Petrae
Member
70GB for the Bioshock Collection has me no longer buying it. It's nuts. I'll just stick with the Gen7 versions. This gen has been really good at making me limit my purchases because I don't have the HDD space for them.
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"Holy...80 gigs??"
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70GB for the Bioshock Collection has me no longer buying it. It's nuts. I'll just stick with the Gen7 versions. This gen has been really good at making me limit my purchases because I don't have the HDD space for them.
ViolentP
Member
When I saw the Gears 4 50 to 80 gigs requirement i started drooling. I love it!!! Something about installing a game that requires 50+ gigs of space makes me feel like I'm really getting my money's worth.
Is this a subliminal psychological sort of thing? The more gigs the better. HDDs are so big now anyway so what's 80 gigs really? It sucks for those in AU and other bandwidth capped countries but here in 'Murica...MOAR GIGS! Who agrees?
This is a joke post, right?
YianGaruga
Banned
My first thought when I see a 50GB+ game is "they probably didn't use very good compression"
It says nothing about the quality of the game and there's no reason to want bigger sizes
It says nothing about the quality of the game and there's no reason to want bigger sizes
Darklor01
Might need to stop sniffing glue
Yeah correct.
Shadowheart
Member
It is.
It makes me feel negative because I think of sloppy work.
I do feel positive about it in large games like MMO's and the sorts. But it is still just a psych think. I remember a stupid very basic indy game that was a huge file size for what it did. And I am still jaw dropped by how small that game that is 300KB or something and looked amazing. A FPS sci fi PC game, from a German guy iirc.
I'm not sure what "am crey" is supposed to mean, but my Uverse is pretty good...
Still not a fan of unnecessarily-large game downloads though
SomedayTheFire
Member
I thought this thread would be about how crazy it was when the PS3 had an 80 gb hard drive.
I'm not sure what "am crey" is supposed to mean, but my Uverse is pretty good...
Still not a fan of unnecessarily-large game downloads though
Nice. How much do you pay for that?
Starwolf_UK
Member
My thought to huge filesizes is "what a hassle" or even "I'm going to have to clean the fridge sooner".
As for it being a factor that excites or makes one feel they're getting their monies worth. Isn't it like being hyped for a film because of it's budget or runtime? They're good for marketing but can actually mean very little or be a detrement (e.g. I turned a Children's book with good pacing into a 12 hour film trilogy filled with unnecessary subplots)
As for it being a factor that excites or makes one feel they're getting their monies worth. Isn't it like being hyped for a film because of it's budget or runtime? They're good for marketing but can actually mean very little or be a detrement (e.g. I turned a Children's book with good pacing into a 12 hour film trilogy filled with unnecessary subplots)
BRocknRolla
Member
Ugh... What I wouldn't give for that. I really hope things move in a positive direction like this in the US, but I doubt it will happen anytime soon.
Aces&Eights
Member
I'm not sure what "am crey" is supposed to mean, but my Uverse is pretty good...
Still not a fan of unnecessarily-large game downloads though
OK, I need to go into Comcast and hand them my internet plan be be all...
You're getting your money's worth of uncompressed audio.
qa_engineer
Member
Games on PS3 were already using well over 10-15 gbs so not surprised this is becoming the norm. Glad disc formats can support the higher file sizes and the internet is becoming increasingly faster.
Shotgun Kiss
Member
That's like taking pride in how much exhaust a car puts out.
Gamezone
Gold Member
Yeah, that's kinda weird. Something is seriously screwed with size this generation.
hemo memo
Gold Member
I'm not sure what "am crey" is supposed to mean, but my Uverse is pretty good...
Still not a fan of unnecessarily-large game downloads though
You can download a game before I can load a gif.
Damn that sucks. Just come to The Netherlands.
Have a connection at 500/50 myself. After that your first world problem becomes that the download servers does doesn't take advantage of all your bandwidth
NowhereFaded
Member
Is this real life?
Nice. How much do you pay for that?
I think they basically copied Google Fiber's pricing.
The breakdown is
- $70 Internet
- $49 TV
- $10 Extra TV box
- $19.70 Made-up fees and taxes
148.70 total
I think it's a 1-year contract and 3-year price lock
How are they wasted?
frogger
Member
I'm not sure what "am crey" is supposed to mean, but my Uverse is pretty good...
Still not a fan of unnecessarily-large game downloads though
Can your hard drive even write at 900MP per sec?
Wow
Note it says Mb rathern than MB. Different units. That's actually 100MB or so per second, well within range of any standard drive.
I miss 90s games such as quake which weighted 34Mb or duke nukem which was around 20Mb.
I have 135MB internet connection but havent seen psn going faster than 30Mb/s. The only service that uses whole of my broadband is steam.
On topic: I am the opposite. Huge small filesize games impress me more than just huge filesize games.
I have 135MB internet connection but havent seen psn going faster than 30Mb/s. The only service that uses whole of my broadband is steam.
On topic: I am the opposite. Huge small filesize games impress me more than just huge filesize games.
Shadowheart
Member
I remember Crysis Warhead (?), the expansion, looked better AND ran better than the first game. That solidified my feeling that Crysis could have been much better optimized.
Keep in mind the HD jump with it's audio and video taking up a lot of space.
Keep in mind the HD jump with it's audio and video taking up a lot of space.
1Gb/s is only 125MB/s, so I think that's somewhere around the average sequential write speed for 7200rpm HDDs, and way under the limit for any modern SSD (500MB/s)
hemo memo
Gold Member
Not that bad obviously.
ecosse_011172
Junior Member
Zombegoast
Member
I'm expecting this game to be an open world title with no CGI cut scenes if this game is 80 fucking gigs.
That's dumb, are max speed here in Orlando is 45mbps with Uverse. Paying 25mbps
I'm not sure what "am crey" is supposed to mean, but my Uverse is pretty good...
Still not a fan of unnecessarily-large game downloads though
That's dumb, are max speed here in Orlando is 45mbps with Uverse. Paying 25mbps
Vlaphor
Member
I remember how I used to assign more value to Playstation 1 games if they came in the jewel cases that held multiple discs. Just felt like I was getting more for my money.
Now, in terms of Gears 80gb stuff, I don't mind the download, since I can usually get around 13mb a second on Steam and I bet Microsoft's servers should be fine in that regard. My issue is with the fact that I prefer to install new games on my SSD's, one of which is 250 and one that is 120 (I also have another 120 ssd, but that's a boot drive) and that none of the download services still make it easy to transfer games from one drive to another.
Now, in terms of Gears 80gb stuff, I don't mind the download, since I can usually get around 13mb a second on Steam and I bet Microsoft's servers should be fine in that regard. My issue is with the fact that I prefer to install new games on my SSD's, one of which is 250 and one that is 120 (I also have another 120 ssd, but that's a boot drive) and that none of the download services still make it easy to transfer games from one drive to another.
Still not a fan of unnecessarily-large game downloads though
My lord, I didn't even know downloaded speeds could get that high. I average 3 MB/s on my shit bellsouth (or whatever company that purchased it) with a damn data cap.
My internet speed here in Ohio:
Damn, I remember that pain. AT&T had a monopoly in my neighborhood until about a year ago and these were the speeds I was getting:
Now Charter came to my neighborhood to breed competition and here are my current speeds:
moozoom
Member
Your OP was already a bit sad, but this is even worse. I suppose you can't even touch retro games with a 10 foot pole - those sad, slimy games with ridiculous file sizes.
shiftplusone
Member
No, because this is stupid on both sides
as an example, Force Unleashed was like 31 gigs for the PC version.
Seeing the file size makes my AT&T DSL cry (6Mbps / 150GB cap)
Oh hey, bman, you have AT&T too as well. Bellsouth was working on fiber but when AT&T bought them, all those plans got thrown out.
electric turd
Banned
Explain this to me.
exmachina64
Banned
When I saw the Gears 4 50 to 80 gigs requirement i started drooling. I love it!!! Something about installing a game that requires 50+ gigs of space makes me feel like I'm really getting my money's worth.
Is this a subliminal psychological sort of thing? The more gigs the better. HDDs are so big now anyway so what's 80 gigs really? It sucks for those in AU and other bandwidth capped countries but here in 'Murica...MOAR GIGS! Who agrees?
America is a bandwidth-capped country.