Monday, July 30, 2007

Newsflash: DVD too small

Also, water is wet.

For night racing, please insert disc 2.

According to a a staff who is believed to be on the developing over at the official Project Gotham 4 Racing forums, they are having problems Fitting all the data of the tracks which was unveiled at today into the game.

He writes: "You won't see different times of day per city because this involves recreating all the textures again (one for day and one for night). Whilst this wasn't a problem for our dev team, it was a problem fitting all this data onto a single DVD. So we've worked around the problem by providing different lighting models per city. For example, Macau is always in the daytime, but if you play it during a storm everything looks darker and more foreboding. If you play during a blizzard then things are slightly tinged blue and everything seems more frozen. Of course, playing this track in sunshine will make everything appear bright and yellowy."


It's just common sense that it's too small. It was near capacity last-gen with RalliSport Challenge 2 taking up a whopping 6.4GB and the Xbox 360's DVD9 disc has 7.05GB (after security) of available space, which isn't all that much. Say what you will about Blu-ray, but it's got 50GB of space, which by my count is a lot more and with technology, more (not moore) is always better.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Making textures for different times of the day sounds pretty fucking stupid IMO.

Is this a serious blog? I hope not.

Barnolde said...

Everything on this blog is presented in an exaggerated manner.