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Rage Held Back By Xbox 360's Limits
Rage Held Back By Xbox 360's Limits
1up - September 16, 2008
Submitted by kspraydad (475) at 6:11PM PST on September 16, 2008
Earlier suggestions of compression compromises are now followed up with news that whole levels are being cut to accommodate the Xbox 360.
Quote: According to Willits, the game was supposed to feature several wastelands for the player to explore. Because of the limitations of the Xbox 360's media, they had to cut down the wastelands to only two, which are themselves split into multiple instances. These changes have been made across all versions of Rage, not just the 360 port.
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1kspraydad posted on Rage (Xbox 360) at 4:12AM PST on September 17, 2008. RE: Rage Held Back By Xbox 360's Limits@apujanata,The reason it isn't a double post is that id is now discussing how they had to make CONTENT changes not just GRAPHICS changes to accomodate the X360.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 475 ]bids
1apujanata posted on Rage (Xbox 360) at 3:46AM PST on September 17, 2008. RE: Rage Held Back By Xbox 360's Limits@noobie,
I also remember that article, since I submitted the article. Here it is
From my article : "The royalty fees to include a third disc in the Xbox 360 version would be so high that it simply isn't a feasible solution"
In fact, this article is only confirming what Carmack said before, so I don't know whether to consider this article as double post or not. So it seems that Microsoft didn't change their policy at all.[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 14935 ]bids
1noobie posted on Rage (Xbox 360) at 12:39AM PST on September 17, 2008. RE: Rage Held Back By Xbox 360's Limits@welshbloke,
I think John Carmack (sorry if i have spelled it wrong) said earlier that the distribution charges increases many fold if we go from 2 to 3 disc... thats why they have kept the number of disc to 2... which is the maximum they can have without incurring extra charges..
I think this 2 disc limit is imposed by MS... i will try to look for the article.[ Oracle ] [ Level 20 ] [ Rank: 468 ]bids
1welshbloke posted on Rage (Xbox 360) at 12:27AM PST on September 17, 2008. RE: Rage Held Back By Xbox 360's LimitsApparently this article was badly reported and may not be entirely accurate. Taken that aside, as they have already split the game to 2 discs why not 3 or 4 let the 360 owners worry about disc swapping and provide the game as you intended to the other formats.
The data issue is a problem though. Either because of multiple discs, file swapping or extended game load times. So I do not think this is cut and dry.
In my opinion you give somebody a 25gb disc they fill it and not necessarily with good things also you take away the limitations which leads to no attempt to optimise. Not really a bad thing just human nature and not all developers will be so cavalier.
The single biggest problem the 360 has in my opinion is the Hard disk. They are simply in the original format (althought getting bigger) to small and what is worse to expensive to upgrade or replace. If the 360 had access to larger of the shelf drives this would in my opinion alleviate a lot of the perceived advantage of the Blu Ray disc.[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 60 ]bids
1Animate posted on Rage (Xbox 360) at 7:21PM PST on September 16, 2008. RE: Rage Held Back By Xbox 360's Limits@kspraydad,
Let's hope this doesn't set a precedent for multiplatform games in the future.[ Oracle ] [ Level 26 ] [ Rank: 241 ]bids
2kspraydad posted on Rage (Xbox 360) at 6:11PM PST on September 16, 2008. Article: Rage Held Back By Xbox 360's LimitsEarlier suggestions of compression compromises are now followed up with news that whole levels are being cut to accommodate the Xbox 360. Quote: According to Willits, the game was supposed to feature several wastelands for the player to explore. Because of the limitations of the Xbox 360's media, they had to cut down the wastelands to only two, which are themselves split into multiple instances. These changes have been made across all versions of Rage, not just the 360 port.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 475 ]
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In response to his discussion of limiting the game to two explorable wastelands, as opposed to more, Willits said the decision was best for all versions of the game and would eliminate loading. "Moving from multiple wastelands into fewer but larger wastelands was a far better decision and is actually giving us more gameplay in the game. We feel the 360 is a great platform and will provide a fantastic Rage experience."
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