Please Insert Disc 3.

[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.

[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...

[codofwisdom]

Imagine if FFXIV is available on the Xbox 360.

Please insert Disc 1 to enter Limsa Lominsa...

Please insert Disc 12 to enter Ishgard...

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.

[FoxyAreku]

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.

That's...not true at all.

Only way it would ask you to do that is if you went back in the story via a debug room or something.

[codofwisdom]

That's...not true at all.

Only way it would ask you to do that is if you went back in the story via a debug room or something.

Then what am I remembering?

You're probably right, but I could have sworn there was something. Maybe it was another game series. Sorry for the slip-up.

[FallenArisen0990]

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.

The only game that came to mind with this was Star Ocean 4 on 360.

but the PS4 is not PS1 compatible.

Use the PC ports than. Granted IX doesn't have on yet be I know it's coming at some point. For FFVIII, SE better use the old or Dissidia style music cuz the PC ones were horrible.

[Shori]

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

[codofwisdom]

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

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.

[SaitoHajime]

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

Sounds like someone never had a PlayStation 1

[KisaiTenshi]

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

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.