60gb for a demo ? i am not gonna play the whole game.

[RoRo1980]

for people like us with slow internet and daily quota for the data, seeing a demo that needs as much as a full game to install is a joke.
i am sure they didn't want to bother making a demo, so they just let u download the whole game and play a small chunk of it.
Meh, gonna buy the physical ps5 edition next month anw, no need to even try it then.

[glitch00]

The "base.cpk" file is 60 GB. You'll have to unpack that file to see what's in it. I think the FF16 demo is an unfair comparison because I believe this one has around double the playtime and has several anime scenes, perhaps even more dialogue, and more playable characters.

[Leinad]

Originally posted by Menos:

Crying about file size in 2024...

Not complaining about game size is the problem, that's why things like CoD consume so much space since the last console generation, it's just dumb

[Aldain]

Originally posted by Leinad:

Originally posted by Menos:

Crying about file size in 2024...

Not complaining about game size is the problem, that's why things like CoD consume so much space since the last console generation, it's just dumb

I wonder how long it'll be before games become terabyte sized monstrosities...and somehow with less gameplay than things from 2 decades prior (like CoD).

Seriously, filesize bloat helps nobody.

[KingKrouch]

Apparently the demo is only like 30GB or so on PS5, so clearly Atlus isn't compressing assets or something. Makes no sense for this to be over that much unless the game is uncompressed, considering the amount of Fire Emblem Three Houses tier texture work is in this game.

[Barderino]

We are in freakin' 2024 if you cannot download a 50gb+ game just do not play bro

[REBirthTheEdge]

This demo seems to be the entire 1st chapter of the game completed with optional dungeon.

It is a big too much IMO, imma gonna play the full game when it comes out.

[Sugoi]

Most of the file size is the video files, which are encoded at extremely high bitrates. And there are a ton of them, so... there you go.

It's absolutely wasteful, but teaching most developers how to use optimized encoder settings is apparently too tall an order.

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by 76561197960369063:

Most of the file size is the video files, which are encoded at extremely high bitrates. And there are a ton of them, so... there you go.

It's absolutely wasteful, but teaching most developers how to use optimized encoder settings is apparently too tall an order.

Eh just have it raw. I want my 4K anime scenes.

[Moby]

I found it weird as well, the game doesn't exactly have high fidelity graphics, it looks like a Switch exclusive, I wonder where all the space is wasted on?

[Sankt Nimmerlein]

Fake news. Download is compressed @ 24 GB.

[KingKrouch]

Originally posted by Sugoi:

Most of the file size is the video files, which are encoded at extremely high bitrates. And there are a ton of them, so... there you go.

It's absolutely wasteful, but teaching most developers how to use optimized encoder settings is apparently too tall an order.

The thing about video bitrates is funny. Because Nier Automata's video files are the overwhelming vast majority of the game's install size and despite looking heavily compressed at a low resolution and framerate, it takes up so much space.

At least in the case of Nier or any other game that doesn't have 2D animated segments, I'd much prefer real-time cutscenes. These cutscenes are mostly done in-engine to begin with.

They should've honestly encoded the videos with AV1 or something.

[REBirthTheEdge]

This is a long ass demo, it almost feels like a whole game.

I think it should have ended at the first Archetype summon, but that's just me.

[permitpurple]

its only a 27 gb download with unpacking, i really do not know what is surprising to you when the game contains insanely high quality textures and content. its like you guys want the game to be unplayable and bad looking just so you can save some space on your computer lmao . i get maybe money/service is an issue but then you shouldn't be thinking about spending full price on this game if you're in that situation.

[RoRo1980]

Originally posted by wao bao shing:

i . i get maybe money/service is an issue but then you shouldn't be thinking about spending full price on this game if you're in that situation.

i hope one day you learn the meaning of the word ''empathy'' and try to be kinder to ur fellow man, you don't know what other people are going through and worst of all, u made assumptions that are not right, not the least, i am getting this game along with silent hill 2 remake, both physical.
you just made an assumption that is not well placed and u should be ashamed of it, we live and learn.

[RoRo1980]

Originally posted by Barderino:

We are in freakin' 2024 if you cannot download a 50gb+ game just do not play bro

oh wow, i think i should just stop playing video games then since someone like u told me to.