Single Disc for Xbox 360 Version : V

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:55 pm

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?

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:28 am

Better compression.

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:11 pm

Console ready.

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:40 am

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

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:24 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

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:49 pm

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

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:04 pm

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.

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:46 pm

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

Actually that is all developers need

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:14 pm

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.

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:01 am

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

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:57 am

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

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:27 pm

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

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:55 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

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:21 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.

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:07 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.

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:02 am

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

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:51 am

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

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:19 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.

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:45 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)

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:47 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)

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

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:27 am

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

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

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 2:31 pm

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

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:52 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.

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:52 pm

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.

» Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:32 pm

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.

I could be wrong, but i'm pretty sure Square Enix said that they didn't have to compress anything in the PS3 version of FFXIII, but they did for the 360 version. If they were able to not have to compress any of the cutscenes, or audio in that game with the Blu Ray disc then maybe BGS won't have to with Skyrim?