Dragon Age - On the E3 Stage Video

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Windows XP Minimum Specifications
OS: Windows XP with SP3
CPU: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.4Ghz or greater
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RAM: 1GB or more
Video: ATI Radeon X850 128MB or greater
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Video: ATI Radeon X1550 256MB or greater
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space

Recommended Specifications
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz Processor or equivalent
RAM: 4 GB (Vista) or 2 GB (XP)
Video: ATI 3850 512 MB or greater
NVIDIA 8800GTS 512 MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space
 
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Oh my God! That was just awfull --- not Ray and Greg - but the presenter....

Looking at the 20GB hard disk space required to play DA: Origins, I wonder whu this is? Have the games of today suddenly developed a delusion of grandeur? I remember a time when games only needed 2GB of HDD space were considered huge.....

Anyway, it looks like it is time for a new computer...
 
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Looking at the 20GB hard disk space required to play DA: Origins, I wonder whu this is?
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Things like normal and specular maps are multiplying the number of textures needed. Where before you'd have 1 now you have 2-4 etc.
 
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I don´t care what everyone says, the presenter was completely hilarious.
 
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Paul Barnett, not really a designer, more of a shill mixed with total contempt for his audience. If you can't see that, then perhaps you are young enough to appreciate that kind of thing.
 
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Strange, I remember him working on Warhammer Online as a designer, sure he spices everything with his english humor, but contempt for the audience? No, wait it's E3. No wonder about the contempt now.
 
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aries100 said:
Oh my God! That was just awfull --- not Ray and Greg - but the presenter....

Looking at the 20GB hard disk space required to play DA: Origins, I wonder whu this is? Have the games of today suddenly developed a delusion of grandeur? I remember a time when games only needed 2GB of HDD space were considered huge.....

Anyway, it looks like it is time for a new computer...
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Hehe, remember Wing Commander II and its...gosh, 12 (or 14?) floppy disks, for a whopping 20MB of disk space? And let's not mention Amiga's The Adventures of Willy Beamish, with endless disk swapping for those of us not with a Hard Drive...
 
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aries100 said:
Oh my God! That was just awfull --- not Ray and Greg - but the presenter....
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Really? I thought they did a pretty good job of scaling to his level.
 
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Lucas said:
Hehe, remember Wing Commander II and its...gosh, 12 (or 14?) floppy disks, for a whopping 20MB of disk space? And let's not mention Amiga's The Adventures of Willy Beamish, with endless disk swapping for those of us not with a Hard Drive...
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Bah, I remember the excruciating wait as the latest release of NetHack was downloading. All 900 kB of it.
 
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Lucas said:
Hehe, remember Wing Commander II and its...gosh, 12 (or 14?) floppy disks, for a whopping 20MB of disk space? And let's not mention Amiga's The Adventures of Willy Beamish, with endless disk swapping for those of us not with a Hard Drive...
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Funny anecdote, when Pool of Radiance came out (first AD&D game and I was hooked on AD&D at the time) it required HD or 2 floppy drives. I didn't have either in my computer, but I wanted to play, so I ran it with only 1 floppy drive and I had to swap disks like 30 times in a row sometimes... but I was playing dammit!
 
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