Game preservation & a question for Cody (Gaming)

by Revenant1988 , How do I forum?, Friday, January 24, 2025, 18:03 (6 days ago)

So, watching this youtube video that came across my feed and a few things came to my mind:

1. Even though I was going through some bad depression at the time, I regret purging all my game consoles, and everything that came with them.

2. (Cody question) When the 360 came out, I can't remember if anything was lost with backwards compatibility for Halo & Halo 2....was there? I know the MCC and Halo CE Anniversary editions used the PC version of Halo and some things were lost as a result like effects and textures. I don't recall the same thing happening with the jump from OG Xbox to 360, but maybe I'm forgetting? I feel like if you had the discs and a 360, you got the original experience still.

3. Enter Destiny & Destiny 2: these games are live service. When Bungie says 'no more' and shuts em down, that's it. They won't be the first games to go through that and won't be the last. So, let's say 10 years from now you're feeling nostalgic and want to play Destiny\2, you have the disc and whatever data is on your hard drive but the game never loads because the servers are gone. How does that make you feel today, after 10 years with the game?

4. If a physical, final version of Destiny\2 were to ever release, some sort of multi-disc monstrosity that you could install on a console forever but perhaps with some tweaks to RNG and procedural encounters, a way to system link for 5 others for raids or more for MP, would you buy it? Or do you just hope that the PC modding community might be able to keep it alive in some way?

Thanks for attending Friday-night-sad-drinking-time-thoughts-with-Rev.