Anybody miss the pre-digital days?

I don't think this whole pre-digital thing affects anyone but PC gamers. @beardmad mentioned above PC games had the best boxes and he absolutely is not wrong. You didn't just get a PC game you got a huge box with elaborate artwork, an extensive manual and leaflets telling you this and that (which nobody read, but still...).

PC gamers absolutely have lost out by going all digital. You don't own the games anymore they are just meaningless digital code out there in the void that cost the publishers literally nothing to duplicate yet they take you for as much as they can get for this digital nothingness that costs them not one cent to deliver.

Console gaming, love it or hate it is the last stand, the final bastion against paying for invisible entertainment that you may as well be renting at zero cost to the providers. Big Brother, hello. Just pray the whole thing doesn't somehow end up in the hands of Microsoft. That really would be the end of videogames as entertainment as we currently know it.

Nostalgia says yes, definitely. Nothing beats plugging in a cart and sliding that on switch forwards.

Adult practicality says, fvck no. I like the idea of being able to have all my games on a single hard drive and being able to boot them whenever, wherever I want.

I still very rarely buy digital. If they're having a good sale then maybe. But i strictly download the GWG games digitally right now. Everything else is physical, I doubt i'll ever be over physically owning a game.

So its a nice convenience for the people that use it, but its not a requirement to use or anything. Unless you're strictly a PC gamer i suppose.

I still get both, but as for going into the store? No, buying games from amazon is so much easier.

No one misses the little posters and maps that used to come in game boxes?

I miss the PC big boxes. They had very nice artwork, some had thick manuals, posters, stickers..etc. I remember a flight sim game I had in the 90's that came with a huge flight manual complete with binder. It was like reading a college book on the principals of flight. Some games came with Hint guides that were fun to read, like Sierra's Adventure of Willy Beamish had a decoder that you held over certain parts of the book to read it and it also came with a Notepad that had artwork that looked like a kid drew on it. The print materials in games alone were kind of fun and nice to have for collectors.

Now they're collector's items, something digital will never be. I collect game boxes now and if a good CE or Limited edition comes out, I'll get it.

It really depends, I'm struggling to find N64 copies now and certain PS1 games for a decent price, wouldn't have happened if their was a digital system.

But I like to collect them.

I miss the days of included manuals and inserts, now it seems its all on PDF on the disk. Nintendo gets props for stilling doing thus.

Otherwise, all games are still available on disk, so there is no need to buy digital unless you want to.

In a way, yes. I always like to pick up a game at the store. However, DD has been a huge boon to indie games, imo.

Physical copies over digital all the way.

Digital is convenient but when I see my collection on my shelves, digital just doesn't give me that satisfaction.