How Many Discs Is Too Many?

Sup fools (and nation),

Eh, I don't really mind multiple discs. Especially if they'll let you install the other discs to the hard drive.

I'd love to know how fat kids eating pancakes makes you think about games and their disks. Morning cake does great things to the mind :D

Im not that bothered about the amount of disks so long as theyre not there for you to constantly switch when youre in the middle of the game. If theyre there for extra content or additional features its all good, so long as i dont get bloody pop ups mid game telling me to put in disk 2 for 5 seconds then back to disk 1.

You kids have it easy now a days.  Back in the psx era it was pretty common to have a standard RPG to have 2-4 discs in it and god help you if you didn't finish all the side quests in the first disc.  Of course that was during the time of RPGs lasting 25-40 hours minimum on the main story alone.  Now we have hard drives to install everything, cloud saving, ect.  Personally, I don't think there will ever be a game that will break 4 discs.  For some reason it's a stigmata in this generation of games that if it doesn't fit on the disc then call it DLC and charge 5-10 dollars for it.  It's ok devs!  I don't mind getting up once in a while!

More than 1 disc is too many disks.

Two is too many for me.

I don't know.  Since the 360 allows you to install any game on your HDD, it would be kind of cool to have GTAV on 10 discs and install them all first and then just put one disc in for verification purposes and never have to worry about load times or loud disc drives again.  I guess maybe 10 discs would be overkill, but if they let me do it like that I wouldn't mind so much.  If I had to switch discs every time I wanted to go to a different area of London (or wherever) then that would piss me off to no end.

Not to be a dick, but you people complaining about multiple discs are lazy. Or if you're the type of person worrying about losing disks, you need to be better organized. To help you out, use that plastic case the game came in. 

" Not to be a dick, but you people complaining about multiple discs are lazy. Or if you're the type of person worrying about losing disks, you need to be better organized. To help you out, use that plastic case the game came in.  "

As long as the actual swapping of discs is implemented properly and doesn't effect the experience it's a non-issue. If during the middle of gameplay you have to swap discs because you slipped over a world border then that's an issue. I don't foresee this ever being a problem, with LA Noire the game world will be on every disc, the only thing that would be separated on the discs would probably be story missions, voice over and cinematics. 

For me about 5. More than that is not a dealbreaker but it does start to become a serious drawback.

I don't mind multiple discs, but you really shouldn't have to switch between them if you install them. When the game is installed all the 360 is doing with the disc is checking you have it. If you have one of the discs as the play disc then giving away the install discs to someone else would not allow them to play the game anyway. But even if I have to disc swap it's not the end of the world. It's even a bit nostalgic since it reminds me the PS1 era when pretty much every RPG was on several discs. 
Call me crazy but I almost missed the disc swap in the PS2 era. Apart from Star Ocean 3 I can't think of any game that was on several discs. The disc swaps in FF7-9 and such games made for a good milestone. You could say to your friends "I'm on disc three" and it would give them a rough estimate of how far you where without having to have anything spoiled by saying "I'm in Esthar" or something like that.

I play 99% of my games through Steam, so any disk feels like too much for me now a days.

" @EpicSteve said:

" Not to be a dick, but you people complaining about multiple discs are lazy. Or if you're the type of person worrying about losing disks, you need to be better organized. To help you out, use that plastic case the game came in.  "

Seriously this. I don't get why there are so many threads about multiple discs now that we hear about LA Noire. Shouldn't this have been a more talked about discussion back during the FFXIII days? Or even Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey? Why are people surprised and why do they care so much? 

Internet forums are hives of over exaggeration.

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I stopped reading at "shit enix".

" I stopped reading at "shit enix".

Not because I like Square (I never have) but because you use insults like a five year old. I bet you spell Microsoft will a dollar symbol too. Ugh.

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I have fond memories of ps1 era final fantasy games, I always associated changing discs with a feeling of achievement/progress and I still do. Not only is it something of a novelty now (how many games really require disc changes these days?) it's really pretty inconsequential in terms of effort to change a disc and it happens very seldom over the course of multiple hours of gameplay - i.e. there's likely to be 6-8 hours of gameplay between changes.

" I stopped reading at "shit enix".

Not because I like Square (I never have) but because you use insults like a five year old. I bet you spell Microsoft will a dollar symbol too. Ugh.

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Multiple discs aren't anything new. Stop crying. Maybe they should just cut half of the content from games so a lazy sack doesn't have to get up off their couch. Makes sense right?

As long as I don't have to change disks every 5 minutes, I'm fine. It could be on 200 disks, but as long as there is a good long period of time between disk changes, it's not going to bother me.

"  @MysteriousBoob said: 

" I stopped reading at "shit enix".

Not because I like Square (I never have) but because you use insults like a five year old. I bet you spell Microsoft will a dollar symbol too. Ugh.

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lolol ^^ "

I don't mind more discs, just means the game is big.

" As long as I don't have to change disks every 5 minutes, I'm fine. It could be on 200 disks, but as long as there is a good long period of time between disk changes, it's not going to bother me. "

1 i want everything digital!

"It doesn't happen to me all that often, but I had a problem looking for my Diablo 2 disks and the expansion before. It's really frustrating."

Microsoft's next gen console is going t'come with 2 DVD disc drives...cuz you KNOW they don't want to admit Blu-Ray is superior. Joking aside, I don't have a problem with multiple discs, hell Baldurs Gate 2: Throne of Bhall/Shadows of Amn is like 5 discs, and I play that game religiously. I remember having to get off my fat arse to put in floppy disc 3/7 for some old ass games. I mean really, do gamers these days see multiple discs as a bad thing?

" @animateria said:

"It doesn't happen to me all that often, but I had a problem looking for my Diablo 2 disks and the expansion before. It's really frustrating."

If you linked your keys with Battle.net you don't need the CDs at all.  Battle.net works like Steam now and you can re-download all games you own at will. "

Just wait for next gen. They will definately have larger disk sizes on the new  consoles.

" Not to be a dick, but you people complaining about multiple discs are lazy. Or if you're the type of person worrying about losing disks, you need to be better organized. To help you out, use that plastic case the game came in.  "

You know what happens when you ask for three discs of content on one disc?

it depends how long every disk lasts...

Too many discs on the dancefloor.

Diska-wha? DVDwho? ... Changing what now?

EIGHT.

" As long as I don't have to change disks every 5 minutes, I'm fine. It could be on 200 disks, but as long as there is a good long period of time between disk changes, it's not going to bother me. "

If your game does not randomly pause in mid gameplay and shout at me to change discs, I don't give a fuck. Make the disc transition points feel like good chapter breakers and it's fine to me. Though I would find it a bit silly to do like five disc swaps or something like that.

I remember a long time ago I had a PC game (I can't remember what it was anymore) that had 8 install discs and a game discs.  This was when PC games were still on CDs and not DVDs.  It took forever to install that game.  I think that was my limit.  Now that I'm used to usually just one disc I can't imagine much more than three discs (for consoles).  I don't even want to think of more than three install discs anymore.

For me the more discs the better.....adds a novelty aspect.

As long as price of the game doesn't go up, I don't mind having tons of discs.

As someone who grew up playing lame FMV games like Under a Killing Moon and Johnny Mnemonic, anything under double-digits is cool with me. I felt like The Ripper was the worst. I don't remember how many discs it came with, but I do remember having to swap them often.

" I play 99% of my games through Steam, so any disk feels like too much for me now a days."

They don't bother me as I've dealt with PSX. Most those ever came with was 4 and I can't imagine anyone would be willing to press 4 DVD discs, as that money for manufacturing adds up and probably isn't worth it.

As long as the discs are packaged well, I don't care.  What I really hate is when the company spends 1 cent on the packaging and all the discs end up scratched and the stems break just by looking at them.

I don't like having to deal with multiple discs but will if I have to. Since L.A. Noire can fit on one Blu-ray disc, that means I'll probably be getting it for the PS3 version.

Twenty. A game that required 20 discs would be my limit. Any less than that, and I can deal.

Edit: Also, I feel bad for those that lose their discs. What exactly are you doing with them when you take them out of the drive? I take the extra 5-10 seconds to put them back in the package they came in specifically to avoid errors like that.

Poor hands not being given good exercise by lazy people who don't like changing discs! I think the only time it would become annoying for myself was if it was ruining playing the game, life every 10 minutes another disc was needed or something . =p

Also, totally misread the title at first, damn you tired eyes.