Please Insert Disc 3.

[codofwisdom]

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

*clings to his NES and feels old*

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

[randysquirrel]

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

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

*falls sleep*

[Averax]

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 >_> <_<

[KarstenS]

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

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).

[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.

[Cyrus-Wallace]

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.

[OlyverW]

Urgh i hated that.

I lost like half the discs to FF8.

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

[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)

[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;

[KisaiTenshi]

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;

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.