Final Fantasy XIII Demo is Enormous
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Ah, that's right. I forgot that the point of no return in the story comes either right before or right after the final disc change. Regardless, my point is that disc changes do not restrict game design and limit where a player can and cannot go. In disc three you could still return to old areas.GloatingSwine said:
Let's not forget that the 360 is, unfortunately, the most fragile and fickle console out there. The way tri-Ace and Square put together Star Ocean 4, the areas were on different discs, so you constantly had to switch discs. That much disc swapping puts unnecessary strain on the already meek console.D_987 said:
We could leave his arms untied, and give him the same treatment James Bond got in the chair scene in Casino Royal.Indigo_Dingo said:If he was tied to a chair how would he play it?Catkid906 said:But what if let's say there was no proof of the escapist actually having anything to do with Tying Yahtzee to a chair? It would be worth it.CantFaketheFunk said:He might be based in Australia, but we're in the US, and the Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.Indigo_Dingo said:
Well, I was going to try the demo to see if I wanted to get the game...guess that idea's out the window unless I want to cripple my internet connection for a week, or OXM puts it on one of their demo disks.
can't you just put it into an HD movie format though? Rather than rendering though the games engine or whatnot, wouldn't it be better to create the cinematic in engine record it compress it and turn it into a video file that plays at the appropriate time? I mean a full HD movie DL is what 4 gb for (pirates of the carribean at worlds end)(a long ass movie)Ionami said:
If you were to "record" it the way you're suggesting, you'll lose significant picture quality. Also, it is a video file. And it is scripted to play at a certain point within the demo.sneakypenguin said:
The movies are not being rendered by the game's engine or anything like that, they're pre-rendered videos. The point is that you still have all of that information on screen, and it's a lot of data to process. The program that creates the videos is where they would export from, and that original video file would be massive. They could compress that video, but then they would lose the video quality. (Even with a lossless compressor, the size is still huge.)
HD footage typically works out to be about 1 minute of HD video = 1 GB of data. And that's talking about a handheld, home video camera. If you create CG images, with tons of special effects, and export out as HD video, you're file sizes are going to be massive.
Point being, they clearly did all the compressing they could to the videos, and that's about as small as they're going to get without sacrificing video quality.
Also, most movies these days still shoot on film. So an HD-DVD video was not actually shot on HD footage necessarily. It was just converted to HD for the DVD version.
It's starting to become more popular, but it's still quite recent. Michael Mann is one of the folks who have started shooting HD Hollywood status films. i.e. "Collateral" and "Miami Vice".
Well, if double-layer blu-ray is enough for this game, there's no problem. I just hope FF13 won't require any PS3 hard disk space..
I'll pay for a flight and some bribe moneyCantFaketheFunk said:He might be based in Australia, but we're in the US, and the Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.Indigo_Dingo said:
If the PS3 needs multiple disks I'd hate to see how bad the 360 version would be. Would at very least be a 6 disk affair. (which would be 51GB btw, so would likely be more than that.)Onmi said:
If the demo is almost half the size of a 360 game then i do worry that the final release will either be hugely inferior or will come packaged with a librarian to help you organize the amount of disks it'll need.
I put forth $100.Indigo_Dingo said:
You know I wouldn't be surprised if the PS3 needed 2 disc's.Onmi said:
Note: I'm a PS3 owner and secret fanboy.
Buzzah, someone sees the light. To the Sony fanboys flooding this thread: quit it. I don't need to bring out my boom stick, do I?D_987 said:
The PS3 is technologically superior. WE GET IT, WE KNEW THIS ALREADY, MOVE ON. It won't matter to this game. There will likely be multiple discs for both platforms: the PS3 will just have less due to the advantage of extra storage space. The quality of the game will likely be the same on both platforms. So no loss there at all.
I'm sorry that your godly exclusive jumped ship, but you guys really need to get over it.