"Halo 4: I Get a Woman!" - Sgt. Mjr. A.J. Johnson, RIP

[Pooky]

So, what is the benefit of consoles again? They are not all equal, they require patching, they require installation...what did I miss here?

The only real advantage is convenience. Each new PC game I play seems to require minimum 2 hours of install, patching, tweaking, etc. Console games you just stick in the disk and you're good to go.

[Arteen]

Oh yeah my bad. Anyway I thought it was just for Spartan Ops but that says you need to install the 8 gigs for all of Infinity Multiplayer. Good thing I recently bought a 320 GB hard drive.

I'll never stop thinking Halo PC every time I see "Infinity Multiplayer".

[ShadowSpartan]

Damn, I wonder if the game will be two disks then? First disk is the game, second is the "content installer"...

Not that I'm complaining. The more content, the better. Unless a chunk of that content data is the CGI nonsense for Spartan Ops.

There was a pic recently of the game coming with 2 discs.

Here's the image, it shows the limited edition with 2 discs.

[Zeph]

The only real advantage is convenience. Each new PC game I play seems to require minimum 2 hours of install, patching, tweaking, etc. Console games you just stick in the disk and you're good to go.

What are you doing? Downloading it?

[Tnnaas]

Here's the image, it shows the limited edition with 2 discs.

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I'm betting it'll do something similar to what Halo 3: ODST did. Keep the Campaign on one disk, put the Multiplayer/Spartan-Ops/Extra content on another.

[=sw=warlord]

More far more likely the second disk is to do with the extended cut of Forward Unto Dawn.

[Warsaw]

The only real advantage is convenience. Each new PC game I play seems to require minimum 2 hours of install, patching, tweaking, etc. Console games you just stick in the disk and you're good to go.

But every time I do that for a new game on the Xbox it has to stop, "patch," stop again, actually patch for real, and then finally play.

[ShadowSpartan]

More far more likely the second disk is to do with the extended cut of Forward Unto Dawn.

Nope, the special edition of Forward Unto Dawn is going to be a digital version only. Here's the link to a comment made by David Ellis: https://twitter.com/DavidEllis/statu...84944354222081

[Kornman00]

So, what is the benefit of consoles again? They are not all equal, they require patching, they require installation...what did I miss here?

Gamer standpoint: cheaper than buying a top of the line PC when all you want to do is game
Developer standpoint: Fixed platform
Multiplayer standpoint: harder to cheat/mod.

Software in general will always require updating and some form of installation. Luckily, future consoles will streamline the latter.

[Warsaw]

Well, I was getting at the idea that consoles are starting to not be all the same across the board. Developers are having to work around the fact that not every Xbox has a hard drive.

I'll grant the other two, though cost is something that needs to be broken down and analyzed; it's not as simple as it seems.

Anybody else getting major cheese vibes from Forward Unto Dawn?