Probably won't happen, but if it does I won't have to worry about it. I'll probably just download it off Steam anyway :shrug:

Having more than one disk of content wouldn't bother me at all. Provided they use the majority of the data storage room on the second disc.

Duh herr, I play on a PC so 2 disks won't affect me. I just thought I'd let everyone know that it won't affect me.

Did you guys all read my amazing post and realize that I won't be affected? I knew it would help the discussion so I made sure to let you all know that I won't be affected.

/Sarcasm

In all seriousness I would love it if it came on two disks, the more content the better :celebration:

@ 360 users: Work out like this guy does, and multiple discs won't be a problem.

Ya, I'm working my way in that direction with my Kinect playing with my kids on it.
So if they do more than one disk I'm all for it so long as they get everything that we all want in the game.

For 360 players, yes it should. After all, Skyrim should strain the capacity of a dual-layer blu-ray disc.

i really don't want my game bogged down by the limitations of the 360 thank you very much,stop being so selfish!

im on pc, so as long as i dont need to chop and change the disks that i would prefer it

I remember back in the days of Baldur's Gate, Eye of the Beholder, Planescape: torment where each zone was on a different CD and you had 5-6 disks that you would swap around quite often.......

It's fine as long as they don't make you switch too often. I don't know how it would work with a sandbox game, though. Mass Effect 2 did it by putting only a few places that you could only visit at one time and in a predetermined instance so it worked. Don't know how TES could do that.

Really it's only meshes, textures and audio that take up the space. The actual content itself, like the cells, content placement and quests for example don't take up much space at all. Unless a ridiculous amount of resources are used, should be fine.

It should take 25 disks and a dedicated 200gb hard drive downloaded full of stuff to play this game due to the immense amount of stuff.

I would still buy it if that was the case and it would probably last me a couple of years of play time. :facepalm:

This. Besides, the Elder Scrolls is meant for PC.

Final Fantasy 7 did an alright job of it over 3 discs. All-be-it they got the majority of the story out of the way by the end of disc 2 so that people didn't have to swap out discs anymore by the time they got to disc 3.

if thats what needs to be done for it to run properly. then yes!

I find it kinda unlikely that it'll be on multiple discs-I'm sure people may have brought these points up before but I'll just go ahead and offer them up from my perspective.

When I first heard how much storage space a Blu Ray disc has, I thought of all the possibilities this could offer for a TRULY MASSIVE GAME. In theory, one could use the Blu Ray format to do such a thing, but in practice that is not so easy. For one, you'd need to invest loads of money, man power, and time into creating such a game, especially if you're aiming to actually go so far as to fill the disc to the brim (MUCH more so, actually) with content. The next problem is you're putting all these resources into this game that would take up at least 2-4 dual layer DVD discs, and if it's an open world game like The Elder Scrolls you'd either have to make it exclusive to the PS3 and PC (the later with a sizable hard drive space requirement), making it much less likely you'll be able to even earn back all the money you put into this massive game let alone make a profit, or you release it also on the XBox 360, then you'll have to require the player to have a hard drive (I believe Microsoft has lifted its restrictions regarding that to some extent, however this could be pushing it) and/or make them swap the discs at certain points, likely transitions between regions-and this will all have to be coded especially for that version of the game. It may be smart to do it that way simply because despite the fact that most people with a 360 now probably have a hard drive, its possible that some of them might not have one with enough space to store the extra content (they'd at least need to go through the trouble of deleting a bunch of stuff just to be able to play the game at all).

If there are any extra discs, I'd say the maximum I'd expect are two. Perhaps the PC version would have two discs and the 360 edition would be more compressed down to fit on one disc. A single extra disc however wouldn't provide too large a space requirement to install to the hard drive unless the parts of the game from the first disc were also required to be installed. I'm probably going to buy the game for the PC anyway unless I hear that Bethesda is going to screw over PC gamers like they did with New Vegas' 360-exclusive DLC, then I'll probably still buy it for the PC anyway because I like being able to mod and play mods.

Don't care either. Play on PC with a six pack next to me...... and I worked out (after 20 years of marriage) that my wife likes me just how I am.

PS3:
Not a problem because of Blu-Ray

PC:
Not a problem because everything is installed on the hard disk. So even if there were multiple disks, they would more than likely be used for install purposes rather than gameplay.

Xbox 360:
Have fun!!!

For me, it doesn't matter. Mostly because I'll be getting it for PC, but even if I was to get it for Xbox 360 it wouldn't bother me.

Don't care yet don't understand why people always complain about haven to get off their asses and switch a disc either-__-
Its stupid to complain about this, we live in a world were we may have to switch a few discs, big woop, PC users have to deal with that all the time if they have to install a game via disc if it is bigger than average..

I understand that sometimes people could say it "takes away from the game" having to switch discs at a certain point, but if you say it like that than that means having to pause the game does it as well or really anything does, like opening a door that you have brings up a loading screen.

It's an open world RPG. How on earth would they choose where to split the disk?

On another note: If they do have a seperate install disk for the Pc version (which I doubt they will). I wouldn't mind.
^_^

*Barry Gibb tone*

More than one disc
More than one disc to me-ahee

Well, hopefully the new engine will make it so you don't even have a loading screen when opening a door-you open it and there it is, the inside of the building. Even if that's not the case, you kind of expect loading screens to some extent and they're fairly common-they're kinda annoying and they do "take you out of the game" a little but you sort of phase them out in your mind to some extent. That's easy, because all you have to do is sit there and wait for it to load-you can let your mind wander for it bit until the game continues.

A pause screen is an even worse example, you have full control over when you pause the game, it's a voluntary action, you're pausing the game because you want to pause the game-it doesn't take anything away from the experience, and if you're really hard care and never want to pause the game because it "breaks immersion", you don't even have to do that-I'm honestly not sure how you'd get by not using the inventory screen either which kinda breaks immersion as well but whatever. lol

The thing is having to physically go and switch out the disc REALLY takes you out of the game-you have to physically get up out of your seat, go to the game console, press the eject button (unless it's automatic), take out the disc, get out the next disc, put it in, close the tray, walk back to your seat, sit down and wait for the disc new disc to finish loading. True, that's easier done than said but it requires you to physically do something in the "real world" to continue playing the game. It's not entirely unreasonable it's just a far stretch away from the examples you've given.

That said, in an open-world game which would probably need to be divided into "regions" contained on each disc you'd have to repeat this process over and over again every time you "cross the border". It could also cause some serious issues with the design of the game. Basically, the game designers wouldn't want the player to be annoyed at having to swap discs every time they cross between the "regions" contained on each disc, so they compartmentalize many of the quests to just take place in one of the regions or the other-which might be just fine for the two-disc XBox 360 version where having to constantly swap discs would be a problem, but for the PS3 and PC you'd feel a sense of "Why are all the quests given to me in East Skyrim only taking me to places in East Skyrim? Even quests given to me in places that are near central Skyrim don't seem to go anywhere beyond a line straight down the center!"

They can't make an Elder Scrolls game like Final Fantasy VII where there's a linear plot line and the thing that's actually taking up most of the space on the disc are the epic cut scenes. They can't make it something where you get to a certain part in the game and it says "Please Insert Disc 2" and you just continue from there.

To make a long story short (too late) I find it highly unlikely that even if they do put the game on more than one disc they won't make us swap discs for anything more than the installation process.

I would rather 50 disks then less content.