enigma442

Zuhl3156

enigma442
 
Yup,i am also one of those old cranky guys!

Us old cranky guys have to stick together to keep these gaming companies from pushing us around. A call to arms, "Geezers of the world unite in our quest against this tyranny!".

I am with you Zuhl3156,now just let find that cane.
 

Lmao..... I'm old but not yet cranky

What? Taxes death and crankyness????????

Mekhed

enigma442

Zuhl3156

enigma442
 
Yup,i am also one of those old cranky guys!

Us old cranky guys have to stick together to keep these gaming companies from pushing us around. A call to arms, "Geezers of the world unite in our quest against this tyranny!".

I am with you Zuhl3156,now just let find that cane.
 

Lmao..... I'm old but not yet cranky

Me I am cranky and not yet old, but I can be an honorary member of the group... I hope.
 

transdogmifier

Zuhl3156
We don't need no stinking cane! We'll just mow 'em down with our scooters!!!
 

 

What is this newfangled tech-na-logy?
 
Whippersnapper!
 

Yeah, im not one for all that electrical fanciness.... but those are boring.  So I suggest this:

That would make the scooter thingy alright.

Zuhl, now you just need a lance for the front of it!

Zuhl3156

EVGATech_DaveB
Zuhl, now you just need a lance for the front of it!

Now why didn't I think of that? That's why you're the Tech, Dave! Attention Walmart shoppers, coming through!!!

 
Yes, I am smarter than your average pick-i-nick basket!  Next you need wheel spinners, and I dont mean like on imports form 10 years ago, think Ben Hur or Death Race.... and you are ready for shopping!


 
Now if 2 of you run into each  other, you will need to joust.

Zuhl3156

EVGATech_DaveB
Zuhl, now you just need a lance for the front of it!

Now why didn't I think of that? That's why you're the Tech, Dave! Attention Walmart shoppers, coming through!!!

Lance,i was thinking rocket launcher.
We need to to show these corporate types that we mean business.

Dang you guys are as old as dirt LOL Feeling young at 48 now

Zuhl3156

Shockjockey
Dang you guys are as old as dirt LOL Feeling young at 48 now

Pfffft! That ain't old. Heck, when I was a kid we didn't even have dirt. My mom invented it just so I could make mud pies and have something to play with.

Lmao!!!!! I got to remember that one.

willem445

agent8
The last physical copy I bought was the New Wolfenstien because it was just too big and the price was good. Before that, it was the Orange Box. I am stuck at a 3m connection so I just let games download all night and while I'm away at work.

And this gives you something to look forward to when going about the day. I remember being crazy pumped in school when I would be downloading BF3 for the first time or something. 

I remember in the days of Napster on 56K. I would download an album of 12 songs and I would be stoked if I got up in the morning and had even half of them. Then came along the no-cd cracks. Finally, no more having to wait and listen to the "REEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW click click HHUMMMMMMMMM!" of the drive!

EVGATech_DaveB

agent8

willem445

agent8
The last physical copy I bought was the New Wolfenstien because it was just too big and the price was good. Before that, it was the Orange Box. I am stuck at a 3m connection so I just let games download all night and while I'm away at work.

And this gives you something to look forward to when going about the day. I remember being crazy pumped in school when I would be downloading BF3 for the first time or something. 

I remember in the days of Napster on 56K. I would download an album of 12 songs and I would be stoked if I got up in the morning and had even half of them. Then came along the no-cd cracks. Finally, no more having to wait and listen to the "REEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW click click HHUMMMMMMMMM!" of the drive!

Jacob has called me old for still having a optical drive..... but I remember sitting there listening to the click and a rough dragging sound for 5+ minutes before seeing  "Please Insert Disk 2 and press ENTER to continue"...... by disk 6 your anticipation was built stupid high for the game and it better pay off!

Lmao.... I still have a bunch of games like that....and a few 3.5 inch floppys too. I haven't gone through the torture of doing that in quite awhile though.

Most of my studff these days are through Steam or GOG these days, gog I don't worry about as much as everything runs locally without issue, but last weekend, I had some internet problems and some of my stuff just wouldn't launch, and others were stuck mid streaming update so I couldn't try to run those either, if I played a SP game and the internet was out, no problem, also I could decide when/if I applied a patch. 
Steam/gog/etc definitely does have its advantages, however I like hard copies and no web checking before each launch and the ability to control my installations, downloads, etc.
I can feel a "get off my lawn" coming  :)

Then again, Netflix has the streaming service so maybe they're bulletproof. There will always be people too lazy to walk to their mailbox. Getting back to the op, these hard copies might not be around much longer either.

I have a Blueray drive and my internet is about 600 kB/s while the BD is 25 MB/s so I would prefer to get games on BD media where dual layers can hold 50GB and 3 layers can manage with the bigger titles, one disk to install a game.
 
Downloading games is up where with watching paint dry