dmase said:
Imp Emissary said:
Wow. >-> I wonder what games could do with that kind of technology.
Good show!
I imagine it would take a whole major developer's company years till fill up even a fraction of that storage. Goes to show us humans will be the limiting factor for this kind of technology for the foreseeable future, you know until we invent an AI with creativity on par with lord british.
I'm not so sure. With that kind of storage available I'm not so sure humans WOULD be a "limiting factor". It would just change the way the development process worked.
Consider this... An entire world could be randomly generated and stored as a game setting. Programmers would simply apply some guidelines to the process and computers would do the rest. It could render an entire planet right down to individual plants, and place resources like herbs, minerals, and other crafting materials. Fauna and even civilizations could likewise be rendered. Once this process was complete all the devs would need to do is tweak it by adding/changing things to suit the game at hand.
We could have an open sandbox elder scrolls that literally spanned the planet. We could have Battletech wars on a 3d galactic map with individual worlds rendered in significant detail. MMO crowding would be a thing of the past. We have already got enough data gathered in centralized locations that a reasonably accurate "Earth" could simply be imported from sources like the Army Corp of Engineers, NASA, NOAA, and Google Maps.
No... you give these guys any amount of storage you can imagine and they'll fill it and ask for more.