Too bad they cut out shitloads of content because it was over three discs and anything over three discs has extra royalties. Thanks Xbox 360................
Final Fantasy 13 To Ship on 3 DVDs
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/97532-Mounds-of-Content-Cut-from-Final-Fantasy-XIIIJoe Deadman said:
It's actually linked in the main article of this thread as "hit the magic number" Though it's not in pure factual data one of the people who worked on it said it was a sizible amount removed if it isn't the same length as the remaining game.
So yeah my opinion of what the 360 might do to FF13 is still unchanged from when it was 1st announced.
Edit: P.S. mentioning you only have to change disc twice is important it could ment several areas are one time events or that for the main story you won't need to back track much. I mean they could have set it up to save on memory every cutscene and one time affair or one time dungeon you go to is all on disc 3 and the world is on disc 1 & 2 with every City on 1 (Doesn't sound very logical but they would cut down on duplicate data on multiple disc that way.)
P.P.S. Didn't a 360 game come on 4 disc but they made the fourth disc come in a paper case inside the main case while the 1st three had normal slots? Maybe they didn't want a repeat of that.
Also, to above: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/97532-Mounds-of-Content-Cut-from-Final-Fantasy-XIII
One thing people are forgetting, is if any one of those DVDs gets scratched. You're beyond hosed. You just instantly lost 1/3rd of your game. That's why I've always hated multidisc games. I took great care of my discs and I still have them all in working condition, but no thanks to the stupid jewelcases they came in. I immediately took them out and placed them in a softcase.
Bluray laser is more sensitive, so the coating is a lot stronger. I've never been able to scratch my blu-ray discs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RN8o9K6O0I
One thing people are forgetting, is if any one of those DVDs gets scratched. You're beyond hosed. You just instantly lost 1/3rd of your game. That's why I've always hated multidisc games. I took great care of my discs and I still have them all in working condition, but no thanks to the stupid jewelcases they came in. I immediately took them out and placed them in a softcase.
Bluray laser is more sensitive, so the coating is a lot stronger. I've never been able to scratch my blu-ray discs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RN8o9K6O0I
Or you could learn to not leave the games out of the case, the only thing needed to not scratch games is to put them back in the case when you finish playing them. I've still got pristine PS1 games because I made a habit of putting the games back in the case when I was done with them. Sensing the pattern yet? Put your toys away when you are done with them, and they won't get ruined.Xersues said:
They're mentioning it to clarify that you'll be switching discs in order, once per disc, as opposed to needing to swap between discs as you enter/leave different areas. The latter could be far far more annoying.Pirce said:
That was content removed from the game design in general over the course of development, not content removed from the Xbox 360 version as compared to the PS3.Lucane said:
The only likely difference between the two versions will be things like texture/cutscene resolutions, alternate audio tracks, that sort of thing. Unless the games are compared directly, most people won't even notice.
Get it for whichever system you like playing on the most. I'll probably be going with the 360 version - I prefer the controller, the Marketplace on 360 is infinitely better when the inevitable DLC is released, and I can install the game discs directly to the system hard drive, which will probably make for the lowest load times of any version.Plinglebob said:
Yeah i'd say that could be a problem I just hope they don't just stick them on a single spindle like they did with last remnant. I wouldn't mind something like this:Xersues said:
Obviously didn't read what I wrote. Many jewel cases either stuff them on one spindle, or have terrible design. I took care of my stuff. But no thanks to the manufacturers. But thanks for reading!asinann said:
Not to mention console defects and scratching the disc for whatever reason. The more discs a game has, the higher probability over a given time, that one of them will just get trashed.
I'm all for higher grade discs, and better casing. Being a tard and scratching your own discs is not the issue I'm talking about.
Recent games have a tendency to be a little non-linear or open world, i'm not sure how that'd pan out over 3 disks but then again it's an FF game 
I'm assuming each disk has a partition for one-time events. So there could be only 1.5 dvds worth of content but a lot of it had to be copied to make sure you're not having to insert a new disk just to explore the other half of the world.
Might not be too bad
Although i'm facepalming furiously at anyone that's argueing that 3 disks is better than 1.
It's not THAT bad but it's definatly not better, the xbox doesn't have to be a winner all the time.
I'm assuming each disk has a partition for one-time events. So there could be only 1.5 dvds worth of content but a lot of it had to be copied to make sure you're not having to insert a new disk just to explore the other half of the world.
Might not be too bad
Although i'm facepalming furiously at anyone that's argueing that 3 disks is better than 1.
It's not THAT bad but it's definatly not better, the xbox doesn't have to be a winner all the time.
Those softcases are actually worse for your discs than the jewelcases you hate so much. Though the cases they are putting games in now are stupid, one spindle for 3 discs is retarded. But by using softcases you are opening your games to scratches and cracks. Hard cases are there to prevent that, softcases are just to make moving them around in large numbers easier.Xersues said:
I wasn't implying that the 360's final version had less content than the PS3's final version just that an announcement stating so much count being cut (At such a late time it sounded like time constraints or memory space issues to me.)It seems some what posssible it'd be done to keep both versions similar to keep down further disc with redunant data.Virgil said:
[I'm not a programmer but correct me if I'm wrong about something.]
I couldn't help but laugh "players will only have to swap discs twice during gameplay". You reckon? See, I could have sworn you'd have to do it more than that. Oh well, I'm still going to buy it, and be inevitably dissapointed. Nothing can live up to X in my opinion.