will you buy final fantasy XIII on the first day? and on wich console?

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bbsin said:

justinian said:
@Darc Requiem

According to reports you need to do swapping with Star Ocean.

"The Last Hope on the 360 does have is poor packaging and an odd or forced choice of Tri-Ace to reinsert earlier disks in order to backtrack through areas. "

Why didn't the developers allow a full HDD install if you have a xbox360 with a HDD?

I can't help but think this will be the norm and FF13 will use this disc-swapping system. Maybe it is to stop piracy.

 

Oh god, that sounds pretty bad.

I'm actually a little confused, so even if you install the entire game to the 360's HDD, you still have to swap out disks? or are you saying that you can't have full installs at all?

I was already annoyed with the prospect that I had to change disks to get certain achievements for LO and IU, but swaping disks in order to backtrack through areas? That can't be for real.

Even with a full install on a 360 you are still required to do disc swaps as usual since even with an install a disc is required in the disc drive.

This is also from the IGN review. Indeed you are required to swap discs yet again just to backtrack in the game.

"There are no obvious compression artifacts and one of the climactic cutscenes at the end is downright awesome. However, the last disc is so packed with end-game cinemas that there isn't enough room for the universe worth of content. That means if you want to go back to a planet from the beginning of the game to complete a side quest, grab an item for synthesis, or look for bonus bosses and dungeons, you'll be prompted to insert one of the previous discs."

This is why the "Who cars if I need to get up to swap discs" argument doesn't work well with me. I didn't even have to do shit like this back on the PS1 with my 3-4 disc games. This is just pathetic, you even need to do this with a full install (which would be around 18-20GB of space on the HDD). In Star Ocean you do a lot of backtracking, especially like said in the quote, when I need to items for synthesis.