loves2splooge said:
dahuman said:
loves2splooge said:
DragonLord said:
After the dreadful experience of having to disc swap Star Ocean 4 over 300 times (literally--because of item creation ingredients and traveling to get them), I will definitely be getting the ps3 version.
Plus, I don't have many Trophies so this will give me a chance to get some for my ps3.
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The vast majority of multi-disc jrpgs don`t require disc swapping for backtracking. They put all the areas you can backtrack to on the last disc in Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Infinite Undiscovery, all the PS1 FFs (unless the last disc was the point of no return. I can`t remember now), DQ7 (and most other PS1 jrpgs if I remember correctly) etc. So in LO, FF8 and FF9 you only swapped a grand total of 3 times, Blue Dragon and FF7 two swaps, and in Infinite Undiscovery and DQ7 just one swap.
If Square-Enix puts all the areas you can backtrack to on Disc 3 as is the norm, you will only have to swap twice during your entire 50+ hour experience. Star Ocean 4 is the exception to the rule when it comes to multi-disc jrpgs. Tri-Ace were being lazy bastards with how they handled the multi-disc situation in SO4. When Lost Odyssey, a four disc jrpg with like freakin 6 language audio tracks (or however much it was) and loads of FMV never requires you to swap discs to backtrack, Tri-Ace doesn`t have a bloody excuse. Just 3 discs of content and only one language audio track.
Why is it that everyone makes a big deal about multi-discs when situations like Star Ocean 4 (poor handling of the multi-disc issue) are an exception to the rule?
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I'm fucking lazy, I'd much prefer popping in the disc once or double click on a game on steam and up I go. I don't spent 9 hours out of the house(8 hours work, half hour lunch, half hour driving to and back) so I can come home and disc swap these days, I just pop in one blu ray or buy terabytes of HDD space, DVD is just not enough these days.
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Dude it's just TWO swaps out of an entire 50+ hours. TWO. Haven't you played FF7 on PS1 before? It's like that. No biggie.
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I played the PC version first, everything installed on the computer, 0 swaps, 100% completion at lvl 99 with All Material loads( and still got that huge PC box ^^b.) I also played a little of 7 on an emulator somewhere down the line, no swaps, just direct to another CD image and done, had to do the same thing with Chrono Cross where I had to make ISOs out of the CDs(and Tales of Eternia, and a lot of other games,) that's how much I don't like to do physical disc swapping during game play.
