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Subject: Splitting the discs?
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Poll: Should Bungie put Halo 3 onto two discs? Read my flawed logic...  [closed]
Yes, put Campaign and Settings on Disc 1.:  37%
(18 Votes)
No, keep Multiplayer and everything on one disc.:  63%
(31 Votes)
Total Votes: 49

Ok. Consider this.
Bungie has a -blam!- load of stuff to put in Halo 3. They could have a LOT of trouble trying to fit stuff onto one disc, which could lead to some things being cut out of the game.

An answer to this would be to split it up, to put Campaign, Settings, and Profiles onto the first disc. Then put Multiplayer, XBOX Live, and Extras on the second disc. The idea has it's merits.

Pros:
Splitting the game into two discs would help ensure that Bungie doesn't have to cut things out of the game(like in Halo 2).
It would leave room for even more detail to be put into things such as cutscenes, multiplayer frame rates, overall graphics, and extra features.

Cons:
It would be damned inconvinient to have to get up and switch discs whenever you want to play campaign or mutiplayer.
Bungie would have to put more effort into getting the baseline programming for the second disc, so that it could stand alone from the first disc(the H2 Multiplayer Map Pack did NOT stand alone from H2 game disc, insofar as gameplay goes).
If one of the discs got broken or damaged somehow, we would have to buy a complete new set to replace it, instead of the single disc that we need.

So you decide, which would you prefer?

Note: In know Bungie isn't gonna listen to this thread. If you don't like the idea, flaming me will be a waste of time. I think it's a legitimate question, and I don't give a -blam!- what you think if you're just here for a fight. If you disagree with something, explain why.

  • 07.06.2006 5:03 PM PDT
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I've been around these parts for almost eight years now...wow! Maybe I should be concerned about that...

I'm sure it can all fit onto a single disk or DVD. You'd be suprised how much information one of them can hold. If anything is cut, it will be because it detracted from game fun or balance, not because there wasn't enough room.

[Edited on 7/6/2006]

  • 07.06.2006 5:04 PM PDT
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They should only split the discs if its absolutely nesscary

  • 07.06.2006 5:05 PM PDT
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Dark Jester 86 is the Gamer tag.

The way I see it is, You can put Halo 2 along with multiplayer on a disc together and they were pretty good BUT, if they had a disc for Campaign then more could be put onto the Campaign, same with Multiplayer disc.

  • 07.06.2006 5:06 PM PDT

Voted yes but would prefer it if they could keep it on pne disk. Also i'm hoping that campaign will be online multi-player as well so i'm assuming that that's what you mean and not that all offline stuff is on disk 1 and online on disk 2.

  • 07.06.2006 5:09 PM PDT
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Production costs would rise and Halo 3 would be expensive. If anything. KEep it on one disc. And do it the Multiplayer MAp Pack way if need be. Or downloads(should be free ones though).

  • 07.06.2006 5:15 PM PDT

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If Campaign was on one disk and multiplayer on another, that would open up loads of new options.

  • 07.06.2006 5:25 PM PDT
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If it is necessary to ship all the necessary goodness of Halo 3 onto 2 disks let it be. You have to remember that it has to work for both online and offline players so something like downloading the maps via LIVE after you register your game could not be possible. Now I don't know how the 360 works but why not dual layer DVDs? thats roughly 9 gigs it should hold.

Also, although this would likely/should not happen, HD-DVD's hold a hell of alot more data, with speculation of bundling of the player with systems in the near future, the game could be released in that format??? People would then have to buy that as well, why it will probably not happen, but its athought.

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  • 07.06.2006 5:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: FlynnJ
If it is necessary to ship all the necessary goodness of Halo 3 onto 2 disks let it be. You have to remember that it has to work for both online and offline players so something like downloading the maps via LIVE after you register your game could not be possible. Now I don't know how the 360 works but why not dual layer DVDs? thats roughly 9 gigs it should hold.

Also, although this would likely/should not happen, HD-DVD's hold a hell of alot more data, with speculation of bundling of the player with systems in the near future, the game could be released in that format??? People would then have to buy that as well, why it will probably not happen, but its athought.


It's true, but that begs the question: How much data is Halo 3 gonna have, anyways? If it meets or exceeds 9 gigs, I'll be impressed.
If only it needed terabytes rofl...

  • 07.06.2006 5:33 PM PDT
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I don't think that it will be necessary. Oblivion fit on one disc, and that game is really big. i don't think halo 3 will be that big, so two discs shouldn't be necessary.

  • 07.06.2006 5:35 PM PDT
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Dude these disks are 9 I repeat 9 gigabytes Halo 3 will fit in it completely unless it is a very long game.

  • 07.06.2006 6:19 PM PDT

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Why what difference would it make the 360 has enough room to store I don't think we really need two disks.

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  • 07.06.2006 6:56 PM PDT

Posted by: Duardo
I'd love to be a 10 year old and tell my mom I'm going on an adventure out into the world catching Pokemon, with her full support. Never mind the fact that there are rapists, criminals, and murders out there, or the fact that I may get killed by a Pokemon.

Luckily I have Pikachu.

It would be pretty cool to see them on two different disc's, but that likely will not happen!

  • 07.06.2006 7:02 PM PDT
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I was thinking more of but highley unlikely 3 disc set

- Campaign disc one
- Multiplayer/Custom Soundtracks disc two
- Map Maker disc three

Im hoping it would be that way but to much money and time consuming.

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  • 07.06.2006 7:04 PM PDT

Posted by: Duardo
I'd love to be a 10 year old and tell my mom I'm going on an adventure out into the world catching Pokemon, with her full support. Never mind the fact that there are rapists, criminals, and murders out there, or the fact that I may get killed by a Pokemon.

Luckily I have Pikachu.

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- Map Maker disc three


I doubt we will see one of those in Halo 3!

  • 07.06.2006 7:05 PM PDT
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You and i will never know but we all might be surprise to see something like that. :)

  • 07.06.2006 7:06 PM PDT

Posted by: Duardo
I'd love to be a 10 year old and tell my mom I'm going on an adventure out into the world catching Pokemon, with her full support. Never mind the fact that there are rapists, criminals, and murders out there, or the fact that I may get killed by a Pokemon.

Luckily I have Pikachu.

Posted by: Halo 4 Worlds


You and i will never know but we all might be surprise to see something like that. :)


I would be surprised, I just hope that unbalanced custom maps will never appear in matchmaking!

  • 07.06.2006 7:07 PM PDT
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That is true if there would be a disc about making maps on Halo 3

i sure would make balanced maps not something that would make in five

minutes lol but taking the time to create your map and test it out for balance. Just to make it perfect . But as i said already higley unlikely like you also said { I doubt it }

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  • 07.06.2006 7:11 PM PDT
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Dude trust me they have exceeded the terabyte they are on a whole new system of bytes anyways f the bytes in fact instead of 0 and 1's its grunts and jeckals so there for the terabyte is know as the prophobyte.

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  • 07.06.2006 7:12 PM PDT
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Dude trust me they have exceeded the terabyte they are on a whole new system of bytes anyways f the bytes in fact instead of 0 and 1's its grunts and jeckals so there for the terabyte is know as the prophobyte.

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It's true, but that begs the question: How much data is Halo 3 gonna have, anyways? If it meets or exceeds 9 gigs, I'll be impressed.
If only it needed terabytes rofl...

  • 07.06.2006 7:13 PM PDT
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Dude trust me they have exceeded the terabyte they are on a whole new system of bytes anyways f the bytes in fact instead of 0 and 1's its grunts and jeckals so there for the terabyte is know as the prophobyte.

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Trust me ;)

It's true, but that begs the question: How much data is Halo 3 gonna have, anyways? If it meets or exceeds 9 gigs, I'll be impressed.
If only it needed terabytes rofl... By Rakdos


Holy -blam!- i feel like a moron sorry for the triple post


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  • 07.06.2006 7:13 PM PDT
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What's next? Quadrabytes? Jeez...

  • 07.06.2006 7:13 PM PDT
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PROPHBYTE LOL! :D

  • 07.06.2006 7:14 PM PDT
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Things wern't cut from halo 2 cuz of disc space, they were cut cuz the game was made in a 10 month period.

  • 07.06.2006 7:15 PM PDT

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