Gears on blu ray

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Tird fergesson said:

starcraft said:

Tird fergesson said:
I hope no one minds if I stir things up a little, but what would you think if Gears of war 2 was on blu ray. I loved gears; a beautiful game with great gameplay, but it had one flaw: it was too short. It took me and most people around 5 hours to beat the game. So if it was on a duel layer blu ray disk, you would have in theory enough room to make the game 20 hours or so. Would you not want that?

We have already seen that Blu-Ray has no relevance to game length at all. Bioshock was 25 hours long on one DVD9. Gears was 8-10 hours long on hardcore on a DVD9. Heavenly Sword, the PS3's biggest hitter last year, was 5 hours long with no multiplayer on Blu-Ray.

Uncharted was an adventure game and even it was only 10 hours long.

Fail.

The game length all has to do with how much time and effort a developer puts into a game. You bring up a good point about bioshock's length, but keep in mind it doesn't use texture streaming while Gears does, therefore, every level in Gears takes up about a gig of space. It also didn't have an online mode. I beat Gears in 5 hours on hardcore while most others did the same. The insane difficulty doubles the game's length so I'm going to assume you meant to use that otherwise you're full of shit. Uncharted used texture streaming aswell but naughty dog didn't feel like creating a longer game so they just fit all of the languages on one disc while allowing the game to be longer because of blu-ray. You also forget that Resistance was 15 hours long and Ratchet and Clank Future was 20 hours long. Both of those wouldn't be possible on a DVD.

 

So, the PC version of Gears must have been shipped on multiple disks because it has more content (the Brumak battle) than the 360 version had.  At least according to your logic.