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PotentHerbs on 17 October 2014

Damn!



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jlmurph2 on 17 October 2014
shikamaru317 said:
Hiku said:

That's just straight up bullshit.
When there's that much content missing day 1, they should delay it instead of putting the burden on the players harddrives/internet caps.
20GB, that's almost the size of an entire game. What the hell is on the disc? Just the main menu?

According to Halo Franchise Director Frank O'Connor, all 4 Halo campaigns as well as some of the multiplayer maps. The download is for the rest of the multiplayer maps.


Shouldn't even bother, people are still going to throw hate not knowing the full story. 



Darc Requiem on 17 October 2014
archer9234 said:
Barozi said:
archer9234 said:

That's kind of dumb. If they had that much data. Than why not put two games per, and make a two disc set. You don't run into space issues. This also means the full installation size is 70GB. It be interesting if they let you choose to install a game from the MC collection.

Isn't the point of the collection that all games are playable via one hub?
Making it possible to make playlists that span maps from different games. That wouldn't work if you had to switch discs.

But the point remains that they have could just put those 20GB on another Blu-ray, whatever the content is and make the instal mandatory.

You install the games anyway. Either disc is jsut used for Disc insert check. It wouldn't matter if it was on a second disc.

Darc Requiem said:
Why can't they use a dual layer blu Ray disc?

45GB is a dual layer BD disc. No one has yet used the 100GB created BD discs though.

Can the XB1 or PS4 read those discs? I mean having a 20GB day one patch for a retail game is ridiculous. 



archer9234 on 17 October 2014
Darc Requiem said:
archer9234 said:
Barozi said:
archer9234 said:

That's kind of dumb. If they had that much data. Than why not put two games per, and make a two disc set. You don't run into space issues. This also means the full installation size is 70GB. It be interesting if they let you choose to install a game from the MC collection.

Isn't the point of the collection that all games are playable via one hub?
Making it possible to make playlists that span maps from different games. That wouldn't work if you had to switch discs.

But the point remains that they have could just put those 20GB on another Blu-ray, whatever the content is and make the instal mandatory.

You install the games anyway. Either disc is jsut used for Disc insert check. It wouldn't matter if it was on a second disc.

Darc Requiem said:
Why can't they use a dual layer blu Ray disc?

45GB is a dual layer BD disc. No one has yet used the 100GB created BD discs though.

Can the XB1 or PS4 read those discs? I mean having a 20GB day one patch for a retail game is ridiculous. 

I'm assuming all BD players could have a firmware update to allow these to work. But no one has ever used them.



FightingSmile on 17 October 2014

Luckily, MS has external hard drive support though. It seems to me both MS and SONY should have released a 1TB hard drive at the minimum because as the generation goes longer and longer, the games will take more and more



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zumnupy10 on 17 October 2014
FightingSmile said:
Luckily, MS has external hard drive support though. It seems to me both MS and SONY should have released a 1TB hard drive at the minimum because as the generation goes longer and longer, the games will take more and more


Now I feel I should have waited more before buying a 500GB PS4.   1TB versions are inevitable in a few months.



mornelithe on 17 October 2014

Well, for some folks, 20g is a pittance, so no biggie. They should consider an alternate method for those who can't do that in a reasonable amount of time though (or don't have online at all).



Azerth on 17 October 2014
Hiku said:
jlmurph2 said:
shikamaru317 said:
Hiku said:

That's just straight up bullshit.
When there's that much content missing day 1, they should delay it instead of putting the burden on the players harddrives/internet caps.
20GB, that's almost the size of an entire game. What the hell is on the disc? Just the main menu?

According to Halo Franchise Director Frank O'Connor, all 4 Halo campaigns as well as some of the multiplayer maps. The download is for the rest of the multiplayer maps.


Shouldn't even bother, people are still going to throw hate not knowing the full story. 

The last part was sarcasm.
Though at the same time I did genuinely wonder what was on the disc.
Point still stands though. 20GB is almost the size of an entire game. Either launch with 2 discs, or in case the content wasn't finished, delay it until it is, and then release it. If this becomes a trend just because devs don't want to launch with 2 discs, our harddives will fill up fast with unnecesary files.

the content is done if you buy the digital verison youll already have the update.  they just literally filled the disk to its max.  

this is what frankie said about two disks

And remember that if it were two discs, that would completely wreck the functionality and experience of the unified interface. Trust me, two discs would have been easier in a lot of ways.



ironmanDX on 17 October 2014

Wow. Getting 20gb of more content because the blu ray disc was maxed sure gets a lot of criticism here...

The data cap complaints are warranted but please, it wasn't rushed and this keeps costs down for 4 full games and a TV series... You can't blame them logistically....

This is 4 the gamers. Thought you guys would be happy. It's not like we're being nickel and dimed here!



kristianity77 on 17 October 2014
Train wreck said:
Those with data caps are going to take a big hit with that one. I thought that the Evil within's 8 GB day one was bad enough


Evil Within had an 8gb patch?  On consoles?  Cant find anything on this and its not downloaded on my version yet (ps4).  Got any links?



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