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In article <39ma4m$e...@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>, yc...@mhoro.cc.columbia.edu (Yung Jin Chew) says:
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>This last statement  just shows that  you know very  little about  how
>much space full speech would  take up.  Given that  a CDROM has 600 MB
>of free space, you're saying that a game  WITH  free speech would take
>up only 50 MB?  Gimme a break!  I was very much  suprised to  find out
>that  the CD-ROM  version of Quest   For Glory 4   takes  up _544 MB_!
>That's the cost of full speech!
>
>Anyway, on the issue, I think that even  if all that  is added is full
>speech, that enhances the experience so much.   Now whenever  I play a
>floppy-based game, I feel that I'm missing out on so much just because
>there's no speech!!!   It's  like going back to  those  old  black and
>white movies with no  speech...  So MUCH more  can be conveyed through
>the human voice (read: EMOTION) than can ever be conveyed through just
>reading the  words.  That's of course if  it's done well...  And there
>are CDROM games that are done well  -- John Rys-Davies is EXCELLENT in
>QFG4, and I have high expectations for his acting in WC3.
>
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As far as full speech taking up tons of room, that's not always necessarily
true. Privateer with full speech in the entire game only takes up about
170MB or so of CD-Rom space.
In addition, as to your quote that speech adds to the emotion of the game, I
have to say that only if the voice acting is good. If I had to play KQ5
again and listen to the most horrible voice-overs again, I would kill you
(not to be taken literally of course). Now good voice overs could enhance a
game, but it also takes away the imagination of how the written word can be
interpreted, somewhat like comparing a book to a movie. Sometimes it's
better with speech, other times not.
I guess what I really want to say is that I really hope that games in 
general don't become like movies where nothing is really left to the mind to
figure out, passive entertainment. That is one of the main reasons why I
love PC games, I am the one in control of what happens (more or less).
Relax
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