The most impressive game on 1 disk (360)

[5punk3monk3y]

In that case then it was probably cheaper to remaster for PS3. As you have already put BD's are probably more expensive to produce then DVD's. Also it keeps in line with Sony bragging about BD capacity.

 

[JoeBoi]

I'd have to say the orange box aswell amazing game.

 

[davewhite04]

Fallout 3 is impressive enough(brilliant game too), but the textures and voice work and variation in landscapes is not as impressive as Red Dead imo.

Mass Effect is impressive indeed.

GTA IV, also very impressive(as a game the world feels soulless and doesn't seem as *alive* as Read Dead's, same goes for Fallout 3, but this effect works for Fallout 3).

Orange box. Games are good but old. Dated graphics/engine, TFC 2 being an exception there.

Never played Just Cause 1/2 a great deal, have 2 on PC so might check it out.

Assassins Creed BH is relatively impressive, but I thought the game was short and the game world not as big as AC2.

From the games I have played and can remember, GTA IV and Mass Effect run closest for me, Gears of War 2 is worth a mention too I guess.

It's not always the case, but if I have a choice between two top titles, and one is on 1 disk the other 2, I'd probably go for the one on 2 disks as I'd feel I was getting more for my money. Red Dead Redemption proves to me that genius programming can turn a potential 3 disk game into 1.

My respect for Rockstar is much higher now, after the disapointment of L.A Noire and the gameplay problems(targeting, general control awkwardness) of all the GTA series imo.

 

[Abooie]

My first thought was AC 2.

What impressed me the most was AC 1 though. At the time I couldn't believe how big the world was and if you could see it you could go there.

Another vote for Oblivion. I love big open worlds.

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

I thought the DLC was on a separate disc?

I was talking about the Playstation 3 version. I just realised the thread title has a 360 in brackets.

 

[Bevysters]

Assassins Creed 2

Just Cause 2

and another mention for The Orange Box

 

[Abooie]

I was talking about the Playstation 3 version. I just realised the thread title has a 360 in brackets.

To be fair the game installation plus all the DLC was about 9GB on the 360 which impressive.

MS are pretty clever with compression though. Take Oblivion, the 360 version was 5.5 GB and the blu ray disc image was about 25GB due to how slow the PS3 drive was.

 

[davewhite04]

My first thought was AC 2.

What impressed me the most was AC 1 though. At the time I couldn't believe how big the world was and if you could see it you could go there.

Another vote for Oblivion. I love big open worlds.

I'm thinking Skyrim may need an installation disk as well as a playing disk for the 360. If it comes on one disk I will be mightily impressed going by the screenshots and the massive world of the first one.

When Oblivion came out it was easily the most impressive game world around, and I remember being gob smacked that it fit on one disk! It is still a brilliant feat after all this time.

Yes, Oblivion is up there imo.

 

[SonicUK]

There can only be one winner here - Oblivion!

 

[roboffer]

The thread isn't about Red Dead Redemption, it's about the game that you find most impressive that only came on one disk!

This is a dicussion forum, if you post what you think is your most impressive game on 1 disc, surely you expect people to discuss it and not just list titles? We already have pointless threads where people just post titles of games in their collections, games they are playing now and stupid things like that which server no purpose.

I loved Red Dead, I think I would put down GTA IV as mine. It took me a couple of attempts to get into, but the size of the game is massive and its amazing to think how far games have come since I was a nipper.

 

[Twentyone]

So many people mentioning The Orange box. I would so love that but can't find it anywhere to buy for the xbox. None on here either.

I would say Fallout 3.

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

So many people mentioning The Orange box. I would so love that but can't find it anywhere to buy for the xbox. None on here either.

I would say Fallout 3.

I found the Xbox 360 version on Amazon for £13.25

Link

To be fair the game installation plus all the DLC was about 9GB on the 360 which impressive.

MS are pretty clever with compression though. Take Oblivion, the 360 version was 5.5 GB and the blu ray disc image was about 25GB due to how slow the PS3 drive was.

I don't understand that part. I would have assumed the PS3 version would have been larger due to having uncompressed data.

 

[Scrutinize]

There can only be one winner here - Oblivion!

Yep game of the year edition is indeed probably the most engrosing game you can buy, if you are into it that is. Shame the PS3 doesn't have the downloadable content like the 360 does.

 

[Lightnix]

I found the Xbox 360 version on Amazon for £13.25

Link.



I don't understand that part. I would have assumed the PS3 version would have been larger due to having uncompressed data.

I believe it has been said that for some PS3 games, in an attempt to combat load times, some frequently loaded data on the blu-ray disk gets duplicated in order to reduce the time it takes the drive to find the data in question (i.e. the seek time). This is done because the blu-ray drive in the PS3 finds data on the disk significantly slower than the DVD drive in the 360, as a result of the rate at which they spin disks. See here.

 

[Nymins]

Take Oblivion, the 360 version was 5.5 GB and the blu ray disc image was about 25GB due to how slow the PS3 drive was.

I thought that was due to the uncompressed audio on the PS3 version as well as the above points?

 

[Twentyone]

Nvm!

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

I believe it has been said that for some PS3 games, in an attempt to combat load times, some frequently loaded data on the blu-ray disk gets duplicated in order to reduce the time it takes the drive to find the data in question (i.e. the seek time). This is done because the blu-ray drive in the PS3 finds data on the disk significantly slower than the DVD drive in the 360, as a result of the rate at which they spin disks. See here.

Interesting, I never knew that. Some games have ridiculous loading times but the majority are perfectly acceptable. I think more games should allow you or require you to install them to the hard drive like MGS4 does with each chapter.

 

[Skyboat]

It would be nice to have the option of installing the entire game to the HDD via XMB like similar to what the Xbox 360 does. After all, upgrading the hard drive in the PS3 is a lot more flexible.

 

[james.miller]

it'll need to be when each game can gobble up to 50gb of space.



Also, the ps3's bluray drive is slower but it's not significantly slower and not slower most fo the time either.
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=42157


the ps3 bluray drive is 2x CLV ( constant linear velocity, same speed across the disk).
360 uses an 8x CAV drive (constant angular velocity, speed changes across the disk)


ps3 2x bluray = 9MB/sec
360 8x dvd = 4.3MB/sec - 10.5MB/sec (dual layer dvd) average = 7.98MB/sec

most 360 games are dual layer so the drive is either slower most fo the time, or quicker some of the time. I have no idea how or why it has been said the the bluray drive in the ps3 is a lot slower but from a transfer speed perspective it really isnt. Only when looking at single layer discs is the 360 significantly/ quicker (9.25MB/sec - 15.8MB/sec)

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

Certain games offer an optional install, Tekken 6 for instance. If this option was included on more games I'd be a lot happier but as james.miller says a lot of the PS3 games are pretty big.