(UPDATED) NBA Live 14 Demo Arrives on November 19th

[El_Poopador]

Re: A Fully Featured NBA Live 14 Demo is Coming at PS4 Launch

there isn't, but no way this is strictly next gen when its that small, imo. Yeah, mext gen has better ram, better processors but aesthetics aside, all that could be handled on last gen, cause it fits on a last gen disc. So why not just release it for current gen?

this makes no sense. just because my pc has a dvd drive doesnt mean the rest of the hardware is up for running a high end game. disk size does not mean game quality. it means content. thats it. 2k has tons of content like audio clips for interviews face scans and textures, etc. go install nba 2k14 on your pc and look at how large the folder is. then install some mods overtop and watch how much larger the folder gets. the game itself isnt any different, but there is a lot more content, and in many cases that content is much larger.

to insinuate a game is a port because it doesnt take up a ton of space, or to assume another game isnt a port because it does, makes no sense. code takes up minimal space on the disc. so please can we all just stop with the disk space == game quality arguments?

[El_Poopador]

Re: (UPDATED) NBA Live 14 Demo Arrives on November 19th

I don't understand the unneeded overhead to compress the data neither. My thought or rational is that it's goes back to Microsoft's orginial plan of always online, knowing that if most user were going to go digital only this generation, games have to be compress because of download size and bandwidth. I for sure as hell won't download 40 gig game, it would take me about a whole day and eat up a majority of my monthly bandwidth. Knowing that EA was one of Microsoft's compentents of always online, they could have told all their teams to compress as much as possible because of this. Example, for Europeans who buy Day One editions of the Xbox One they FIFA free as a digital download, I'm pretty sure no one wants to wait and download a huge game when they first buy a new console, so compressing all the data would be the best solution and probably was set as a standard for all three EA Sports games. Just my thought, I could be wrong though.

that would make sense, but both next gen consoles have advertised being able to play the game while its downloading, so you dont need to wait for the full thing to download before you can play it.

[bigeastbumrush]

Re: A Fully Featured NBA Live 14 Demo is Coming at PS4 Launch

this makes no sense. just because my pc has a dvd drive doesnt mean the rest of the hardware is up for running a high end game. disk size does not mean game quality. it means content. thats it. 2k has tons of content like audio clips for interviews face scans and textures, etc. go install nba 2k14 on your pc and look at how large the folder is. then install some mods overtop and watch how much larger the folder gets. the game itself isnt any different, but there is a lot more content, and in many cases that content is much larger.

to insinuate a game is a port because it doesnt take up a ton of space, or to assume another game isnt a port because it does, makes no sense. code takes up minimal space on the disc. so please can we all just stop with the disk space == game quality arguments?

[Boilerbuzz]

Re: A Fully Featured NBA Live 14 Demo is Coming at PS4 Launch

this makes no sense. just because my pc has a dvd drive doesnt mean the rest of the hardware is up for running a high end game. disk size does not mean game quality. it means content. thats it. 2k has tons of content like audio clips for interviews face scans and textures, etc. go install nba 2k14 on your pc and look at how large the folder is. then install some mods overtop and watch how much larger the folder gets. the game itself isnt any different, but there is a lot more content, and in many cases that content is much larger.

to insinuate a game is a port because it doesnt take up a ton of space, or to assume another game isnt a port because it does, makes no sense. code takes up minimal space on the disc. so please can we all just stop with the disk space == game quality arguments?

I ready to agree up until the last sentence.

1. Higher Rez texture does relate to graphical quality.
2. More audio assets does equate to more variety which is a facet of quality.
3. More model detail in things like player models and stadiums does relate to graphical quality.

But forget that, the fear unrelated was that is seems the assets didn't change from old gen as much as I would have hoped or expecting after being told that the game can't be done on old gen. That's all.

[Norris_Cole]

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That's almost a 5x difference! That's insane.

Skyrim pc iso was only like 5gb and imo it's the biggest and better game I've ever played, so size doesn't always mean better quality. But these EA games scream "PORT" everywhere, just look at fifa 14...