rest. Not a patch, the actual game.
- adrr 4y agoIs it worse than the time when games came on multiple disks or cds and you had to switch during the game? How many cds did myst come on? Prior cds was floppies which you couldn't even install it on a HD because the floppies had copy protection on.
- goosedragons 4y agoYes it is worse. You have the entire game with a multi-disc game. Switching takes like 2 minutes max and can be done offline.
- brigade 4y agoThat "trend" isn't shipping incomplete builds, but rather that the engineering work to minimize delta update sizes simply isn't a priority for games with infrequent patches, and YouTubers can't tell the difference.
- goosedragons 4y agoUh no. I'm not talking about updates. I'm talking about the game medium literally not containing the entire game because the publisher is too fucking cheap to spring for extra discs or a bigger cart. Some examples include L.A Noire, Spyro Trilogy, GTA trilogy, Tony Hawk 1+2 on Switch, PC games like Doom 2016 or MGSV or CoD:MW II on Series X.
- brigade 4y agoLA Noire is an excellent example of my point - people just assumed the disc didn't have the game because the day-one patch was 3/4 of the installed size, but no, the delta update from the GM version on disc was just that bad.
- goosedragons 4y agoI'm talking L.A Noire ON SWITCH. Even the box tells you it needs an extra download to be usable. https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/354397-la-noire-switch-download-size-digital-physical https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/354397-la-noire-switch-d...