Blue Dragon -- three DVDs or 30 Gb uncompressed oh yeah baby forget blu-ray

[Zenien]

Blue Dragon doesn't hit Japan for another couple of weeks, but there's already talk of a sequel. In the latest issue of Famitsu, producer Hironobu Sakaguchi confirmed plans for a follow up to the big Microsoft-published RPG. Furthermore, while he wouldn't confirm a final platform, Sakaguchi does expect the sequel to appear on the 360.

Including initial planning, development on the title took three years, Sakaguchi revealed. Actual development on the 360 was a two year process. And it was quite the difficult process, it seems, as Sakaguchi claims to have lost 10 kilograms from July 2004, when first interviews were conducted regarding the title.

Blue Dragon ships on three DVDs, making it bigger than any Xbox 360 title to date. According to Sakaguchi, the game required compression technology to fit onto the three disks. In uncompressed form, the game's data takes up over 30 Gigs of space!

Players can expect between 40 to 50 hours of play time for the game. Just playing through the game minus all the side quests, Sakaguchi managed to take 35 hours.

1 year out. 3 DVD9 compressed.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/747/747023p1.html

 

[블라스]

 

[Fran]

No one cares.

 

[Delusive]

http://www.superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php?t=257119

And I still say forget Blu-Ray - I'm getting a PS3 and all but I could do very much without that stupid next gen format.

Speaking of which, it's only 3 DVDs because of the CGI heavy cut scenes - and I always liked having multiple disks, made me think of getting bang for my buck.

 

[AssMan]

http://www.superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php?t=257119

There is a thread already made for the sequel news

 

[XwolverineX]

Yay, my thread!

 

[Addendum]

I don't mind a game having more than one disc. It's never been a problem for me.

 

[Fran]

Zenien, you're really reaching here...

 

[블라스]

But I don't even get what she's trying to say

 

[XwolverineX]

She's trying to say you do need Blu-Ray, because DVD is not big enough.

 

[Protest the Hero]

FF7 had 3 discs, no one cared.

 

[Delusive]

Did I mention that I was happy that it was three disks? ^_^

 

[Addendum]

Baldur's Gate on PC has 5 discs. 6 if you include the expansion pack. No one cared.

Oh, and don't forget the Lord of the Rings Extended Editions. Each movie has 4 discs. No one cared.

And also the various TV shows on DVD. Those come in multiple discs as well. No one cares.

 

[XwolverineX]

But Zenien thinks people do now.

 

[블라스]

Wait, how is this bad then?
Ugh.

 

[Delusive]

But Zenien thinks people do now.

When only one of the three have a next gen format, it really won't matter. When/if Mistwalker comes up with games for the Wii (which seems likely) then it may also be multiple disks - multiple disks will be more of the norm than not with epic RPGs.

Did people also forget that collector's editions come with multiple disks? And you pay extra for those!

 

[imdaly]

Oh NOES!!

"Mission Impossible 3" for Blu-Ray has 2-Discs!!! FORGET BLU-RAY!!!

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/missionimpossibleiii.html

4 months out. 2 BR uncompressed.

 

[SouLeSS]

I think she's trying to make the point that Microsoft said that they would never really need more than one disk for their games, and now this games gonna be 3 disks.

I don't really see the problem though, cause if they wanted they could just make it on a HDDVD :-/

 

[AssMan]

Oh NOES!!

"Mission Impossible 3" for Blu-Ray has 2-Discs!!! FORGET BLU-RAY!!!

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/missionimpossibleiii.html

4 months out. 2 BR uncompressed.

Owned

 

[Delusive]

I think she's trying to make the point that Microsoft said that they would never really need more than one disk for their games, and now this games gonna be 3 disks.

Then she has a point - Microsoft should have known that they'd need more than one disk for games requiring heavy CGI cut scenes. Still, multiple disks don't disappoint me in the least.

I don't really see the problem though, cause if they wanted they could just make it on a HDDVD :-/

I don't think they could - it'd be a bad move. Everyone would have to have a HD-DVD player and I don't think the player itself plays any games, even if it was HD-DVD, it's just for playing movies.

 

[AssMan]

Then she has a point - Microsoft should have known that they'd need more than one disk for games requiring heavy CGI cut scenes. Still, multiple disks don't disappoint me in the least.

Sony has also said alot of crap that turned out not true (alot more crap then Microsoft) so Zenien has no reason to be bragging about this

 

[Delusive]

Sony has also said alot of crap that turned out not true (alot more crap then Microsoft) so Zenien bugging Microsoft has no reason to bug Microsoft

I didn't say whether or not she had the right to bug Microsoft (she technically does, at least in my country... ^_^) but all I said was that she had a point like I have a point of Sony talking about "plugging into the Matrix" with the PS2.

The PS2 owns you!

 

[AssMan]

I didn't say whether or not she had the right to bug Microsoft (she technically does, at least in my country... ^_^)

No she doesnt. Maybe smoeone here whos been following everything 100 % can make a compare list of all of the crap Sony has said compared to Microsoft

 

[Delusive]

I'll just end this by saying the magic words that stop all arguments:

XBOX 360 owns!

Now to get back on topic...

Expect Lost Odyssey and Cry On to be multiple disks too.

 

[AssMan]

I'll just end this by saying the magic words that stop all arguments:

XBOX 360 owns!

Now to get back on topic...

Expect Lost Odyssey and Cry On to be multiple disks too.

Nah the magic words are your wrong Zenien has no right to be bugging Microsoft about this compared to all of the crap Sony has said