Final Fantasy XIII on 360 May Come on Three Discs

[rees263]

I think too much noise is being made over multi-disks. I, quite honestly, have no problem whatsoever reaching up and swapping out disks. The people who have issue with this are either strictly sony Fan-boys, lazy, or both.

Definitely both

I don't care if it is seven disks. Xbox 360 still gets Final Fantasy 13. Plus the more disks means more gameplay.

I see a flaw with your logic. More discs doesen't necessarily mean more gameplay. More discs = More discs. Thus, they cannot fit as much onto an Xbox disc. They will both have the same amount of gameplay, just one console will have it stretched onto more discs, assuming the PS3 has less.

That's not what he means - if the game were to come on seven discs it would be longer than if it could fit on three. IE, the more discs (DVDs) they are forced to use for the 360 version, the bigger the game is and by extension the longer it is.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

I like it when games came on multiple disks. It makes it seem like it was worth the purchase

this.

 

[Hazy]

I don't care if it is seven disks. Xbox 360 still gets Final Fantasy 13. Plus the more disks means more gameplay.

I see a flaw with your logic. More discs doesen't necessarily mean more gameplay. More discs = More discs. Thus, they cannot fit as much onto an Xbox disc. They will both have the same amount of gameplay, just one console will have it stretched onto more discs, assuming the PS3 has less.

That's not what he means - if the game were to come on seven discs it would be longer than if it could fit on three. IE, the more discs (DVDs) they are forced to use for the 360 version, the bigger the game is and by extension the longer it is.

But more discs does not mean more gameplay. Unless they come as an added bonus.
It merely means more discs. Say I have a title on PC, and it's a single disc. Let's also pretend steam is non-existent. The title is then ported to the Xbox and PS3. Now the console versions have more discs. That doesen't mean that the Console versions are LONGER per-se, just the fact that they have more discs.

 

[iblis666]

im hoping for 4 disks and 10 gigs of downloads but then i love long games with many side quests some times i just stop a game once i get to the boss delete the save and start from scratch

 

[Radelaide]

I don't care if it is seven disks. Xbox 360 still gets Final Fantasy 13. Plus the more disks means more gameplay.

Not necessarily true. I'm not surprised that it's going to be on multiple discs. If the PS3 does have one thing going for it, it's the blu-ray disc being able hold more information then regular DVDs. This game will look spectacular, and it will be full of gameplay, but the multiple discs won't mean MORE gameplay.

Edit: Damn, ninja'd.

I don't care if it is seven disks. Xbox 360 still gets Final Fantasy 13. Plus the more disks means more gameplay.

I see a flaw with your logic. More discs doesen't necessarily mean more gameplay. More discs = More discs. Thus, they cannot fit as much onto an Xbox disc. They will both have the same amount of gameplay, just one console will have it stretched onto more discs, assuming the PS3 has less.

 

[Froobyx]

I've never played multi disk games on my 360.. but wouldn't the 360 reset itself when you close the disk tray?

 

[Enigmers]

Oh my god a Final Fantasy game in multiple discs! The horror!

I personally don't care if it comes on ten discs (well, actually ten might be kind of annoying, but I'd still buy it.) because I owned a PS1 back in the day. Lets everybody get nostalgic.

FFXIII should have stayed a god damn ps3 exclusive. Because they've said they will look similar they now can't use all the ps3's power. Fucking retards. I'm not buying it. Simply because it's on the xbox.

So you don't want to buy and enjoy a game because now thousands more people can enjoy it too? Suit yourself.

 

[Archemetis]

I've honestly been missing the multi-disc games for a while now, pretty much since the release of 10, a Final Fantasy that didn't have at least 3 disks felt alien to me (Seeing as I grew up with the Playstation era of FF's

So honestly, I don't much care how many discs it comes on, although if I really thought it'd be a bother, I'd just buy the PS3 version and play it on my Brother's PS3... Lord knows it needs the use.

Chances are, I'll go with the PS3 version anyway, not for the extra crap that PS3 gets, but mostly because Final Fantasy with an Xbox controller setup?... I can't even imagine it...

FFXIII should have stayed a god damn ps3 exclusive. Because they've said they will look similar they now can't use all the ps3's power. Fucking retards. I'm not buying it. Simply because it's on the xbox.

Well... have fun not playing when it comes out then, everyone else who did, xbox or not, will be having fun doing just the opposite.

[Edit/add-on]:

The only draw back to this that I can foresee is that, the original multi-disc Final Fantasy's (7, 8 & 9) Were all made to break up on key points of the story, where it seemed most fitting for the next "chapter" in the story to continue, now here's the issue I'm seeing.

Most games haven't been made like that, SINCE those games. they've been able to carry on creating single disc games that don't have any need for breaks, Square-Enix haven't really HAD to manage their stories in a multi-disc style for a good few games now, and they weren't originally intending to make FFXIII an Xbox 360 release, so I'm a little worried that they may have plotted out the story to be seemless one with no decent breaks to put "disc-swap transitions" in.

But then again, I might just be over-thinking it, they've likely been able to find decent enough points, just means some discs will have More/less on them than others.

 

[Mackinator]

3's the charm. Just like my FF7 discs.

 

[jaeman]

Jeez, a lot of people act like they are shocked. You should have expected this before. FFXIII was being designed from the ground up as a PS3 game, and the 360 version is nothing more than a port. Its not like this hasn't happened before. Lost Odyssey came on 4 discs, so did Blue Dragon, and Star Ocean 4 had three discs. Star ocean 3 and Xenosaga 2 both had 2 discs, and Tales of Symphonia had 2 also. I could even say that World of Warcraft takes up six CDs. Hell, to go further back, FFVII had 3, VIII and IX had 4, Chrono Cross had 2, and even Spyro 3 spanned multiple CDs. Can we please get past this, because this is hardly a surprise.

I thought of more! Rage on the 360, Mac and PC all is going to dual disc, due to the fancy tech 5 engine. Oblivion: GOTY edition on 360 came on 2, one for Oblivion, and one for shivering isles, and i wouldn't be surprised if Fallout 3 GOTY did the same thing with its DLC. Not even the 360's modified HD-DVD and dual layering will prevent this kind of thing.

 

[HyenaThePirate]

LOL I'm with some of you!

MORE MULTI-DISKS! WE want our money's worth!!

I look at it this way... if i'm going to pay $60 for a disk that in all likelihood costs $3 to print and package, then having multiple disks feels like you really bought something substantial.

If you're paying $60 for one disk, you just got cheated!

 

[Ophiuchus]

I don't care how many discs it takes, as long as they don't use it as an excuse to hike the price. Which they probably won't. They didn't with Lost Odyssey or the other two multi-disc games I've got, so I don't see why they'd start now.

But, yeah, it's not really much effort to change discs once every few hours. Particularly because the 360 is right here on the desk with the keyboard and monitor so all I need to do is stretch out my left arm.

 

[barryween]

I don't care if it is seven disks. Xbox 360 still gets Final Fantasy 13. Plus the more disks means more gameplay.

This. Like I care if it comes on 80 discs, as long as they don't condense it to accommodate.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

I wonder if this will be as epic as VII.

 

[Fraught]

Actually Lost Odyssey was on 4 discs too

I was going to say that. Also, on the PS1, most of the RPGs were on 2-4 disks, especially the Final Fantasy games.

I have a PS3 though. Not interested in this game though. Now Final Fantasy Versus XIII is something I want.

 

[megapenguinx]

When is this game coming out again?
Eh well, I'll probably just get it on the PS3. The less disks I have to worry about, the better.

 

[Harlemura]

I'm almost dissapointed. Now when I don't buy it, I won't be saving as much space as I would if I had a 360.
I'm not sure how a multi-disc game actually affects the game, I've never had one...