I like and dislike multiple discs for a few major reasons. I like it because I can play a game save while I let my friend borrow another disc to play where he is at. So it's easy to let my friend borrow the game. I dislike it because said friend never returns the game and when I want to play it again I can't cause I am missing a disc. So overall I prefer one disc. Disc changing mid game is the least of my worries however.

Is it just me or does it feel like Microsoft is having a better TGS day than Sony? I mean LO and AC look FANTASTIC. Ppl are commenting on these forums that the Sony games are falling below expectations on GRAPHICS of all things, Home is delayed, rumble is delayed and there is no controller trade-in scheme announced.

Edit: And no price drop this year? Come on! No remotely informed customer will purchase a PS3 this year knowing they will get a cheaper, rumble and home-enabled console early next year. 

Personally, the number of disks doesn't matter at all to me. Unless I have to switch them out every 5 minutes. But otherwise,what's the big annoyance with more disks. So after a few days playing, you have to switch to disk 2, and then the next few days you still put just one disk in when you play, or keep one disk in, until that one moment a few days later you have to switch to disk three. So the majority of the time, you still put in one disk whenever you play, so I don't see even the minorist of annoyance from this.

I agree its not an "issue" but just something to thinkabout. FF7 came out in 1997 3 discs (Blue Dragon) FF8 came out at the end of 1999 with 4 discs (Lost Oddysey) The upgrade from the PS1 to PS2 took place 2 years later to DVD.

I think if any of us are in touch with technology denying the basic evolution of where this is going, BD or HD DVD will probably be necessary in the future. However, with improved compression and yields it may not be right now.

To assume DVD will always be enough is incredibly naive, imo. Its not a matter of "NEED" per say, its a matter of technical evolution and imo, it will start to show its head more and more in the future. It shouldnt take away from the possibly great games like BD or LO, but to ignore the advancement is just silly.

 its not so much the playing aspect. Its rentals having to store 4, keeping track of 4, more chances of lost or damaged discs etc. Just convenience....its not a necessity but very little in "Videogaming" can be deemed such as it is just a leasure activity in the end. We dont NEED HD graphics, we dont NEED uncompressed audio, we dont NEED to be able ot turn on our console from our controller, we dont NEED a little keyboard attached to our controller to IM on our video game, etc. Lots of stuff we dont need but is nice in this generation. Half of technology we dont need but, seriously, i dont understand how anyone legitamately would want to argue theyd rather have 4 discs than one for a game....im inclined to believe its merely self justification, but regardless i dont understand why people would actually argue in favor of having 4 discs.......theres nothing wrong with saying, yeah its too expensive now (BD) but it will eventually be nice, the pride of some people is sad.

Where are the bashers? Multiple disks? Hah! blu-ray for teh winz...

Mr. Stick has it right, though. Swapping disks isn't an issue unless it is a regular back and forth kind of thing. If it is a 10 hour game with 2.5 hours per disk, I'd be irritated somewhat. If it is a 100 hour game with 25 per, I don't think it matters in the slightest.

The # of DVDs shouldn't matter too much as long as the game is long. Sure I was a bit surprised when I saw BD was on 3 DVDs(all my other 360 games are on 1), but it doesn't really matter too much. My gf spent +80hrs playing BD, so averaging that between the 3 DVDs is like ~27hrs per DVD.

I'm definitely looking forward to picking up LO this Dec., all 4 DVDs :)

Must I?

Just respect my opinion... but I didn´t criticize the disk swapping, it's about the limited storage about the Xbox 360 disks.

It's likely that you can't enter some some zones anymore in the last disk, and I just hate that, but I hope i'm wrong. 

I think I have to fall on the side of the evil anty Xbox flamers on this one. I'd much rather have the game use one disk than 4. I wouldn't consider it a deal breaker or anything like that, but disc swapping is definately going to take you out of the immersiveness. And there's the minor albiet still their problem of disk management. I'm going to go predict that we'll see one VG poster eventually lose a single disk from this game in the next year or so.

I can't help but laugh at this, 4 discs is insane, what is this....the PS1. The 360 is still under 2 years old and they have games taking up 4 discs, this is really bad. GTA4 already said they need a HDD and not every 360 has one, but you guys expect them to fit an entire city on one disc with no load times for the whole map and every building you go in.

How would you guys expect FF:13/MGS4 on 360, would you need to change discs everytime you went somewhere.