Yep, 2nd disc and install would be good. Just sounds like an excuse to me.

YAY! Go xbox!

Yeah a second disc with an install would have cleared that up. Part of me is thinking that they realized they had pre-made DLC possibilities, and they took that route. There is no reason now with so many big games doing it that they couldn't go multi disc.
 
DVDs are cheaper to use than Blu-Rays too, so it's not like the costs would be significantly higher to put 2 discs into the case. 

I knew that bullshit like this would start happening because of the limited nature of the DVD's that 360's use, why couldn't they just make it multiple discs? Alot of games do it, why not this one
  
Aren't they making a PS3 version? I suppose that's gonna suffer from this too, its good that I don't give a sht about Lost Planet 2
 
Capcom are cheap bastards

If it was that Significant, wouldn't they have attempted to push it on 2 discs (or maybe a voucher to download the extra stuff in the boxed copy or something)?
 
Probably wasn't that significant and they probably thought that instead of figuring something out and wasting time and money on it, offer it as DLC at a later date.

They should just either give us two discs or put the content on the market place and sell it as DLC.

If there is one retarded "I'LL GET YOOOOU" cutscene in there I am going to scream in anger.  Waste your space on anime bullshit but not on gameplay, fantastic idea.

"If it was that Significant, wouldn't they have attempted to push it on 2 discs (or maybe a voucher to download the extra stuff in the boxed copy or something)? Probably wasn't that significant and they probably thought that instead of figuring something out and wasting time and money on it, offer it as DLC at a later date."

That's the 360 for you.

They just wanted to sell you the DLC later. Unless the game is one big sandbox gameworld there's no reason they couldn't put it on 2 discs.

Makes you wonder what would've happened if we would have had DLC back in the CD-ROM days.

I'll wait till we get an official source, not a blog via kotaku.
Then again this was posted on system wars via sunkau complex a hentai site... lol
 
so yeah ill be waiting till we get an official interview not a blog.
 
but what i see from the interview is they had to cut content because they based content size and scope upon bluray size...hmm weird? so if they had based content size and scope around dvd they wouldn't have a problem?
hmmmm
As i said ill wait till an official interview happens by americans not a unofficial japanese blog.

Lol, such bullshit...

Ambitions hampered by DVD format?
Or using the console wars to prey on naivety?
Hmm...

What an awful cop out. If games like Fallout 3, Oblivion, GTA IV, and Dragon Age can fit on one disc, surely Lost Planet can. GTA had so much damn audio in there, and the graphics were good at the time. 
 
That statement sounds like they are either making excuses to charge for DLC, or making excuses because they are bad developers, and don't know how to compress graphics and audio.
 
This game has gone from a must buy a year ago to "I don't really care" for me.

Let us download and burn our own DVD's, lol.

You mean the "scrapped" levels will be DLC.

 This game has gone from a must buy a year ago to "I don't really care" for me. "

I think Microsoft has a "rule" for 3rd parties, "If the game is also on competing platforms (not the PC), then said game can only be on the same amount of discs as the competing platform".    
 
I believe there are exceptions to this, like when Microsoft begs a publisher like Square Enix to put FFXIII on the 360.  
 
But this is just what I've read of other people saying this on other sites.  I don't know if it's actually true or not.  
 
Anyway, I really wish Microsoft would give us a firmware update where we could install all of our discs and just play with Disc 1 in the whole time.  Then, I could care less that I have to install 5 Discs right at the beginning :p 

Since you already mentioned it, with Dragon Age Bioware managed to squeeze a whopping 14GB (if installed on PC) on one DVD. I believe they used a licensed modified RAR compression algorithm, key word being "licensed". I suppose most devs just use what they have available.

" @ProfessorEss:    I forgot to clarify that besides the disc size/ DLC whoring, the other reason I'm turned off is the inclusion of Marcus Fenix, Wesker, and others. It totally ruins any semblance of story there was for the first game. It makes the game less of a sequel and more of a cash-in.  It would be like Sony teaming up with 2K so you could play as Nathan Drake in Bioshock 2. "

as long as sony fanboys lose, its all good.

That's bullshit. DVD's are cheaper than Blu-Ray's. Two DVD's don't cost as much as one Blu-Ray Disc. There is no reason they couldn't have included that content on a second disc. The way this article sounds it's like they are telling us they cut this content deliberately so they can sell it to us as DLC later.

That's just they way it is now n days. Gotta cut some stuff and sell it as DLC. He says everyone wins but in the end the consumer loses.

There can't be an install disc because there is no hard drive on the 360.

Damn.  If only some other game figured out how to deal with the DVD limitations.

" as long as sony fanboys lose, its all good. "

" There can't be an install disc because there is no hard drive on the 360. "

" What an awful cop out. If games like Fallout 3, Oblivion, GTA IV, and Dragon Age can fit on one disc, surely Lost Planet can. GTA had so much damn audio in there, and the graphics were good at the time.   That statement sounds like they are either making excuses to charge for DLC, or making excuses because they are bad developers, and don't know how to compress graphics and audio.  This game has gone from a must buy a year ago to "I don't really care" for me. "

"As i said ill wait till an official interview happens by americans not a unofficial japanese blog."

I call bullshit. i think they mean to say.
 
"We need an excuse to make DLC"

@KingBroly said:

" There can't be an install disc because there is no hard drive on the 360. "

Well isn't that little thing you put on top of your 360 a hard drive? It's a removable hard drive, but it's still a hard drive. "

Cinematics however, still require a lot of space even with compression. "

Lol, use a second disc, someone fax them a memo.

" Of course something like h264 in a AVI or MKV container would be perfect, but decoding those formats could be problematic, given the somewhat limited CPU-power of the current consoles (no offence). "

If a second disk was an actual option they wouldn't admit to giving it out as DLC, simply they would've kept it hush hush and then released DLC. This must've obviously been a problem if they are coming out and saying something like that, just my opinion.

And thats why I got a gaming PC.

" If a second disk was an actual option they wouldn't admit to giving it out as DLC, simply they would've kept it hush hush and then released DLC. This must've obviously been a problem if they are coming out and saying something like that, just my opinion. "

I don't think videos are that big a problem anymore. The BIK (or BINK) format which is used in UT3-games (including Mass Effect 2) seems very filesize-efficient. Of course something like h264 in an AVI or MKV container would be perfect, but decoding those formats could be problematic, given the somewhat limited CPU-power of the current consoles (no offence). "

Probably just lots of RAW data they couldn't be bothered to compress decently. I think this whole thing smells fishy, explanation and all.

Excuses.  This is there DLC justification.  Seriously, how many games have we seen that are bigger than this game would ever be?  Explain to me how we have oblivion, GTA IV, the first Mass Effect, Dragon Age.  Japanese devs and their fucking excuses.  LOve to say that the PS3 is the shit.  Yeah, well I would like to see where the extra disc space was used other than fucking cut scenes.  And crappy ones at that as I remember in the first game.  The demo didn't exactly lend itself to make the graphics or gameplay need a huge amount of space.
And since this game is much more linear than Mass Effect, I dont see how a multidisc solution didn't come to mind immediately.  Seriously?  Seriously?

" Damn.  If only some other game figured out how to deal with the DVD limitations. "

Dicks. What an excuse to charge for DLC.

" @Andorski said:

" Damn.  If only some other game figured out how to deal with the DVD limitations. "

I know right?  "

Would be hilarious if it turned out that half the PS3-disk is just padded with zeros or dead data.

" @Andorski: Dude, Forza didn't do much to help, what happens if youre one of the Xbox 360 owners without an HDD. That's where MS failed, they should've never sold a system with no harddrive. Even a 20GB HDD would've worked and minimal cost to the company itself. If you have no HDD you can't even play the second disc of Forza... "