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Yakuza creator Nagoshi says the era of game size being most important is coming to an end (www.videogameschronicle.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days 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