id: Xbox 360 Rage may have separate discs for campaign and multiplayer

I dont see an issue. Perfectly fine to me.

*reads Headline*


RAAAGEE!!!

I would think the best way to handle this would be have a 2nd disc with multiplayer that can be used stand-alone, or installed to the hard drive, then allow the 1st disc with the single player campaign to access the hard drive installed multiplayer.

Those who wish to install have the single disc advantage, those who don't want to install can still enjoy the full game, they just have to swap discs. Not a big deal.

I think all multi-disc games should offer this. Not a mandatory install, but those who wish to install can enjoy the full game swap-free.

god who cares if it has 1 or 2 disks as long as everyone gets to play the damn thing

this is kinda like mgs4 all over again.

It wouldn't bother me much. Would be nice if you could just rip the MP features to the HD with the second disc so no disc swapping but I know not everyone has tons of HD space.

Its rare that I will be playing a game with multiplayer and feel the need to go into single player or vice versa. Most the time I just play single player early in the morning when no one I know plays online.

Its 2009 and people are still disc swapping
haha Lame

Oh no. Please. Not disc swapping. I may have to get off the couch instead of sitting there like a fat ass like all the complainers out there. Serious?! Are we actually debating this? Who cares. As long as it runs great and looks great.. who the hell cares! Besides.. I can handle changing a disc. At least that's something I can fix. You can't fix PSN. It will always suck ass!!! :)

I'm going to give this game a chance when it's released, just because id has a decent reputation for making games that I like, but I'm really not holding out much hope for Rage. Unfortunately, a few of id's more recent games have been more like tech demos of their newest engine, rather than anything significant for gamers.

Still, I'm holing onto a shred of hope for Rage. Gah, I even hate the name.

360 users get twice the disks and twice the frame rate! Bargin (see other post mentioning 60 fps on 360 and 20-30 on ps3)

To the people who don't mind disk swapping, your either use to it or you like waiting 3 minutes to get to the game.
I for one, dislike disk swapping, from the games that have done it (Blue Dragon, and other RPG's out there) take a while to load.
I guess you need patience which, I do not have.

Installs are usually a one time thing, and not all games have mandatory installs. And Rage on the PS3 is supposed to run at 60hz when it releases. I would prefer the PS3 version, but there's no problem in switching discs.

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i forgot how lazy americans are to get up and walk 2 feet to swap discs lol

Switching discs is so next gen. Oh wait...

Getting the PC version anyways. To be honest, I didn't know Rage even had a multiplayer segment until not.

Quake Live aside, I think I'm right in saying this is the first id game to be developed completely in-house in a long time, right? Even DOOM 3 had outside developers make the multiplayer part of the game.

who cares if you switch ONE DISK. Remember ff7? one of the most beloved games off all time? what was it, FIVE discs?

this is actually good news. I like this idea

This game was always going to be 2 discs on 360. The only questions was, will it be 3? Carmack was complaining about MS royalties on a 3rd disc and that it would look WORSE on 360 if they had to squeeze it onto 2. I don't give a shit how many discs it ends up being, it better not look like shit on the 360. id and MS better get their fucking bullshit squabbles settled.

why dont they just release the game on HD-DVD? with the greater storage capacity of the HD-DVD disc, disc swapping will be avoidable...

/sarcasm

SOLUTION:

Why not have it so that if you install the multiplayer disc to your hard drive you could still play with just the first disc in the tray? No swapping necessary.

Blue-ray does not suck even through it costs an arm and a leg, it makes for less headaches as far trying to compress everything to fit in one disc.I still love the DVD-10 capable 360 far better games are on it and make ps3 games look like s***.But with that I know 360 dvd-10 spec for the drive is pretty fudged , they should have used DVD-18.

http://dvr.about.com/od/dvdrecordableformats/f/faq5.htm

all I can say is it's the 360's fault.ps3 games well they have alot of space but they suck a** for the most part.

Whocares. I can swap a disc faster than you can install one. I'll even race you to see who can finish first, lol. Whats the point of having all that space if you have to install it? Either way it's a set back with time and space on your hard drive. Even though we get more discs it's still gonna cost us $60 so it doesn't matter, plus we have the " OPTION " (not mandatory) to install if we wanted to and even that is faster than the process on the PS3 cause of the slow ass read speeds of blu ray.

I'll give Sony fans alot of credit tho, they are very patient. They wait for everything, wait for installs, wait for slow downloads and installs after downloads, wait for games that take about 10 years to drop (GT5 still not out), wait for 3rd party titles that the 360 sometimes gets first, wait for price drops, waited a year and 1/2 for a killer app that had nothing but installs and cut scenes, and wait for features on XMB and PSN that the 360 and XBL had since launch, even had to wait an extra year for the PS3 to launch cause Sony didn't stick to the original date. I didn't believe Sony's 10 year plan but now I do cause they delay everything, just now getting features the 360 had since launch. That's alot of waiting

Suck. They should give you the option to install the multiplayer disc to the HDD and then you can load it through the menus on the singleplayer disc. I hate swapping discs... I know it's the arch of laziness, but I will often just play a game because it's in the 360, or it's an HDD game.

Did he REALLY just say "That's fail." ?

Shit. I thought only pre-teens on the internet said that.

Installing to the hard drive sounds like a good idea , but how much of the multiplayer are going to install.I've had my 360 for awhile and barely have about 4.3 gigs , and I'm not deleting anything.In this case I would rather swap the damn disc out. or if I had ps3 time to dust that thing off.

I'm fine with this. My multiplayer disc will remain in perfect condition while my single-player disc will get all of the wear and tear.