| TheGame 2006-08-23, 7:35 pm |
| Zackman wrote:
quote:
> Exactly. Now imagine that the drive has to move bigger chunks of data, move
> them more often and move them through a pipe that's skinnier than what a
> DVD-ROM has. Even if it's constantly streaming data, I don't see how it's
> going to keep up.
Game Developer Mag recently had an excellent article on game streaming
technology. Apparently the common data (for a game like GTA), e.g.
colors, sidewalk, sky, sound, steets, etc are loaded into global memory
area (which explains the initial huge game load), while the other local
data (buildings, neighborhoods, cars, etc) are streamed. I wonder if
Oblivion could have been smoother if streaming tech was used
quote:
> I can't see Insomniac doing a game that stutters a lot or has loading
> screens every 30 seconds, so how can they possibly justify needing 22 GB of
> space?
It could have alot of levels. Didn't they say it has 60 multiplayer
levels or something?
quote:
> The game looks good, there's no questioning it. But is it 22 GB good? It's
> going to be so very, very interesting to see this game and Gears side by
> side. They're very different games by the looks of it, but there's obviously
> gonna be lots of comparisons. And Gears is looking pretty phenomenal.
quote:
>From the clips I saw, Gears will more impressive graphically. But in a
way they are different games. FoM is FPS, supporting 40 players online
(nice!), only offline coop. Gears is TPS, supporting I think 6 or 8
online, with online coop. One negative (IMHO) with FoM and GoW is that
its just a FPS. I have heard nothing about vehicles in either game.
With next-gen gaming, I want vehicles in every FPS...
quote:
> Just Cause, which is coming out for the 360, Xbox and PS2, supposedly has
> the biggest virtual world ever done in a single player game. And it fits on
> a standard DVD too.
It looks great but no online play. Funny that after initially dissing
GTA3, M$ is really embracing GTA type games now. 360 is expected to
have 3 GTA type games this year: Saint's Row, Just Cause, and that
super hero cop game, can't think of its name...
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