id: Xbox 360 Rage may have separate discs for campaign and multiplayer

by Randy Nelson 

In an interview with Shacknews, id Software prez Todd Hollenshead brought up a novel approach that the developer may use to minimize disc-swapping with the Xbox 360 version of Rage: give the game's single-player and multiplayer modes their own discs.

"We'll probably have two DVDs for sure, and then the question is, will multiplayer be on a separate disc or not?" Hollenshead posed. "It makes no sense for a player to swap that disc in multiplayer, right? That's fail. They have to keep one disc in during multiplayer, can you just put all the multiplayer content on one DVD?"

Sounds like a good idea to us; although, in the same interview, the id boss implies that the final number of DVDs the the Xbox 360 version of Rage will ship on isn't exactly settled, wondering, "Will we have to go to three?" We don't care how many discs it's on -- just make sure the game goes to 11.

sega4life said:   id: Xbox 360 Rage may have separate discs for campaign and multiplayer by Randy Nelson  In an interview with Shacknews, id Software prez Todd Hollenshead brought up a novel approach that the developer may use to minimize disc-swapping with the Xbox 360 version of Rage: give the game's single-player and multiplayer modes their own discs. "We'll probably have two DVDs for sure, and then the question is, will multiplayer be on a separate disc or not?" Hollenshead posed. "It makes no sense for a player to swap that disc in multiplayer, right? That's fail. They have to keep one disc in during multiplayer, can you just put all the multiplayer content on one DVD?" Sounds like a good idea to us; although, in the same interview, the id boss implies that the final number of DVDs the the Xbox 360 version of Rage will ship on isn't exactly settled, wondering, "Will we have to go to three?" We don't care how many discs it's on -- just make sure the game goes to 11.

Someone tell ID Soft that someone wants 11 discs. heh

Really who cares. It isnt like a gamer will get interupted mid-singleplayer to switch discs.

Don't care one bit. Ill be installing them to the HD anyway

Not a problem being on multiple discs, but this is where blue ray does come in handy

That means nobody pestering me while im on single player.

GET ON MULTI PLAYER XIG; no, im on the other disc

You'll still have to disc swap, though.

That seems to be a good idea.

Do you have to disc swap on multi-disk games like Star Ocean 4 (isn't that one of them?)?  I thought you only had to keep the first disc in when you installed all the discs.

I thought so, too. Didn't work for me... on Last Remnant, IIRC.