16GB download?

[schwank167]

that seems huge. thats a big ole file.

[Ogami]

Its mostly the cutscenes which are all movie files. About 15 GB of the 20 GB installation.

[Hunt3rXIII]

16gb is not big at all

[VolOpt]

By modern standards 16GB is pretty middle of the road.

[Cathulhu]

It's worth it though.

[Kameraden]

Blu-Ray, Welcome to Modern Gaming. When DVD replaced CD there was also a huge jump in average game size. From around 400-700MB CD age to 1.5-8GB DVD Age.

Heck it is the main reason you can say Valkyria Chronicles runs so well, very little data for the game is Compressed, meaning fast/speedy loading times, including the cutscenes.

It was the brilliance of Blu-Ray as you could make larger games without the need of data/file compression. Means faster, loading, better game performance, without having strong hardware. Thank the XBox for screwing over last generation from this brilliant innovation.

Games last Generation were limited to around 8GBs meaning for bigger games that had to compress, compress more, and compress even more more more, to get more data into a game. In turn this causes worse performance, longer load times. etc etc.

[HANDS BIG PACKAGE SMALL]

After Comcast caps your data to 5gb you wont be able to play most PC games.

[Chinkyinc1881]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Its mostly the cutscenes which are all movie files. About 15 GB of the 20 GB installation.

Which sucks since all the cutscenes are blurry as petroleum in your eyes, and there's more aliasing than teeth in a shark's mouth. If it had use in-game cutscenes instead of prerendered, they would look ten times better for this port and saved about 10GB worth of space.

[HANDS BIG PACKAGE SMALL]

If thats the selling point for a video game then you should probably watch movies. Besides this is a PS3 port from 6 years ago, not a brand new game. The original coders could have died by now xD

[Big Boom Boom]

Originally posted by schwank167:

that seems huge. thats a big ole file.

Final Fantasy XIII was 60 GB, and it was released the same year on console as VC.

[Eyothrie]

I just got a 16gb update, not the game download. Wow...

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Big Boom Boom:

Originally posted by schwank167:

that seems huge. thats a big ole file.

Final Fantasy XIII was 60 GB, and it was released the same year on console as VC.

Final Fantasy 13 was 28 GB on PS3. Only the Steam Version is so large because its dual audio and all video files are downloaded twice for the two languages.
And like Valkyria Chronicles the prerendered cutscenes make up 80% of the games installation.

[Radene]

Originally posted by Chinkyinc1881:

Originally posted by Ogami:

Its mostly the cutscenes which are all movie files. About 15 GB of the 20 GB installation.

Which sucks since all the cutscenes are blurry as petroleum in your eyes, and there's more aliasing than teeth in a shark's mouth. If it had use in-game cutscenes instead of prerendered, they would look ten times better for this port and saved about 10GB worth of space.

Well....yes, by today's standards. The game is 6 years old though.

[Arras]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by Big Boom Boom:

Final Fantasy XIII was 60 GB, and it was released the same year on console as VC.

Final Fantasy 13 was 28 GB on PS3. Only the Steam Version is so large because its dual audio and all video files are downloaded twice for the two languages.
And like Valkyria Chronicles the prerendered cutscenes make up 80% of the games installation.

Pretty sure the PS3 version was like 40GB. Although the double audio certainly adds a massive amount of space for FFXIII yeah.