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"Holy...80 gigs??"
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Astral Dog
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?
no, i think thats silly,
I understand that it's not a completely logical position to take. Until you play the game you can't know how well it's optimised, or how good the assets are.
As a consumer I tend to compare similar games, especially on a closed platform like a console where power requirements are universal between games. that's how I set my expectations. So for instance If Call of Duty and Killzone (both campaign focused FPS games) both have similar length campaigns but one is double the file size, I will be skeptical.
Huge Succeeded
Banned
but you definitely know that there's far more to filesize than just the length of a campaign.
I'm pretty sure Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is a lot bigger than KZ Shadowfall, filesize-wise. There's a lot of no-brainer reasons for that, too, despite the fact that KZ Shadowfall has better graphics throughout. And a lot of that has to do with the fact that Call of Duty is host to a huge bevy of content outside of the campaign. The same can be said for Gears, too.
Gamezone
Gold Member
I`m not sure how that`ll work with Jack Tretton and Phil Spencer`s quote that every game will be playable offline without any online authentication.
I also don`t understand why Gears of War 4 requires 80 GB, while The Witcher 3 is 30 GB.
cripterion
Member
Shit internet speeds and paying like fiber users (around 45€ per month) yay!
Well check my results, I have shitty speeds and yet I'm only slower than roughly half of France. For such a small country it's just shameful shit to have such an awful quality of broadband.
Well check my results, I have shitty speeds and yet I'm only slower than roughly half of France. For such a small country it's just shameful shit to have such an awful quality of broadband.
Dick Justice
Banned
It's the guy who thinks 60fps looks "fake and gamey".
Coalition-PezRadar
Director of Community, The Coalition
It's hefty but we also did author our textures from day 1 to 4K. The textures are quite large for file sizes.
The Naked Priest
Banned
CyberPunked
Member
User 479360
Banned
I wouldn't mind it much if my Internet wasn't ass (6mb/s). I appreciate smaller games as a result. At least in terms of size.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
On PC? Or XB1?
Cuz if the PC version comes on discs ill bite.
On XB1 imma guess
No multiplayer on disc thats another 30Gb download or some other silly shit.
P.S Do any PC games even come on discs these days...I know Quantum Break Retail is supposed to be coming on discs...which is damn welcome for someone without unlimited internet.
Gamezone
Gold Member
I guess he was talking about the Xbox One version. Developers and publishers kinda expects PC gamers to have a good and stable connection these days, and ready to handle DRM too. He didn`t say anything about a day one download, but the game is 80 GB. I don`t know how much you can compress something on a disc, but I expect a 20-30 GB download in order to get the multiplayer running.
Forerunner
Member
Depends on the developer. Both GTA V (seven discs) and the Witcher 3 (three discs) came with discs. However then you have developers like Bethesda, who like to fuck you over and say it's physical, when all it is one fucking disc. DOOM came with one disc and you still had to download another +35gb, I don't even know why the included the disc.
Rellik
Member
I feel for you, my speed from Sweden to Ohio.
No need to kick him while he's down
As one of the lucky people with high speed fibre and no cap, I don't really care about how big or small a game is these days. But it wasn't that long ago I was stuck on ADSL so I understand the pain.
Gamezone
Gold Member
Didn`t Metal Gear Solid only include the download shortcut on the disc?
Wow seeing that makes me appreciate what I have. I'm in Toronto, I pay about 130$/month CDN, and have unlimited data, and speeds ranging on average from 200-250/Mb/s.My internet speed here in Ohio:
Forerunner
Member
Yeah, it came with a disc that only had the Steam installer on it, lol.
RetroPlayer
Banned
Is it possible to plug in more than one external drive to PS4/xbone at once, to use for game/patch storage?
Might have to go for a couple of 4tb's to add to the two 2tb's I already have. :0
Might have to go for a couple of 4tb's to add to the two 2tb's I already have. :0
Caayn
Member
How do you live with such a high ping?I feel for you, my speed from Sweden to Ohio.
Edit: Nevermind, didn't noticed that you pinged to a different continent.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Hahaha thats pretty shitty of developers.
They waste a whole DVD just for a code/link/installer.
No point really putting the PC-DVD tag on the box, might as well just have it be a good ol CD.
Still hoping GEARS 4 comes on discs....atleast the campaign, the MP can fuck off.
Well, it heavily depends on the character, like Stoneheart Reinhardt. Ingame it's mostly large weapons which could need a slightly larger tetxure like Plague-Doctor Reaper or regular 76. Just not really crisp, more like 720p levels of full detail.
It's not terrible or anything but for screenshotting I wish just for a lil bit more
MillionStabs
Banned
It's really pathetic when threads like this (with actual discussion to be had) turn into dick measuring contests with internet speeds
metareferential
Member
If their server can provide a fast enough download for anyone at anytime, I don't care about game sizes.
I'll delete them from my sdds after playing anyway.
I can't even imagine how shitty it would be to live in a bandwidth-capped nation. I'd start burning down everything protesting xD
I'll delete them from my sdds after playing anyway.
I can't even imagine how shitty it would be to live in a bandwidth-capped nation. I'd start burning down everything protesting xD
DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
Do you get free hard drives or something...?
Huge Succeeded
Banned
oh shit lol
shawnbuddy
Member
Reading that just makes me feel sick, because I have an 150GB bandwidth cap.
Gamezone
Gold Member
Yes, but like they did on Xbox One, you will probably have to download or stream the 4K television show in addition to what's on the disc. Pretty shitty that discs can't come without these massive downloads.
I kind of get what OP is going for. I remember back when I got Riven on 5-6 CDs and I was like boy am I in for a treat.
Same but reversed has applied when I've bought games in genres that should be big, like RPG games with a realistic graphical style and exploration as a big part of the game, and you see that the steam downlod is 954 MB's and you're like meehh.
Same but reversed has applied when I've bought games in genres that should be big, like RPG games with a realistic graphical style and exploration as a big part of the game, and you see that the steam downlod is 954 MB's and you're like meehh.
In the US only the biggest companies still release them, like Ubisoft, 2K, and Activision, and obviously Blizzard. Mainly Ubisoft really. The latest Call of Duty games still come in boxes with six DVDs. NBA 2K games still come in boxes, you can get GTA V in a box with seven DVDs. Sometimes though after a while these physical PC versions end up being ridiculously cheap compared to the digital version. Far Cry 4 is still $40 on Steam (when it's not on sale) but you can get the physical PC version for $15 almost any time. COD games tend to go down in price on PC physical before anywhere else.
EA used to do full physical PC games in the US but now they just ship a box with an Origin code in it. It started doing this with Battlefront I believe so anything before that you can get a physical disc of that activates on Origin. All these other companies usually ship boxes with Steam keys along with the discs. The discs install using Steam.
Betehsda used to ship boxes with four discs containing the full game and steam code but starting with Fallout 4, it just ships one disc with 4 gigs of the game on it, forcing you to download the other 45 gigs from Steam. I think Wolfenstein and Evil Within were the last games Bethesda shipped with the whole game on discs. Square Enix shipped full PC physical versions with Steam activations last gen but doesn't with current-gen games.
In Europe though I think everybody still sells physical PC games, which is ironic because the US is the country that's setting up all the data caps.
Peter Ian Staker
Member
Fuck me I have the same problem.
Cosmote must speed up VDSL expansion ASAP.
I am waiting for it to arrive on two houses for 3 years now.
This has to be the weirdest fetish thread I've seen on NeoGAF.
The Naked Priest
Banned
Yeah, normal ping is about 2-3.