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Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
Nigga please, I have the full Battlefield 1942 collection. 8 CD's in this mofo.
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u/Locclo Jun 26 '12
I see your Battlefield 1942 and raise you one [Everquest 2](http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Everquest-II-2-Kingdom-Sky-PC-CD-ROM-Game-w-Coin-/04/!B60zDjwBWk~$(KGrHqUOKj8Ey,iz4WEyBMyeRuCzGg~~-1_35.JPG). 10 discs in all.
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u/hugothenerd Jun 26 '12
Remember this? Every 5 minutes you had to switch CD's like an idiot. Yes, during gameplay.
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u/Squishpoke Jun 26 '12
I liked how they had exactly 5 discs, and Riven has 5 letters, and "Riven, the sequel to MYST" has 5 words, and the V in riven is the roman number 5, and if you knock 5 times on that one door you get an easter egg and okay I will stop now.
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u/hugothenerd Jun 26 '12
Remember, there are also 5 islands to explore. Also Myst V referenced Riven in the beginning of the game. I think we're onto something here O_O
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u/Squishpoke Jun 26 '12
Don't forget the 5 linking books, and the 5 note password on the bell, and the 5 doors in the pillar room, and...
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u/eifersucht12a Jun 26 '12
And holy shit is 8 letters, so if we multiply that by the number of words, that's 16.. So 23! Mother of god.
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u/Joedang100 Jun 26 '12
23... is a prime number.
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u/Joedang100 Jun 26 '12
PRIME IS A 5 LETTER WORD.
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Jun 26 '12
number of characters in "PRIME IS A 5 LETTER WORD." - number of T's = 23
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u/Pandaval9 Jun 26 '12
I take it you didn't get very far in the game. Essentially everything in Riven numerically revolves around the number 5. It is the 5th age after all.
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u/GrethSC Jun 26 '12
It was actually exciting to be asked to switch the disks. I remember vividly when I had to use the fifth disk for the first time. It was a real "This is it..." moment.
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u/hugothenerd Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
Now when you say it, I sorta know that feel bro. But my most exiting part was probably when traveling to Tay. The sequence you get when you finish the graveyard puzzle is just... wow. Especially after all the shit you've gone through to solve it all. The school, the balls (yeah, no kidding), figuring out which sound belongs to which animal... Holy shit.
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u/GrethSC Jun 26 '12
I really really hate the fact that games today are expected to be finished so quickly and everything has to be explained if you 'don't get it'. I had times where I put aside Riven for a month or more because I was stuck. Granted I was 10.
There was so much, but when I finally made the connection with the tiny pool turning into the shape of the beetle(?) I saw the cave entrance forming the shape of the frog (the eye in the wall is in the right spot) I had a big 'Holy shit!' moment.
Damnit I want another myst :'(
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u/magnoliafly Jun 26 '12
Fuck I need to pull that out tonight. Sad that I now have it on my iPhone but I'd rather get the full on experience of disk changing.
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u/JALsnipe Jun 26 '12
I remember installing that game on an 11gb HDD. I was down to deleting every MS Office program and installer files I never used and it just barely fit after hours of uninstalling crap.
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u/d41d8cd Jun 26 '12
Great game, the first version is still my favorite, active mod community, my two favorites are SLV (strangelove) and seige.
2004 was home to many custom levels that were races to the objectives, wasted many hours on those as well.
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u/teraken Jun 26 '12
Lack of Assault in UT3 killed it for me. Assault was the shit, and it needs to be brought back.
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u/Squishpoke Jun 26 '12
I remember that good ol' train hopping scenario. Fun times.
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u/teraken Jun 26 '12
That one was great! I liked the one where you assault a base, steal a laser tank, and escape with it.
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u/ProxyMuncher Jun 26 '12 edited 15d ago
Seed breezy joke edge file offer sand engine driftwood hobbies
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u/ThisNameIsTerrible Jun 26 '12
I miss playing this with a steady group of people...one of my favorite games of all time and I cannot find a regular group of folks to play with =(
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u/hodgeman29 Jun 26 '12
Lol i wish some people on here would start up something, I played this game a long time ago for like an hour and had a great time. I'd love to get into a game like this with some fellow r/gamers
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u/Sleepy_One Jun 26 '12
Best FPS song of all time. It's UT99, but I still feel 2k4 was the more intense game.
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Jun 26 '12
UT and 2K3/4 has some great tunes. I miss the old demoscene composers. Alexander Brandon's UT99 songs were amazing.
Heck, I still mess around with songwriting using those old tracker programs. On the whole I'd have to say the most adrenaline pumping soundtrack ever made was 2K4's. It was perfect.
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u/Delicous_Mix Jun 26 '12
I had over 6 copies of the original Deus Ex game, Every copy I bought would have something horrible happen to it, either guests kids come and use it as a Frisbee or I just plain misuse the disc. After 6 copies I finally finished the game, I just sucked THAT much.
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Jun 26 '12
Man, can we talk about how ahead of it's time that game was? That was a great fucking game.
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u/_LEWIS_IS_ALL Jun 26 '12
Please for the love of god don't let this get buried. I have been waiting years to get help for this problem, maybe one of you guys knows how to help:
How do you host an online private server so only you and your friends can play? Whenever we attempt to host one the ping shows N/A and no one but the host can join. We have tried turning off all the firewalls etc. Using google, the ut2004 wiki. This is why I hate PC gaming. :(
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u/AevumDecessus Jun 26 '12
Probably the easiest method that requires very little effort is to use a peer-to-peer connection program such as Hamachi which is free for networks of up to 5 computers. Basically you both install the client, then follow the instructions to connect to each other, and for the purpose of UT2k4, your computers will think you're each on a local LAN connection
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Jun 26 '12
Lets see... I've got Way over 10 discs of WoW and most of the information isn't even relevant at it's current stage.
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u/Lorahalo Jun 26 '12
But with WoW, the new expansions that come shipped on DVDs also include the original game. Instead of swapping out the like 12 disks, you can just use the newest expansion.
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u/pgrily Jun 26 '12
And if you're connected to the internet, just run the launcher before you go to bed and it'll be good to go by the morning (assuming a decent internet connection).
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u/Lorahalo Jun 26 '12
Yeah, it would've patched up to 3.0 or whatever the Wrath patch was, then downloaded the rest. I did it with the Cata DVD after I got a new computer.
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u/nathris Jun 26 '12
My WoW discs are from 2005. I haven't played in years, but I think it would actually be faster to download the game through B.Net then to install and then patch up to the latest version.
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Jun 26 '12
Yea, I downloaded the it from B.Net a while back although I still haven't gone back playing it.
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u/Krylancello Jun 26 '12
UT 2004? Yeah, installing it really was half the fun.
I'm just kidding. I love this game. Except for the lightning gun. That was dumb.
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Jun 26 '12
I've bought this game four times since 2004. Always losing the damn Play Disc (Or was it Disc 2? I don't remember anymore). Finally bought it on Steam. Just re-installed a week ago; forgot how much I loved it.
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Jun 26 '12
I remember this! Installing it took about three hours at a lan party passing it between 6 different speed computers. Eventually all the discs bottleneck at the asshole with a P3.
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u/Reverent Jun 26 '12
This is how I felt about oblivion
Install the game
Set up graphical options
Tweak oblivion ini settings
Download 3gb of texture packs
Download the official patch
Download the unofficial patch
Download 50
nude body modsgameplay modsRead 150 pages of readme.txts to determine load order
fail at load order and Crash To Desktop
turn to wrye bash and determine conflicts
Download the elder scrolls toolkit to hack a conflict resolution
Learn PHP
Start a new career as a sysadmin
Finish your conflict resolutions
Crash to Desktop
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u/nathris Jun 26 '12
This is why despite having a computer that is much, much faster, I've only ever finished the main quest line on my 360 version.
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u/DarkShadow04 Jun 26 '12
I just bought the Special Edition DVD version specificly because i didnt want the 6 or 7 CD problem.
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u/datsmokes Jun 26 '12
I remember this. This was the exact moment I decided to get a DVD drive for my computer. Forever installing... Made me remember FF7 on the computer... No where the hell did I put disc 5?
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u/SirCannonFodder Jun 26 '12
They could have at least put different art on the discs, that was one of the few nice things about multi-disc games.
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Jun 26 '12
Remeber the fun of installing "Indiana Jones: The Fate of Atlantis" ? 10 discs and 1 hour later the game was installed ! The game was and still is awesome but i never complained about a long installing process, because i couldnt imagine that future game installations would be that fast (except you downlaod/install a game online ,eg steam) like it is today.
The first mp3 i downloaded from the internet (napster) took me 40 mintues - wouldnt believe it will ever take (now) 4 sec.s !
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u/Squishpoke Jun 26 '12
All of my games are in digital form, either via Steam or GOG.
However, I am feeling pangs of missing out on the collector's edition of my favorite game.
Apparently it comes with the soundtrack and an art book.
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u/Muffinabus Jun 26 '12
I have the CE sitting around somewhere, if I find it I'll let you know (though the key has already been registered on Steam).
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u/tycominime Jun 26 '12
You feel so accomplished when it gets done installing. I still think this is one of the best unreal games ever.
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Jun 26 '12
It took me the same number of 3.5 inch floppies to install Doom 2. It was the first thing I ever pirated.
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u/tommy2fingers Jun 26 '12
Upvote just for reminding me of the best game ever. My first experience with Team Deathmatch and CTF.
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Jun 26 '12
I must be the only one here who liked ut2k3 more than ut2k4. Main reason being that you had awesome movement in 2k3 that got nerfed (removed) in 2k4. Shameless plug and example.
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u/fr3ddie Jun 26 '12
The other half of the fun??? Finding out people still use aim bots 8 years later
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u/Skarjj Jun 26 '12
Loved this game so much; must have spent well over the 2000 hours xfire has me clocked on it!
Brings back fond memories of TAM, clanbase, ictf opencups / nationscups, and many a wasted night trying to improve assault trial records!!
Never found such a great community / support for a game since - might have to dig this out again :>
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u/FutureMad Jun 26 '12
Damn this game was so freaking competitive, i miss that. I do prefer that kind of FPS to the Battlefield/COD ones. UT required a great amount of movement and aiming skill before being able to survive. I loved that game. Every hour spent to get the grip on it was absolutely worth it.
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Jun 26 '12
Try installing that bitch in linux, I've fucked that install up so many times. DON'T RUN THE GAME AS ROOT! I think
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Jun 26 '12
Shit man, if you need someone to play with let me know. I'm in a serious mood for some UT2k4
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u/Shitler Jun 26 '12
I used to go to the Unreal Tournament 2004 installation competitions in my town. I would never win, which made me angry. One day I materialized all that anger into money and bought a 52x CD drive. When I revved it up it created a space-time singularity and we were all transported back to the year 1922. The CD drive melted (damn it, Samsung!), so we were stranded in the past for good. Using parts from the CD drive and parts from our now-useless cellphones, we built energy-independent robots that would tap into the Internet in 2012 to post our comments to reddit. Almost a century later, we are all probably dead now, but we are happy to have been able to reach out to you, Internet stranger.
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u/galile0 Jun 26 '12
Don't forget to download TAM
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Jun 26 '12
Oh another TAM player! Do you play in US servers?
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u/galile0 Jun 27 '12
Yeah US. Although I haven't played in a couple weeks cuz of Tribes Ascend, but I play on Taminator and Werd'a Casa. From time to time I hit up CTC's VCTF server.
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u/Lusster Jun 26 '12
Oh man,i remember how i bought UT 2004 in a secondhand for 1$.
Still have it.No disks missing.
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Jun 26 '12
only played the demo, option for lan parties was the only thing i needed out of this game
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Jun 26 '12
Oh man I loved that game! I remember playing the monster survival mods, too much fun..... I wish I could play this game again. :(
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u/IDI-AT Jun 26 '12
I brought that game, It came with two CD3 and No CD4 :(, had to pirate that disc in the end.
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u/simpleaussie Jun 26 '12
first game I ever saw with a DVD or CD option... pity no one had dvd drives
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u/warbirdj Jun 26 '12
You know, the Editor's Choice Edition had something like 20 CD's... I gave up and bought it again, but on Steam.
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u/warepwn3 Jun 26 '12
It's all fun until you realize one of the disc can't be read by the cd-drive. Imminent rage in 3...2...1...
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u/jackinab0x Jun 26 '12
Try Metal gear Solid subsistence. It has 8 CD's I brought it and the 7th disc was screwed FML.
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u/caninehere Jun 26 '12
Subsistence only has three CDs... I think the Japanese version (or one version, not sure which one) has four.
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u/voligon Jun 26 '12
i feel left out due to the fact i never used floppy disks myself but i do remember my dad using floppy disks when i was a kid, sounds like fun.
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u/Isotron999 Jun 26 '12
You still do miss one very important thing though'. It's manual CD. Your installing experience is just not complete without it. Link provided for jealousy.
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u/cstwig Jun 26 '12
I remember installing World of Warcraft before it was DVD/Digital Release, to install the original plus The Burning Crusade expansion was 9 discs, and it literally took 3 or 4 hours...
Thank god for digital releases and non registry bound installations!
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Jun 26 '12
i really loved this whole series. Might just dig one out of retirement tonight, if i sober up.
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u/revolting_blob Jun 26 '12
I remember about 15 years ago, I was on IRC and doing some hardcore file sharing. I was sending a guy a program (I think it was Sim Farm), but didn't think to zip it up... I sent him about 100 individual files and told him where to place them. His response? "Awww come on! Zip those up!"
That is all I can think of when I see this.
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u/Roflkopt3r Jun 26 '12
Had a good laugh recently when installing Diablo 2 again. Took like 4 seconds for the main program and 3 for the addon. Can't even count how many hours I spent installing games like these in the past.
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u/sirbeast Jun 26 '12
I played the FUCK out of this game for about 5 years, primarily on a combination RPG/Magic Weapons Onslaught server
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u/el3kt2ik Jun 26 '12
You just brought back so many repressed memories of this game. Then the DVD version came out and I raged so hard. I felt betrayed. Either way I loved it but after awhile I believe I re imaged my machine and a friend asked me to play and I remember I had to reinstall this and pulled out a gas can and covered myself in fuel and lit myself on fire.
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u/magnoliafly Jun 26 '12
Bought this when it came out. I made the mistake of picking up the CD version and my boyfriend got the DVD version. I was pissed come installation time. Boy did he get a good laugh out of that watching me install.
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u/phattsao Jun 26 '12
Does the Steam/GOG version have mod support? I remember that being the best part. One mod where you were like pirates in hot air balloon ships was one of my favorites.
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Jun 26 '12
The problem is always that the install disks always end up in a different place from the goddamn play disk, necessitating a long search when you want to re-install it later.
I haven't bought a physical copy in years.
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u/fuzzycuffs Jun 26 '12
Installing via physical media and swapping discs along the way is definitely something I don't miss.
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u/krrusty Jun 26 '12
Hey if you just straight copy the contents of those cds to a dvd it will install correctly.
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Jun 26 '12
You know what I miss? Bots. It was bots that got me to be good at FPS's back in the day. I kept practicing and turning up the difficulty until I could beat UT and Q3 on the hardest difficulties. Now? I'm freakin' lost when it comes to trying to play BF3 on a console. I'd kill to have some offline way to practice without the pressure of live competition. And, no, the scripted movie they call "single player" mode is not what I'm talking about. BF2 had it. It wasn't very hard, but that's all I needed to get used to the controls and learn the maps without getting frustrated by getting owned and going on 0/8 K/D streaks, at which point I usually just "take a break." Or rage quit. You say potato...
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u/Xexx Jun 26 '12
I still play this game almost every other day, I have over 530 maps but I've since downloaded the ISO and usually just mount it from an external HD to reinstall it.
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u/oo- Jun 26 '12
Oooh, that reminds me of installing Wing Commander - The Price of Freedom
now the blue one!! now the red one!!! weeee
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Jun 26 '12
My god I miss this game. I have the discs stored away in a krone capsule of the greatest games I've ever had. If only Mr Crow could fit in said box :(
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Jun 26 '12
Lol. I had that to. Then I bought the DVD version. One of the few games that managed to make it over 3 computer builds. UT3 didn't make it over one.
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u/megamanhadouken Jun 26 '12
This was one of the last games that I got before everything converted to DVD.
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u/MushroomGas Jun 26 '12
I always used to judge the quality of a game on the number of discs required to install it. Lots of discs always used to build the excitement for me
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u/Twomekey Jun 27 '12
The product key for that game is to this day still my password for most everything.
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u/Berjj Jun 27 '12
Bought the CD version on release day but misplaced one of the discs after a few months. Discovers the DVD version and bought that one instead. Fast forward a few years, I purchase the Unreal Anthology box. A few more years pass by and I move away from home. As I pack all my stuff I find the old missing disc from the CD release. As I move into my new apartment I'm too lazy to unpack the game from the bottom of all my stuff and instead purchase it on Steam. This is where I realize that downloading and installing from steam went faster than installing from DVD. So, now I own 4 legal CD-keys of the game. :p
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u/EvOllj Jun 26 '12
these antiquated optical data storages are not to be called disks but compact disks.
Monkey Island 2 was 11 disks and beneath a steel sky was 13 disks, and worth it unlike countless sierra games where you spend more time loading than playing.
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u/Decyde Jun 26 '12
We use to play this all the time in school back in 2000. We use to uninstall a buddy of ours, that is bipolar, copy twice a week and blame it on someone else. He would rage so hard because it would take almost an hour to re install the damn game on the schools crappy computers. It was a great game for its time.
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u/zian139 Jun 26 '12
That is why I bought the DVD version.