Gears on blu ray

[LordTheNightKnight]

jake_the_fake1 said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

jake_the_fake1 said:

Legend11 said:
I remember some games on the PS1 having multiple cds so why the big deal over it on the 360 (for the games that need it)? Were Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy 7, and Resident Evil 2 broken because of it?

linear games can be broken onto multiple discs with out many issue, however, open word games like GTA or racing/sports games simply can not be put onto multiple discs as they will break the flow of the game.

Also, games like lost odyssey (4 dvds) and Blue Dragon (3 dvds) clearly show how useful blu-ray's capacity can be when developers want to make games with allot of CG, because at the end of the day, no in game graphics will ever beat the IQ of CG cinematics.

Gears would fit into the first category, so you seem to have missed the point of this thread.

And how do the Mistwalker games show how useful blu-ray can be? They're just on more than one disc. They would have to be broken to prove blu-ray was useful.

Lost Odyssey is stored on 4 DVDs, this games could have fit on just 1 blu-ray disc because the capacity on 1 BD is their to allow such a big game to just fit, the same thing can be said about blue dragon which stores it's game on 3 DVD's, all I'm saying is that these 2 games validate the usefulness of the capacity the blu-ray discs have.

As for gears, the multiplayer aspect is what stops the game from being split into multiple discs being that all multiplayer content has to be accessible from 1 disc so that online play is seamless and not painful, having said that of course, one could say that the game could have been split onto 2 discs, 1 for single player and 1 for multplayer, but since they choose to release all content on just 1 dvd. This makes me assume that they didn't have enough single play contentment to justify it's own dvd and their also wasn't enough multiplayer content to justify it's dvd, which is why everything was simply put onto 1 dvd, theirs also the fact that they must have been under some time constraint to release the game.

1. They could be on one disc instead of 3 or 4 is not a validation. Try telling us how not switching discs would make the game ITSELF better.

2. You can put the multiplayer on its own disc if it comes to that. And no, switching discs is not enough to mean that would magically prove DVD is too small. The whole game would still be on those discs.