FFXIII is 32.6GB of movies and just 6.8GB of actual game content

[lestatdark]

loves2splooge said:

Wow, only 6.8 GB of data (the size of a Xbox 360 disc) out of 40 GB in total? I knew this would happen. If game developers stopped their lovefest with cinematics (maybe I'm just old but after over a decade, they don't impress me anymore) then we might probably be able to switch to flash cards as a storage medium for home console games in the near future when flash gets cheap enough. Which would be my wish. I'm not a fan of optical media. Optical drives are behind the cause of lower console lifespans, flash runs a lot cooler, faster loading with flash, flash is more reliable, etc. Blu-Ray only encourages more and more "is this a movie or a game ffs?" scenarios like this. Crysis in-game graphics are amazing and superior to what's available on consoles and that is only on one DVD right? You don't need to use that much space to deliver a Next Gen experience.

And lestat good point, wrpgs are guilty too of this. Mass Effect 2 is on 2 DVDs and that is no doubt due to cinematics.

Actually I agree with you, I think that a Flash Card based medium would be good as well, and as Flash Cards evolve in terms of data transfer speed and storage space, they could eventually over take optical media. 

I just hope that this type of discussions and excuses aren't thrown unilateraly against one genre, when in today's HD gaming, most of the high budget games are filled with cuscenes and pre-set pieces that take up a lot of space too, not just in JRPG genre.