Lose 90 minutes of your life while it loads, just on the data transfer.
As a game developer the problem I've seen with this sort of storage is that designers (like the one in the article) and artists take it as free ticket to make hugh assets that will take far to long to load. They need to realy consider the type of data they will be filling it with. Movies and fine, they can stream and we are not doing anthing else with the bandwidth while we play it.
But when they decide that they need every texture in a level to be 4096x4096 there is going to be a problem. A real chalange facing developers for this platform is going to be keeping the load times down and trying to make the in game graphics look good at 1080i.
My guess would be to expect to wait often and for a long time between levels on most of the next-gen stuff. At least until texture synthesis and other procedural techniques make thier way into the art piplines.
Having played the game for a while now I don't understand how this game was given a teen rating in the first place. The graphic nature of the violent content warranted the M rating from the beginning. Bethesda was apparently up front with the ESRB on how graphic the violence was in the game. So this is just the ESRB trying to cover its' ass.
As a parent this is the kind of game that I would want to know my teen was playing. I probably would not mind them playing it, but I would want to talk to them about it.
The whole naked mod thing is silly. If the logic they are using were to be followed then my web browser needs an AO rating. The ESRB should have just owned up to over looking the violence.
Maybe you think i'm off base, but kids are NOT adults and they can NOT judge things for themselves.
While I agree my 2 (almost 3 year old) in certainly not an adult, he certainly can (and does) judge things for himself. He's just not very good at it. Although he did judge Mario Party 7 to be a good thing, so maybe I'm doing something right....
My view as a parent of a two year old is to know what the heck your kid is playing, legislation or no legislation. I don't need laws to tell me what not to buy, because I stay on top of that shit. Am I scared my son will hook up with a friend who gets to play violent/sex ridden games at his house, no I'm not. I know all of the people whose houses he visits (not many given his age) and I plan for that to continue till his teens.
I could care less about a study done by people I don't know telling me about how to raise my son whom they have never met.
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A 72Mbps transfer rate. (a guess)
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Lose 90 minutes of your life while it loads, just on the data transfer.
As a game developer the problem I've seen with this sort of storage is that designers (like the one in the article) and artists take it as free ticket to make hugh assets that will take far to long to load. They need to realy consider the type of data they will be filling it with. Movies and fine, they can stream and we are not doing anthing else with the bandwidth while we play it.
But when they decide that they need every texture in a level to be 4096x4096 there is going to be a problem. A real chalange facing developers for this platform is going to be keeping the load times down and trying to make the in game graphics look good at 1080i.
My guess would be to expect to wait often and for a long time between levels on most of the next-gen stuff. At least until texture synthesis and other procedural techniques make thier way into the art piplines.
And all this time I thought it was my three year old giving me the headaches and sleep problems...
As a parent this is the kind of game that I would want to know my teen was playing. I probably would not mind them playing it, but I would want to talk to them about it.
The whole naked mod thing is silly. If the logic they are using were to be followed then my web browser needs an AO rating. The ESRB should have just owned up to over looking the violence.
While I agree my 2 (almost 3 year old) in certainly not an adult, he certainly can (and does) judge things for himself. He's just not very good at it. Although he did judge Mario Party 7 to be a good thing, so maybe I'm doing something right....
My view as a parent of a two year old is to know what the heck your kid is playing, legislation or no legislation. I don't need laws to tell me what not to buy, because I stay on top of that shit. Am I scared my son will hook up with a friend who gets to play violent/sex ridden games at his house, no I'm not. I know all of the people whose houses he visits (not many given his age) and I plan for that to continue till his teens.
I could care less about a study done by people I don't know telling me about how to raise my son whom they have never met.