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Post by devilfish on Apr 15, 2011 16:18:03 GMT -5
Hey guys, me and some of my gamer friends were having a chat last night, and we got to talking about old-school CD-Rom games back in the early to mid 90s that used lots of discs, and we got to talking, and I remember that was just a staple of gaming back then.
I can remember a game called "Under a Killing Moon" that had 6 discs, and you have to keep swapping discs out one after the other to play the game. Then there were the PSOne games that were three or four discs deep. I remember Final Fantasy Vii, I think that bragged about being five-discs deep.
Anyway, what I was wondering, what games do you remember that had lots of discs?
B~
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Post by thegigolo on Apr 15, 2011 16:19:47 GMT -5
Blade Runner on PC was 4.
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Post by JIMBOB on Apr 15, 2011 16:33:16 GMT -5
Final Fantasy VII was 3 discs. Others I have are Alone In the Dark: The New Nightmare (PC version) 3 discs. Also I think Police Quest: SWAT was 4 discs.
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Post by montee916 on Apr 15, 2011 18:32:30 GMT -5
I've got Wing Commander IV on PC which is 6 discs long.
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Post by Chronos on Apr 15, 2011 18:48:54 GMT -5
Final Fantasy VII was 3 discs. And Final Fantasy VIII and IX were 4 discs. So was The Legend of Dragoon. |
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Post by Fundertaker on Apr 15, 2011 18:54:18 GMT -5
Final Fantasy VII was 3 discs. And Final Fantasy VIII and IX were 4 discs. So was The Legend of Dragoon. The good old days of pre-rendered graphics and FMV sequences. I bet if they took out both, non of those games would have made more than 2 disks. Even Metal Gear Solid was 2 disks because of the ginourmous VA done for the game. God, those were hours and hours of VA. |
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Post by kidglov3s on Apr 15, 2011 18:55:48 GMT -5
Riven was 5 discs. Fox Hunt was 3 discs. Shenmue for Dreamcast was 4 discs, though the last one was extras.
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Post by Chilly McFreeze on Apr 15, 2011 19:00:04 GMT -5
The X-Files game on PS1 was four discs.
And Fear Effect.
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Post by JIMBOB on Apr 15, 2011 21:10:12 GMT -5
Thanks for the reminders of Riven and Fear Effect. Forgot I had those too.
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Post by Rapper & Actor Sammy Davis III on Apr 15, 2011 22:26:11 GMT -5
I remember around when the PS2 came out I had a friend that was waiting on the first PS2 game to use 2 discs. Don't think it ever happened.
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Post by CM Dazz on Apr 15, 2011 22:35:47 GMT -5
I think I remember Resident Evil 2 having two discs, or did I just make that up?
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Post by andrew8798 on Apr 15, 2011 22:37:10 GMT -5
I think I remember Resident Evil 2 having two discs, or did I just make that up? It was two. |
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Apr 16, 2011 0:14:20 GMT -5
I remember around when the PS2 came out I had a friend that was waiting on the first PS2 game to use 2 discs. Don't think it ever happened. There's actually several PS2 games out there with multiple discs. I can't think of most of them, but Grandia III is one of them. |
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Post by DrewVonAwesome on Apr 16, 2011 1:12:23 GMT -5
I remember from Spoony's look at Ripper that that particular game needed seven discs to run.
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Post by Dean-o on Apr 16, 2011 1:23:49 GMT -5
I remember around when the PS2 came out I had a friend that was waiting on the first PS2 game to use 2 discs. Don't think it ever happened. There's actually several PS2 games out there with multiple discs. I can't think of most of them, but Grandia III is one of them. Devil May Cry 2 was another, although I don't think that counts since from what I remember it's the same game twice, just with different characters. |
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Post by sntb on Apr 16, 2011 2:34:40 GMT -5
All the Tex Murphy and Phantasmagoria games were on 5 to 7 discs each, if I remember correctly.
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Post by RatedRKoffee on Apr 16, 2011 2:43:20 GMT -5
Baldur's gate was on 6 discs. Eventually it got released with its expansion on a much more resonable 3 discs.
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Post by shiranui on Apr 16, 2011 3:01:50 GMT -5
Phantasmagoria games were on 5 to 7 discs each, if I remember correctly. Phantasmagoria on the PC had seven discs (and I'm pretty sure this was actually mentioned in the advertising, as if it was something to be proud of), the Sega Saturn version had eight. Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh came on "only" five discs. Black Dahlia, another FMV game from the mid to late 90's, also came on eight CDs. |
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Apr 16, 2011 3:26:34 GMT -5
There's actually several PS2 games out there with multiple discs. I can't think of most of them, but Grandia III is one of them. Devil May Cry 2 was another, although I don't think that counts since from what I remember it's the same game twice, just with different characters. Yeahhh I don't really count that one. I mean, I guess it does sort of count though. |
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Post by Sajoa Moe on Apr 16, 2011 11:20:58 GMT -5
The Pandora Directive used six discs. It was a silly, corny, point-and-click adventure detective movie game.
But Christopher "R.J. Fletcher" McDonald was in it, so that made it cool.
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