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Home News L.A. Noire Was Once a Six-Disc Game

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L.A. Noire Was Once a Six-Disc Game

Posted on Tuesday, May 17 @ 08:36:47 Eastern by
L.A. Noire on the Xbox 360 spans across 3 discs in total, while the PS3 version stuffs the entire experience on one Blu-ray Disc. Three discs aren't too bad, especially considering it was once at a staggering six discs.

But knowing that there isn't yet a Xbox 360 model that comes with a built-in disc changer, Team Bondi turned to advanced compression techniques:

It took a lot of effort to get down to three discs - I think we were on four or five or six at one point - and to get it onto one Blu-ray [for the PS3 version].

Said L.A. Noire director, Brendan McNamara, while speaking with Gamespot in a recent interview. McNamara continued:

We're pretty pleased that we got it down to that in the end

It's the biggest map that we've done and that Rockstar have done, so there's a lot of detail in there, and also a lot of actor's performances - 21 hours worth.

McNamara called the feat "miraculous compression".

At first, many trashed Sony for including Blu-ray Disc early in to the PlayStation 3's lifecycle, but now, it's proving to be useful. For all you dual-console owners out there, are three discs on the 360 enough to get you to buy the PS3 version of L.A. Noire instead? Let us know below.
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  • SweetHat
    SweetHat
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: May 17th, 2011 at 10:02 am
    while im glad we get la Noir on xbox i wish microsnot would give me a actual blu ray player now that it has won
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  • DumbRodent42
    DumbRodent42
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: May 17th, 2011 at 10:02 am
    Yeah, I'll be getting the PS3 version just for the sake of convenience. I don't want to risk being an idiot and losing one of my three precious discs; and besides, not having to swap them out during the game will help in maintaining immersion.
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  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: May 17th, 2011 at 11:20 am
    I don't care about the discs. I was more motivated to the PS3 version because of the DLC mission that came with it.
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  • Eduardo_Reboucas
    Eduardo_Reboucas
    Joined: Dec 2008
    Posted: May 17th, 2011 at 2:54 pm
    Getting it for PS3 regardless... time to dust off the toaster.
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  • Mobius_Sean
    Mobius_Sean
    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: May 17th, 2011 at 3:37 pm
    I'm more sold on my PS3's native hdmi capability than any disc issues. My 1st gen 360 (currently being visited by the red-ring fairy a 2nd time) being component only has me taking good hard looks at what type of compression textures and whatnot have to go through before making my decision on multi-platform releases. 'Course, having a save from Mass Effect 1 means the PS3 versions of 2 and 3 effectively do not exist as far as I'm concerned. Plus, I'm kinda old school. I MISS multiple discs, dammit. Can't these pocky chomping fat little bastards get off their couches for the 4 foot walk to and from the machine? I remember PSOne 4-disc extravaganzas, and PC games like Freespace and Baldur's Gate where you were doing disc swaps because your 12G hard drive would get FILLED by those 800X600 16-bit CGI sequences.
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  • usaglory
    usaglory
    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: May 17th, 2011 at 7:17 pm
    I miss cartridges...
    0 0
  • mr-adriano
    mr-adriano
    Joined: Jul 2009
    Posted: May 17th, 2011 at 9:43 pm
    I miss multidisc games too. It was a really good feeling getting to the next disc. Felt like a much bigger accomplishment and it was a surefire way to measure your progress. Getting out of my seat after a long haul to get to the "next disc" felt like a really well deserved intermission. If you're too lazy to relish in that, put down the controller.
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  • Blazin13
    Blazin13
    Joined: Dec 2010
    Posted: May 17th, 2011 at 10:19 pm
    I admit to buying the PS3 copy simply because I didn't want to deal with switching out the disks that often. Well that and I prefer taking care of only one blu-ray disk over three regular disks.
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  • Swolern
    Swolern
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: May 17th, 2011 at 11:35 pm
    I got both systems. Online shooters on Xbox, everything else on Ps3. Hopefully Xbox 720 will have Blu-ray. Especially cause I got a 3dtv and the 3d on the Xbox is just plain retarded, every time u get a pop-up message when playing in 3d it splits the message in half. Update your crap Microsoft.
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