I miss the time when we didn't know everything about a game day 1.
There was more of a mystery, you'd trade tips, information and secrets you had found with friends. Games had this unknown factor to them were you never really knew if there was something new to discover. Now we have a wiki with everything you can do and find as soon as the game is out, and the entire thing has been data mined to ensure there's absolutely nothing we might have missed.
I guess you can ignore that and just go in blind, which is generally what I do, but it's still not the same.
Also Squaresoft
The people identifying as toasters and sensitive era has ruined voice chat. Too scared to be verbally assaulted over the interwebs. Trash talking and voice chat in-general with consoles are a thing of the past, sadly. lolVoice chat. It used to be huge in the 360 era.
Yeah, this is very important. They spoil everything because without +5 million in sales someone would surely jump off a cliff... Playing Wizardry 7 back then and imagine playing it now... fucking internet. People don't use their brains anymore. I would ban these info sharing sites big time.I miss the time when we didn't know everything about a game day 1.
There was more of a mystery, you'd trade tips, information and secrets you had found with friends. Games had this unknown factor to them were you never really knew if there was something new to discover. Now we have a wiki with everything you can do and find as soon as the game is out, and the entire thing has been data mined to ensure there's absolutely nothing we might have missed.
I guess you can ignore that and just go in blind, which is generally what I do, but it's still not the same.
Also Squaresoft
Ah, ok. Though, here in Europe we had euroboxes from the 90s till the end basically, with some exceptions of course. Never actually compared the size between those and my Japanese games, but the Falcom ones should definitely be bigger. Too bad they are all in my basement currently due to a lack of space.I was contrasting it with how the Western PC games had shifted to smaller boxes around the same period.
When was "the end" in your case?Ah, ok. Though, here in Europe we had euroboxes from the 90s till the end basically, with some exceptions of course. Never actually compared the size between those and my Japanese games, but the Falcom ones should definitely be bigger. Too bad they are all in my basement currently due to a lack of space.
Hm, around 2006/2007. So basically when MMORPGs started dominating the market and when shitty things like "Games for Windows - Live" became a thing.When was "the end" in your case?
In my experience the big boxes started to slowly get replaced around 2000 onwards. Some games still came in them but there was an advent of smaller physical cases which went into full swing a few years later.
I remember buying games like Deus Ex: GOTY and Severance: Blade of Darkness (2001 or so IIRC) and they were in plastic cases around the size of a DVD case. I do remember also buying Crysis in its big box though, which was very nice considering when it was (2007).
By the time The Witcher (not enhanced) was sold it was in cardboard boxes that were roughly VHS-sized.
Well at least you own them! And I suppose it's precisely the fact that they take up lots of space which led to them getting phased out eventually.
If the Japanese boxes are all around the size of that one in the video then yes, I'd say they're larger than the Western ones in all three dimensions in general.