Gameloft needs better game compression?

Discussion in 'General Game Discussion and Questions' started by don_k, Jul 12, 2010.

  1. TheFamousEccles

    TheFamousEccles Well-Known Member

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    And I quote:

    "one of the reason i joined and registered to TA is because of my big disappointment to gameloft and all of their crap games(not pop and conviction) and would like to share it to other members so they dont jump into the same hole as i do."
     
  2. Notthevictim

    Notthevictim Well-Known Member

    #42 Notthevictim, Jul 14, 2010
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    I'm pretty sure you can get all of those lite versions on the Iphone, and put them on your Ipad. They won't be HD but you seem to only care about gameplay if you want demos

    Personally, I'm ok with their games! They're one of the first developers I've come across and I've liked every game they've made. So far I've bought 10 of their games (9 were from the $1 sale, 1 was $5, so technically I only payed $14) and I have no regrets about buying them. But if people here don't think they're good for idevice games, that only means there are way better games out there. Which is good for me, being new to the iPhone games world!
     
  3. Bmamba

    Bmamba Well-Known Member

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    You right it was released by ubisoft... It s also 53mo not 20mo(even worst)
    But you surely know ubisoft and gameloft are sister company...???
     
  4. Qordobo

    Qordobo Well-Known Member

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    About the demo, yes no HD demo and what? There's the iphone demo.

    Currently almost all demo are only iphone version, the iphone version is more than enough to get a feel of the gameplay of the game.

    For me it worked fine for those I tried the demo and I bought the HD. I got much more unpleasant surprise from few other developers making a special HD version but disappointing the demo iphone version not showing it, like Super Ball 3 HD with bad fps or Paper Breaker for a game totally different than what show the iphone demo.
     
  5. Qordobo

    Qordobo Well-Known Member

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    Lol you bought 90% of Gameloft games and are disappointed? Quite comical you couldn't detect from the demo that you would not like those games. Admit that this seems very suspecting.
     
  6. noelbernie

    noelbernie Well-Known Member

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    hi guys,
    here is some data fron PoP Retro and BIA2.
    Gameloft/ubisoft games are certainly bloated, and here is why :

    - you can extract the .ipa of Prince of Persia:Retro. You'll see that the uncompressed file is 76.5mb, with the sound folder being 62.1mb.

    All the sounds are WAV files, not midi or AAC.

    So the game itself is not that big (the PC version was less that 1mb, but this is the Mac version and has much better graphics and textures.)


    - I also checked for Brother in Arms 2 iphone and intro movies are very small : 5.9mb, plus 5.9 mb for the flipped version (WTF??)

    But again, huge sounds file (170mb), textures (65mb), sprites for iphone4 (61mb0 and sprites for older iphone (15mb) and so on.
     
  7. sdmiracle

    sdmiracle Well-Known Member

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    yea, what i concern about is the gameplay is good or not. if it's good, i dun mind playing a rip off lol
     
  8. stonery

    stonery Well-Known Member

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    +1 I don't support rip-offs either, no matter whether the rip-off is better or not.

    And I can sense some Gamelofts' in this forum.:rolleyes:
     
  9. elimcfly

    elimcfly Well-Known Member

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    That's why you don't buy the 8 gb iPod. It's a waste if money considering the retina display games are a bigger filesize.
     
  10. yemi

    yemi Well-Known Member

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    I think there are some problems

    1) People expect gameloft games to be console quality. I dont for $7.99 , I just want the game to be good.

    2) Some people cant beat thier games and then get angry saying I hate gameloft.

    3) Some people buy it at a higher price , then it drops to 99 cents.

    I will just tackle the 1st problem. Besides Deadspace and final fantasy3 there is no console quality games for iphone/ipod. If you think your going to get console quality for 99 cents , then in all honesty your extremely stupid. Do yourself a favor and dont buy thier games please , I beg you. That way we dont have to here compliants.
     
  11. Creepshow

    Creepshow Well-Known Member

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    Real Racing 2 is definitely a console quality game on iOs.
     
  12. wensler

    wensler Active Member

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    It is the case. I couldn't agree more. Hope Gameloft can do better with compression in future games. I'm very worried about "Order and Chaos" that is supposed to be released this month. It's so epic that it really needs compression. I hope Gameloft comes up with a good solution.
     
  13. Moarite

    Moarite Well-Known Member

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    Yes yes, they took up too much space and i always didn't keep them for too long.
     

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