Was the game MGS4 compressed?

May be...

Because when I played it, I didn't see the need for it to take up so much space (50G). I mean, yeah, the graphics were top of the crop, but they weren't groundbreaking. I looked at some Gears of War 2 gameplay and I think the graphics are pretty close, and Gears of War 2 is on a 7G disk. So, was MGS4 not compressed, or do the hour long cutscenes take up an obscene amount of space? If you don't know the answer for sure, please don't answer. Thanks.

Basically the game was left uncompressed, the advantages to uncompressed data is a higher quality in both picture and sound, HOWEVER if compression is done well the difference is almost nonexistent, which you would see in 360 games and back in the day with old games like PS2, PS1, and so forth because typically when a game is made it's normally quite larger than it is when it's shipped.



So basically ur more or less right it saying that it wasn't necassary to leave it uncompressed, it was either through laziness. or becuase they wanted that tiny bit of better sound/picture (we're talking fractions FYI) or even because they wanted to say that it was that big to sell more copies, who knows but bottom line is no it wasnt necassary.



And just for fun if it was released on 360 it'd prolly be about 3 discs which are DVD9s, after compression.



Dont let fanboys point you in the wrong direction.



Hope that helped.



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Oh and the video in this gfame are not required to be compressed because they are running on the game engine and aren't streamed movies which means it's all being rendered in real time using the games graphics. Games With FMVs and pre rendered cutscenes it would need alot of memory then as the above stated.

MGO is Metal Gear Online, it's the online mode of Metal Gear Solid 4.



As for compression, they tried to leave as much uncompressed as possible. They would have needed a big disc because of all the video, which they would have needed to compress with the latest HD codecs anyway. Uncompressed video, even if It's non HD is massive, so they would have used the compression for video.



The audio however was left uncompressed to make the game sound better.

Whats gears of war 2 never heard of that.

everything except for mgo is umcompressed which means better sound and video input

no compression. No need, theres plenty of space.

MGO=metal gear online.