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Wii_Master said:
wait they said that it would have around 50-60 hours of gameplay and it would be on three discs? I mean Metroid Trilogy has 80 hours of gameplay so then why is trilogy on only one disc and FF on three discs when FF actualy has less hours of gameplay then Trilogy...I am sorry if this is a stupid question....

Becuase at one point...Metriod Prime becomes mostly empty corridors or areas with  low level emenies...Trust me I played it till the end...not much going on after certian areas and the few boss battle's...just lots of back tracking...corruption was way more intense from the demo i played but I'm sure it's the same...When SE says 50-60 hours of Gameplay they mean Story......Metriod Trilogy's hours are not all story...plus it's three games...



 



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No problem for me. :D



NightDragon83 said:
Wii_Master said:
wait they said that it would have around 50-60 hours of gameplay and it would be on three discs? I mean Metroid Trilogy has 80 hours of gameplay so then why is trilogy on only one disc and FF on three discs when FF actualy has less hours of gameplay then Trilogy...I am sorry if this is a stupid question....

Well, all of the Prime games's cutscenes are done in-game, so there's no memory-hogging CGI cinematic sequences that take up the bulk of the space.

Plus, Prime 1 & 2 were GC games and were designed for the GC's disks which held 1.5 GB max, and Prime 3 was just about the same as the others length-wise... so if the size of each Prime game is <1.5GB on average, and the Wii utilizes standard DVDs which hold 4.7GB... even if the first 2 games maximized the GC disks (which they didn't come anywhere near to), the absolute most you're looking at is 4.5 GB, which is a perfect fit on a standard DVD.

FFXIII on the other hand will contain hours of CGI cutscenes that basically stream off the disc just like a movie does, and they require a massive ammount of memory.  Since it's being designed primarily for the PS3's Blu-Ray discs which hold much more than the 360's dual layered DVDs, they'll have to be broken up into separate discs for the 360 version.

Hope that clears things up for you.

Thanks for clearing that up...That did help..



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Zizzla_Rachet said:
NightDragon83 said:

^^^ Does anyone understand what Marco is trying to say?

'Cuz it beats the hell outta me!

He loves Sony...

i think its more of in Soviet Russia road forks YOU!!!!!!



azndragon4k said:
Zizzla_Rachet said:
NightDragon83 said:

^^^ Does anyone understand what Marco is trying to say?

'Cuz it beats the hell outta me!

He loves Sony...

i think its more of in Soviet Russia road forks YOU!!!!!!

Right....



 



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Gnizmo said:
makingmusic476 said:

Like I said in another thread, the game being "smaller than Lost Odyssey" (seriously, does that even matter? =/) probably has to do with Microsoft's licensing fees per disc. It's no surprise that the only 4-disc 360 game was published by Microsoft, thus negating the licensing fee. The first 3-disc game was also published by Microsoft (Blue Dragon) and there has thus far been only one other 3-disc game (Star Ocean 4).

There is no licensing fee per disk. There never has been, and there never will be. The quote was mis-intepretated, and has been clarified many, many, many times now. There is extra cost to using the third disc due to manufacturing only. There is no extra licensing fee for more discs.

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME? so for backtracking etc you will have to keep swapping disks?

A more rational interpretation would be that you have to swap discs after going so far in the story. The same way almost every single JRPG has done since the concept first came about.

Bitter fanboy tears make me smile. Keep on raging guys.


The fact that makes you smile is just...... well....... sad. You must lead an interesting life.

WheelStriker said:

"What won't be on the disc(s) for either version will be the native Japanese language track, unless you're buying the Japanese version"

I don't think japanese dub fans are going to be impressed when they find out that the japanese language track won't be included on the playstation 3 version. Kitase did say that the playstation 3 version would be able to hold another language track thanks to bluray. But not on the xbox 360 version, due to lack to space dvd offers. Kitase also said that the playstation 3 version won't be affected by the xbox 360. If so, why no japanese track? If its not because of the xbox 360, then what?

 

He said that the PS3 version won't affected by the 360 version....but also that the two versions would be equal. A game of this scale, you should have known that those words were one fat contradiction.



why everyone wants so much a lot of discs are the xbox owners crazy

A MASTERPIECE IN ONE DISC FOLKLORE  



the image i inserted is quite big oops



ok i will say it again JRPG masterpiece in one blu-ray disc