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Xbox 360 Maximum Discs for title Reached!!!
UltraDSA | 8:05 AM on 09.21.2007 9 comments


Some of you may already know and for those that don’t, Lost Odyssey will consist of 4 Dual Layer Discs for a 50 hour long game. I don’t have a problem with 4 disc’s considering this is a RPG but if it was anything else then I wouldn’t tolerate it.

Part of me enjoys the time when RPG Multi discs were common and was excited about working my way to disc 2. It seems that 4 disc’s is the highest number RPG’s will go to comparing to generations of the past and seeing that limit finally met on DVD is both exciting and a sign that new media is needed soon.

If developers ever decide to make epic first/third person shooter, action, adventure, MMO’s ect… that need to breech into multiple discs then it becomes annoying to swap. But to be honest I only see multiple disc being needed for a single player experience but having to back track a disc to play multiplayer would kind of suck.

In a nut shell…very soon we may be seeing why Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are needed. I guess we will see. What do you guys think about the 4 disc limit being hit???



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Toneman's Destructoid Blog
RPGs require so many discs because of the hours of uncompressed cinematic videos they stick on them.
JACK of No Trades's Destructoid Blog
Im fine with it. Having more discs makes me feel like I got my money's worth.
brainderailment's Destructoid Blog
IDK, they don't have to limit themselves to 4 disks, but then again it starts to get rediculous for the publisher to have to make the packaging cost more. Who knows, after the 4th year of 360 games we may see that everything is being capped or limited by the disks. Hopefully you won't have to put in a multiplayer disk. That'd be the gayness.
Tino's Destructoid Blog
What about a dedicated multiplayer disc?
AngelsDontBurn's Destructoid Blog
Dear god.
Savant's Destructoid Blog
Final Fantasy VII. I'll never forget working my way through those discs.

As for epic RPGs -- I mean, Oblivion was only on 1 DVD. But then again, it has very little CGI. CGI uncompressed is a nightmare of a space-hog. Expect Lost Odyssey to be a rather cinematic-RPG experience.
dgenerate's Destructoid Blog
What toneMan and savant said.

Aside from those games that will have tons of video on the discs, I don't foresee the need this generation for multiple discs for many games.
Snoopbob2006's Destructoid Blog
Shame it wasnt shenmue III but with 10 discs... that would be great
KevlarGibs's Destructoid Blog
If the developers in japan would start using in-engine cinematics, this would not be much of a problem. the graphics are almost as good a CG animation... close enough, anyway... especially if it means the difference between one disc and four.


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