Board 8 > Skyrim has just been leaked..

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Oh no.

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Only the 360 version and who cares about that.

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Still at least we know that the game is like 8gb now..

Seems a bit low.

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We've known it was that size since the PC specs were released!

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Well I didn't know the specs before today so huh !

And i's still low !

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It's bigger than Oblivion was - that was only 4.6GB.

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Where do they hide all the content !?

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Ayuyu posted...
Where do they hide all the content !?

in the player-made mods

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lol @ judging a game by its disk size

The whole "game is too small on disk" thing is easily the flat-out most idiotic thing I have every heard. I can't even comprehend how dense you have to be to even consider judging a game by something like that.

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I'm actually really impressed with it, if anything. Doesn't Rage come on 2-3 discs? Here is Elder Scrolls on one, yet it has this enormous overworld and like 300 hours of content.

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Don't cinematics and stuff take up the most space? I thought that was why MGS4 was such a big game for example. A game like Skyrim doesn't have too much cutscenes.

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I'm more shocked at how some people actually think the amount of content and size of the game world have anything to do with the size of the disk. There is literally zero co-relation. Zero. Rage is so big because the textures are increcibly high quality which takes up A TON of space. The textures used in the Oblivion and Skyrim are nowhere near the same quality and thus are drastically smaller size. Plus, they re-use textures, dungeons, voices, etc. over and over again.

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I'm even more shocked that you'd be shocked. There are lots of people in the world and many don't know many things. You have to prepare for that so you don't get shocked.

Actually, I'm not shocked, because I was prepared for someone to be shocked so that it wouldn't shock me.

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Uncharted 3 is like 45gb and that's only an 8/10

Skyrim must be like a 2.3/10

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but seriously, I'm oddly fascinated by game size. did you guys know NSMB Wii is like 200mb? meanwhile, Ms. Splosion Man is over 2gb.

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From: PartOfYourWorld | #013
I'm even more shocked that you'd be shocked. There are lots of people in the world and many don't know many things. You have to prepare for that so you don't get shocked.

Actually, I'm not shocked, because I was prepared for someone to be shocked so that it wouldn't shock me.

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Fallout 3 and Oblivion took up one disc, and they had amazing amount of content, so I'm not worried.

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From: transcience | #015
but seriously, I'm oddly fascinated by game size. did you guys know NSMB Wii is like 200mb? meanwhile, Ms. Splosion Man is over 2gb.

Whenever I think of this, I can't help but make the comparison to porn. So NSMBWii is smaller than like seven minutes of porn.

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From: PartOfYourWorld | Posted: 11/1/2011 3:03:00 PM | #018
So NSMBWii is smaller than like seven minutes of porn.

yo likes his high quality porn

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PartOfYourWorld posted...
From: transcience | #015
but seriously, I'm oddly fascinated by game size. did you guys know NSMB Wii is like 200mb? meanwhile, Ms. Splosion Man is over 2gb.
Whenever I think of this, I can't help but make the comparison to porn. So NSMBWii is smaller than like seven minutes of porn.

Is that 1080p porn or something?

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Higher than average quality, I think. Maybe I'm overestimating the size of most porn, but I have at least a few vids larger than that.

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I have a 1h30 porn movie that takes like 730mb and it's pretty high quality too !

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It never ceases to baffle me how ignorant most gamers are as to how their hobby works.

Like when you're talking to someone about an area that was cut from a game, and they're like "it probably didn't fit on the disk".

Why are people this stupid and not doing anything to remedy it?


3D models take like no space. All the environments, characters and objects in a game take about as much space as 10 seconds of the opening cinematic. The only data you need for a 3D object is the XYZ coordinates of each vertex, and how they are connected. A typical high-quality 3D game character may have something like 4000 vertices. Meanwhile, a pre-rendered cutscene requires color information on every pixel on the screen for every frame. If it's HD, that's 1920 x 1280 = 2457600 pixels, each typically needing 32 bits of color information... PER FRAME. Possibly at 60 frames per second. See how huge that difference is?

And then we have the people who don't understand the difference between in-game and prerendered cutscenes. In-game cutscenes take no space. It's just some simple information about how to move the characters around on screen. Move arm up. Stretch finger out. Pick nose. All the in-game cutscene visuals in the game probably take about as much space as one cutscene's worth of voice acting. High quality sound takes quite a lot of space.

Of course, textures can add up to a sizeable amount of disk space as well, especially if there's bump mapping, which means every texture is basically two in one. But textures are tiled and reused. That huge grassy field is probably just 100 polygons with 3 simple 1024x1024 textures blended together here and there to avoid looking tiled. Takes like 2 megabytes.

Hope someone is slightly less clueless now.

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Good information to know, but I don't think it really relates all that much to people enjoying playing video games. That's kind of like explaining what components make up a bat to a baseball player. It's totally unnecessary to know in order to enjoy your hobby, but interesting nonetheless.

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Good information to know, but I don't think it really relates all that much to people enjoying playing video games.

it is relevant information if you're going to go around like an idiot saying "ONLY 8 GIGS? THIS GAME MUST NOT HAVE VERY MUCH CONTENT"

did you guys just start gaming in 2006 or something?

The irony in this topic is astounding. Being aware of what makes a game work yet lacking the self awareness to see how ridiculous you sound for getting upset at people who don't. It's like Tranny is the only person here with any form of social acumen.

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From: Takfloyd_mkII__ | #023
3D models take like no space. All the environments, characters and objects in a game take about as much space as 10 seconds of the opening cinematic. The only data you need for a 3D object is the XYZ coordinates of each vertex, and how they are connected. A typical high-quality 3D game character may have something like 4000 vertices. Meanwhile, a pre-rendered cutscene requires color information on every pixel on the screen for every frame. If it's HD, that's 1920 x 1280 = 2457600 pixels, each typically needing 32 bits of color information... PER FRAME. Possibly at 60 frames per second. See how huge that difference is?

Almost everything you say here is completely wrong, but your main point has the right idea

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Being aware of what makes a game work yet lacking the self awareness to see how ridiculous you sound for getting upset at people who don't.

you don't have to know precisely how a game works to make a simple observation that in game content has not increased along with storage capacity. and I don't concern myself with whether you or anyone else thinks I "sound ridiculous", when you self censor to make sure you're not losing popularity points on b8 of all places you know you're a pathetic person.