Lost Odyssey To Span Four DVDs

Perhaps proving that Sony has something to their 'bigger disc as standard' argument, IGN is reporting that Lost Odyssey will span multiple DVDs when it is released for the Xbox 360 next year. "Hot on the heels of the three DVD long Blue Dragon, Sakaguchi informed the crowd that Lost Odyssey will span a massive four DVDs. The game, which uses a mixture of CG and real-time cutscenes, will last roughly 40 to 50 hours. Lost Odyssey will follow in Blue Dragon's footsteps in another way as well. The team plans to ship the game with multiple language options, including English and Japanese. However, the voice animations will be synched to English on all versions, including the Japanese release."

Re: Multiple discs didn't hurt FF VII...

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FFVII was mostly linear in what it presented. The cut scenes included in each disc were arranged by timing of the event with some data spread over all the discs as needed. This is why (annoyingly) some event could only be triggered on a specific disc even through the area was open to you. If you ever wanted to develop a large sandbox type game with the same richness of content, there'd be no reasonable way of making the content fit.

The sad thing is developers know this and are most likely shearing the design of the game based on content size limitations.

Now before I get modded fan-boy, I don't have any Sony gaming products and I don't own any of their consoles.