+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted December 4, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted December 4, 2009 The sheer number of foxy blue alien women in Mass Effect 2 has pushed the limits of the DVD format's storage capabilities. As a result, BioWare is spreading the Xbox 360 and PC game across two discs.While that won't mean that much to owners of the PC version--it's a two-disc install--poor Xbox 360 owners will suffer the galactic inconvenience of a disc swap at some point. Chris Priestly, community coordinator of BioWare, says it's not so bad. "Even though there is a disc swap, it occurs at a carefully planned place in the game (that does not interfere with gameplay) and is done once," Priestly wrote on the Mass Effect 2 forums. "You do not swap back and forth. 1 swap and then done." As for that third disc mentioned in the headline of this post? That's only included in the Collector's Edition version of Mass Effect 2, offering "making of" content on a dedicated DVD. Whew! So, 2 discs then? source: http://m.kotaku.com/site?sid=kotakuip&...refId%3D5418534 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Freeman Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 galactic inconvenience Very well said :D But all in all - YES! That should mean better textures (thank god) and more unique places (unlike me1 with identical looking worlds). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostAM Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 Couldn't they just have allowed you to install the second disc onto the hard drive and used the first disc for the check? It wouldn't be any different than add-on content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackdoom Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 It's inconvenient, but not undoable. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sethos Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 No big deal :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeston Veteran Posted December 4, 2009 Veteran Share Posted December 4, 2009 Fine with me. Just means more and/or higher quality content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remysaus Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 I sure hope it doesn't require an install on the 360, had some trouble getting forza 3's second disc on there already, can't use another 4gb install really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argi Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 Doesn't seem too bad. If it's done right then presumably you'd only need to change discs only ever once after you reach a certain point. It does make me want to get it on PC though, given that I lost my ME1 Xbox saves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbandonedTrolley Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 It's nothing really think of the old PS1 Final Fantasy games they were worse but we didn't complain back then. It does lend weight to maybe that Microsoft should have gone a different storage route in the first place though given that it was readily available at the time. (although at a premium) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReAnimation Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 I'm going to pickup Mass effect 2 on the PC this time around. The texture pop on the 360 version of Mass Effect 1 was a bit annoying at times as the DVD drive struggled to keep up. Its already been confirmed that the PC version of ME2 won't have any stupid copy protection other than the same disc check that dragon age uses, so its definitely the PC version for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macrosslover Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 If they haven't used dual layer disks then i say -_- to them. If they did use 2 dual layers, i'm wondering how much data the 2nd disk has on it. I can't believe they have almost 18gigs of info on this game DAMN that's going to be huge. All this said, MS would be pretty stupid to not adopt blu-ray for their next system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sethos Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 It's nothing really think of the old PS1 Final Fantasy games they were worse but we didn't complain back then. It does lend weight to maybe that Microsoft should have gone a different storage route in the first place though given that it was readily available at the time. (although at a premium) Readily available? It was a brand spanking new technology and for almost 2 years developers were toying with, how to most effectively pad and store data to avoid the dreaded required installs and at times slow read speeds. The 5-7 minutes it took some of the older games to install, I could have swapped discs about 50 times - So I'm glad they went with a fast and proven technology and hopefully are holding out till the new format ( BR ) has matured enough. ( And we are starting to get there, yes ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toadeater Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 Fine with me. Just means more and/or higher quality content. Looks about the same as ME1. So hopefully it has a lot more content. http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/142/14235013/imgs_1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minifig Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 Must be all those elevators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LingeringSoul Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 Anybody who was around in the old PS1 days knows that this isn't a big deal. MGS1, FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX, Grandia, Xenogears, and many others had multiple discs. In all of them it was just one swap and you're good to go. If anything, I'm glad that Bioware took the plunge and used a second disc, as opposed to compromising the game by trying to cram all of their content onto a single DVD. I'll be getting the game on 360, just because that's where my ME1 save game is :). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunknMunky Veteran Posted December 4, 2009 Veteran Share Posted December 4, 2009 Anybody who was around in the old PS1 days knows that this isn't a big deal. MGS1, FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX, Grandia, Xenogears, and many others had multiple discs. In all of them it was just one swap and you're good to go. If anything, I'm glad that Bioware took the plunge and used a second disc, as opposed to compromising the game by trying to cram all of their content onto a single DVD.I'll be getting the game on 360, just because that's where my ME1 save game is :). Says it all and goes for any future (& past) topics on the subject (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmz Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 So you have to swap the disc once, who cares? Honestly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted December 4, 2009 Author Subscriber² Share Posted December 4, 2009 It's nothing really think of the old PS1 Final Fantasy games they were worse but we didn't complain back then. It does lend weight to maybe that Microsoft should have gone a different storage route in the first place though given that it was readily available at the time. (although at a premium) Uhhh remember the 360 came a year before the PS3, even HD-DVD was far too new then. Sony had the ability to trojan Blu Ray into winning, MS had very little interest in movies back then (no studios, well, still no studios either :p), it would've just been a huge punt in the dark for them, not to mention probably have cost them even more than it cost Sony. The position they're in was always going to be the way it is due to how early they launched. All this topic tells us is MS cannot and will not go with DVD next generation, because there are still some who believe they will/can/should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red. Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 Good to hear that Bioware aren't compromising. I'll probably have to clear some HDD space though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillionVoltss Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 The Best game of 2010 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted December 4, 2009 Veteran Share Posted December 4, 2009 Unless the fail at splitting it like they said it should be fine. :) Gamecube games that were two discs were no biggie either. You could just start the game from the second disc if your save file was already advanced into the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qdave Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 Thats fine...it would even be fine if i had to swap dvd 3 times. AS long as the game is good :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
what Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 It's nothing really think of the old PS1 Final Fantasy games they were worse but we didn't complain back then. Well the four discs of FFXIII wasn't that bad. You went disc 1 to disc 2 to disc 3 to disc 4, and loaded the game up using the disc you were currently playing. As long as you aren't swapping in and out all the time, it's nothing special. Couldn't they just have allowed you to install the second disc onto the hard drive and used the first disc for the check? It wouldn't be any different than add-on content. I was gonna say that, but the problem with that is you would NEED a hard drive to play the game. With the Forza 3 content disc, if you didn't install, it meant losing out on a few cars and a couple of tracks. Here you would miss out on half a game which isn't the point. There's no reason not to have a hard drive these days but that's probably the reason why it's not being done like Forza 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huleboeren Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 It's nothing really think of the old PS1 Final Fantasy games they were worse but we didn't complain back then. It does lend weight to maybe that Microsoft should have gone a different storage route in the first place though given that it was readily available at the time. (although at a premium) Because we didnt know any better back then :p (N) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhapimp Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 Must be all those elevators. so ****ing true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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