Firstly, let me just say that I honestly don't get the great hardship in changing DVDs. People talk as if having something contained on more than one disc will require an infinite and gruelling journey to the console to switch them over halfway through the game. The amount of times that the Sony obsessives have said "lolz enjoy changing discs" as if it's going to cause somebody cancer is, in a word, laughable. Either way, those that truly feel that swapping a disc is the leading cause of injury and illness will revel in the fact that the Xbox 360's Lost Odyssey will be sold as not one, not two, not three, but four DVDs.
Of course, Blu-ray would only need one one quarter of a half of a quarter of half a disc to store the game, we all know this, but in DVD form, the sheer amount of CGI and real-time cutscenes contained in Lost Odyssey require a bit more. Another victory for Blu-ray!
In other news, Mistwalker's Hironobu Sakaguchi has confirmed that the game is due to clock in at around 40-50 hours, something of a J-RPG standard, but certainly nothing to be sniffed at in this age of typically short single player games. Also, the game is being primarily dubbed in English, with Japanese voice acting coming as secondary. Apparently this is Sakaguchi's way of thanking we in the west who have supported his games over the years. That's nice of him, even if the game was pushed back to 2008 for the US and Europe.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to purchase a tank to help reduce that long and arduous journey from my seat to my console.
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12:13 PM on 09.20.2007
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I'm really liking the look of the game. As long as it isn't pushed back to 2009 I won't mind waiting too much for this game.
In fact, I kind of like multi-disk games because once in a while they get cooler packaging.
People seem to have forgotten they used to do the same with the final fantasy discs during playstation 1 times.
For all the people that berated the PS3 for having a fancy optical drive and said "next gen games fit on a DVD fine" we can see how well it fits on A, singular, DVD. It doesn't.
That doesn't ruin the game, hell, it hardly effects it at all, but there's some Xbox-exclusive content that says they were wrong about how useless a blu-ray drive is.
A very petty yay for that.
For example, if I had to change discs between Acts 3 and 4 in GoW, I wouldn't care. But, if I had to change discs to get to Los Muertos in Crackdown, I would care.
I call shenanigans!
yah its pathetic when somenoe is so whiney that they hate getting up and changing discs... does anyone remember the days of PSX RPGS? But then again, 4 disc changes in 40-50 hours?
So every 10-12 hours you have to get up and change a disc? If thats a problem for you, then FOR SHAME
..what was I talking about again? Oh yeah, booze. Lovely booze.
Lost odessy looks like it's gonna kick major ass. I'll swap its disc anyday.
if its an rpg, and its 4 discs, and i can load from the last disc i was on, no love lost. but when i have to put in disc 1 to initialize the game, then swap to disc 3 to load my current state, i get pissy.
Dual Layer and it wasn't in high def.
Baron Calico hit the nauil on the head, if you need to swap a disc to go to a certian place thats fucking stupid, i wouldnt place a game if that was the case... but if this RPG is so damn linier you never need to go back to a starting place then maybe i dont want to play that either...
the fact is you need to swap discs to open up content thats not there with out the swap. its its open ended at all you might be swaping upwarsd of 7 times per long play session if your moving around the world
I may be missing some entire group of games out there... but... I can't even think of one.
So yeah, 10+ hours of cutscenes will do that for a game.
I think that disc changing is perfectly suited and fine for an RPG due to the slower pace. Now, regardless of console, if I had to swap discs often in say an FPS or something fast paced. That might kill the mood a little bit. But disc swapping in RPG's.. I think we're all used to that *nod*
Blue dragon + Lost odessey= 3/4 dvds
dvd= cheap
Every ps3 game= 1 bd
bd= expensive
So once of twice every year MS will release a multi-dvd game which will cost them a little more than their normal cheap as chips dvd...
While, with every game Sony sell, they have to spend the extra money on BD, a format which hasn't taken off as they'd hoped, as the whole HD video revolution is forced and unecessary lol...
Zero DVDs, ZERO CRATES!
Seriously though, while it's not the end of the world, disc swapping is inconvenient. It's like having a wired controller. Or no rumble. It's not game-breaking by any means, just counterintuitive when you consider current-gen storage technologies. It should at least have an install-to-hard-drive option.
That's a big ass game!
I don't see it as being a big deal. I remember Final Fantasy VII being on multiple disk, and getting excited every time I was prompted to change disk.
I call bullshit. Theres no way they can expect us lazy ass gamers to actually stand up and move once in a while...