Aging Gamer: Multiple Discs

<p>I&&num;8217&semi;ve been looking for games that I missed out on when I was younger because either I didn&&num;8217&semi;t know about them or I didn&&num;8217&semi;t have the funds for them&period; Recently&comma; I found a cheap copy of <em>Fear Effect<&sol;em> at my local used game store and was surprised to see that it was four discs&excl; I rummaged through my PlayStation games and saw that some titles I&&num;8217&semi;ve yet to play were also three or four discs&colon; <em>Koudelka<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Final Fantasy VII<&sol;em> and so on&period; Multiple discs continued all the way until the generation we are at now&period; Even the Xbox 360 had some huge multi-disc JRPG&&num;8217&semi;s&semi; games I need to play but fear one of the discs may not function&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As I thought about all the games I have with multiple discs&comma; I realized that I had only beaten three games that had multiple discs&colon; <em>Metal Gear Solid&comma; Resident Evil&colon; Code Veronica<&sol;em> and <em>Resident Evil Remake<&sol;em>&period; That is less than one percent of all the multi-discs games I own&semi; I think that&&num;8217&semi;s pretty sad&comma; I need to up my game when it comes to them&period; It amazes me how much data one Blu-ray disc can hold&semi; what was nearly impossible two gaming generations ago is now the norm&period; <i>Ratchet &amp&semi; Clank 1-3<&sol;i> was a three disc deal in the early 2000s&semi; now I can play all three games on one disc on my PlayStation 3&period; Technology truly is amazing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;107143" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-107143" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-107143 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;03162300&sol;1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Multiple Discs" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"480" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-107143" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">There&&num;8217&semi;s a lot of fear here&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;m glad that technology has found a way past multi disc games&semi; I can&&num;8217&semi;t even imagine how many discs <em>The Witcher 3<&sol;em> or <em>Fallout 4<&sol;em> would be without Blu-ray technology&period; I even found myself leaning towards buying non-Xbox 360 exclusives on the PlayStation 3 just so that I wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t have to deal with switching discs all the time&period; For me&comma; it breaks the immersion I have in the game&semi; there&&num;8217&semi;s nothing worse than being in the zone and your game tells you to &&num;8220&semi;enter disc 2&period;&&num;8221&semi; What&&num;8217&semi;s worse is when your hands are covered in cheese ball goo and you have to touch an insanely sensitive disc and put it into your equally sensitive PlayStation&period; Now that I am an adult&comma; I do not eat while gaming&semi; controllers are expensive and I sit in a rocking chair&comma; both are not conducive to eating while playing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Everyone knows the tale of Square and Nintendo and how the rift of changing to discs for <em>Final Fantasy VII<&sol;em> ruined their relationship and birthed us the era of the PlayStation&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m guessing that if <em>Final Fantasy VII<&sol;em> was on cartridges&comma; it would have taken more than three but less than ten cartridges &&num;8211&semi; also cartridges aren&&num;8217&semi;t able to handle FMV so the game would have been neutered on the N64&period; That is so unreal&semi; can anyone imagine buying this at Toys R Us in the 90s&quest; How much would that have cost seeing as N64 games were already about fifty dollars&quest; It is unthinkable to me to have double digit cartridges sitting on my shelf just to play an RPG&period; While I am sad that a rift happened between the two companies&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m glad that Sony stepped up and gave us the disc-based games that have just become more common sense&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;107161" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-107161" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-107161 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;03161825&sol;2300114306&lowbar;50377bd9a2&lowbar;o&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Multiple Discs" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"480" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-107161" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Man I hope one of these doesn&&num;8217&semi;t get &&num;8220&semi;lost&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Since I&&num;8217&semi;m getting older&comma; it is hard for me to wrap my mind around certain things&period; The fact that any gamer born in the past ten years won&&num;8217&semi;t have to deal with multiple disc games&period; And if they do it is by their choice going the retro route&comma; but I&&num;8217&semi;m sure by the time they are of age&comma; all the games will be easily downloadable on their proper system&period; The multi-disc games are fun to set on your shelf since the older cases are huge&comma; but they&&num;8217&semi;re hard for me to play&period; Back when they were commonplace gamers had less games to chose from and more time to play&period; Now when I see a multi-disc game&comma; I wonder how long it will take for me to play&comma; so I avoid them&period; Multi-disc games are only played on my vacations where I can commit a nice amount of time to them&period; I can usually beat newer games in about a week&comma; so they aren&&num;8217&semi;t as much of a time sink&period; Hopefully&comma; next vacation I can polish off the first <em>Fear Effect<&sol;em>&semi; that&&num;8217&semi;d be a nice notch in my controller&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;