Does more than one disc for a game bother you?

It only bothers me when use of the discs is nonsensical. That is, some older games have you go from Disc 1 to 3 to 4 to 2 then back to 4 then to 1 because different areas are on different discs. Build the game chronologically and I'm fine with it. Otherwise it's just bad design.

" Only in certain cases. Tales of Symphonia was a game with one unobtrusive switch, and that was fine. Mass Effect 2 was a wily one that popped up at random even when you had the game installed (I know, it's for security purposes...). It was so random that for awhile I was convinced that installing the game made it so that you didn't have to switch discs. A lot of older PC games which used as many as 6 CDs at least had workarounds so that you didn't have to switch discs (and I'm not talking about only NoCD cracks). On the console, it's a bit different. "

Having never had to actually deal with that. I can't say either way. It seems like it wouldn't bother me, but I don't have any experience with having to switch.

" Snake, you need to change to DISK TWO.  Oh wait, this is a blu-ray.  Glad I have a PS3. "

It depends on how it's implemented. If you change each disk once and that's caused by the main storyline, I'm alright with it. If it is where some locations are on one disk and other location are on the other, and there is a reason to backtrack between these locations? Ugh, no thanks.

I am in the camp of how it is implemented.  If it makes the game more frustrating then no thanks, Mass Effect 2 is the best example of a recent game that did this because you would arbitrarily be switchinghing disks and you didn't know why.  On the other hand Lost Odyssey (4 disks btw) was fine because i only had to switch disks at certain points of the game just like old school RPG's.  It doesn't break a game or make it unplayable for me, but honestly i feel like at this point we are far enough in the future that either A. you should only have to switch disks at certain points ala Lost Odyssey.  or B allow me to install all the disks to my system and then use the first disk as the check and i don't have to switch disks at all.  Again not a game breaker and i will switch a disk if i have to, but it is frustrating to constantly be switching a disk when we are in an age of development where that has become archaic. 

It really doesn't bother me at all... the only game I have that is multiple disc's is Mass Effect 2. When ME:2 tells you to change discs, it's only that one time and you'll never need to swap again until you do another playthrough. 
 
Having said that though, I'm not saying I don't think that should be improved/streamlined in future consoles. I do envy the PS3's capability of never needing to swap discs. Just that it really isn't a big deal for now.

Nope not in the slightest.

Nope, liked the feeling of accomplishment during Final Fantasy VII and VIII - it was like an achievement before gamerscore existed

more discs = more badass
 
gime 10 disc game plx

Lol, I still have some of my old computers setup from time to time... uhmmm I know this is a more modern era but  try remembering back the eighties/early ninties and floppy disks. I still have memories of loading exile on my acorn electron with a cassette recorder (Still got it) and my brother turned the power off from the fuse box just after it had loaded LOL. That hurt!
 
Changing a cd... yea should be a thing of the past ... I mean how bad really is it??? Ur going to lose your horizontal position for about 10 seconds?? Jeez!! Sounds like whiney lazy kids to me... in the words of Eric Cartman "MUUUUMMMM TOILET"

" I quite like multi disk games. Feels old school.  "

I like my discs.

" No but it can limit the player under certain circumstances.  In Mass Effect 2, this meant that once you made the transition to the 2nd disc, you couldn't go back to any of the places you visited during the first part of the game.  For better or for worse, all those zones no longer existed in the universe because of the 2 disc requirement.  Obviously, the same thing was true on the PC version, but the game was designed with being on a console primarily. "

Not even a little. In fact Lost Odyssey is one of my favourite games.

" Snake, you need to change to DISK TWO.  Oh wait, this is a blu-ray.  Glad I have a PS3. "

I find it weird to see it these days. 
Mass Effect 2 on the PC never told me to pop in Disc 2 though on the 360. It's like Disc 1, then Disc 1, and then Disc 1 again.  
I don't care how Old School it is, by now it's fucking dumb

I guess one thing would be with having to switch discs is that you know approximately where you are in the game-so if you finish disc 1 of 2, you know you should be around halfway. I like that when it is a long game-shows that I have someways to go-but it can work pretty badly if the game isn't as long as you think it would be due to its discs.

Only game I found it bothersome was Star Ocean 4, as it had you swapping back and forth and the second disc didn't really feel like it had enough content on it to require that much swapping.

Not at all.

Does paying for a mediocre unreliable Microsoft product bother you?
 
green = no. 
blue = yes.  
white = bittorrent.
 
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I play games on the PC, so no :P
 
I haven't bought a game with more than one disc on my PS3, but it would probably bother me.

They have games that come on more than one disc? 
Thats like....100gbs or something.  More than the pc version of Force Unleashed and MGS4 together. 
woah. 
That's insane. 
Next you'll be telling me that Monkey Island came on more than one floppy. 
MADNESS

For any other product, getting two of something for the price of one is considered a good thing.

No

Nope. It did when I only had a 20GB Xbox 360, because after saving the second disc for Forza 3, along with disc one, I only had enough space for a few demos!  :( 

Yeah, it's annoying to swap discs, but i can look past it if the game is good.

i didnt mind it at all in the final fantasy ps1 days. i felt like i was getting value for money even and it just meant that when i had to change disks in the game id know approximately how far in to the game i was

If someone "hates" this, he needs to look at him/herself and GTFO.
 
There's more stuff to complain about then just the amount of discs the game is on.

No.

Having played Wing Commander 4 and The Pandora Directive back in the day, I'd have to say yes, I'm fine with disc swaps. Or at least I were?

I really don't care.  If I get a better game out if it, that's fine.  I have the new 360 so my HDD is big.  I'm sure there will be some option like Forza to install the other discs and just leave the one in.

No, I never understood why it matters.

No issues here.

i like it unless it's legend of dragoon with 4 effing disks 

ONE disc bothers me. I hate dealing with fucking discs. Steam has spoiled me to the point where I view disc based media as about as ancient as floppies. Everything should be digital and stored on hard drives by now. Bring on the future. 

" @metalhead87:   Did you ever go back and try to find the place where you picked up "The Professor"?  That whole section of the Omega station is closed off once you switch discs.  Two guards now block you from re-entering.

It doesn't really matter to me if a game has more than one disc, I don't mind having to move a few feet to switch them. That being said, I buy a lot of my games for the PS3 so I haven't really had to deal with it since I played the first Metal Gear Solid a while back.

" @LiquidPrince: Or you could play it on Steam and have no discs at all :). Answering the question though yes it does annoy me, I've only ever had to do it for PC game installs and PS1 games but I found it was a real inconvenience and broke my gaming flow. "

no, it doesn't bother me that much.

When I found out Syphon Filter 2 came on TWO disks I was pretty stoked. 

" @InfamousBIG:  But then you have to sit and wait 5-7min for it to install a different chapter to the HDD. Hardly a substitute worth braggin about. Actually makes them look stupid for using that joke (they are taking longer then a disc swap would do). "

If its a one time switch, or if they have like the multiplayer on one disc and the singleplayer on the other, than it definitely isn't a problem. Mass Effect 2 kind of bugged me though because I had to do it at least 2-3 different times.

I don't mind really mind, but I think developers should allow you to do the multiple install to make it seamless as an option, I know one game did do that, don't see why others don't.