Flight Simulator comes on 10 discs.

[CriticalGaming]

Microsoft Flight Simulator comes on 10 discs

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In a kind of nice move. Microsoft Flight sim comes on 10 discs this year. The games is 90gigs and they've decided to release a 10-disc boxed copy so that people with shitty net can still play the game without having to download a 90gb file. Honestly I think it's kind of cool that they do this.

With games being bigger and bigger these days, would you likes prefer a boxed copy coming with a ton of discs for a big install, or do you prefer the delivery method now where you get a disc and then a partial download for the rest of it?

 

[SupahEwok]

My 'net is fine, I download what I want.

I'm more interested in Flight Simulator for its use of photogrammetric processes to generate an accurate 3d landscape of much of the world. It's an evolving science.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Call of Duty: *laughs in 100GB of disk space*

Also, I honestly cannot remember when the last time I bought a physical copy of a game was. Maybe the first Serious Sam?

 

[SupahEwok]

Call of Duty: *laughs in 100GB of disk space*

At least this game is justified in its amount of storage. Rendering a ton of the world in 3d models through photogrammetric algorithms driven through an immense archive of airborne and satellite imagery, and getting it down to just 900 gigs is no small feat (the Google Earth repository, for instance, is several petabytes, I believe). Although I think they're cheating by pulling assets from Microsoft's cloud service. I need to sit down and read through their process at some point.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

Ah... that takes me back to my youth when I'd play Riven.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Microsoft Flight Simulator comes on 10 discs

Fancy getting a physical copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator instead of the digital version? Then expect it to come on 1…

www.eurogamer.net

In a kind of nice move. Microsoft Flight sim comes on 10 discs this year. The games is 90gigs and they've decided to release a 10-disc boxed copy so that people with shitty net can still play the game without having to download a 90gb file. Honestly I think it's kind of cool that they do this.

With games being bigger and bigger these days, would you likes prefer a boxed copy coming with a ton of discs for a big install, or do you prefer the delivery method now where you get a disc and then a partial download for the rest of it?

How the hell do people have a PC good enough to play the latest flight sim but not a damn Blu-ray drive yet? 10 discs for 90GB sure as hell has to be bloody DVDs.

 

[Ezekiel]

Sad Blu-ray never caught on on PC due to annoying copyright protection. It was part of physical media's demise on the platform (because no one wants to install ten discs). Playing DVDs is far less annoying. I use my BD drive multiple times a week, but I rip instead of play every Blu-ray.

 

[Gordon_4]

How the hell do people have a PC good enough to play the latest flight sim but not a damn Blu-ray drive yet? 10 discs for 90GB sure as hell has to be bloody DVDs.

Most gaming PCs I see seldom have any optical drive. The front of the case is being repurposed for cooling and storage solutions and even Windows itself comes on a USB drive these days.

Shit, the only reason I have an optical drive is so I can rip my DVD collection.

 

[BrawlMan]

90 fucking gigs on 10 disc?! I gotta amdire them for being considerate, but damn, Microsoft! The last time I remember even touching that series, I was either 9 or 10. My results half the time resulted in this:

 

[Satinavian]

90 fucking gigs on 10 disc?! I gotta amdire them for being considerate, but damn, Microsoft! The last time I remember even touching that series, I was either 9 or 10. My results half the time resulted in this:

The last one of that series that i knew was either the first one or the second one. While we had CGA graphics at the time, we still could only run it in monochrome.