starcraft said:
It is possible that Lionhead exaggerated, but unlikely. Someone started a thread here on VGC to a demo file you could download that had a five minute video. The download size was 55kb......... It's difficult not to be mislead by developers that claim that 22GB was neccessary for Motorstorm or that one Killzone 2 level "couldn't possibly" have been less than 2GB. Where they to make the same sentence in an honest context, it would go more like "you couldn't possibly make a KZ2 level with less than 2GB, unless of course you compressed the data, which we couldn't do because Sony's PR department said not to."
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You're right, the words "couldn't possibly" are poorly used, perhaps a better sentence would be "couldn't possibly with the quality we wanted". But isn't the phrase "without any noticable quality loss" kind of misleading in itself. They didn't notice the quality difference, or perhaps they see and choose to ignore it. I just fail to see how Lionhead is such a trustworthy group, while all these other groups are obviously using their words with ulterior motives.
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