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[endlessflood]

People bag out idTech5, but at the end of the day TNO was a brilliant game so clearly the tech held up its end of the bargain. That's all that matters to me. If large file sizes is the price of great games then I'm happy to pay it

On the digital vs physical argument, one advantage to going physical for big games like this is how much easier it makes the decision to delete the game off your HDD (when space becomes tight). It's so much quicker and easier to reinstall from the disc than it is to re-download the entire massive game, irrespective of how fast your internet is and how large your data quota is. I went physical with TNO for that reason, and will probably do the same for TOB.

 

[ROUGE_BLOCK]

People bag out idTech5, but at the end of the day TNO was a brilliant game so clearly the tech held up its end of the bargain. That's all that matters to me. If large file sizes is the price of great games then I'm happy to pay it

On the digital vs physical argument, one advantage to going physical for big games like this is how much easier it makes the decision to delete the game off your HDD (when space becomes tight). It's so much quicker and easier to reinstall from the disc than it is to re-download the entire massive game, irrespective of how fast your internet is and how large your data quota is. I went physical with TNO for that reason, and will probably do the same for TOB.

We all need 2 TB hard drives! It is the the memory card of the modern day. Or even 1 TB can do the trick for a while.

 

[Revengineer]

We all need 2 TB hard drives! It is the the memory card of the modern day. Or even 1 TB can do the trick for a while.

But 1TB SSDs are like $500.

 

[Gamezone]

Jesus Christ, what's with the suddenly colossal game sizes this gen?

Skyrim was a huge open world game and that was only 6GB.

That's odd. Elder Scrolls Online is 65 GB. It didn't even fit the disc.

 

[daveo42]

Makes sense since this is stand-alone game and not just an expansion. You don't need The New Order to play this one.

 

[Marty Chinn]

Unless you have slow internet, I'm afraid it won't change anything : it would still take the same space on the HDD..

Even with a decent speed it's going to take awhile. That's at least 4.5 hours on my connection.

 

[EatChildren]

Oh well, looks like I'm not playing it this month. Only 15GB to last me until the 14th of May.

Then I'm going to have to download this and The Witcher 3 in one month. Fuck.

 

[entremet]

People still complaining about this stuff?

Get 2TB HD and call it a day.

Games are only getting bigger. That's the price we pay for higher fidelity. And I don't mind.*

*I sympathize if you have data caps. Hopefully a physical release is apropos.

 

[Arby 'n' the Chief]

I need an external like now....

 

[SoapNickTavish]

No matter, I'll make room for this baby. The New Order was fantastic.

 

[Jazzkokehead]

Pfft. Whatever. I can take it. My body is ready to receive more Wolfenstein goodness.

 

[Gamezone]

This might explain the physical release.

 

[Hoho for breakfast]

This might explain the physical release.

ALL games physical and digital install to the hard drive on the PS4 and Xbox One. So it'll take up that 37GB regardless.

Get a 2TB drive guys. Hopefully Sony changes the standard to 1TB soon because having 408GB is not going to cut it when you get games like GTA V and The Witcher going up to and over 50GB.

 

[epmode]

Get a 2TB drive guys.

That won't help the people with bandwidth caps. Physical releases are useful for them.

 

[Hoho for breakfast]

That won't help the people with bandwidth caps. Physical releases are useful for them.

Ah very true didn't think of caps since it's so far (thankfully) foreign to me. Christ that's such a scam.

 

[CHC]

The PS Blog says that The Old Blood is a total of eight chapters across two interconnected stories. So presumably four chapters per story. IIRC the entire campaign for TNO was 16 chapters. So I guess the question really comes down to whether each chapter is an average length one from TNO or if they're even longer. Even if The Old Blood is only overall half as long as TNO, that's a meaty title for only a $20 asking price, $18 with Plus.

Yeah I mean if it's half as long, that's cool with me. I was expecting that or less, so anything else is gravy really, and for 20 bucks, well psssssh count me in baby

 

[PFD]

Extra big, extra blurry.

With texture streaming on the side.

 

[PsihoPerihelion]

The previous main game was the worst optimized port I've played in a while, and I've played a lot of them. What are the chances this will be the same?

Same shitty engine too.

What the fuck? The New Order was even a solid effort on last gen consoles.

 

[Prophet Steve]

People still complaining about this stuff?

Get 2TB HD and call it a day.

Games are only getting bigger. That's the price we pay for higher fidelity. And I don't mind.*

*I sympathize if you have data caps. Hopefully a physical release is apropos.

Besides the large amount of space it costs on a HDD, another issue how is how much space it costs if you want to run the game on a SSD.

That, and downloading takes so long.

 

[ROUGE_BLOCK]

But 1TB SSDs are like $500.

You need to let go of SSD for a while then. Just get a standard HDD for now and then wait for the market to lower the prices of SSDs. Eventually they will become cheaper.

 

[NoMoChokeSJ]

Doesn't matter how big this is.. Day One. I loved the last one and didn't realize this was even coming out.

 

[Spacejaws]

Excellent. Sounds like it's packed full of the stuff that was severly lacking from TNO.

4K FMV's. I am so excite!

 

[Justinh]

My condolences to you who have data caps.

I'm not a too much fan of idTech5 because of no SLI. TNO ran great, but I bet I'd have trouble running at DSR 2x resolution.

Maybe I'm spoiled...

 

[JaseC]

I hope there's a pre-load period on the PC this time around. Valve was kind enough to change the general status of Wolf14 to "preloadonly" when it unlocked here in Australia, which, while good for those still waiting, didn't do me any favours.

 

[DOWN]

Isn't this nearly the length of the original but with new assets and current gen only? Seems reasonable.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

MachineGames, compress your shit.

Little rock hard pellets of poo.

 

[professor denim]

Well that's a shame.

?

 

[molnizzle]

Jesus, I can't imagine living with bandwidth caps in 2015.

My 1TB SSD is ready. =)

 

[DieH@rd]

Maybe this is EU version of the game with several audio languages included. If they are all in some high bitrate 7.1 codec, each of them could take up a bunch of space.

 

[Mob_zter]

Whoa.. 37.14 GB. No way im buying Digital. Im playing New Order these days on PS4. In Chapter 13. Awesome game. But its kinda giving me Motion sickness. I remember Delta Force Giving me Motion Sickness when playing ON PC. But anyway im Planning on Platinum it. Then im Gonna buy OLD BLOOD reatil Disk.

 

[JoJo UK]

I have in total 4TB (2TB, 1.5TB and XB internal) on my XB1, this has just brought me to 40% used...

 

[professor denim]

Since all retail games need to instal... Sometimes i don't mind buying digital, if the price is good that is....

 

[DrM]

I remember downloading the original game on 1 mbit ADSL line. That was a feat, I just hoped that no power surge would occur

 

[Visualante2]

So that's why they're doing a disc release

 

[PAULINK]

Guess i'm uninstalling forza again

 

[Dash Kappei]

How? I mean... What?

That's the size of a whole other game. Just how much content is in this DLC anyways?

Not DLC.
It's a stand-alone release like Infamous FL and there's even a retail release over here (EU).

Guess i'm uninstalling forza again

LOL that's exactly what I did yesterday!

 

[etta]

Guess i'm uninstalling forza again

Haha I can relate. The only reason I boot up FM5 is for Nordschliefe. I am starting to need an extermal HDD.

 

[Pudge]

Good! I have a 2TB hard drive for games in my PC for a reason. Bring on the Mega Textures Baby!

 

[User 479360]

I have just enough space left to install this and have maybe 15gb, if that.

I wish it wasn't so big, though, and that it was releasing physically in North America, because downloading 37.2gb will take about a day for me. At least 15 hours or so, on 5mb/s.

Sometimes I hate country internet.

 

[Gamezone]

ALL games physical and digital install to the hard drive on the PS4 and Xbox One. So it'll take up that 37GB regardless.

Get a 2TB drive guys. Hopefully Sony changes the standard to 1TB soon because having 408GB is not going to cut it when you get games like GTA V and The Witcher going up to and over 50GB.

I know, but not everyone have the ability to download 37GB without problems.

 

[Huggers]

Definitely buying the disc. I'll be waiting until Christmas otherwise for it to download

 

[Tizoc]

MEGA-TEXTURES

I can do without them, thank you very much!

 

[BBboy20]

Physical copy please

Devs been using discs as glorified keys since 2013.

ALL games physical and digital install to the hard drive on the PS4 and Xbox One. So it'll take up that 37GB regardless.

Get a 2TB drive guys. Hopefully Sony changes the standard to 1TB soon because having 408GB is not going to cut it when you get games like GTA V and The Witcher going up to and over 50GB.

Guess half the games I want to play are on PC and not double dipping on most titles are blessings for me then.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Oh well, looks like I'm not playing it this month. Only 15GB to last me until the 14th of May.

Then I'm going to have to download this and The Witcher 3 in one month. Fuck.

Are in the UK?

I'll probably end up double dipping for the PS4 and X1 versions, so I might be able to help you out if you were planning to buy it on either console...

 

[EVA UNIT 01]

Im down to 25gb on my stock PS4 HDD.
Its time to up this shit to 2TB.

 

[BluenoseGames]

Thank god for my 2TB external hard drive.

 

[SmartWaffles]

It is currently 119 HKD ($15.35) on Xbox One Hong Kong Store:
https://store.xbox.com/zh-HK/Xbox-O...ld-Blood/2c956fdf-e571-4708-a718-28d52e44257f

 

[Zemm]

Id tech pls go and stay go

Utter shit engine, it can't die soon enough. To think that iD created some of the best engines around, and this abomination.

 

[Schryver]

Lol I just realized that Battlefront could be close to 100GB with the textures it has

 

[Nocturno999]

The original is 44 GB. 81 if you buy the bundle?