God of War III Goes Gold, Guzzles Gigabytes

[Jared]

Thats a monster! lol, here hopes its all good!

 

[Ancientgamer]

35gb, is that a sign that they game is all flashiness without any substance?

I'd love to know how you came to that conclusion.

 

[Meggiepants]

More Kratos can never be a bad thing. Now I just have to talk myself out of ordering the Special Edition. Stupid Pandora's Box, why must you tempt me!

I know your pain I have been looking at that special edition for so long I want but the price is so much I have been going back and forth on the decision since I first saw it.

I'll probably break down and buy the stupid thing. Curses. I actually bought a second copy of Fallout 3 to get the lunchbox and Bobblehead when the price dropped. I don't often get sucked into these things, but on occasion... Stupid awesome games and their stupid awesome special editions. And here I thought I had exorcised that annoying little collector in me.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

It'll be about 5gb of game and 35gb of cut scenes. No wait this isn't MGS4. It'll be all blood and guts!

 

[Hobo Joe]

Let's hope what they filled it up with is good; rather than the traditional filling of the Blu Ray with sound files or whatever.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I was looking for clips of French audio of the game to show Funk (unsuccessfully)...and found out that Kratos is voiced by a black guy.



Not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[katsabas]

If anything, Kratos should speak ancient Greek. Good thing I have a 250 GB hardie. CAN'T WAIT FOR IT! I NEED THAT BOX!

 

[FoolKiller]

35gb, is that a sign that they game is all flashiness without any substance?

I'd love to know how you came to that conclusion.

Umm... how can a question be a conclusion?

And if you have a PS3 with one of the older small hard drives, how are you supposed to install it? Or even if you have about 60, how to you go about game hopping?

 

[Casual Shinji]

Oh Kratos, you magnificent sexy beast.

I heard that the game doesn't require installation.

 

[Tharwen]

...and soon to come - the Xbox 360 port spread over 4-5 dvds!

35gb, is that a sign that they game is all flashiness without any substance? I've never played a GoW game, I've been meaning to pick up #1 for years but never got around to it.

i hope your joking because sony makes god of war, so no 360 port.

That was a joke highlighting the fact that 360s don't use Blu-Ray.

*gentle pat*

 

[Monshroud]

It'll be about 5gb of game and 35gb of cut scenes. No wait this isn't MGS4. It'll be all blood and guts!

Awww, I was Ninja'd... When I first read this story, my first thought was "Oh, I bet a majority of that will be cutscenes."

Honestly, I am hoping that all that space is being used by epically long levels with high-res textures with crystal-clear sound.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

...and soon to come - the Xbox 360 port spread over 4-5 dvds!

35gb, is that a sign that they game is all flashiness without any substance? I've never played a GoW game, I've been meaning to pick up #1 for years but never got around to it.

no game has more substance than God of War.

...

REALLY?! A hack n slash with more substance than ANY game out there? I played 1 and 2. There's substance, but not too much.

 

[Distorted Stu]

Intresting. I would love to play GOW3.. but my 360 will shout at me =[

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

I was looking for clips of French audio of the game to show Funk (unsuccessfully)...and found out that Kratos is voiced by a black guy.



Not that there's anything wrong with that.

T.C. Carson. One hell of a voice, if I do say so myself.

 

[Gamegodtre]

so does anyone know how many dvds it would take for this game if not for the bluray disc?

 

[auronvi]

There's no question that this is impressive, but I also have to wonder if maybe PS3 developers just get lazy when it comes to compressing data. "Nah, we've got all that space on the Blu-Ray, why bother?"

As an aspiring game developer, I would ask why it is lazy to not compress the data? Most useful forms of compression are far from lossless and result in a poorer quality. If you have 40+ gb to use, why compress it at the cost of quality? I don't think it was lazy, I think it was a smart decision.

so does anyone know how many dvds it would take for this game if not for the bluray disc?

A dual layer DVD holds 8.5 gbs. This game is at 35 gbs.

35gb / 8.5gb = ~4.1

So 5 dual layer DVDs!

Maybe they could fit it on 4 if they did some compression like I mentioned above. This is pretty realistic because GOW is a very linear game. Switching disks would not be that much of a big deal as far as development goes.

 

[Latinidiot]

...and soon to come - the Xbox 360 port spread over 4-5 dvds!

35gb, is that a sign that they game is all flashiness without any substance? I've never played a GoW game, I've been meaning to pick up #1 for years but never got around to it.

no game has more substance than God of War.

...

REALLY?! A hack n slash with more substance than ANY game out there? I played 1 and 2. There's substance, but not too much.

no person should be taken more seriously than me.

 

[Trifixion]

I wouldn't be surprised if they did something similar to what they did with the other God Of War games, namely throwing a bunch of additional stuff on the disc - Challenge Of The Gods / Titans, Arena Of The Fates, videos like the "Fate Of The Titan" or the "other stories" or documentary stuff...that could account for some of the disc space.

However, I also wouldn't be surprised if the reason for the space is that they just plain threw everything including the kitchen sink into the game.

Hmmm. I wonder if Aphrodite is one of the deities Kratos will have to go up against. And if so, will he Circle Button her...or Circle Button her? If you know what I mean.