Skyrim Fits On One DVD
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I was going to say something somehow related to my surprise at the data-shrinkage, but god damn it, for some reason this makes me laugh so hard I can't remember.imnotparanoid said:
I'm not usually a "THIS ISN'T NEWS" person, but are we really reporting on the fact that it comes on a fucking disc?
I know what you're saying.RandV80 said:
Who knows how great Skyrim could have actually been if Bethesda wasn't selling out? If they were actually focusing on PC... well, that will never happen.
I stopped giving Bethesda the benefit of a doubt a long time ago.
that's pretty impressive. But I can't imagine they crammed it in without cutting some few corners first.
Well that's nice of them, a sandbox game with disk-swapping would be one hell of a chore.
They have put more game onto the disk than the disk should fit.
They have TARDIS disks, how is that not news?
Did you read the news?The Bandit said:
They have put more game onto the disk than the disk should fit.
They have TARDIS disks, how is that not news?
Presumably they mean that Bethesda is only producing a single disk, with the implication that there will be some sort of massive battle to the death to see which lucky fan gets it. At least that's what makes the most sense to me.The Bandit said:
So then.... why is RAGE, the game Carmack is making, requiring multiple disks?Tharwen said:
To be honest, I couldn't care less.
RAGE, which once was top of my buy list, is now completely off the list.
Strange though, for as much as I've come to dislike it, a game made by the same publisher seems to be doing everything right.
Though I gotta say, the guy in charge of the Elder Scrolls franchise (whose name has slipped me at this moment) has impressed me a lot. He can have my money.
It's not that weird.
What they did was to cut some things to make space for others.
They shortened the total number of dungeons,but added jobs and proffessions.
They removed stats and attributes and added perks.
The amount of content is about the size of Oblivion actually.
Graphics wise,from what we see the game has upgraded dynamic lighting and weather/particle effects,and the burden of these falls on to the processor instead of the memory.
If you pay some attention to most of Skyrim's textures they are about the same quality as in Oblivion.
Usually what takes the most space in a game's disc are textures.That's the reason some developers release on the PC texture packs only as downloadable content and doesn't include high res textures to the disc,because they would need a much larger space.
Knowing that Skyrim will be about the same size as Oblivion and that it will have similar texture quality,it isn't that much of a surprize actually.
What they did was to cut some things to make space for others.
They shortened the total number of dungeons,but added jobs and proffessions.
They removed stats and attributes and added perks.
The amount of content is about the size of Oblivion actually.
Graphics wise,from what we see the game has upgraded dynamic lighting and weather/particle effects,and the burden of these falls on to the processor instead of the memory.
If you pay some attention to most of Skyrim's textures they are about the same quality as in Oblivion.
Usually what takes the most space in a game's disc are textures.That's the reason some developers release on the PC texture packs only as downloadable content and doesn't include high res textures to the disc,because they would need a much larger space.
Knowing that Skyrim will be about the same size as Oblivion and that it will have similar texture quality,it isn't that much of a surprize actually.
Actually Carmack started developing Rage along with its new graphics engine about 6 years ago,and he expected that by the time Rage will be ready that a new generation of consoles (xbox720,ps4) would also be there,to run the engine at its full glory.Khravv said:
But Sony and Microsoft decided to delay the next generation,and Rage had to come out on this hardware,so after they made the game that good,they started trying to find ways to make it run.
Graphics where degraded among other things,but while current console's processors and graphics cards are able to run the game,the game still keep some of its next gen requirements.
Consider Rage as a toned-down game of the next generation instead of a current generation game with good graphics.
