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I was just browsing for good prices for a few new games and i came across the following reviews from 2003 that made me laugh regarding Metal gear Solid 2

"The first shocking thing is the 7.4 gb full installation! It shocked me and my 16gb hard drive!"

and

"Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance is a game to marvel at as it dareing to place it's PC game onto DVD instead to 3 Cd's Which save's you timeon instalation. However, the only down side to the game is it's increadable size a huge 3.6 GB (recomended)or a standered or full install over 7 GB. The game also requires 256 RAM recommended but I think over 256 would be better. The game is also stepping up a ladder in system requirements such as a 64Mb Graphics card, cool or what?"

I know games and computers have come a long way in under 3 years but i never realised how far!
 
Well personally I thought publishers were a bit slow on the uptake putting games onto DVD. It's only really from around 2004 onwards where it has become common when in reality there was a case for making the switch from around 2002 (i.e. when the average game came on 2cds and quite a few on more than 2). Although DVD-R was cost-effective by then as a media, I guess it was just a question of taking time to setup the production streams for DVD instead of CD.

To be fair 7.4gig is still pretty big for a game install even by today's standards. Out of the box (no mods/expansions etc) there's not many around that size. I feel sorry for someone who still only had a 16gig HD in 2003, I mean most people had more than that by 2001!
 
I remember when I built my machine in 2000. I fitted it with a 10 gig HDD. 18gig was out of my range. By 2001 I had a 12 gig HDD. So I had a full 22 Gig of HDD.

Yesterday I bought a 320Gig HDD for less than £60. Because my current 300 Gig of HDD was full. My HDD capacity has increased by 22 times in the last 5 years.

7.5 Gig isn't really that big in the era of 500Gig drives.... :eek:
 
the-void said:
7.5 Gig isn't really that big in the era of 500Gig drives.... :eek:
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Read it again, the review is from 2003 not nowadays. I'm struggling to think of a game that took anything near 7.5GB back then.
 
That installation size seems fairly unique judging by my colleciton of installed games - the only one that beats it is ut2004 with a few map packs installed at 8.5 gig.. the others are mostly under 5 gigs...
 
we're seeing a lot more good compression methods in games now

like mp3 and divx (albeit for music and cutscenes, but still)
 
My UT install reached 3.7gb well before that review was written, it could have been so much more if i had played other mods etc that were about for the game.

SCM
 
Hehe first computer part i remember buying was a 512k upgrade for my Amiga 500 :P Can't remember how much it cost me back then, but it was expensive.

Last thing i remember the price of was 4Mb ram for my Amiga 1200's expansion card that set me back around £130 funny thing is I still have it and it still works :D bring back the amiga imho :P
 
I remember when I bought Baldurs Gate 1 in 1998, opened it up and found 6 CD's. Had to uninstall almost everything I had on my PC to install it. Thankfully it was worth it. I still play it! :D
 
disco Stu said:
I was reading somewhere that 1 mb of memory cost almost 6 million dollers in the late 1960's (NASA was picking up the cost with the moon landing)
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roughly 6 cents per byte, ouch!
 
the first PC that i bought had a 8gb hard drive in and when i installed my first game that was over 1gb ( i think it was diablo 2) i remember thinking :eek:
:p
 
I remember when I had a desktop and that must have had a <1GB hard drive. Then we upgraded and had a whopping 2GB HDD. :cool:

That must have been 10 years ago though.
 
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