22nd March 2006, 6:01 PM
Quote:I KNOW! My POINT is that it's obvious we DON'T need that space just to have high res textures! DVDs are currently enough! I have 2 gigs of RAM currently just waiting to be filled with textures.
You need more when you factor in development bloat and how much developers hate having to actually put effort into controlling the size of their games... and in addition the PC versions of games are often actually compressed more than console versions of the same games -- to fit the game on 3 or 4 CDs instead of one DVD... so on one hand, I see your point -- PC games use high res textures and don't need more than one DVD as of yet. However, that's an imposed limitation... switch PC games over to DVD three or four years ago, as should have happened, and we'd be seeing some games take more than one of them I'd bet. But people just don't want eight or nine CD games...
As for aspect ratios, why should PCs be tied to just one? The whole point of having a PC is having choice, whether that means 640x480, 800x600 (1.25x the lower resolution), or widescreen resolutions... I know it makes things harder on the developers, but I disagree that this is a "problem" that should be "solved". It's as it should be, as annoying as that must be to developers.
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