Did they say how many disks the game is?

[Silent_night]

title sais it all , i like games that come with more than one disk althouhg i hate switching them durning installation

 

[uncapped]

Hopefully it will be a single DVD. That's the way to go.

 

[Silent_night]

yeah hl2 should be a single dvd , and then they shuold add another disk , with CS:S HL:S , and TFC:S , now that would be a sweet package

 

[63]

There will most likely be a DVD option, I don't know about about regular CD's though, maybe 2?

 

[dura]

Probably 2-3 disks.

 

[sHm0zY]

If it's only 2 - 3 disks whats the point of dvd? I can understand unreal tournement 2004 is 12 disks it should have dvd option. But dvd for a game that only has 2 - 3 disks wtf. plus i don't have a dvd player on my comp :burp:

 

[Striker]

F*** DVD!! why get a dvd player when my cd-rom can do the job???

 

[harhar]

If it's only 2 - 3 disks whats the point of dvd? I can understand unreal tournement 2004 is 12 disks it should have dvd option. But dvd for a game that only has 2 - 3 disks wtf. plus i don't have a dvd player on my comp :burp:

what the hell are you on? UT2k4 is 6cds.. 12 cds wont fit into 1 dvd anyways. I thought HL2 was gonna be about 3.5 gig? wont that be about 5-6 cds?

 

[Silent_night]

If it's only 2 - 3 disks whats the point of dvd? I can understand unreal tournement 2004 is 12 disks it should have dvd option. But dvd for a game that only has 2 - 3 disks wtf. plus i don't have a dvd player on my comp :burp:

HOLY PHUCK! ut2k4 is 12 disks?!?!?!?! thats crazy

 

[Scapegoat]

what the hell are you on? UT2k4 is 6cds.. 12 cds wont fit into 1 dvd anyways. I thought HL2 was gonna be about 3.5 gig? wont that be about 5-6 cds?

Half-Life 2 is 3.5 GB uncompressed, but 2 GB compressed - so 3 CDs would do it.

 

[Subatomic]

Well, UT04 came with 6 disks I think, that game is 5+ GB, so i assume 2-4 CDs

 

[ZEROarmy]

20 / 7 = 2.8 soooo yeah, 3 disks.

 

[Big Fat Duck]

holy crap how long will hl2 take to download off steam then!?

 

[Gajdycz]

well, 3.5 gigs, and some high quality cd have a gig on em, so say 4 cds 3,500/900=3.8so yeah 4, and the 1-2 cds with cs source and what not.

 

[wbcheater]

how many disks was far cry?

im asuming prolly 4 disk should sufice

 

[evil^milk]

Days. I share Silent_Night's idea of including HL2 in a DVD and the mods in another CD or DVD, that's a nice package

 

[sHm0zY]

woops whatever i dint know i dont care. you know what i mean

 

[aeroripper]

Far Cry was 5 cds, i actually laughed when i learned that just because its like we're going back to the old days where games were around 5-8 floppy disks to install... i had a old terminator game that was 11 floppies

I think their moving towards dvd very gradually till most of the mainstream has one

 

[Impulse147]

Well baldurs gate has 4 possibly 5 disks.

 

[Impulse147]

btw does a dvd-rom play cd's?

 

[aeroripper]

yes i believe all dvd-rom's play cds as well

 

[nw909]

Far Cry was 5 cds, i actually laughed when i learned that just because its like we're going back to the old days where games were around 5-8 floppy disks to install... i had a old terminator game that was 11 floppies

I think their moving towards dvd very gradually till most of the mainstream has one

Haha, you're right.

Man, whats gonna happen when it's 5-6 DVD's!

"Hey, Half-Life XXXVIIII should only be 3-4 harddrives!"

 

[Impulse147]

cause i know some ppl have dvd only dvd-roms. but i'll probably go with a dvd-burner with my next pc purchase.

 

[SixxHole]

Even if you don't have a DVD player, you can still buy the dvd and just mount it. Just a suggestion. DVD>CD.

 

[tommie]

Hopefully it will be a single DVD. That's the way to go.

Yeh well most of us don't even have DVD drives :afro:

 

[Chapstick]

Kinda off-topic:

But Everquest II is supposed to come on at least 10 CD's or 2 DVD's. Reminds me of the good ol' days when games came on 10+ floppies. :x

 

[JATZ-MAN]

you goto go DVD

DVD drives are so cheap, there the price of a game ffs
thats only my say

are there really DVD drives that only play DVD's that no good

 

[CrazyHarij]

I bet it'll be like 2 discs max or something.

 

[KagePrototype]

Far Cry was 5 cds, i actually laughed when i learned that just because its like we're going back to the old days where games were around 5-8 floppy disks to install... i had a old terminator game that was 11 floppies

Haha, did you ever get the floppy disk version of Theme Park? It was on like 24 floppies. Took just over an hour to install.

 

[The Monkey]

Yeah, it would be really nice if it was only one DVD.

 

[CrazyHarij]

Yeah, I think it was a shitload of floppy disks with that old Beneath A Steel Sky game.

 

[el Chi]

Even if you don't have a DVD player, you can still buy the dvd and just mount it. Just a suggestion. DVD>CD.

Yeah they're like £30-odd and a piece of piss to put in.
Splinter Cell: Panda Tomorrow was about 4-5 discs to install wasn't it? I think that from now on I may just buy DVDs were possible. So now you know.

 

[SLH]

HL2 will be on 1 CD, although it'll be the size of an LP.

 

[Asuka]

No dvd will be 5, and Gabe said their WILL be a dvd so no worries.

 

[CrazyHarij]

Yeah, I'll buy the DVD-version for sure.

 

[Cyber$nake]

any chance it'l cost much more though?

 

[ASnogarD]

Least be thankfull you won't have to change disks in-game

Exiting Area 1 - Please insert Disk 2 and press <enter>
player : sh!t I forgot something , go to go back
Entering Area 1 - Please insert Disk 1 and press <enter>
player : got it now where was I? Oh yeah...
Exiting Area 1 - Please insert Disk 2 and press <enter>
Data Read Error - ignore, retry or abort ?
Data Read Error - ignore, retry or abort ?
Data Read Error - ignore, retry or abort ?
Data Read Error - ignore, retry or abort ?
Data Read Error - ^c
c:\game\half-life2: gdaagth4qrGJ^Z
Bad Command or Syntax Error
c:\game\half-life2: _

 

[DelaZ]

1 DVD should do the job, you can buy a dvd player from asus for 15 euros lol.

 

[craig]

argh, anyone remember the floppy version of windows 95?! so many disks. and you'd get half way through and the middle disk would be corrupted... argh!1!1!!!

 

[Wildhound]

how many disks was far cry?

im asuming prolly 4 disk should sufice

I got Far Cry on one DVD.