How will everything fit on a single disc? : V

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:52 am

It just doesn't make sense that so many activities,armor, dialogue and the world good fit on a single disc. Can someone please provide insight on how would they go by doing this or if they will most likely have to cut stuff pre-release?

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:20 am

Better compression.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:35 am

Console ready.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:33 pm

that and they just get rid of certain things like they supposedly did in oblivion.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:06 pm

technology is constantly advancing so they are able to put more on to a disc in 2011 that they were able to put on a disk in 2006

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:54 am

Increased compression on audio, lower quality textures, magic disc of holding...

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 7:13 am

file compression has advanced alot since making oblvion. also other methods in actually creating the game like merging greaves and cuirasses. theres many methods devs use today.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:33 am

Increased compression on audio, lower quality textures, magic disc of holding...

Actually that is all developers need

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 11:17 am

The way the game world is stored very efficiently with the plug-in system allows them to make very large worlds with little space. Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas had all large game worlds that took relatively little space. Skyrim will be no different.

The stuff that do take space are pretty much just the voices and the textures, which are compressed.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 6:56 am

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWizardDidIt

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:40 am

They won't, you'll have to swap discs when visiting certain areas of the map.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:04 pm

A little oil on the disc and a 12 pound hammer to knock the data into place.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 9:30 am

They won't, you'll have to swap discs when visiting certain areas of the map.

Lol, fighting a dragon when all of a sudden you take one step too far..." please change discs" talk about breaking immersion

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:03 am

PS3 uses Blu Ray, so everything will be able to fit easily without having to compress anything. For DVD's they'll just use compression techniques, which Todd said they've gotten much better at during this current hardware cycle.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:07 pm

PS3 uses Blu Ray, so everything will be able to fit easily without having to compress anything. For DVD's they'll just use compression techniques, which Todd said they've gotten much better at during this current hardware cycle.

Man ... you beat me to it. I'm still waiting for a developer to actually use all the space a BD has to offer.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 6:56 am

they cut half the 360 content, giving the full game to PC and PS3 users

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 7:51 am

Low resolution textures and low quality meshes. Probably poor, heavily compressed audio too.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:24 am

They won't, you'll have to swap discs when visiting certain areas of the map.

Not true, don't spread misinformation :nono:

PS3 uses Blu Ray, so everything will be able to fit easily without having to compress anything. For DVD's they'll just use compression techniques, which Todd said they've gotten much better at during this current hardware cycle.

I very much doubt the game would fit a blu-ray disc if it was 100% uncompressed. I think you would be surprised to see how much space uncompressed graphics/audio use.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 7:42 am

We don't know how many discs it will have, and the 360 has a new disc format now, so maybe the extra Gig or so will be enough.

BTW, the Skyrim box looked thicker than a usual 360 box in the new pics (one with the 3 boxes on the map)

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:09 pm

We don't know how many discs it will have, and the 360 has a new disc format now, so maybe the extra Gig or so will be enough.

BTW, the Skyrim box looked thicker than a usual 360 box in the new pics (one with the 3 boxes on the map)

They've already said it'll be on one disc

» Fri Jul 08, 2011 11:38 pm

They've already said it'll be on one disc

Oh, I missed that. Is it using the new format?

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:46 am

Xbox ruined oblivion

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:19 am

^ thats because you gotta shove the pre order map in the box as well lol

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 7:54 am

The only thing i regret for Ob in xbox 360 is that we didnt get the song "Auriel's Ascension", i recently discovered that and i was furious. i hope this time the entire soundtracks in the game.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 11:52 am

I keep hearing that we have better compression things these days. But does it really counter the rate at which graphics and games in general are growing? ( I mean, 20GB games are not out of this world anymore..) i just wonder how big the game will be if they are forced to stay under a 7.5 GB limit.