(By game size he means scope of the game and huge open world maps, not game install size)

  • Maalus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    To be able to say “our map is 100x100km!” The only games where it is worth it to have a huge map like that, is army simulators and RTS. Anything else could probably be better off with polish in some other place, rather than a huge map.

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      1 month ago

      Maybe you can explain this to me… I’ve heard this countless times over the years, but I can’t figure out how it’s measured?

      Is it based on if MC is taking average human strides? It seems like a ridiculous metric.

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        1 month ago

        Games / game engines use units which correspond to size IRL. It’s needed to keep scale consistent. The characters are usually around 1.8m tall for instance