Xbox 360 Fanboy

I don't really care about this game specifically, but for me it's this sort of situation:

1.) Swap out 4 or so discs to play a game on something I already own.

2.) Buy a nearly $400 system so I can deal with a single disc and maybe have slightly cleaner FMV.

I'd go with the former.

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Also, as one of the few people who actually played through Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, it's clear a LOT of the space taken up on both games is that they offer multiple vocal tracks (English, Japanese, French, etc.).

I'd be surprised if FFXIII did that. They never have before. So who is really to say how many discs it might take up, in the long run.

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"Question readers. If it had to be on multiple discs would it matter? Seems like the same amount of hassle compared to having to install the game just to play. Just saying."

Metal Gear Solid 4 was the first game I bought for my PS3 (my machine is primarily used as a Blu Ray player)

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I also played Lost Odyssey which had like what, 5 Discs?

Both are a whole bunch of meh. The MGS installs were a fucking joke. Long ass install before you play the game, installs before each "chapter" and loading screens in between each level, I wasnt really impressed on a technological level with the PS3 as a gaming machine.

On the flip side, swapping discs out of the 360 is also a pain in the ass.

In the end it just boils down to how much you want to play the game. We always overlook stupid crap like horrible voice acting, iffy graphics, dumb design decisions, short single player campaigns or the absence of multiplayer in all our favorite games.

I dont see why we cant overlook hardware limitations as well. I imagine if youre a hard core FF fan, the thing could come with 20 Discs and most wouldnt care, just as long as they can play the game.

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I don't care about swapping disks. I'm just stoked I don't have to buy a $400 blu-ray player to experience Final Fantasy. :-D

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Well when you look at disc swap versus data installations, what's the big difference?
Give it to me on 10 discs, won't bother me.
Playing MGS4 through multiple times doesn't save you from installing data every act (unless I haven't figured that out) and that doesn't bother me. 5 second disc swap is NO big deal.

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I'll only care if Final Fantasy gets away from the tired quest on rails fight millions of battles get levels and do stupid crap formula. Of course, since this is their 12th real game in the series (11 doesn't count) and they haven't strayed from that formula yet... don't think so.

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i dont really care if its on multiple discs - its most likely gonna come on 3 or 4 discs.

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I dont really care how many disc the game takes up, but I don't like the idea of compressing the videos.

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I have both systems and I'll probably buy this one for PS3 although when a game is available for both I usually grab the 360 version because I prefer the XBLA service and the controller more.

For FF though it's just something that I've always played on Playstation and it just seems right. I know that's not really the best reason in the world but it's the one I'm using.

Changing discs does suck when you're already comfortable and laying around but the load times on the PS3 can be just as annoying so they kind of wash out.

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Lost Odyssey is 4 disks and is one of my favourite games of this gen. Honestly, when people bring up the issue of swapping disks in a role playing game, it honestly makes me think how stupid they are because its not even an issue for the majority of us.

With Jrpg's the thing that takes up the most space on a disk, is pretty much just the FMV's and audio. Not the actual game content.

I'll be buying Final Fantasy 13 day one when its released on 360 and the amount of disks its on won't worry me one bit.

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I have an idea:

How about more gameplay, and less FMV?

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Is there really somebody out there who can't stand swapping discs? I love it, personally. I'm on disc 4 of Lost Odyssey right now and every time I had to swap discs it was like a little achievement. And what's cool is, when I was on disc 3 I lent disc 1 to a friend to try out.

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The only time multi disk would be a problem, would be if it raised the price.

And it never has so far, right?

Otherwise, it just gives you move canvas space for cool cover arts on the disk. Plus, the substantial weight of the multidisk really feel like you're getting more for your value.

I just hope the packaging is of a high quality.

I'm nowhere near as big a fan of FF as I was back in the FFVI and IX days, but this games presentation and style looks to be the top of it's genre. I'm quite pleased to see this game reach 360, this is much more substantial for me than any Gears of War games.

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This is indicative of a bigger issue to me: just how much movie do we want our games to be? I loved Mass Effect personally, with very few pre rendered scenes and loads of gameplay. If I wanted to watch a badly dubbed crapanese movie with no plot and even less creativity, I can find my way to the anime section just fine, thank you very much. The gameplay is what is important, and I doubt very highly that you can't fit all of FFXIII's gameplay and more on a DVD-9 if you left out the 4 hours of HD FMV.

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Sony fanboys can cry about the glorious specs all they want, they just lost the console war.

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