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wcus...@wppost.depaul.edu (Relax2Max) writes:
>In article <39ma4m$e...@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>, yc...@mhoro.cc.columbia.edu (Yung Jin Chew) says:
>>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!
>>* Milamber,(yc...@columbia.edu)* There have been rumours that the Great One*

>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.

	So which is it boys?  Would full speech REALLY take that much (ie 544Mb)
?  Or is it speech PLUS whatever advertisments companies usually put behind
CD-ROM games?


>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

	I think that is the reason ANYONE likes games.  And you are right... it
seems that the games which tend to stay around are those which you play again
and again in different ways.

							- Falcon