The "It doesn't has to be so friggin' compressed" petion
First of all: totally loved Narwhal! Truly one of the best chapters of Monkey Island history yet! 
The thing that bugged me though, was the actual download size of the game, (ca 200 megs) which indicates a huge amount of data compression.
The department that gets hurt the most is definitely the sound quality. If you listen to the "S"es in the dialogue (particularly in Elaine's voice), you see what I mean.
What I don't understand is why the game has to be compressed to the utter limit.
Please let Telltale know, by this petition thread, that we care much more for the content, than the actual size of the game!
We do posess large-sized harddisks ya know!!
The thing that bugged me though, was the actual download size of the game, (ca 200 megs) which indicates a huge amount of data compression.
The department that gets hurt the most is definitely the sound quality. If you listen to the "S"es in the dialogue (particularly in Elaine's voice), you see what I mean.
What I don't understand is why the game has to be compressed to the utter limit.
Please let Telltale know, by this petition thread, that we care much more for the content, than the actual size of the game!
We do posess large-sized harddisks ya know!!
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Mind paying more for Telltale's bandwidth too?
500-700 MB is perfectly fine. Don't compress it in the remaining episodes please TTG!
This isn't the Wii version after all, there are no size limits!
At the very least fix it for the DVD version, pleeeeaaaase?
Voice compression is the biggest problem here, it could really do with some higher res textures as well. I doubt anybody cares if an episode is 500-1000mb.
Not until 2030ish it isn't.
You're crapping me, right? Well, if you want to pay extra money every month just to download one thing, more power to you. Meanwhile, those of us who have a bandwith limit will just be screwed. I say it's good AS IS.
Impressively small, but if Telltale feels they have to cut something or damage something important to get it so small, just... leave it large. To me, the main thing is getting the game that should be made - Size, money and time are all just secondary objectives. (That said I still won't pay £100 for it
People complain about anything they can find, can't they? I get that they'll need criticism on controls, or maybe puzzles being too easy/hard etc.. but the file size being too small? Geeze..
I was more than happy with 188mb, very impressed actually. Thank you Telltale, it only took 15 minutes for me to download.. compared to what, me leaving the computer on over night. The game's perfectly fine, more than that infact when you consider the file size of it.
That's plenty big enough for any other game, so why is it a problem here?
i had absolutely no single moment where i thougt "Dear Lord, this Soundquality is so poor, i hope Telltale will use a higher bitrate in future games blabla". Not in Monkey Island nor in Sam & Max. No hissing "s", nothing. Everything's fine.
btw. you're all LucasArts-Fans right? What's going on when you're playing Dott, MI3, Hit the Rouad or whatever? Are you getting ear cancer?
@DarthBo: yes, this isn't the wii-version, it's already nearly 5 times bigger than the maximum allowed wii-ware filesize, so it's already definitely not the wii-version!
5x ~200mb? There's much more space than that on a DVD you know.
But we'll see what happens. Storage definatly isn't an issue on PC's indeed.
Agreed. Didn't notice anything to do with sound or graphics. I thought they were both beautifully done, in fact.
Now I wonder, if we'd all be arguing if the file was 500 or so MB.
Can't keep everyone happy I suppose.
Wow. They reused one model for a pirate you don't even see in full size.
What really bugged me is that they reused the unicorn model but not the "do you want to rub my unicorn"-dialogues
Of course that won't help with future episodes... but it'll still help sell the game in the first place.
Less than 4% of the countries in the world have great internet.. for the rest of us in the world.. we appreciate what TellTale does to keep file sizes down!
Yeah, the character models were a little confusing at times, gave me some trouble telling the new characters apart.
http://scummgames.net/LaunchOfTheScreamingNarwhal.zip
Not a deal-breaker, but it definitely gives the game a bit of an unpolished feel.
If bandwidth is an issue, why can't they distribute over bittorrent as well as hosting the files themselves? Some of us would gladly host torrents for the games or higher quality audio add-on packs (hint, hint).
It seems that nothing they do will satisfy everyone so they have to try and cover the options that most people will benefit from. Only a select few will even notice this much maligned 'poor' audio so it'll be on the lower end of their lists for improvement.
True. But the only way to be heard and to have your concerns addressed is to bring it up. Telltale listens to fan suggestions. I think so long as we keep things civil (as in, no complaints that the audio compression is ruining your life), I'm all for hearing from others on this issue.
Seems to me that they could issue a high-quality audio add-on. Of course, this may be way more difficult than we realize. And by doing so, they're kind of admitting that there's something "wrong" with the standard audio.
But what the heck, we're buying the games anyway. So apparently we're not too put-off by the audio. Frankly, if this vocal minority stopped buying their games entirely, I doubt they'd notice or care anyway.
Oh of course, I totally agree that voicing your opinion is important and I'm not suggesting anyone keeps their thoughts to themselves but as this topic has been covered at length for other games and Telltale still haven't changed it I suspect they either have other priorities or it just isn't a viable option.
The hard-copy won't be available until 2010 so I don't really see that as a fair solution!
I think, from the consumer's point of view, the only fair thing to do would be to have HQ sound as a separate optional download but that all depends on whether Telltale can even do that. They might have to charge extra for a such a large add-on too.
But I know what you mean.
My ears happened to bleed while playing some S&M (and it's not due to any whip or other tool whatsoever).
Damn you hardcore fans, when you have something else to remember the oldies : ie poor sound quality, you still find a way too complain...
To be (a tinny bit more) serious. You might try listening with crappy ipod earbuds, it might hurt less your ears
Yikes! This sounds like a serious medical issue. Perhaps you should see a doctor. I've heard good things about a Marquis De Singe...