Gamezone
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I`m surprised it isn`t bigger.
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I`m surprised it isn`t bigger.
Brom!!!!!!!
I'm half expecting Brom to get his lines reworked in the day 1 patch.
I laughed when the GG devs ran by the quest to meet him in the stream.
We have been seeing game sizes of under 50GB in recent months, probably because more developers have started using in game cut scenes (and I would imagine better compression algorithms). Those uncompressed video files ever taking up lot of space.
Naughty Dog use to, I could be wrong.
Not uncompressed but prerendered video is a huge space hog. More and more devs are switching over to real time cutscenes and I would expect that storage space is the main reason why.
Gamezone
Gold Member
Yeah, Resident Evil was just above 20 GB, so that`s another huge surprise as well. I don`t think we`ll see multiple discs this gen.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
You are wrong.
I stand corrected.
he who dwells
Member
I thought ND used uncompressed pre-rendered cut scenes for their PS3 games?
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
WHOA!!!!! And WOW!!!!
Prithee Be Careful
Industry Professional
Actually, not too far off the mark here - it'd not be unreasonable expect 90+ though.
"You See that building Aloy , we can finally Go there"
TimeEffect
Member
Any review copy impressions ?
DriftingSpirit
Member
Just this -
Badass' post was about the same person saying she "had a date with Aloy" a day or so before she said the quote in Wollan's post.
BossDarkseid
Member
Reminds me of that Xenoblade pic that everyone loves to use to describe the game. looks fantastic.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
They used compressed prerendered videos.
Neoleo2143
Member
Yeah, you can fire projectiles and command the ride to use its melee attack. Looks about as tight as the rest of the game too.
Ah, neat.
There is no such thing as uncompressed video as it makes zero sense. And even lossless compressed video is only for production or to analyse stuff, with humongous resource hunger. In a consumer product, there is always compression (with losses), but there are many grades of possible quality.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
People typically mean as close to lossless as possible when they refer to uncompressed.
"People" shouldn't be so careless with language. Uncompressed means not compressed. Lossless compression and uncompressed content are identical at output but are still distinct packaging techniques. Regardless, nobody ships video content to consumers either uncompressed or with lossless compression. It's just completely impractical in terms of data volumes (one minute of uncompressed 1080p video is roughly 11GB and I'd be surprised if lossless compression could do much better than cut that in half), whereas uncompressed or lossless compression of audio is increasingly common.
As for "as close to lossless as possible?" You can get as close as you want, all it takes is storage space, so the phrase is meaningless.
They aren't uncompressed but are very high quality. They do the same in UC4.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
UC4's cutscenes are realtime.
Remedy didn't lift the embargo early for a 77 MC, regardless of the fact that this score is not as horrible as it used to in previous gens, a 77 MC for GG would be a big disappointment, and in such theoretical case they would definitely prefer the game not having early reviews.
Some people were just straight up trampling smaller dino's too.
Kazuo Hirai
I really want everyone to know how much more Titanfall 2 sold than Nioh. It was a staggering amount.
Yeah, it's true, you could change the clothes
Most of people don't believe it though.
Alcotholic
Banned
I'm a little surprised by the HUD. I guess I was expecting less. It looks really busy to me.
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
Even the ingame errors and bugs appear sometimes in the cutscenes which indicates that the engine is still running the gameplay code while playing the cutscenes that is why you even get gameplay bugs and glitches in some cases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-OeztLjswE
Yautja_Warrior
Member
You can customise it, turn things on and off in the menu or set it to dynamic, so things appear when needed. Pretty good set of options really and GG clearly thought about this for Photo mode and probably just for the fact that they know the game looks amazing.
Yeah....no
1.21Gigawatts
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Equanimity
Member
DriftingSpirit
Member
wrong
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
What the?
Read my previous post and watch the video:
Around 7:50 https://youtu.be/f-OeztLjswE?t=7m50s
Care to enlighten us? Or are you just going to conveniently leave because you have no evidence whatsoever but you are too stubborn to accept it?
Equanimity
Member
Different video options?
Primethius
Banned
IIRC, a downsampled mode for 1080p and the 2160c for 4K.
SDCowboy
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PLASTICA-MAN
Member
You know a gif is more than enough to explain anything (In case some insist on not watching the video)
Edit: I just noticed how Nathan hands cast moving shadows when going back and forth glithing on the prisoners. Nuff said to prove even the glitches in the cutscenes create ingame details.
Most of the cutscenes are not prerendered, but some are and I think Digital Foundry pointed one out at the end of the Madagaskar pursuit. Evidence was you would have less options in photo mode (I believe camera movement in the scene was disabled).
In general cutscenes going real time to have more space on bluray, but the data for cutscenes rises too.
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
The 1080p mode will have: enhanced shadow maps, better anisotropic filtering.
So 4k mode won't have shadow and texture filtering improvements? :/ Other open world games did manage to make improvements in these areas on top of a higher resolution (FFXV, Fallout 4...).