Please Insert Disc 3.

[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.