Sega Releases Game Requirements

**Furious Mental** · 10-01-2006, 12:14

Eleven gigs? Holy porn deletion Batman, that's a hell of a lot of space!

**Simmons** · 10-01-2006, 12:26

Originally Posted by Furious Mental

Eleven gigs? Holy porn deletion Batman, that's a hell of a lot of space!

Its not that much space really an 80gig HD costs around $60 where I live another $30 and you can have 200gig.

It is large in comparison to other games.

**rory_20_uk** · 10-01-2006, 12:39

Merely that space is plentiful seems to cause developers to take more and more. And this is before the mods of course!

Is all attempts at opimisation forsaken to get the game out quicker?

And yes graphic requirements are low, but the lower end probably has most if not all of the fancy new features turned off. (Not that eye candy is the biggest factor in me playing the series mind you).

**Brighdaasa** · 10-01-2006, 12:52

11GB would be the biggest game i've ever seen (that's 2 dual layer dvd's or 3 standard dvd's!!)

however, consider that every unit now has multiple textures, and the assasination movies and stuff would take up a lot of space too if they didn't license like DivX or something

also not having those resources compressed and encrypted ensures CA won't have to release in-house tools to allow modding them

**rory_20_uk** · 10-01-2006, 13:11

Some small tools to decompress would be a good idea IMO. However popular mods are, the majority are users with the minority actively tinkering. Even then, many focus on certain areas so would only need to decompress small areas of the game.

Having cutscenes on the same disk that is required in the drive might also reduce the size if the video compression is bad.

**Furious Mental** · 10-01-2006, 13:11

That's a good point. Every cloud has a silver lining I guess.

**JR-** · 10-01-2006, 13:18

Originally Posted by Brighdaasa

also not having those resources compressed and encrypted ensures CA won't have to release in-house tools to allow modding them

if this proves to be the reason i will be a very happy man.

**x-dANGEr** · 10-01-2006, 13:25

11 Gigs.. My..!

Good job CA!

**King Noob the Stupid** · 10-01-2006, 13:32

Will it come on 2 DVDs, though or do they manage to compress it enough to squeeze it on 1? And, as an external HD n00b, I wonder if it makes any differences wether the game's installed on a normal IDE HD or on a USB one?