25 gb?Is this a joke or something?

[mika]

Iam just curious is this a missprint or this game is possibly 25 gb!? Iam thinking about buying a hard copy but if the game is that big it will probbly take steam a week to install it as slow as it is! Any feedback is appricated, id also like to know if i have to use steam to play this game,id rather not! Thank you

[Lag_Yeti]

yup its around 25gb, but during preload it was compressed to around 18 not sure if it still wil be compressed though

[Warning]

25GB including conviciton which is 7GB, if u dont have conviction then its 18GB

[Bjørn]

I bought a boxed version a few weeks ago since my internet connection was not very cooperative at the time. I've had some problems with boxed versions of games before in that they want to download through Steam as soon as the CD/DVD-installers start and find my Steam installation.

The store clerk told me that it required Steam to be active but assured me it would install from the DVD's. He was wrong about the Steam thing. It never required it during installation (it wasn't even loaded), and installation went smooth, but it required me to log on to Uplay before playing. It still doesn't need Steam to be running to play it, which is ironic since now I actually want it to be recognized by Steam...

And yes, it's a big game filling up 3 DVDs.

But as for the download speed on Steam I've noticed it's actually pretty quick. My internet connection is not fast even when it's working, and has a max speed of 768 Mbit/s. However when I download from Steam it's sometimes as high as 2,4 MB/s, so I suspect Steam calculates the speed depending on the compression rate of the downloaded data, so you probabably only download about half or a third of the data for most games, meaning you would 'only' have to download about 8-12 GB or something...

[mika]

Thats way the big for a game 25 gb!~ What the hell were they thinking!? Oh it comes with Conviction? I already have it but I think iam gonna end up waiting for a while I dont feel like dropping $60 dollars on a game when in a few months I can probbly pick it up for 20-30 dollars.Is the game itself long? Does it take a long time to complete? And most Important how well do you guys think it will run on Dual Radeon 6970s? It does support crossfire right? Thank you

[Bjørn]

Your choice of course. I loved the first Splinter Cell games where you were rewarded for stealth. The løast few games in the series I have not enjoyed because stealth was not rewarded. I this game it's back to good old intelligent stealth, so I love it.

It supports all of the latest hardware configurations of course, including SLI/Crossfire and all the CPU's you can throw at it.

I have 32 GB RAM, a 6 core Intel CPU and the 690 NVidia card (a SLI card in one card basically), and the new NVidia GeForce Experience which automatically configures selected games for best performance (this game is one of them as of about a week ago), and it set everything to max, and the experience is awesome.

I have only completed the first few normal campaign missions so far as I mainly only have time to play on weekends, but my concentration is constantly distracted by the jaw-dropping graphics in this game.

But you're right it will probably drop in price, but it might take a while since it has gotten very good reviews. 'Everyone' agress that it's the best release since the first Splinter Cell game.

If you have other games to play while you wait, play them. I have probably like 50 games I have never run here on Steam, but can't seem to drag myself out of this...

And now Total War: Rome 2 has started pre-downloading... Damn... I need to quit my job soon to be able to play all these games :P

[mika]

Yeah the graphics do seem really nice, ive played all the Splinter cell like Pandora Tommorow,Double Agent, Conviction, and even the 1st Original Splinter cell on the Regular xbox- But I do have the Splinter cell Mega-Pack I found at microcenter it has conviction,double agent and chaos Theory.Got it for 12 bucks but compared to xbox graphics it looks so NICE on pc the way it was meant to be played~ ...............I actually had a buddy in Scotland I use to play co-op splinter cell conviction i think this guy and me were an Unbeatable team, spent many many hours playing co-cop it was very fun!~

[mika]

I will pick-up blacklist,just gonna wait till it goes on sale a little bit.$60 dollars for 1 game is a little INSANE if you ask me, next thing you know well be paying $100 dollars per game? I mean come on~ Even movies dont cost that much,what the hell are these devolopers thinking? Get rich thats fine,but dont do it on my back~ You know?

[Bjørn]

Yes it's quite an industry, but actually most highly anticipated games like this one cost about 600 NOK here in Norway if you buy the boxed version, which is just under 100 US dollars I think. But Norway is a pretty expensive country.

Normal movie ticket is 100 NOK - or about 15 dollars, which is actually cheaper than in the US I think? (3D movies are 50% more though, as are movies in 'luxury' theatres with 'free' tea/coffee and individual lean-back leather chairs with armrests and tables on each side of the chair etc...)

Anyway, a game can be enjoyed for a long time, while a movie only lasts for a few hours, so I'm good with it :)

[mika]

Theres only a few select games iam willing to spend 60 dollars on, Metro series and this so iam just gonna pick it up tonight when I get to work. Can it be played without installing it on steam??? Thank you

[Allan Red]

steam nt slow for me its taken me like 5 mins.

[Bjørn]

Publicado originalmente por gt40rturbo:

Can it be played without installing it on steam??? Thank you

Yes, like mentioned above the boxed version has no connection with Steam, only Uplay (at least the Nordic version).

[mika]

Yes I was very happy I didnt have to deal with Steams slow-ass download speed-But the game is just great so far!~