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I don't recall having to swap discs on PS1/2/3/4 at all.
by tracker1 4y ago
I don't recall having to swap discs on PS1/2/3/4 at all.
- willis936 4y agoFFVII shipped on 3 discs. Most of it was cutscenes and you better believe they were compressed to hell.
- maccard 4y agoOffhand, many final fantasy games shipped on multiple discs, as did armoured core. Gran turismo and oddworld. The last of us part 2 and GTA 5 both needed multiple discs on PS4.
- tomku 4y agoPS1 had dozens of games that shipped on multiple discs, PS2 had somewhat fewer but the ones that I remember off the top of my head are Xenosaga 2 and 3.
- zerocrates 4y agoIn addition to other examples given, Metal Gear Solid 1 memorably has a disc-swap. Games heavy on prerendered video frequently were multi-disc: Final Fantasy 7 is three discs, 8 is four, 9 is four... Xenogears is multiple discs, as is Chrono Cross. Lots of JRPGs, though not exclusively: Riven was on 5 (!) discs, again a case of a lot of prerendered content. It was pretty rare on PS2 with DVDs, and as far as I know totally eliminated on PS3 with Blu-ray (Metal Gear Solid 4 has/had an "install swap" where it would copy over from the disc only a chapter at a time, but all coming from one disc). Then the concept made a comeback by the tail end of the PS4's life, with several games having "play" and "install" discs, though these aren't quite the same experience, as you just use the install/data disc once then put it away. Fittingly one of these PS4 multi-disc games is the remake of Final Fantasy 7 (one that covers only a relatively small portion of the original, to boot).