The main character has no legs in BioShock because of disk space!!!

From the BioShock forum:

Kevin Levine wrot:

" Seeing your own torso and self-shadow were highly disputed during development:. Booth of which were nixed to make way for better frame rates. An apology goes out to all of the "leg fans" out there, but there is only so much space on an Xbox 360 disk."

why would a pair of legs take up so much space...

And how big is bioshock...

Wow that's pretty funny.

Wasn't an important "feature" to me anyways :P

From the BioShock forum:

Kevin Levine wrot:

" Seeing your own torso and self-shadow were highly disputed during development:. Booth of which were nixed to make way for better frame rates. An apology goes out to all of the "leg fans" out there, but there is only so much space on an Xbox 360 disk."

-Maddog-

So hang on...theycut them out because of framerate issues (so they did at one point exist in the game) and framerate is linked to disk space how exactly? :P

LOL i will definitely buy a PS3 now if the 360 cant even handle my characters legs...

fanboys keep fishing as usual...

poppycock about the legs

But the lack of a shadow for performance is a sensible idea. Its a good trick but I like seeing my shadow in a game, I've scared myself quite often in Doom 3.

From the BioShock forum:

Kev the Dev wrote:

" Bioshock isnt capable on the PS3 because of the lack of memory, and the difficult programming process of the cell, of which we would have thought would ruin the game. "

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You see without a Link anything can be a 'fact' :|

Kevin Levine

-Maddog-

link?

LOL if this is a joke or real. Filonus

:lol:

It's probably just a Cow making a profile on the forums over there, in order to post some crap that isnt true

I believe that it was removed to increase Framerate, but removing it due to disc space is laughable

From the BioShock forum:

Kevin Levine wrot:

" Seeing your own torso and self-shadow were highly disputed during development:. Booth of which were nixed to make way for better frame rates. An apology goes out to all of the "leg fans" out there, but there is only so much space on an Xbox 360 disk."

-Maddog-

Thats not very likely to be a serious statment, a character model would take up little to no space and it wouldnt even have to be a full model since you dont even see your full character ingame since its in First person.

Name me 3 fps's when you look down you see your feet/legs. :lol:Magical_Zebra

FEAR is one. I think maybe Prey.

[QUOTE="Magical_Zebra"]Name me 3 fps's when you look down you see your feet/legs. :lol:chutup

FEAR is one. I think maybe Prey.

Lol I said name 3. Not 1 and a possible. ;)

[QUOTE="-Maddog-"]

From the BioShock forum:

Kevin Levine wrot:

" Seeing your own torso and self-shadow were highly disputed during development:. Booth of which were nixed to make way for better frame rates. An apology goes out to all of the "leg fans" out there, but there is only so much space on an Xbox 360 disk."

Stonin

So hang on...theycut them out because of framerate issues (so they did at one point exist in the game) and framerate is linked to disk space how exactly? :P

First off, without this being substantiated, I do not believe its true.

But if it is....... A better frame rate is decided on the console's power and what else its having to deal with. So, I assume if you incorporate more things, the more the console has to deal with. And there lies a possible issue with having more content and it affecting the frame rate.

[QUOTE="chutup"]

[QUOTE="Magical_Zebra"]Name me 3 fps's when you look down you see your feet/legs. :lol:Magical_Zebra

FEAR is one. I think maybe Prey.

Lol I said name 3. Not 1 and a possible. ;)

the darkness from what i remember.

man there is no way I'm buying this now, legs make or break a FPS game.Hypochondria9

break a leg!

[QUOTE="chutup"]

[QUOTE="Magical_Zebra"]Name me 3 fps's when you look down you see your feet/legs. :lol:Magical_Zebra

FEAR is one. I think maybe Prey.

Lol I said name 3. Not 1 and a possible. ;)

Fear, Halo and Riddick all had feet I'm sure.

From the BioShock forum:

Kevin Levine wrot:

" Seeing your own torso and self-shadow were highly disputed during development:. Booth of which were nixed to make way for better frame rates. An apology goes out to all of the "leg fans" out there, but there is only so much space on an Xbox 360 disk."

-Maddog-

You just made that up.

[QUOTE="Magical_Zebra"][QUOTE="chutup"]

[QUOTE="Magical_Zebra"]Name me 3 fps's when you look down you see your feet/legs. :lol:freshfighter83

FEAR is one. I think maybe Prey.

Lol I said name 3. Not 1 and a possible. ;)

Fear, Halo and Riddick all had feet I'm sure.

LOL i will definitely buy a PS3 now if the 360 cant even handle my characters legs...

fanboys keep fishing as usual...

Jenova_Flare

funny you should mention...

Oh no, no legs, how will we ever enjoy the game? It's almost as bad as if hardly any FPS have ever had legs in the whole history of FPS games. Oh hang, on, they didn't. You survived for close to two decades without legs in your FPS, why is it suddenly a problem?

If you happen to see your legs in an FPS, that means you are looking down and are most likely going to be killed by an enemy due to your lack of knowlwedge on controlling the camera.

Well I think this is a serious problem, I mean if he has no feet how can he walk? EntwineX

[QUOTE="freshfighter83"]Fear, Halo and Riddick all had feet I'm sure.johnusabeis

I didnt get to far in Condemened. The girly man came out in me. :(

[QUOTE="Magical_Zebra"][QUOTE="chutup"]

[QUOTE="Magical_Zebra"]Name me 3 fps's when you look down you see your feet/legs. :lol:freshfighter83

FEAR is one. I think maybe Prey.

Lol I said name 3. Not 1 and a possible. ;)

Fear, Halo and Riddick all had feet I'm sure.

Yeah, Halo 2 had it, I don't think the first one did though I could be wrong.

This isn't a big deal anyway, and the TC has failed to provide a source.... the smell of BS is strong with this one.

my position is that this may be true or not, but it doesn't matter, since the selling point of the game is in no way diminished by something this trivial

I smell BS. :|lantus

wish i had the ability to smell bs. wonders how bs smells like. now that i think about it i dont want the ability to smell it, nvm.:P

[QUOTE="chutup"]

[QUOTE="Magical_Zebra"]Name me 3 fps's when you look down you see your feet/legs. :lol:Magical_Zebra

FEAR is one. I think maybe Prey.

Lol I said name 3. Not 1 and a possible. ;)

Look at my feet man!! They are so cool! Look at my shadow man!! It's soft-shadow!! And wow, look at the enemy's bullets flying trough my skull!