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DOOM 3 Final Video Trailer Released
Ant writes "A new Doom 3 Final Video Preview/Trailer is now out. It is about 42.5 MB big, 2.5 minutes long, and in Quicktime format. Download it from here (direct link and BitTorrent link), FilePlanet (an account required), or FileShack (an account required)."
A Pentium 4/Athlon 3ghz with a gig of RAM?
I haven't tried, so posting Anon :
"f you step through the iD logo, there's a pic of the original doom 3 dude for 2 frames"
nothing for you to see here, move along.
You can't handle the truth.
Is there an AVI/DivX/anything else version of this available for those of us without QuickTime?
I think I will cancel de blender video download, Doom III is WAY more important ;)
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Something beefier than that webserver, I'd say.
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Here's some in-game screenshots from a guy who managed to get his hands on it already.
Doom3 Pix
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I feel that some of the hype generated for this game may be just that. I don't even need a story. Just some baddies to kill. And I need to see the new BFG (there better be a new BFG!)
I'll still go buy it on 8/3 though.
-- Bryan
we have slashdotted the original movie server, but the bit torrent is working fine ... estimated time to download is 5 h 39 m and some odd seconds
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
I'm using Torrents to grab this trailer and I'm getting it at 76 KiB/s on my box standard cable connection here at home, a big improvement on the 404 Not Found I usually expect to see when more than 200 or so users want to see the same thing at once and the server melts.
The press makes out that Torrents is all about getting "free" software and porn. Maybe they should look at it from a different angle.
9 comments, and the site's already bogging down hard ... heck, we need a BitTorrent source just for the dang BitTorrent source for the movie!
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50mb video file link form Slashdot frontpage. nice. 5 sec before a server melt down.
Is Bittorrent the only thing that goes FASTER as it gets slashdotted, or are there other examples of this?
who | grep -i blond | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep
http://www.filerush.com/torrents/d3pcdownloadfinal .mov.torrent
Just in case the server melts. Which it almost certainly will.
This is up from 2k/second about 10 minutes ago. (Maximum realistic speed of this ISP connection: 450k down, 30k up.)
Shouldn't be necessary, but here's a mirror of the torrent just in case.
They didn't show you that the movie is set in modern day times!! WTF??
For Windows users, just install the Kazaa Lite ++ Codec Pack. It's legal (unlike it's p2p software) and includes not only the latest DivX codecs, but quicktime/realplayer Dll's that operate without the quicktime/realplayer software. This means quicktime/realplayer playability and browser streaming without the spyware. They are known as quicktime/realplayer lite.
e ssential-20040704.tar.bz2
/usr/lib/win32
Get the 'mega codec pack' here:
http://g5.edskes.com/klmcodec103.exe
For linux users, of course head here and snag:
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/
Which is the mplayer release of an essential codec pack containing divx, quicktime, realplayer, etc. Those should be extracted (without the sub director in the tar) to
"We're breaking out the ramen noodles. . . "
"Really? Is it someone's birthday?"
Anyone have a direct download link that actually works? Screw this bittorrent.
I got pissed off at trying to get my ATI All-in-Wonder 9800 Pro drivers to work with everything so I sold it on eBay this week. I'm using my GF3 Ti200 until I replace it. Seeing this, I want to replace it ASAP!
What should I get or should I wait a few weeks? Budget is $300.
"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
The Florida mirror seems quite fast on this page: http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/doom3/d3pcdownloa dfinal.zip.html
for those who prefer a more distributed download without the leechers
ed2k://|file|Doom.3.Trailer.Final.(2004).mov|43
plenty of sources
I have a decent system, and lately it seems as if Quicktime movies are VERY resource hungry. I don't even try to play movies with high resolutions. Just try moving the Quicktime window around when you are playing a high-resolution movie. Talk about the ultimate bloat. I'd much rather just download a plain mpeg, even if it is twice the file size.
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Mirror of the torrent
m ov .torrent
http://www.toad.net/~cshafer/d3pcdownloadfinal.
This is , what, the 5th Doom 3 post within a few days ?
Ahwell, since i dig id's work, and am looking forward to Doom 3, i guess it won't hurt ; Just very surprised to see it FP-ed all the time.
Can someone post this in a format that doesn't suck ass?
was 374kb/sec with bittorrent. Maybe I was just lucky. It was for the Cameron Diaz bondage video. Never anywhere else have I got a download speed that fast.
After a few moments, my speed went to ~110 kB/s. Two minutes to go...
I will be in a closed room with my new system (last time I upgraded my motherboard was 2000, abit be6 II for quake3) with my 6 speaker system wondering if I can handle it. I want to be scared. I want to feel the fear. I \/\/ /-\ /\/ 7 70 0\/\/n3d j00!
It looks like I will finally have an excuse to upgrade. With Half-life 2 and Doom 3, looking to be a good year for PC gaming....
"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away" -Tom Waits
Where's the MPEG version? I refuse to use Apple's nagware.
I kept mine running twice as long as I normally do after getting my copy dude - you should have it by now ;-)
Sigh. The headline for this articles should read something like "There's a cool file available and the URL was posted on slashdot. Mark your calendar for next week, when the traffic dies down and you can actually download it."
Disclaimer: I work for a company, but I don't speak for them.
When you can't even play the trailers for the new games.... Sigh.... Oh well, all I need it nethack... right???
Actually, the tracker can get bogged down too. BT isn't completely decentralized.
So if the tracker crashes or just can't handle the traffic there goes the torrent for the most part.
For all of us who can't get through the slashed first page:
l .mov.torrent
http://www.filerush.com/torrents/d3pcdownloadfina
via http
via ftp
the server should be fast enough
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"Anticipation, after all... is everything"
But seriously, I am impressed with how cinematic the game looks. I'm hoping the opening sequence will be playable, like the Halflife pre-event stuff, it looks like a real nice tension builder the action kicks off.
Am I the only person who thought the lip-sync sucked?
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I'm suprised that the req.'s are so low. I can't wait to get it.
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It appears that even in the official demo which was probably done on a very high end machine there are some moments when the frame rate drops into the toilet. It's nice to show off all the eye candy but the last thing I would want in my demo is even a few seconds of crappy framerate. Just seems kinda odd to release it like that.
Also, there is an Easter Egg in the trailer if you remember the original DOOM series.
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If you get the direct HTTP link, it takes you to a Romanian server. Go easy on them, guys..
I don't see why that was modded "funny." I have a Pentium 4 / 3.4GHz, 2 gigs of RAM, and a geForce 6800. And I, for one, am looking forward to playing the game in its full glory. I'm tired of hearing people complain about steep system requirements. This is the year 2004. They aren't just going to crank out some new levels and artwork for Doom 2 and call it "Doom 3." If you can't afford new PC hardware, then go buy an XBox and wait for Doom 3 to come out on that.
I'm getting steady 350 KB/s from the direct download.
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I thought my bandwidth was my own!
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How upsetting that his story was accepted just moments before mine. (Sigh)
I allways have this: I get to download at maybe 40 to 100KB/s and when it finishes i upload to others at 400KB/s to 2MB/sec
So I've just BT'ed the movie and - well - quite honestly, from this new (and, I admit) short sneak preview, I am underimpressed.
Of course I realised that Doom3 was gonna be Old Skool stlyee, but until I saw this clip of prolongued in-game footage, I didn't realise just how 'run backwards through tight corridors shooting at things' is was likely to be.
Answer (given this trailer) is: a huge, big amount of very lots.
Call me a traitor but I'm much more looking forward to HL2 with it's human militia, Eastern European country setting and all-round greater immersion.
I'll give D3 a warez bash and purchase it if I'm still playing after Day 3 (really, I will), but I have a feeling it may be rather short-lived on my hard disk (not to mention the fact that I'm gonna have to endure it on my laptop (pretty sexy, but still...) as I'm away on business for the first half of next week).
Oh timing - you cruel, cruel fate (possibly).
The Village is set in modern times? OMFG! I thought it was set in the late 1700s or early 1800s. What in the fucking fuck? Now I am really disappointed; I'm not even sure I want to see it now. At the end of the movie they will probably just call in the air force to lay napalm over the woods. What a bummer.
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with an iBook G3 900. It played absolutely correct. And my Computer isn't what you would call High-End. :/
He is correct its at the 43 second mark, 10 or so frames after the id logo flashes on the screen. The old school DOOM character flashes in one frame. There is also a monster that flashes a couple frames before it. I looks like an average monster, but you never know.
...the exact same screenshots that have been going around the net for a week.
Explain this picture then...
No, he means how much quicktime sucks.
You'd be pretty close, if the trailers were in WMV HD format.
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So... If my computer can't play the video at over .25 fps, I'm guessing I'll have some problems with the game... Looks like it's time for a new - everything.
I'm not using a Mac. If I were, it would probably be fine. Quicktime is really a Macintosh "thing"; it sucks ass under Windows.
The other aspect of DoomIII that disappoints is multiplayer. Half-Life 2 is pretty much guaranteed to be first-rate, whereas DoomIII will be lucky to be decent, in the long-run at least. Thats what makes it hard to buy this. Without great multiplayer you can only play a game for so long.
I was kicking out 500KB/sec after my download finished from a colocated webserver. I let that run for ~15 minutes to give some back to the community, but then dropped, in order to save on bandwidth charges.
.torrent will be a problem for anyone.
I don't think getting this via the
But does you geForce 6800 have 512MB of RAM? No? Guess that you won't be playing the game in its full glory then.
Doom was my excuse to upgrade! I just placed my order for an Athlon64 3000+, NEO Platinum nForce3 mobo, Radeon 9800 Pro, and some cool stuff like a SATA drive... I haven't upgraded in almost 5 years, so I think I'm due.
:P
I also got a new case with some gay blue LEDs all over the power supply. Looks like I'll have to splice a switch in
i was downloading using the account and about half way through, the download stopped. i re-DL'd, then it got kicked again. finally it said bugmenot account invalid or wrong pass.
:(
:( :(
i guess we slashdotted the account too
i was about 70% the way there too
For those who played Doom countless times and long hours during those early years, I always thought it would have been cool and fun if id would have at least re-created Doom 1 Level 1 in modern high res 3D graphics. Just for fun, they could have opened the Doom III game the exact same way, with you pointing a pistol looking into that pool of water. Not that I'm saying it should look exactly the same, because level 1 was a bit sparse. They could have simply preserved the character and scene while adding in more graphic density or depth.
In fact, what would have been a rather cool way to begin Doom III would have been not being able to get out of the level 1 remake without jumping out of the windows (the ones you could never jump out of on Doom 1, that look out towards the mountains. You then begin your game in the area that you could never see completely into below the windows. A completely new area.
On an unrelated note I feel like id has really let me down. I know many people feel that the game graphics are incredible and fantastic. But I can't help feel a bit disappointed by the fact that this game was made to run well on X-boxes as well as PCs. The X-box technology is now outdated and it appears the Doom III engine isn't maxing out modern PCs capabilities. You see, when id designed Doom 1 for the PC, the game software maxed out what a PC of that era was capable of. In fact even more so, you had to run the game with a small window just to get good frame rates. I remmember needing to play the game in a small window because I was on a 486 DX-33. Later, I got a 486-66 and was able to run it at full res.
What I'm saying here is that id has basically sold out to the masses by making a game that runs on as much hardware out there as possible. As some game reviewers have mentioned, you don't really lose that much even running it at 640x480. I think it would have been cool if Doom III was so sophisticated that it required 3Ghz CPUs, 1 Gig RAM, with a minimum res of 1280x1024, was sold on DVDs only, and that it did some kind of real time ray tracing to get photo realism. In my view, the potential of what id could have tried to do was squandered by the need to make quick profits, instead of steadily increasing sales generated by forthcomming equipment that was capable of running the game. id software had done a dis-service to the industry. Instead of needing to upgrade my hardware, it appears the game will run fine, even on an old dusty X-box. Shame on id, and shame on John Carmack for jumping out of the advanced graphics world in which he was king, and into the world of amature rocketry engineering. Carmack basically squandered the time he could have used to produce a game as advanced as the one that "could" have been made. Too bad for us, too bad for id, and too bad for the industry. I will not be buying new hardware, or advanced graphics cards if I don't have a game that can throttle them into the ground...so that I may look even further forward to my next upgrade.
Sorry for the rant. I just can't believe this game was made to be run on a silly console. I may be wrong, but I believe that at the time it was produced, Doom 1 was not capable on running on any home console. It's a shame that Doom III is.
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the Linux client ships? Hopefully a few days so I can upgrade my video card.
Here's a torrent at 3dgamers. Incidentally, 3dgamers.com has consistently fast servers for downloading games patches, movies, etc. And there's no registration hassles. Ever. Highly recommended.
Yeah baby! More violence! Let's feed the children more violence! While we're at it, let's upgrade that crappy little war over in Iraq to a BIG one! More bombs and killing! That's what I'm talkin' about boyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
The graphics don't look as great as those screenshots we saw a year ago. The game play hasn't changed that much. So I can shoot through that shelf. Can I push it over to help stall the bad guys while I run backwards? Can I spill the contents of those exploding barrels so that the bad guys might slip and fall? Doesn't seem that way from the video. The characters' lips still aren't in sync with the words they're speaking.
I'm not spending several hundred bucks to upgrade my computer so I can play this game. I'll wait until something more immersive comes down the pipe.
to see the headlines, you silly person! :)
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What I really liked about the original doom was entering rooms that had ~30 monsters. Few games are like that these days, with the exception of Serious Sam (which was hella fun, but had the weakest storyline I've ever seen).
The trailer didn't show any of these huge scenes, but more 1 on 1 battles. Well, here's hoping.
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As this thing gets hammered, it seems to be speeding up vastly. I downloaded at an average of 250 kB/s, and this thing has well over 2000 seeds. Simply amazing.
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It's about time Slashdot stopped posting links to stories, articles and downloads that require registration. I'm sick of having to mess around with my cookie/privacy settings and spam-tastic dummy email accounts just to be able to get on to them for one item.
I doubt you were even around when Doom 1 came out. It's a real shame that you've even posted a reply to a long time gamer such as me. I've been around since the beginning.
No, "I" used to love id "so much" because they did things that "other" game companies wouldn't try. Making Doom III run on a console is tanamount to professional treason.
From all the graphics I've seen, Doom III certainly does not "push the limits" on modern hardware. In fact the game looks like a more adanced and rendered "Halo". It looks like the character maps and 3D engine were created two years ago and nothing but story line and graphics were added since then.
And for your information, "rich kids" were all that could afford PCs in the early days. You should pay a penalty for getting the best, that's the way the world works. If everyone catered to the lowest common denominator we'd end up buying everything at the dollar store.
I would like to see a game so advanced that only the few can play it. That's the way it worked for Doom 1, that's the way it should continue to work. That drives the industry, that moves things forward. It gives people something to look forward to. If you don't have any forward vision, then why are you here?
Fuckin' Jesus. Why does nearly every single video game "trailer" try to copy the "cool kids" in Hollywood?!
Ugh. The Doom trailer does the cliche "crescendo, pause, explode" thing THREE TIMES, one of which is the hackneyed "Final Scare" thing.
I guess I'm just pissy at the never-ending globule of mainstreamism infecting everything.
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Yay, he was always one of my most hated monsters. (you can see him at 1:52)
Too bad the double shotgun didn't make the cut.
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I've NEVER seen a mainstream, or even fringe, publication mention Bittorrent.
Actually, take that back. Reutgers Online, trying to do what CNN did to Napster, did a huge article where they linked to suprnova about 5 times talking about free movies and other downloads. THAT mentioned Bittorrent, but only in passing.
But yeah, haven't heard much about BT in the mainstream media at all.
Just watched the trailer. The lighting effects are excellent... best I've seen in a game so far. Monsters also look superb, in terms of both design and animation. Enviroment in general is pretty spiffy... I like the writing on the walls in blood.
On the down-side, I think the weapon effects, particularly the plasma gun, really do look quite lame. Certainly no better than what we've already seen in UT2k4, if not slightly worse.
Also, the trailer gives me some cause to worry about the gameplay. As I understand it, the idea was that this would be a game that would play heavily on the "fear" aspect, and I find constant combat to be a huge fear-negating factor. I'll be upset if the gameplay does turn out to be "just another fps". Of course, it's perfectly possible that they thought they needed to show constant combat in the trailer and that this isn't representative of the full game.
FilePlanet are evil, there are pawns of Satan himself (fitting that they should host a Doom 3 video).
A 1.5-gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 1500.
384 megabytes of memory.
Two gigabytes of hard drive space.
An nVidia GeForce 3 graphics card or better; or an ATI Technologies 8500 or better.
Just thought I'd clear that up for anyone not in-the-know.
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What I want to know is, when can I get a demo?
I don't want to buy the damned game until I know if my machine is good enough to run it acceptably or not.
I *DONT'T* want to hear another peep about Doom 3 from here to release date. Please... you're hurting me.
No, seriously.
Really.
Trailer plays fine on an AMD 2500/512MB DDR RAM/Geforce 4 rig.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
But I think this trailer is actually better than that movie :-o.
You can still play it in ultra-quality mode; there'll just be a little more hitchiness as the textures are swapped over the AGP bus.
To people new to BitTorrent: Leave the BitTorrent program running after your download completes. That lets other people grab fragments of the file from your computer, using your outgoing bandwidth (which is likely mostly idle anyway). I downloaded the file in a couple of minutes, but my cable modem is still pumping out 30 kilobyte/sec to other BT peers.
:) )
(If someone here is actually using your outgoing bandwidth for other things, consider yourself mentioned, and spare the Slashdot reply.
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"Why does nearly every single video game "trailer" try to copy the "cool kids" in Hollywood?!"
Because pretty much all of their customers are human, and thus will react the same way to that carefully constructed stimuli. Video directors use those techniques because they *work*. They trigger the same reactions in most humans, by working on the wetware at a very old and fundamental level. They thus attract interest and get the blood pumping, making people want to see the movie/play the game/buy the product. Thus generating more money.
If it didn't work, they wouldn't do it.
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Or how to scream like a sissy little girl...
Projector, wall, dark, 7.1 surround sound, loud.
Nuff said.
Did you know you can be apathetic to apathy? Not that I give a shit...
What was id thinking?? I watched the trailer expecting to see monsters, guns, and blood, and the first half is storyline! I don't want a story with my monsters, I want lots of guns!
I should start a petition...
Seriously though, it's good to see a bit of story and interaction in an id game for once.
As for me, I'll be playing the Turkey Punching arcade game for hours on end. Did anyone think that game within a game was clever? Who knows? Maybe there will be a mod to port doom 1 and 2 into doom 3 ingame arcade. You take the WAd files and...
Great, Now I will have to wait until someone cracks the safedisk for it before I buy it.
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Actually, streaming is the answer. I'm streaming it now from GameSpot.
Why bother downloading?
Here is a very extensive list of mirrors courtesy of Blue's News.
3D Gamers, ActionTrip, Computer Games Online, Doom3.de, Doom3Maps.de, FilePlanet (registration required), FileShack (registration required), Fragland.net, Gamer's Depot, Gamer's Hell, GameSpot (streaming for free), GameSpot DLX (registration required), Gamehelper, Gaming Horizon, GenGamers, OzForces,, Yahoo! Games Domain
Couldn't post as a list because "Your comment has too few characters per line"
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"Actually, streaming is the answer. I'm streaming it now from GameSpot."
Why bother downloading?
Are you sure you're watching a true rtsp type streaming version? Maybe it's merely being played as it comes down the pipe! A few moments buffering and then uninterrupted viewing pleasure until you get to the end of the file.
I doubt you're watching rtsp type streaming seeing as the data rate of this trailer is up around 300 Kbps, unless it's a real or wmv video that's been recompressed at a lower bit rate.
I'm more excited about the games that will be created based on the Doom 3 engine than Doom 3 itself (as has often been the case with id). D3 looks alright, but I'm much more interested to see what future designers will turn it into. That said, HL2 looks about on par technologically and stands a very good chance of being a Game of the Year candidate.
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I'm not the original poster, but don't see how this is flamebait at all. May you get metamoderated to shit.
http://www.photodump.com/direct/aranyx/Doom3.jpg
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I hope that is the Arch-vile making a come-back -- one of the greatest game villains IMO.
'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'
In the 5 seconds it took me to switch from the "Save as" browser window to the torrent status window, I was already looking at a 300KByte/s download rate, which is the fastest torrent I've ever seen. It steadily rose to *500KBytes per second* before completely dropping to - zero! Wtf?!
...holy shit.
Because it was done.
~41 Mbytes in less than 2 minutes.
http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/2306/Doom_3_ POTUK.torrent
"instead of creating something new that also works... or works better"
Well, there is no doubt a tendency to stick with what is known to work. It's down to a science at this point, meaning it's a lot cheaper to produce. Creativity costs time (and therefore money); a creative idea needs to be developed before it becomes a working technique; and most of all, it might not work as well the tried-and-true. There's thus little incentive to try new things, and quite a bit of incentive to go with what works.
At the same time, though, you have to remember that they're ultimately working with human psychology, which means that the number of different things they can do that work will be limited. Us humans will react certain ways to certain things because biology has programmed us that way. That puts a bounding box around their potential creativity. They have to push the envelope without breaking it. That's even harder, and more of an engineering problem then an artistic one. It may well be that the tried-and-true formula is the most reliable way to get the most people excited the way they want. It's tried-and-true for a reason, after all.
Remember, the goal of a game trailer (or even most movies) isn't to be as creative as possible, but to sell as much product as possible.
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Is it just me, or does this look almost identical to the (circa 1996) Descent II trailer (Can't seem to get this to work under WinXP)?
yes really. NFO here and torrent here
seed when you're completed!
Yeah, I downloaded it and I'm taking it to work tomorrow, as will probably half of the company. (Game developers.)
Where I would really love to see this is on the gigantic silver screen with the x-thousand watt sound system. I doubt it'll happen though, well at least in Australia. Still, it'd be one ad I'd be happy to have paid to sit through =]
Download the game... it is out on suprnova.org
1) Your analysis is based on bad assumptions so your result is way off. 2) You're a sick bastard for fucking a horse.
The memory on your video card is NOT going towards the framebuffer, but is local storage for texture data that the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) on the card needs to render the scene. While the finished image may only need a few megabytes to display, the actual data required to generate that picture is becoming more and more complex. A single wall texture, uncompressed, can take up tens of megabytes.
That's why 512 MB is required for higher resolution graphics. Not because 1600x1200x32 won't fit, but because the data required to generate that image won't.
It's WMV. It's streaming.