Please Insert Disc 3.

On the way home from work yesterday, I realized something.

You remember the old Final Fantasy games, that came on multiple discs?

Heavensward is basically Disc 3.

FFXIV was Disc one. ARR was Disc 2. HW is Disc 3.

Please Insert Disc 3.

Imagine if FFXIV is available on the Xbox 360.

Please insert Disc 1 to enter Limsa Lominsa...

Please insert Disc 12 to enter Ishgard...

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Originally Posted by Evangela

Imagine if FFXIV is available on the Xbox 360.

Please insert Disc 1 to enter Limsa Lominsa...

Please insert Disc 12 to enter Ishgard...

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I remember that there were Final Fantasy games which actually required you to change to older discs if you went to a certain location. I think FFVIII did that.

I know this thread is silly, but I literally started screaming at myself when I realized this last night.

I'm stumped... is this a reference to something? If so its lost on me :(

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Originally Posted by Shori

I'm stumped... is this a reference to something? If so its lost on me :(

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I apologize, but how old are you?

This is a genuine question. This is a reference to Final Fantasy games on the PS1. FFVII, FFVIII and FFIX all came on multiple discs.

...Light, I feel old.

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Originally Posted by Shori

I'm stumped... is this a reference to something? If so its lost on me :(

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Sounds like someone never had a PlayStation 1

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BDj3hJdCcAMzSYy.png

still remember having like 6 floppy disk for mortal kombat 2 or so on my amiga 500+ now that was a pain switching like 3 of them after every match haha

Yeah i remember having to swap disks during FF, it was when you progressed so far in the storyline that you needed to as certain FMS/cutscenes/dialoge only existed on spefic disks. The game world/locations were on all of them if i remember right.

Oh remember how you could stop the random enouters on VII in the Northern Creator (i think), when you had to pass that ravine by timing it to avoid wind sheer as it spawned a fight, if you opened the disk tray you could continue without fights if you got hit (no data to load haha), just close again when your passed and continue on :p

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Originally Posted by codofwisdom

You remember the old Final Fantasy games, that came on multiple discs?

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But... but... but... those are the ones considered old now?! *checks year* Oh...

*clings to his NES and feels old*

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Originally Posted by Hiragawa

But... but... but... those are the ones considered old now?! *checks year* Oh...

*clings to his NES and feels old*

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*Clings together* Don't worry, we all feel it. Old is the wrong word. "Timeless" is more correct.

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Originally Posted by codofwisdom

*Clings together* Don't worry, we all feel it. Old is the wrong word. "Timeless" is more correct.

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I don't remember multiple discs. I don't remember much. Where am I? Who are you?

*falls sleep*

Urgh i hated that.

I lost like half the discs to FF8.

This first one included.

I also keep losing one of my discs to Infinite Undiscovery--- I.. i mean i don't play that >_> <_<

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Originally Posted by Aerlias

still remember having like 6 floppy disk for mortal kombat 2 or so on my amiga 500+ now that was a pain switching like 3 of them after every match haha

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Anyone played Ambermoon?

That game had 9 floppy disks + Savegame Disk.

Before I got my first hard drive, I've played it with floppy disks. I remember up to 5 disk swaps for a single area change (changing into and out of combat caused disk swaps too).

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Originally Posted by Shori

I'm stumped... is this a reference to something? If so its lost on me :(

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Oh kid, you don't even know.

Final Fantasy 7, 8 and 9 all came on multiple discs. BEFORE THAT, there were PC games that came on multiple floppy discs. A joke back then was "when are games going to ship on hard drives"

And this can be levied at MMORPG's, because collectively over time, you end up downloading patches that won't fit on the media available. FFXIV is 14.5GB, that is around two DVD's already.

In another thread (specifically the one about wanting more unique races) it's pointed out repeatedly that we don't have more variety because it requires duplication of gear sets for every race along with unique animations. When ISP's get rid of this silly notion of bandwidth caps we might soon see streaming assets (Unity games can do this.)

But if you didn't get to experience FF7/8/9 you missed what was possibly the worst thing video games ever had to do. The storyline was split across 4 discs (650MB cd-roms) of which each cd-rom had about 50% of the data duplicate with the first disc. If you wanted to visit earlier areas in the game, you had to switch the discs back.

Guess what recent game shipped on multiple discs? FFXIII

Square's not the only one who has done this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...multiple_discs

But it's certainly the one who has done it the most.

Most PC games that ship on multiple discs, still install to the hard drive, so you're not playing off them. FF7 and FF8's original PC versions played like the console versions or you could install them to the hard drive.

I remember when people asked you about your progress and you could simply answer "Oh, yeah, I'm at disc 3" then the conversation goes like"Oh, dude, don't do X otherwise there's no turning back" "Yeah, I want to finish everything here before I move into disc 4". FFVIII memories.

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Originally Posted by Averax

Urgh i hated that.

I lost like half the discs to FF8.

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Happened with me and FF8 disc 1 I let someone borrow it and never got it back -.-

For me it's worse.... I'm missing FFIX disc 4...... ;_; I have no idea where it's gone. Will have to buy a new game in order to ever finish that game. (I... don't think I've ever played that game to the end o.o)

Wayyyy back when, my friend loaned me FFVII. I played through the first disc, grabbed the second disc... only to discover it had somehow gotten so badly scratched (not by me, thank you!) that it was completely unplayable. That was the worst feeling ever; I got hooked by the first disc and then denied. I had to wait weeks to save up enough allowance to buy a new copy for myself. Tough times man, tough times. D;

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Originally Posted by sarehptar

Wayyyy back when, my friend loaned me FFVII. I played through the first disc, grabbed the second disc... only to discover it had somehow gotten so badly scratched (not by me, thank you!) that it was completely unplayable. That was the worst feeling ever; I got hooked by the first disc and then denied. I had to wait weeks to save up enough allowance to buy a new copy for myself. Tough times man, tough times. D;

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I was friends with someone who had made (pirated) copies of FF7 because he was so worried of not being able to finish playing it before the original discs got scratched up.

This was a real thing though. Games that shipped on one disc you couldn't trade with friends. Games that shipped on multiple discs, you could share the game before you completed it. But you also risked someone losing/damaging the discs.

FF9 I never got to finish because the second disc (NEW game) wouldn't play in the old-style PS2. So I've yet to finish it and will just have to wait for Square to HD-remake it or something.

I remember scavenging 3 floppy drives out of dads old cases as a kid, so i could hook them all up into my compaq so i could play Darkmoon for longer without a floppyswap >_>

vii viii and ix are all available for digital purchase on the playstation store so you can easily relive those memories i have vii and ix never liked viii lol

the pc version of vii was bad about changing disks your looking for what area oh insert disk 3 seconds later insert disk 2 lol

"Bro, where'd you put disc 3? No it's not in the stupid playstation, I just took disc 2 out! Yes I'm freaking sure you idiot! No it's not in the stupid case, of course I looked. You probably lost it you dummy! What were you playing last? Because maybe you put it in the wrong case! Oh shit wait, it's where disc 2 was. Sorry! You're still an idiot though!"

Ah, childhood

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Originally Posted by Noxifer

I'm missing FFIX disc 4...... ;_; (I... don't think I've ever played that game to the end o.o)

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Heart disease, cancer, stroke, influenza, pneumonia, kidney disease...you could die at any moment! Its time to finish FFIX before its too late! o_o

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Originally Posted by reillyblair

vii viii and ix are all available for digital purchase on the playstation store so you can easily relive those memories i have vii and ix never liked viii lol

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And it will still make you change (virtual) disks.

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Originally Posted by Averax

I also keep losing one of my discs to Infinite Undiscovery--- I.. i mean i don't play that >_> <_<

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IU wasn't that bad... minus the main character's whining in the beginning - but it was still a fun game! Especially the battle system towards the end with all the skills o.o

Also, speaking of old.... *Clings to the Atari, NES and Apple IIe* :|

Man, when I first made this thread, I just wanted to share a thought which had me shouting as though I'd uncovered a conspiracy. I didn't intend to make everyone feel old.

We aren't old. I'm 23, and I've played 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, and now 14.
Those were the glory days, when to kill some big bastard who could level the planet just required 4 people out to save the world.
Now? There's millions of us. And yet, I wouldn't have it any other way.

Having those memories and systems don't make you old. Falling behind or giving up does.

The fact you're reading these words means you're not old.

In any case, as I've seen posted somewhere on the internet: I will happily accept old age now.

Can you imagine: A retirement home which has frequent LAN parties?

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Originally Posted by Saseal

Also, speaking of old.... *Clings to the Atari, NES and Apple IIe* :|

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Lets all cling together :) though more just NES but I also played my uncles Sega master system so maybe a partial cling to that :p

I recall Monkey Island II on the Amiga. That was 11 discs, and you had to swap them constantly. Ahh, the memories.

Hey Kids...

I know we picked on Final Fantasy for shipping on 4 CD's(VII/VIII,IX) or 3 DVD's (FFXIII)

But Phantasmagoria shipped on 7 CD's, Wing Commander 3 shipped on 4 or so (Wing Commander 4 shipped on 6)

But if you want to talk about floppies. "Beneath a Steel Sky" (Amiga) shipped on 15 720KB disks.

And if you want to go to Japan, some PC98 ADV's were had even more.
http://i.imgur.com/wCbOF.png
(That's 17 1.44MB 3.5" floppies)

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Originally Posted by codofwisdom

I remember that there were Final Fantasy games which actually required you to change to older discs if you went to a certain location. I think FFVIII did that.

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Nothing like that in any of the PSX games. FF8 specifically just put barriers around every city on disc 4 to have enough room for the massive ending FMV.

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Originally Posted by Waliel

Nothing like that in any of the PSX games. FF8 specifically just put barriers around every city on disc 4 to have enough room for the massive ending FMV.

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I think Legend of Dragoon requires us to switch the disc if we want to backtrack.

Well, I wouldn't know anything about that. He was talking about FF games, so...

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Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi

Hey Kids...

I know we picked on Final Fantasy for shipping on 4 CD's(VII/VIII,IX) or 3 DVD's (FFXIII)

But Phantasmagoria shipped on 7 CD's, Wing Commander 3 shipped on 4 or so (Wing Commander 4 shipped on 6)

But if you want to talk about floppies. "Beneath a Steel Sky" (Amiga) shipped on 15 720KB disks.

And if you want to go to Japan, some PC98 ADV's were had even more.
http://i.imgur.com/wCbOF.png
(That's 17 1.44MB 3.5" floppies)

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Oh Phantasmagoria....such great great memories of playing the first and second one!

Wing Commander as well. Mark Hammel enough said.

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Originally Posted by Evangela

I think Legend of Dragoon requires us to switch the disc if we want to backtrack.

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Can't help it...

GUST OF WIND-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D DANCE!!!

https://youtu.be/YAV-Tr146Og?t=11

Ah, disc swapping...those were the days.
It was funny that some games implement disc swapping as a gimmick to make the game look bigger than it was, and just bloated the disc with out-of-engine cutscenes (the Lunar re-releases did this. No complaints though, they're awesome)
I think I realized when CDs were a dead medium for gaming when I had one game's installation, EverQuest 2, take up TEN CDs. And that was for the vanilla version!

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Originally Posted by Malevicton

Can't help it...

GUST OF WIND-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D DANCE!!!

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hah ha ha ha ha ha MADDNESS!!! HERO!

Hmm.. i think i played it a little TO much..

But back then those disks were due to not enough memory, these days new generation consoles have not had "insert disk" issues since. My how we have evolved.

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Originally Posted by codofwisdom

On the way home from work yesterday, I realized something.

You remember the old Final Fantasy games, that came on multiple discs?

Heavensward is basically Disc 3.

FFXIV was Disc one. ARR was Disc 2. HW is Disc 3.

Please Insert Disc 3.

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Disc 2 you mean? FFXIV 1.0 was a different game; they simply salvaged the story by continuing it and using the names of some locations, dungeons, enemies, characters, etc and that's it. ARR to the majority is a new game, a reenvisioned 1.0 even though they refer to it as 2.0. I hate when some people refer to 1.0 as vanilla FFXIV. ARR is technically vanilla since it's the defining FFXIV that replaced 1.0. You can't say a game that was shut down and scrapped is vanilla to the newer game.

But yes, those were the days. I haven't played any of the PS1 FFs in a long time. I miss them. Might need to replay them for the umpteenth time sometime soon as it's been a really long time since last playthrough.

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Originally Posted by Noxifer

For me it's worse.... I'm missing FFIX disc 4...... ;_; I have no idea where it's gone. Will have to buy a new game in order to ever finish that game. (I... don't think I've ever played that game to the end o.o)

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Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi

FF9 I never got to finish because the second disc (NEW game) wouldn't play in the old-style PS2. So I've yet to finish it and will just have to wait for Square to HD-remake it or something.

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FF IX is also buyable in the PSN store for PSP, PS Vita and PS3