Ok, so I've been loosely following this forum and I was wondering why Rage is going to have 3 discs. I heard that it is only about 15-20 hours in length and nothing that I've seen looks spectacular enough for the need of 3 discs. What is the reason for this? Why do they need all that extra space?

The game uses a new unique proprietary technology called texture virtualization or "megatextures" - the reason for this nickname is because a texture can be SO large it's a "texture island" it's not a small image that you have in DDS format and stamp the same square on whenever you want dirt for example. This is all handmade - it's a continious texture. Everything in the world is unique - there is no repeating texture pattern when you look at the game.

And i think 20 hours of gameplay isn't "just" as far as im concerned , this is not a RPG when everything is repeating for 70 hrs, and the wastelands are obviously VAST amounts of terrain that this game covers.


25 GB is not even large - This game is internally at about ~125 GB large and the studio needed a number of different compression solutions to make it into 22 GB on X360 - it was no easy feat.


3 Discs is rather small - the texture quality isn't anything special at this level - the game was originally planned to be 50 GB on PS3's Bluray.


I don't think i understand the "extra space" thing - extra from what ? What are you comparing too ?

I install all my games on my xbox. How am I going to do this? Does that mean I will have to install all 3 separate discs?