What happened to the 'less is more' way of thinking? Whether it's the ever increasing cost of oil, food, petrol, travel, [insert any commodity here], everything seems to be overly priced or bloated these days!
Games are one of the worst culprits and defiantly becoming more and more glutenous. Why does the pursuit of increased or 'better' graphics automatically equate to quite a ridiculous increase in hardware requirements?
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (455mb)
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (4.995Gb)
- Call of Duty 2 (3.540Gb)
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (6.348Gb)
- Quake III Arena (756mb)
- Quake 4 (2.777Gb)
- World Of Warcraft (6.631Gb)
- Medieval II Total War (7.708Gb)
With the Unreal Tournament 3 Demo weighing in at 992MB, Hellgate London apparently hitting 7.2Gb and games frequently taking close to an hour to install, where does it end? The game developers need to wake up and be responsible. With a 74.5Gb hard drive, I'm left to pick and choose which titles I can have on my hard drive at any one time.
So as I spend £146.99 on effectively two outfits, I'll count my lucky stars that I don't drive, I'm a student and I'm not easily impressed by flashy graphics!