Gears Of War on it's own HARD DRIVE?

[1stPerson=MotionSickness]

The xbox 360 harddrive is detachable,If Epic created a video game that was say 20 gigs.How much would it cost for epic to just release the game on it's own harddrive? and how much would the game cost?-maybe microsoft could start saling harddrives with a 20 gig gears of war already on it?

[BAD ELEMENTS]

as far as i know most games are the size of a dvd movie around 3.5 to 3.7 gigs and above.I doubht g.o.w is going to be 20 gigs lol thats would be the size of 4 or 5 dvd movies.Even though the information o the disc is huge it only ever takes a couple of hundred kb's to save most games anyway.

[kastlerock]

I hear Resistance is currently using 22GB on the Blue Ray disk. That is an awful lot.

[BEALbeal 485]

I hear Resistance is currently using 22GB on the Blue Ray disk. That is an awful lot.

everybody is talking about that game but i think GoW has way better graphics and plain out looks better then it. but anyway i really doubt that GoW would be any bigger then oblivion (i dont have the game but i hear its huge and is only like 5 gigs)

[placebo]

To be honest it looks like a halfassed GoW knockoff, I'm pretty appalled. GoW is obviously the older of the two since characters from it were being shown all the way back with those first UE3 videos in 2004.

[gamerboy228]

on topic: making a game that uses its own harddrive is a major mistake.
off topic: resistance sucks, the P$3's only good game is assassin's creed.

[Zoso Fan]

I hear Resistance is currently using 22GB on the Blue Ray disk. That is an awful lot.

If so they suck, because that game looks visually worse the COD2...

[kastlerock]

Man, u guys certainly get your panties in a bunch if another game is even mentioned! I was only commenting on the size of the game. However, I think both GoW and Resistance look great. They each have their own unique settings, timelines etc and I think each will provide me with more hours of fun then I have to give.

[gamerboy228]

my panties are not in a bunch, my knickers are in a twist.

[kastlerock]

Hahaha. That is some funny...!

[steveo9632000]

I hear Resistance is currently using 22GB on the Blue Ray disk. That is an awful lot.

did you read why it is 22GB??? mostly to sound because they have to try and fit all the sound configs. PS3 offers true dolby HD and DTS. so yes it is going to be bigger. now does everyone have true dolby HD or DTS??? nope. they have a broad range to cover so the game takes up more space. i also think that resistance is going to suck. haha

[Tenspeed]

on topic: making a game that uses its own harddrive is a major mistake.
off topic: resistance sucks, the P$3's only good game is assassin's creed.

How could you forget MSG4 and the FF13 ah well(there are many more), Resistance and GoW are two completely different games, and I think they are both going to be really good but ah well, I think alot of people here are just biased towards the ps3 and sony in general. anyway I personally plan on getting both a 360 AND ps3 in time because they are both gonna be awesome and I will be able to enjoy all the awesome games that come out for them.

[kastlerock]

How could you forget MSG4 and the FF13 ah well(there are many more), Resistance and GoW are two completely different games, and I think they are both going to be really good but ah well, I think alot of people here are just biased towards the ps3 and sony in general. anyway I personally plan on getting both a 360 AND ps3 in time because they are both gonna be awesome and I will be able to enjoy all the awesome games that come out for them.

+1 - I couldn't agree with you more. I'll see you on Live and whatever the PS3 has in store!

[1stPerson=MotionSickness]

It would be very easy for Microsoft to market a hard drive already pre-loaded with a game they are already doing it with old school games.and they have already done it in japan with final fantasy.Actually a game on a HD runs about 50x times faster than on a disc.. There is like NO load times at all.Maybe the Next-Gen console will ONLY have a huge Terabyte HD and you just download games.

[gamerboy228]

How could you forget MSG4 and the FF13 ah well(there are many more), Resistance and GoW are two completely different games, and I think they are both going to be really good but ah well, I think alot of people here are just biased towards the ps3 and sony in general. anyway I personally plan on getting both a 360 AND ps3 in time because they are both gonna be awesome and I will be able to enjoy all the awesome games that come out for them.

im not a MGS fan, the box thing is so stupid. and im not anti-sony in anyway. i had a ps2, i just think that with the ps3, theyre making mistakes. however i am anti-RPG, but games with RPGesque elements are fine, like stat building in tony hawk.

[Slicer]

The MGS games are one of the best games ever made imo.

[The Evil Hat]

no way that gears will tae up like 20 gigs its maybe a quarter the size of oblivion im not saying it wont be great im just saying it wont be as massive as oblivion

It would be very easy for Microsoft to market a hard drive already pre-loaded with a game they are already doing it with old school games.and they have already done it in japan with final fantasy.Actually a game on a HD runs about 50x times faster than on a disc.. There is like NO load times at all.Maybe the Next-Gen console will ONLY have a huge Terabyte HD and you just download games.

i havnt posted in about 2 months because ive been on vacation and at camp. at my camp one of the councillors had a moddified x-box that had a huge hard drive and he downloaded games onto it. he says it has almost no load times and obviosly no discs required.

[facemesser]

I hear Resistance is currently using 22GB on the Blue Ray disk. That is an awful lot.

un compressed

[j-wrell]

on topic: making a game that uses its own harddrive is a major mistake.
off topic: resistance sucks, the P$3's only good game is assassin's creed.

assins creed only for ps3,Not anymore! http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/729/729877p1.html
yay no reason for me to buy the ps3 now!

[The Evil Hat]

assins creed only for ps3,Not anymore! http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/729/729877p1.html
yay no reason for me to buy the ps3 now!

Yes that game looked really good

[cchance]

First off...

Assassin's Creed is wicked, and as we all know its been confirmed a 360 title Not even a timed exclusive LOL

secondly

Gears of War won't be over 6-7 gigs... The reason Resistence is 22 gigs is because it contains all the localized versions of the game,... so it has the japan version, the korean, english whichever versions of the game are all on the 1 bluray, so in reality it really doesn't improve the game for the actual players.... Not to mention at 22gigs and the bluray drive speed it will take almost 90-120 minutes just to read the disc on the drive off if it needed to read that 22 gigs of data.

thirdly

Bluray is over hyped, theirs no reason it should be needed not when almost all games lately are under 4 gigs, and considering the new improved streaming functionality on the 360 to stream from the disc and on-the-fly decompression. Theirs no obvious reason companys should need to use the more expensive BD media for a game. Ya they get to produce 1 disc version rather than localized versions but when the media costs 20x as much as blank dvd-r's i doubt it's worth the hassle.

[Fenix24]

everybody is talking about that game but i think GoW has way better graphics and plain out looks better then it. but anyway i really doubt that GoW would be any bigger then oblivion (i dont have the game but i hear its huge and is only like 5 gigs)

I agree fully. Resistance's graphics may be better, but seeing as it's coming out later than Gears and supports 1080p, it should be better. All around though, Gears looks like a much better game.

To the guy a couple pages earlier, the 360 is getting Assasin's Creed WITH rumble,

[Tenspeed]

BTW the the reason the graphics don't look as good is because they brought the graphics down so they could have 40 player online instead of 32. (10x the amount in gears) you people should read this article.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/729/729630p1.html

To be honest it looks like a halfassed GoW knockoff, I'm pretty appalled. GoW is obviously the older of the two since characters from it were being shown all the way back with those first UE3 videos in 2004.

Oh and I don't even know how you could say that rofl, they are to completely different games in every way, lol the only thing similiar I see is that they both have aliens (and their is quite a large gap between the chimera and the locusts) and GoW wasn't planned at the time those UE3 videos came out the idea for the game stemmed from those videos but I believe cliffy did want to do this game for a long time.

[Fenix24]

We'll see how well that 40 player online does. It just takes ONE person with a crap connection to lag everybody out, which considering the amount of players, is bound to happen frequently.

We need a game like Gears that focuses on skill and tactics instead of just trying to impress you with big numbers.

[joeGraf]

40 player online instead of 32. (10x the amount in gears)

Your math seems a bit flawed...

[Tenspeed]

Your math seems a bit flawed...

Yes actually I just noticed that the number 4 was stuck in my head oh well. 8 that is 5x but anyway not that the amount of both games really matters since they are completely different, just wanted people to know why the graphics might not seem as great, (but damn they are good enough for me)

[Tenspeed]

We'll see how well that 40 player online does. It just takes ONE person with a crap connection to lag everybody out, which considering the amount of players, is bound to happen frequently.

We need a game like Gears that focuses on skill and tactics instead of just trying to impress you with big numbers.

And if you read the interview you would realize they are heavily play testing the game to make sure it plays smoothing even with high latency.

[The Evil Hat]

BTW the the reason the graphics don't look as good is because they brought the graphics down so they could have 40 player online instead of 32. (10x the amount in gears) you people should read this article.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/729/729630p1.html


Oh and I don't even know how you could say that rofl, they are to completely different games in every way, lol the only thing similiar I see is that they both have aliens (and their is quite a large gap between the chimera and the locusts) and GoW wasn't planned at the time those UE3 videos came out the idea for the game stemmed from those videos but I believe cliffy did want to do this game for a long time.

why do you all hate it? i thought it looked really cool and agree with Tenspeed that they are DIFFERENT games. i remember when i first read about it i thought wow i wish that was coming out for 360. is it enough to make me buy a PS3? Heck No!! but i still think it looks cool however more people doesnt mean more fun, and there is no way there will be no lag.

[DeadPool]

40 players online would be fun, but imagine the lag. if they could pull it off though, that would rock for a tactical shooter like gears, if they had that many people.

[RIGOR_MORTIS]

I've played high numbers online... It was called Battlefront... High Numbered games are less fun. Heck, even in Halo, I liked 8 instead of 16.

[Tenspeed]

Battlefront was just bad, plus it had vehicles in it so it was like a battlefield game which also suck, resistance I think is gonna be good, definitely better then battlefield/battlefront, plus those are also different games, so it is unfair to compare.

[lockload]

people just dont seem to work together if you get nore than 10 people in a game, gears is the type of game where you work together, resistance looks like a halo clonw 5 yeasr too late

geasr of war is doing thing differently we dont need another halo we haev or original EXCLUSIVELY

[Tenspeed]

Ok you obviously no nothing about resistance if you are calling it a halo clone because the only thing they have that is similiar is that they are fps.

[The Evil Hat]

seriosly resestance looks good what the **** do all of you have against it? it is not a halo clone as tenspeed said one of the only simalarities is that they are fps and gears clone you have got to be ****ing kidding me Gears is a third person stop and pop game resistance is a firts person run n gun. rate it own its own not compared to other games and dont say its a clone cause you dotn like it that is just stupid.

[Helljester360]

As a HDD released a £79.99, plus a charge for the game your looking at going on to £100-£120 a game,...Wake up man FFS!

And 20gig of game data is huge and as the max size of dvd's you can get go up to 14gig, thats 6 gig off of game data,..So you are surgesting that GoW is a double disked title...err nope its not!

It would be nice to know how much game data there is, but 20gig Comon now, unless most of it is high FMV 20gigs a lauth mate.

[pWnyoUNOw]

yeah really. you guys instantly say games suck that havent even come out yet. you have to give them a chance.