Please Insert Disc 3.

[Waliel]

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.

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.

[Evangela]

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.

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

[Waliel]

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

[Woggers]

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.

(That's 17 1.44MB 3.5" floppies)

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

Wing Commander as well. Mark Hammel enough said.

[Malevicton]

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

Can't help it...

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

[synesthetic]

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

[kyuven]

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!

[Blood-Aki]

Can't help it...

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

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.

[h0tNstilettos]

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.

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.

[Felis]

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)

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.

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