The American version of the Lost Odyssey packaging sucks. Period. On the left hand side of the above image is the American packaging. It shoves three discs onto one spot and leaves the fourth disc in a little sleeve on the booklet portion. The right hand side of the image is the International packaging. The case is bigger and was designed to contain all four discs properly.
Who in their right mind thought this was a good idea? JRPGs are known for their amazing cases (look at all the PS1 JRPGs). It's bad enough that the Xbox has next to no RPGs as it is, and when they do, it seems like they half ass everything. Sure, there are people who probably don't give a shit and just want to play the game. But in most cases, the people that buy these types of games are the hardcore collectors that try to keep everything nice and pristine.
None of this compares to Jared from GameTap review copy though. Now that's awesome.
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4:55 PM on 02.13.2008
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people crying in 3,2,1
how long until the blue dragon argument rears its ugly head? Superior packaging as well as story, gameplay, yada yada yada.
Also who cares about disk format, good games are good even if i have to get up once in few hours to change the disk, god forbid.
We should start a petition in protest!
Too Human is now available!
Who knew...
This doesn't do its job.
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guess they should have used the blurays
not that I'm trolling or anything.. just saying, that might has something to do with that :P
We don't normally get better packaging, just release delays. I don't want to pay more for release delays.
Attention Console Makers: Region unlock my console please, or I'll do it myself
I don’t mind multiple discs, but that packaging is just unacceptable. Has no one at Microsoft seen multi-disc box sets of movies or TV shows?
Just sayin.
Aren't games always more expensive in those countries anyway?
Yes, but they shouldn't be, back in the 90's the American dollar was crapping all over the Australian dollar, nowdays not so much. But they still feel the need to charge us between $95-$120 aud for a new release, without really justifying it.
Please be an epic fakepost...
My money is on "no."
say, don't we have bill gates' email address now?
either way I'm pissed because I actually want this game...and this does hinder my want of it. I dont want the place where I am supposed to store my discs safely to be the place that scratches the disc up.
What that picture does not show is that a few days later my Xbox 360 died and chewed through Disc 1 of that pretty game.
and if you beg for it, we might release by 2009... the COLOR SET!!
lol, wow just wow. this shows how they said in a paperlight way "screw NA packaging"
what would sexy RL Tifa say about this...