WTF... 30 GB to download?!

[Unknown User]

Real open world or 99% videos?

[Volcano]

its mostly a movie

[Unknown User]

Originally posted by Volcano:

its mostly a movie

Ouch... thanks!

[paynexkiller]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lies, lol. It's like... 35% Cutscenes. Not movies. All in game play. So animations. Also, there's a ton of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ multiplayer and different game types. Loads of re-playability.

[Archangel138]

After you play through the game, if you want to replay missions you can select various checkpoints and skip the longer cutscenes. I think most of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ whining about them haven't realized that yet.

[Cat]

30 gb for the best tps ever

[Starkzard]

Totally worth it, trust us! :)

[p4p4c0]

30gb downloaded and the game doesn't load. Always getting stuck in that loading screen when launch the game....

[Zodasaur]

OP if you have all the DLC it's 33GB!!!!!!

[dark1x]

I'm surprised to see anyone complain about the size simply because it's the result of releasing a good PC port. While most of the games cutscenes are realtime, they use a lot of video between missions to mask loading points. On the consoles, these videos were presented at 1280x720 but, for the PC version, they actually provided 1920x1080 video clips. Unfortunately, the game uses Bink which results in massive file sizes in order to reach decent quality. I believe Bink was selected due to its low requirements which prevent skipping and stuttering from occuring while loading other data during a video clip.

Typical console ports would just stick with lower resolution video but they actually went out of their way to provide higher quality clips. In addition, the game sports higher resolution textures and some other improved assets which no doubt eat up some space.

That said, the game itself is still massive. Of that 30gb only 8gb is reserved for movie files and another 3gb for audio. The rest is composed entirely of game data. There's a lot of visual variety in the game, however, and loads of animation data that no doubt eats up space.

A lot of people ♥♥♥♥♥ about the cinematic nature of the game but I think it works great in this particular instance. It's a neat experience and handles the transition between cinematic and gameplay better than just about anything else out there.

[Zodasaur]

Originally posted by dark1x:

I'm surprised to see anyone complain about the size simply because it's the result of releasing a good PC port. While most of the games cutscenes are realtime, they use a lot of video between missions to mask loading points. On the consoles, these videos were presented at 1280x720 but, for the PC version, they actually provided 1920x1080 video clips. Unfortunately, the game uses Bink which results in massive file sizes in order to reach decent quality. I believe Bink was selected due to its low requirements which prevent skipping and stuttering from occuring while loading other data during a video clip.

Typical console ports would just stick with lower resolution video but they actually went out of their way to provide higher quality clips. In addition, the game sports higher resolution textures and some other improved assets which no doubt eat up some space.

That said, the game itself is still massive. Of that 30gb only 8gb is reserved for movie files and another 3gb for audio. The rest is composed entirely of game data. There's a lot of visual variety in the game, however, and loads of animation data that no doubt eats up space.

A lot of people ♥♥♥♥♥ about the cinematic nature of the game but I think it works great in this particular instance. It's a neat experience and handles the transition between cinematic and gameplay better than just about anything else out there.

Yeah I pretty much agree. I've never played a game that looks as good as Max Payne 3 on PC, and it plays great too.

[BurningTofu]

I am to guess this was multi-disc for the xbox360 then. For a single player focus game, this is the most I've seen. But then again, I remember vividly back in the 90's when looking at HDD requirement for "Redneck Rampage" reaching 100mb was outrageous lol.

[Clocky]

It's in great part because of the voice acting. When every sinlge thing needs to be voiced, it adds up quickly.

Originally posted by BurningTofu:

I am to guess this was multi-disc for the xbox360 then. For a single player focus game, this is the most I've seen. But then again, I remember vividly back in the 90's when looking at HDD requirement for "Redneck Rampage" reaching 100mb was outrageous lol.

Fallout 2 "HUMOUNGOUS" installation (installs everything, so you don't need the CD in the drive to play) takes 700mb. And yeah, at the time it sure felt like it.

[AlHudsonFX]

Recently Rockstar PC games (Max Payne 3 and GTA IV) are both massive for the high quality textures.

Originally posted by ZodaEX:

Originally posted by dark1x:

That said, the game itself is still massive. Of that 30gb only 8gb is reserved for movie files and another 3gb for audio. The rest is composed entirely of game data. There's a lot of visual variety in the game, however, and loads of animation data that no doubt eats up space.

Yeah I pretty much agree. I've never played a game that looks as good as Max Payne 3 on PC, and it plays great too.

Agree I liked at the time both original Max Payne and this one too.

[Windsor]

If you have the time, search up "Max Payne 3 custscene movie" Nine hours of cutscene that forms into a movie. the game is amazing nontheless. Don't get why people are complaining, and yes, I have played the other two.

[Smog....🐸]

I came here before I bought it and I am glad I did as now I see its a 30gig download, now I know what you are thinking 'kid got no intenets' or whatever.......the truth however, is much worse.

My wife, children and I live in a remote village in Mid Wales in the UK and the ONLY internet provider for the area is BT, now we have our account with SKY and because SKY can't put their own equipmnt in we are capped at 40gig per month.

Again this does't sound so bad BUT, all three of my daughters go to school and they each have laptops to do their homework on, the wife has her laptop for pintrest and other assorted crap and I have my gaming rig for well gaming and erm sites that grown ups look at.

Now keep in mind that we don't get speeds of over 3meg on a good day and after we go over our 40gig monthly limit BT strangle the connection and slow it down at peak times.....the times my daughters need to do homework, the time my wife wants to look at facebook and pintrest and other such ♥♥♥♥♥......

So do I want it YES can I ......no not really and I am kind of pissed about it.