Do you install your XBOX games to the drive or play them from Disc?

[Ex_Spy_Guy]

I install.

[khigh]

Used to run from the disc until I got the red ring of death. Now, I just look at a broken 360 until they send me the box to mail it to Texas.

[Floydian]

[/URL]I play them from the disc. I only have the smaller 20gb drive so i don't think that could accommodate many games.

There are benefits to having games stored on the drive thou. Faster loading times, less heat generated by the console, runs much quieter.

Although I have heard that Bungie, the makers of Halo 3 do not recommend it for online play. Read about it here [url]http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3171414 (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3171414)

[Spaceman Spiff]

Y'know, I've never actually installed a game on my hard drive. I might try it.

[gdoane]

If I wanted to play games from a hard drive then I'd be playing PC games.

Console gaming is not like PC gaming, or at least it wasn't until the stinking XBox 360 polluted the genre.

The one thing I liked about Console Gaming and the reason I totally reject and abhor PC gaming is that Console Games had to have superb quality control. Once a game was pressed and out, that was it, no chances to patch it so there was little incentive to release half-baked crap to get it out the door and then offer patches later.

Now it seems to me that if I put a game in the XBox 360 that about 10% of the time I get a damned splash screen ordering me to "update" the thing or I will be "signed out of XBox Live".

THAT is exactly why I am not a PC gamer at all. That message says to me that I've been sold crappy software which wasn't ready for release when I shelled out 60 clams for it. Cripes, if I wanted that ripoff scam I'd buy PC games where it's a rampant problem!

I buy a videogame console as a specialized device which does one thing and does it well. It's like the difference between a race car and a station wagon. I don't want a general purpose machine when I buy a box that does nothing but gaming all the time every time.

I'm not installing NOTHIN' to my XBox360 Hard Drive. If the games were developed properly in the first place and not released as half-baked junkware the console wouldn't even NEED a Hard Drive.

[Marleysdaddy]

If I wanted to play games from a hard drive then I'd be playing PC games.

Console gaming is not like PC gaming, or at least it wasn't until the stinking XBox 360 polluted the genre.

The one thing I liked about Console Gaming and the reason I totally reject and abhor PC gaming is that Console Games had to have superb quality control. Once a game was pressed and out, that was it, no chances to patch it so there was little incentive to release half-baked crap to get it out the door and then offer patches later.

Now it seems to me that if I put a game in the XBox 360 that about 10% of the time I get a damned splash screen ordering me to "update" the thing or I will be "signed out of XBox Live".

THAT is exactly why I am not a PC gamer at all. That message says to me that I've been sold crappy software which wasn't ready for release when I shelled out 60 clams for it. Cripes, if I wanted that ripoff scam I'd buy PC games where it's a rampant problem!

I buy a videogame console as a specialized device which does one thing and does it well. It's like the difference between a race car and a station wagon. I don't want a general purpose machine when I buy a box that does nothing but gaming all the time every time.

I'm not installing NOTHIN' to my XBox360 Hard Drive. If the games were developed properly in the first place and not released as half-baked junkware the console wouldn't even NEED a Hard Drive.

Excellent points