L.A. Noire Nearly Defies the Laws of Blu-Ray Space
Judging solely by the previews and information readily available for L.A. Noire prior to its release, it’s easy to point at the title and call it a technological evolution for the gaming industry. The believable animations, quantity of detailed characters, and high-quality rendition of 1947 Los Angeles was enough to spark strong interest from Hideo Kojima among others. However, as a direct result of these qualities, the title will be absolutely massive.
Jeronimo Barrera of Rockstar Games is the first to say that the game is pushing boundaries. During a small chat with Kotaku, Barrera and stated the following:
To tell the story and make the game we wanted to make, we knew that it was going to take an entire single layer Blu-ray disc and three Xbox discs.
We’ve seen other games nearly fill up a 25GB layer of Blu-ray, including gaming phenomena such Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Metal Gear Solid 4. What these games share in common is that they’re all stellar titles which are regarded as the best of the best. Will Team Bondi and Rockstar be able to keep this trend going when L.A. Noire releases on May 17th? We’ll just have to wait a few more days and see for ourselves.
34 Responses to “L.A. Noire Nearly Defies the Laws of Blu-Ray Space”
Score one for PS3. And those who think that PSN outage is worse than 360 RROD. Tickle me this. Sony’s free service went down. Big whoop. It will come back up and more than likely never happen again. The RROD has made some people have multi digit number of Xbox and to me that’s more of a pain in the arse then not being able to play Portal 2 co op for a month.
Not to mention, I’ve got plenty of games with riveting campaign modes to keep me company. Xbox can say that about very few titles. So what, I can’t play SSFiV online. I’ll hone my skills and hopefully won’t get my ass kicked as much once PSN is back.
Another final fantasy 13 situation for xbox
Only in america will this game sell more on Xbox 360.
eh, I wouldn’t be so sure. This game was originally supposed to be a PS3 exclusive(hence why it’s so gi) and most Xbots don’t have the attention span to play a game like L.A. Noire. I kid, I kid! But seriously…most don’t.
I can’t wait for this game. It’s going to be amazing.
as an open world game, how would it work on 3 discs?
its like if gt4 was on 3 discs.
I think the only time you will need to change discs is when you play the story. The may have the entire city on each disc so you can go anywhere, so it should be the story sequences that couldnt fit on one dvd.
They may have split the city too, but that would be so lame.
oops.. yea i meant gta4.
but wow 3 discs… thats like 15 extra steps to take from disc 1 to disc 3!
steps it takes to play L.A. Noire
ps3 – 5
xbox 360 – 15
i guess its 10 on extra on 360, but still!
Well, at least gta 4 would have the islands for each disc, still tedious, but splitting up the city randomly for LA noire would just be ridiculous.
lol this game definitely looks amazing but whats sad is I hear Dead Space 2 is a 2 disc game on Xbox wow wonder how swapping discs works
You get to chapter 5 and it says to insert disc 2. Then its an easy five steps:
1) You must get up
2) Eject the disc currently in the console and put it back into the game case
3) Inside the game case is another disc labeled “Disc 2″, remove that disc from the case and place it into the console.
4) Close the disc try
5) Sit down and continue playing your game
to me the biggest problem with swapping discs would be that it would pull you out of the game world, out of the story, therefore cheapening the experience for me…the getting up and changing discs part isn’t all that big of a deal. I hope for the XBox player’s sake they make you change discs at unimportant times…I can’t imagine being in the middle of something, a story mission or whatever it is, and all of a sudden a message pops up on the screen saying “Please Insert Disc 2.” It would ruin it for me. Maybe they’ll have an option to install the other discs onto the HDD.
one more thing…I can’t imagine how amazing and huge this game must be if it takes 3 DVDs and a game like Red Dead Redemption only takes 1.
Thats a good point Red Dead looked pretty good too. That facial animation tech must take up a lot of space, which would make sense. I’m sure their first thoughts with it weren’t “how small can we make it”.
I’m sorry I try to stay as unfanboy as I possibly can but seriously, X-box, 3 discs? And yet Microsoft has stated that their next console STILL won’t have Blu-Ray. Are you kidding me? Just wait till next gen. The story will be the same except the wording will be more like.
“To tell the story and make the game we wanted to make, we knew that it was going to take an entire double layer Blu-ray disc and 15 Xbox discs.”
I know I exaggerated a little.
There are already discs out there that are larger than Blu-Ray, so that’s not a big deal. Definitely a mistake to use DVD this gen though.
Considering a Blu-Ray can hold up to 400GB, this is definitely the best choice of media Sony could have used.
Well there are other reasons as to why it was the best choice at that point, and maybe still now I haven’t looked any other discs up lately. But in terms of space, I remember reading about 1TB discs at least a year ago. Just saying it isn’t necessarily Blu-Ray or low space anymore.
Guess I need to do more research. 1TB discs? That blows my mind. You could fit a small movie library on one disc. Imagine the games that could be made with those. I’m drooling…
Yeah , holy crap:
“The Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) is an optical disc technology developed between April 2004 and mid-2008 that can store the same amount of information as between 20 and 200 Blu-ray Discs.”
“Protein-Coated Disc (PCD) is a theoretical optical disc technology currently being developed by Professor Venkatesan Renugopalakrishnan, formerly of Harvard Medical School and Florida International University. PCD would greatly increase storage over Holographic Versatile Disc optical disc systems. It involves coating a normal DVD with a special light-sensitive protein made from a genetically altered microbe, which would in principle allow storage of up to 50 Terabytes on one disc.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc
There’s a wiki link for one that mentions what some other companies are trying aswell. I guess I never read the cost before, as drives for these particular discs(the ones I was referring to in my second comment) are projected to cost like 15,000 haha.
HAHA there you go.
that sucks for 360 owners, but what doesn’t stop them from just installing the games onto their hard rive than not have to switch disc. though it does show that blu ray is the dominate way of media disc to go over dvd
Even with the game installed, you still need to swap discs.
Yeah Randal is right, even though a game is installed it has to start with the disc in. I’m not completely sure, but I think it doesn’t install all of it, just parts to help loading and such.
Reminds me of the “Riven” game. It had way too many discs to keep track of. I feel sorry for Xbox users, but even more sorry for people that bought HD DVD players!
This explains why LA Noire took so long to develop and release. The game offers a huge amount of content for the players of the game.
if games take up 1 full 25gb disc , how would the future be digitial downloads? 25gb downloads? glad i got the ps3 copy of this game preordered.
Umm….MGS4 was nearly 50Gb and Uncharted 2 was close to 40gb. God of War III was 35gb while Killzone 2 was 30gb.
that’s what l was about to post as well. Metal Gear Solid 4 is a dual layered Blu-Ray disc that almost took up to 50GB
‘xBox 3discs60′ ;-D
This is why the PS3 triumps over the Xbox 360. The xbox 360 is so outdated and in desperate need of an upgrade, the thing still using outdated DVD, weak processor and crappy graphics.