Ok, so I'm definitely buying this game to show my support of this awesome, weird thing, but I was just wondering: Does it really require 4GB of ram to run? I'd love to be able to show some friends on my laptop, anyone had any luck running this below the recommended specs?

Very unlikely. I just started up the game and checked the RAM usage. It hovers between 200 and 300 MB. I only played a little bit of the starting section of the game (walking around, interview, etc.) but I can't think of any reason why the RAM usage would balloon to more than 2GB for any section. I suppose the game could have horrible memory leaks, but I didn't notice any - the memory usage went up and down as I would expect - and anyway even if that happened you could just save and relaunch every once in a while.

CPU usage is also minimal (2-5% on an i5-3350P). I don't think you'll have any trouble.

With graphics that realistic? Duh.

Fantastic, thank you :)