Mass Effect 2 spans two discs
Mass Effect 2 is a big game, such as mos role-playing games are. One disc won’t settle it this time around; BioWare has two in store for the sequel.
Don’t worry, BioWare community manager Chris Priestly assures that it won’t be a nuisance switching discs as it’ll only happen once “at a carefully planned place in the game”.
“Even though there is a disc swap, it occurs at a carefully planned place in the game (that does not interfere with gameplay) and is done once,” Priestly wrote on the Mass Effect 2 forums. “You do not swap back and forth. 1 swap and then done.”
Sounds fine to me, Priestly.
Thanks, Kotaku.
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Which probably means there’s either no reason or no way to backtrack in the event you want to go back and acquire something in a previous level.
While DD is becoming increasingly popular I just don’t see it as the future as games’ graphics get better and better with bigger and bigger levels and other layers of content.
This will be a major topic of discussion when FFXIII hits the 360. If memory serves SE’s goal is to get it down to 5 discs.
I can’t remember hearing that FFXIII was going to be 5 disks on 360! It will be interesting to see if it’s true.
I completely agree about DD too. Specially in the UK where internet connections are slower to start with, I wouldn’t like to sit and wait for 50 GB of data to download when I could go to a shop in under 30 minuites!
But yeah, on topic, its good that Bioware have utilized the disk swap locations, avoiding random swaps or having to ‘swap back’. I wonder if the game will be better utilized for HDD install or running from the disk?