L.A. Noire was once a six-disc game on Xbox 360

[Mr Puggsly]

makingmusic476 said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Much more frequent in the past few years? How many multi disc games have there been over the years?

2011 has LA Noire, Rage, and there might be others.

2010 had FFXIII, Castlevania, and Mass Effect 2.

2009 had Star Ocean and Forza 3.

2008 had Infinite Undiscovery, The Last Remnant, and Lost Odyssey.

2007 had Blue Dragon.

I could be missing a few but as you can see multi disc games have remained pretty stable over the years.

So over 700 games have been released on discs and a very tiny number actually needed multiple discs. New 360 discs will give developers another 1.15GB of space to work with and they've done amazing things with what they had.

I'm kinda reluctant to believe Vanquish was difficult to fit on a DVD but I haven't played it. Red Dead is a great example of how much you can do with a DVD. Just so you know Fallout: New Vegas is only like a 4.7 GB install and that game has a ton content.

We saw a lot of articles of developers complaining about storage space. But we are almost 6 years into this gen and a single DVD has been sufficient for  99% of the games released. If more games start needing a disc swap in the middle of a campaign, who cares? There were a lot of multi disc games in past gens and nobody bitched this much.

There's also Forza 4 and Mass Effect 3 coming around the end of the year, both of which are franchises that required only one disc at the start of this generation, and there's Final Fantasy XIII-2 coming not long after.

In the end, the number of big budget games (games that usually have more content) coming on multiple discs is increasing as this generation progresses, and such games will likely make up a relatively higher percentage of the average player's library than they will the Xbox 360's overall library.

Not to say that a game coming on multiple discs matters in any significant way, but it is definitely true that the number of such games has been increasing.

Is Forza 4 confirmed to be multiple discs? I wouldn't be surprised but I didn't hear that.

Mass Effect 3 and FFXIII-2 are coming in 2012 I believe.

He said the number of multi disc games increased in the past few years but I was showing its actually been pretty stable. I presume in the coming years it could increase, but so far its not been an issue.