Game sizes out of control
Saturday, January 26, 2002 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I just bought Medal of Honor - it's 1.2 GIGS on the hard drive! Insane. Just ship it on DVD and let me play it that way! 
grayhaze
Reply #3 Saturday, January 26, 2002 8:56 PM
Reply #3 Saturday, January 26, 2002 8:56 PM
i've bought around 40 dvd movies over the past couple of years, and i don't even have a dvd player. trust me paxx, a dvd-rom drive is worth it for the movies alone.
grayhaze
Reply #4 Saturday, January 26, 2002 8:57 PM
Reply #4 Saturday, January 26, 2002 8:57 PM
i also bought this thing called windows xp... quite possibly the largest install for a toy ever. lol
Firestorm
Reply #5 Saturday, January 26, 2002 9:57 PM
Reply #5 Saturday, January 26, 2002 9:57 PM
lol @ grayhaze
I remember only one game ever shipping on DVD... One of those Tex Murphy games from Access. You can buy it on 5 CDs or one DVD.
I remember only one game ever shipping on DVD... One of those Tex Murphy games from Access. You can buy it on 5 CDs or one DVD.
b0om
Reply #6 Saturday, January 26, 2002 9:59 PM
Reply #6 Saturday, January 26, 2002 9:59 PM
you have to remember most game developers think most of the community has like 20-40 gig hd's besides with the prices of high hd's going down i wouldn't be suprised if games in a year or 2 needed 1gig for min-install and from a report i saw on cnn by 2003 or 2004 they should have 400gig+ hd's on the market for the price of 80's now
RobbieRobb
Reply #7 Sunday, January 27, 2002 4:11 AM
Reply #7 Sunday, January 27, 2002 4:11 AM
There was one other game: Baldur's Gate. It shipped first on the five CDs and then was available later on one DVD (unfortunately they DIDN'T include Tales of the Sword Coast with it).
What I'd like to see is some of these companies that have put out multiple games (eg. BG & BGII, Quake Series, etc.) release all the versions on one DVD. Offer up BG, BG: Tales of the Sword Coast, BG2 & BG2: Throne of Bhaal all on one DVD. (I *think* they'd all fit) It wouldn't work for the die hard player that wants the newest as soon as at comes out, but for new computer owners it's the way to go!
What I'd like to see is some of these companies that have put out multiple games (eg. BG & BGII, Quake Series, etc.) release all the versions on one DVD. Offer up BG, BG: Tales of the Sword Coast, BG2 & BG2: Throne of Bhaal all on one DVD. (I *think* they'd all fit) It wouldn't work for the die hard player that wants the newest as soon as at comes out, but for new computer owners it's the way to go!
Virre Virre Panna
Reply #8 Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:25 AM
Reply #8 Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:25 AM
I dont care how much the games take cuz I have 100GB HD
John Hamp
Reply #9 Sunday, January 27, 2002 1:02 PM
Reply #9 Sunday, January 27, 2002 1:02 PM
I only have a 9 gig hard drive. There is no excuse for games taking up gigs. There is no way they need all that space.
leqin
Reply #10 Sunday, January 27, 2002 3:43 PM
Reply #10 Sunday, January 27, 2002 3:43 PM
The amount of hardisk it wants does not bother me either - but do me a favour the damn thing should be on one DVD, or rather buying a DVD version should have been a option. Another thing that annoys me about MOH is having to be connected to the net simply to get the single player game up and running; if not then the instant you do your pc dials out and leaves you with a windowed view of the game ... well thats pantz, or was it ghay, as my nephew Jamie opinioned when he came round to see it.
Unfortunatly with games like Quake/Unreal/Half-Life/Deus-Ex etc, the developers are faced with satisfying what the games community asks for. Ever bigger levels, more accurate AI, scripted scenes that push along a story line, with animations made realistic to the nth degree, all of which isn't going to come from nothing and all of which, bar AI routines, means more and bigger graphics - go tell a Windowblinds skinner that they can only use 2 bitmaps using 2 out of 16 colors and they wouldn't exactly create anything interesting to look at would they (someone will create something that proves me wrong), or be able to do the things that they want to do.
Got to admit that MOH is probably the most highly developed 3D FPS that I have bought - the AI is at times astonishingly realistic and true to the way real soldiers act in the battlefield. There are details about the level designs that I could argue over, points and areas in them when I was left thinking that a little more time spent tweaking them would have made a difference, but not so much that they detract from the game itself and the game is one that I found sucks you in and takes you along for a hell of a fun time.
So far as bringing together games that have been in series into one DVD goes, well I think that all comes down to complaining to Activision, EA etc because they do the marketing and not the developers. The only developer with enough clout to swing something like that is id and if id said jump I reckon Activision would do it so quickly.
Unfortunatly with games like Quake/Unreal/Half-Life/Deus-Ex etc, the developers are faced with satisfying what the games community asks for. Ever bigger levels, more accurate AI, scripted scenes that push along a story line, with animations made realistic to the nth degree, all of which isn't going to come from nothing and all of which, bar AI routines, means more and bigger graphics - go tell a Windowblinds skinner that they can only use 2 bitmaps using 2 out of 16 colors and they wouldn't exactly create anything interesting to look at would they (someone will create something that proves me wrong), or be able to do the things that they want to do.
Got to admit that MOH is probably the most highly developed 3D FPS that I have bought - the AI is at times astonishingly realistic and true to the way real soldiers act in the battlefield. There are details about the level designs that I could argue over, points and areas in them when I was left thinking that a little more time spent tweaking them would have made a difference, but not so much that they detract from the game itself and the game is one that I found sucks you in and takes you along for a hell of a fun time.
So far as bringing together games that have been in series into one DVD goes, well I think that all comes down to complaining to Activision, EA etc because they do the marketing and not the developers. The only developer with enough clout to swing something like that is id and if id said jump I reckon Activision would do it so quickly.
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Reply #1 Saturday, January 26, 2002 8:20 PM
Side note: Microsoft Encarta is available in 4 CDs or on DVD. I think that's cool. First time I saw a software availabel in DVD. Of course I don't have a DVD-ROM yet, I'll wait till it's worth it.