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charger bandit
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So here is a tricky one,which is the largest game ever created? The biggest one I found is X-Plane which is 70 gigabytes big,but it is a simulator so I guess that doesn't count,but it's a honorable mention: http://www.x-plane.com/pg_Sys_reqs.html

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Quik
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I was hoping for it to be game size, as in how big the world is, or how much content there was, not the GB size D':

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An FPSC game containing one level's probably bigger than that.

I'd say MineCraft, it's theoretically infinite, the only limit being your computer.

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Grog Grueslayer
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The size a simulator shouldn't count because they can be added to later. My Dads uses Microsoft Flight Simulator X that started out at 20gigs and is currently 64gigs from all the planes/panels he's added to it.

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Well, I know Dragon Age: Origins is 25GB, same with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (1 and 2). And WoW is similar, according to my friend who plays it. But I can't say I've seen larger games than those (besides simulators).

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To make a game as big as 70 GB is also a great way to limit piracy

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Indicium
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Quote: "To make a game as big as 70 GB is also a great way to limit piracy "


And limit people buying it, too. Would you want a game that came on 20 disks, lol. xD

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And it must take a day or two to install

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Then again, I think WoW roughly approaches that. I spent longer installing it than I did playing it, worst £10 spent oever.

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Quote: " I spent longer installing it than I did playing it, worst £10 spent oever."


bit of opinion here and there, on my main character i have spend 20+ in game days on, on my alt like 5days? or so...

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Rage has 1TB of uncompressed texture data, apparently the game is going to be compressed down to 50-75GB for pc (for the high end Rage experience that is). If games are getting this big, we'll be needing Petabyte drives soon
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You've got to think of mega-texturing as taking a small part of google earth, then making it a ridiculous resolution, then duplicating it for all the shader maps

but really, 75GB


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Quote: "Rage has 1TB of uncompressed texture data"
Really? I find that hard to believe, from what i've seen of it, the graphics don't even look that great. Knowing id it's sure to be a great game, but if it's 50gb installed, I may have to pass.

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Even ID's footage would use compressed textures. It would be very unlikely a gaming computer (even one with multiple CPU+GPU) would be able to render that much texture data 30 or 60 times a second


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Quote: "Rage has 1TB of uncompressed texture data, apparently the game is going to be compressed down to 50-75GB for pc (for the high end Rage experience that is). If games are getting this big, we'll be needing Petabyte drives soon "


I am really REALLY doubting this

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As am I, it looks terrible.

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nooo, the game LOOKS Brilliant x)

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Posted: 1st Aug 2011 00:43 Edited at: 1st Aug 2011 00:44
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id Tech 5 engine uses a technique called Virtual Texturing. Textures can measure up to 128000×128000 pixels. Look up MegaTexture.

Quote: "50-75GB for pc (for the high end Rage experience that is)"


Carmack said in a interview that he might release a high end RAGE for the PC which is about 50-75GB. The normal version I think is about 16GB. Let put it this way, the PS3 version of the game uses an entire blue-ray disc (25GB), the 360 version uses two discs. So I can imagine it being huge for PC with the extra power.
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What kind of jaded gamers have we become to suggest that a game like Rage looks "terrible"?

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The biggest game I've seen on Steam is Aliens vs. Predator, which is 15+ GB. I've heard the Witcher 2 is over 20GB but I don't have it to see.


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Quote: "An FPSC game containing one level's probably bigger than that. "


duh! Dont insult my little baby!

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Well not terrible, just that I can't see anoticeable quality improvement given the supposedly herculean amount of textures it has.

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I just watched the Rage trailer, and I'm confused. Is it a driving game or a fighting game or what? There seems to be a lot of post-apocalyptic stuff around at the moment.

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Because the 21st century isn't the Age of Optimism Obese.

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Seriously?

(Not PC version I'm guessing)
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Quote: "I just watched the Rage trailer, and I'm confused. Is it a driving game or a fighting game or what? There seems to be a lot of post-apocalyptic stuff around at the moment."


driving is co-op mostly as far as i know

but its an FPS as far as i know =P

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@Sasuke

I'm still not seeing the herculean improvement in graphical quality.

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Posted: 1st Aug 2011 02:35 Edited at: 1st Aug 2011 02:35
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Quote: "graphical quality"


Depends on your definition. Rage looks unique because nearly everything is. The artist can make everything look unique and not just have copy's of the same rock all over the place.

For graphical quality, see:

Modded GTA 4: Like this vid more than the other later version.


And modded Crysis (not Crysis 2), when I fine a vid.
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Pitfall for the Atari has the largest world of any game. It never ends!

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The biggest game i've ever seen has got to be TF2 (maybe because i don't game on the PC?)

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@Sasuke

That guy needs to develop GTAV on his own, I will buy it if it looks that good, lazy RockStar... they should fire the team and hire that guy (lol just kidding)

EDIT

woops forgot to add my two and a half pence here...

CS:S with EVERY POSSIBLE MAP downloaded

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Quote: "CS:S with EVERY POSSIBLE MAP downloaded "


and EVERY SINGLE OBJECT RESKINNED


maybe that doesnt count.... yes it does, since we're talking 3rd party xD

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The witcher 2 is very big, it's around 20GB, I think with the updates or patches it's gone up to about 30GB, at least it is for me...

and RAGE is a fps which uses the driving aspect as it's competitive multiplayer and a means of transportation for the player. And yes, the uncompressed textures they had innitially were each several terabytes and that was the main issue that ID had to tackle during the creation of ID tech 5

And that GTA IV mod looks rediculous, I think I'd have to play it to believe it


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Quote: "Rage has 1TB of uncompressed texture data, apparently the game is going to be compressed down to 50-75GB for pc (for the high end Rage experience that is). If games are getting this big, we'll be needing Petabyte drives soon "


I don't find this hard to believe.

'Uncompressed' to me is the programs native format (most likely a .psd) Now ive reached upto 1Gb psd's with character texture sheet set. Thats Ao, Diffuse, spec, emissive ect. Admitidly they were at stupidly high Resolution. 4096x4096, about 200 layers on the diffuse with multiply layers on the Spec and AO + ect.

So yeah before doing the standard optmising, collasping layers and Saving as a .dds, .png or .jpg, textures could easily reach a Tb in a largeworld game.


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Most impressive back in the day was an entire galaxy in Elite within 48k of RAM (Sinclair Spectrum). Oh and LOM (Lords of Midnight) had something like 32000 locations (and it's sequel had double that) which again was pretty impressive for 48k. I believe they both used fractal type algorithms to work all that out, but still very impressive at the time.

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Quote: "What kind of jaded gamers have we become to suggest that a game like Rage looks "terrible"?"


Agreed; at it's very worst, the rage wasteland looks like a high-definition MW2. But at it's best It's one of the best looking canyon landscapes I've ever seen (Linky)

To sum up the long lost thread starting question. Newer games are bigger. That pretty much sums it up. You only have to look to the last few years to find the biggest games


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