by Damian on Wed Jun 13, 2001 10:30 pm
I would say most DC games (excluding ones such as Shenmue and other obvious massive games) come in under 100 megs and probably a lot under 50. CD games used to be much larger 2-6 years ago because they were all practically stuffing them with MPEG video which takes up massive amounts of space.
Now the "interactive movie" dream has passed (even though WC3 on the 3DO came bloody close if you ask me).
If a game contains loads of speech, lots of locations, music etc then obviously it is not going to fall into this category. Also unfortunately many game companies rarely use the sound hardware any more for music they just stream it off disc, but I remember SEGA used to try not to do this quite a few times with Saturn games. Also I was wondering if Jet Set Radio does this as the music barely ever seems to stop.
P.S I gave JSR back to Carrie on Monday to give back to you but she said I had forgotten to put the disc in the box. However I reckon she looked in the wrong compartment as it has two. I think it is still in the office, have a look tomorrow.