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The Xbox retail version of Baldur’s Gate 3 will indeed have 4 discs, since we’re 500mb over the limit for 3. Only option would have been to cut some content out but that didn’t make sense... (twitter.com)
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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

You know, Baldur's Gate 1 was on 5 CD-ROM, 6 with the extension.

Of course it was mostly because it was a mess of mostly uncompressed graphics and audio, but still.

If I remember correctly the backgrounds were just fully drawn as huge bitmaps. Several of them for each area too, because they used separate bitmaps to represent collisions too.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I remember how big of a deal FF7 being on 3 discs was.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

On PC Lands of Lore 2 was on 4 discs, about at the same time (1997).

It was a big game, but of course lots of video and fully voice acted dialogue mostly explained the need for all those.

Most of the human/human-shaped characters were actors in FMW, often directly green-screened over the 3D environment. It was quite a surprise, I had never seen live action FMV used in a "real" game that's not some sort of point and click.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 8 months ago

I really miss live action scenes in video games. Wing Commander, Command & Conquer, Myst, Crusader: No Remorse, etc. The production value on some of these games, even the random as fuck ones that nobody really played was pretty good. It would be better today with UHD resolution for the videos and not the grainy shit we had in the 90's.