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twesterm on 23 February 2010
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Jordahn said:

I’ve seen some of the recent debate over which is the better multi-platform (Xbox 360 and PS3) version, using the number of DVD's to a single Blu-ray as a factor of argument on this site.  Sadly, it has been blown out of proportion for the most part, and there is a reality everyone needs to face.

  

It’s just a fact that one disc as opposed to several is a convenience no matter how small of a convenience it is.  And do some blow it out of proportion?  Yes.  But what’s even more annoying is the “we’ve changed discs before back in the past” argument.  It’s now 2010, NOT 1995.  Developers and gamer have the option of Blu-ray NOW as opposed to multiple CD’s IN THE PAST as the only viable options aside from cartridges.  ANY of you who use the “we’ve changed discs before” argument is ONLY making excuses when a PS3 version of a game has the convenience of one Blu-ray.  And not everyone thinks that changing discs is a big idea when one disc is still preferable.  But whether you have that choice or not (usually due to console ownership or lack thereof), it’s still an advantage of convenience.  Did changing discs bothered me on Final Fantasy VII when I first bough my PSOne?  Never did.  Would I have preferred not to change them out now that I look back?  Of course if it could have been helped.  But since it was fine to switch CD’s back two generations ago maybe we should have stuck with CD's for last generation and NOT have used DVD’s while continuing to use CD’s now?  See, I didn’t think so.  In principle, how much simpler can than be?  When the content is practically the came, the less discs the better.

You're right that it's a inconvenience but it's such a minor one that it doesn't even matter.

Take Mass Effect 2 for example, I had to change discs twice in a little over 30 hours of play.  When the little screen came up prompting me to change discs, my game wasn't ruined, I walked up, inserted the new disc, and went on.  It didn't break any kind of immersion, it just meant I had to get up off the couch lets say every 10-ish hours of gameplay.  Considering most games last 8-12 hours, that's fine with me.

Now if I had to change discs every 4 or so hours, that would bother me, but every 10+ hours, I really don't care.  It's just completely insignificant.

I was actually more annoyed because someone told me if you installed both discs you didn't have to change discs at all.  I wasn't annoyed that I swapped discs, I was mainly annoyed that I waited to play the game until I installed both discs.  If I had known I was going to have to change anyways, I would have just installed the 2nd disc later.