I don't see problem with it.

excuse me
but please do not flame the xbox
ps i have both consoles

lost odyssey came out on 4 disks
so i do not have a problem with multiple
disks

and fyi
i often buy the same game for both consoles
usually the ps3 has better color but the xbox is by far more detailed
and 'more detailed' is easier on my eyes

I am a PC gamer, and reciently bought a PS3. So my answer is yes.

If only all 's360 had a hard drive it would be fine.

Multiple disks could be workable on the 360. Anyone with a 360 without a hard drive would have to put up with the hastle of switching out disks whenever they passed an arbirtart mid map line, and the rest of us would have a better larger game for it.

EDIT.



The main problem with multiple disks in an Elder Scrolls game is that their open ended. The disk will have to be split with half the content on one disk half on the other. It would have to be split so that the player does not have to use both sections of content at the same time, and any content that is requires throughout the game must be on both disks.

This means that the most obvious split is a mid map line. Which will have problems if you want to cross it several times in a short period of time.

Voices could be on one disk, forcing no hard drive 360's to put up with no voice acting only subtitles.

I dont think Microsoft allow developers to make a game with a forced install, so they cant discount the hard drive free 360's.

So its not as simple at having to change the disk after the first quater, then at the half way mark and then again three quaters into it. So a comparison to "Lost odyssey" dosent really work. (Unless Lost odyssey is open world, in which case im sorry and eat my own words. Ive never played that game.)

On 360, perhaps. On PS3 I see no reason why it can't stick to one.

MY computer can take the extra data of it so yeah let em load on the data so it is a good game. It is kinda frustration how they are concerned about peoples computers it makes sense but it limits the game.

So yah 3 disk skyrim better hurry up!!!

Three disks? what, like voice-acting and micelanous, worldspace and mechanics, and cities and mechanics?

They are not only worried about computers, even though I would still say there's a good amount of people who can't upload lots of gigs onto their comp. The main problem is the X-boxs that don't come with and external HD, just 4gbs is all they have I think so it's only good for save games.



The main culprits would be voice files, meshes, and textures. The esm file is what adds all of this stuff together (quests, cities, worldspaces), but I don't think that file gets that big. Also there's other things in the install folder, like intro movies, and music.

Considering that not everyone who plays TES V in the future will be doing so on a PC, I'd say that multiple discs being necessary in order to play the entire Main Quest would be a bad idea. Unless of course the setting for V is stored on one disc, and the MQ requires the player's character to journey to Akavir, which is stored on a second disc, which would RULE, but is not likely.

2 disks would [censored] up the free roaming so much.

only if you have to swap during gameplay, if they were used for installation it should be seemless.

@RoflLizard,I agree

I think the only thing potentially holding the idea of multiple discs/large download is Microsoft and it's Xbox 360. The way Microsoft works makes multi disc installs nigh impossible. GotY Oblivion was a very vague exception. It is possible for most of the game to be treated like DLC and installed via a second disc, and then run off of the first, but I don't know what Microsoft's stance on that style of setup would be. Personally I'd rather be allowed to do that and let the HDDless consoles suffer for it. It's the only way to satisfy the majority from every platform. PC gamers can do the oldschool multi disc install, PS3 users have blu-ray so it's a non-issue, and Xbox gamers get a main disc with DLC style discs.

I hate switching out disc during games, now if one disc is an instal disc and the second is the play disc, I would have no problem at all with a 2 disc system.

The only way I could see an open world rpg like TES work with multiple discs, is if the world & physics was on one disc, and the quests/npcs and anything related to those were on another disc.

And then one of these would need to be installed like the Oblivion GOTY Edition DLC/Expansion.

Only then can I see it work succesfully.

I think 2 disks on the Xbox 360 could work. The game should be fully playable on one disk though, so there wouldn't be too much of a downside to HDDless versions. One of the big complaints about oblivion was how few voice actors there were. They could do that in the next one too. Have one male+female do the redguard/breton/imperial/nord voices, have one male+female do the elf/dark elf/wood elf voices, then seperate ones for orc, argonian and kahjit. Then on the second dvd add 5 more sets of voices so that all races have different voices, which can be installed to the HDD. The game can still be played without installing them, all voices would just sound pretty much the same like in oblivion. The second disk could also contain a lot more greetings, reactions and maybe discussion topics. No more students reacting the same wether you're a student or archmage.