| totalwar23 said: ^^All he'd said was that one DVD-DL isn't enough. So why can't Gears use 2 or 3? Now I'm sure DVD will become outdated and we'll be having 200GB discs in the future but it still begs the question, how is the size limitation of DVDs hindering developers from making long games? And...why would a developer necessary make a longer game just because he/she can fit it onto a single disc? Now, Far Cry, I think, came out on 5 CDs and one just one DVD but at the end of the day, it's was the same game. Granted PCs are different from consoles but it serves the main point. DVDs are not preventing developers from making long games. They merely decided against it. |
I completely agree with you. The advantage is hard to quantify. I would say it this way though.
If at conception of a game, you had 50 gig per disk to work with vs 9 gig per disk, I could see different choices being made as to how the game is designed. Higher resolution textures, more levels, streaming content (might be more feasible if you didn't need to compress anything).
The problem is perspective. We are looking at games that have come out on more then one disk and are asking how those games would benefit from being on one. The answer is they wouldn't. The question is for those games... games where the developers had to think about storage constraints... is how would they have been different if they didn't need to worry about it?
I say they would be better. How much and in what way? Who knows. But saying that giving developers more tools to work with means same game, I think is inaccurate.
