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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 Avatar - Comment posted on 09/21/2007 08:30
Toneman
RPGs require so many discs because of the hours of uncompressed cinematic videos they stick on them.
JACK of No Trades's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/21/2007 08:39
JACK of No Trades
Im fine with it. Having more discs makes me feel like I got my money's worth.
Tino's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/21/2007 09:22
Tino
What about a dedicated multiplayer disc?
AngelsDontBurn's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/21/2007 10:02
AngelsDontBurn
Dear god.
Savant's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/21/2007 10:19
Savant
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 Avatar - Comment posted on 09/21/2007 10:44
dgenerate
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 Avatar - Comment posted on 09/21/2007 11:05
Snoopbob2006
Shame it wasnt shenmue III but with 10 discs... that would be great
KevlarGibs's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/21/2007 11:06
KevlarGibs
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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