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I might pick it up in 3 years so it'll be cheap and fully patched and there's loads of mods out for it. It's the only way to buy games these days.
To be fair, R* are pretty good at not releasing games till they're ready. Something as high-profile as this isn't likely to be a complete bugfest.
Generally I object on principle to paying full whack for games, prices are just silly. I've made an exception for RDR2 though.
100gb at 10mbits - which is even less than 2 megabytes per (1.25) seconds should only take about 24 hours according to download time calculators.
It's not going to take a week...if you are on a 2 mbit connect it will take four days though.
Still, totes doable....
I might pick it up in 3 years so it’ll be cheap and fully patched and there’s loads of mods out for it
Rockstar pretty much bet it right straight away as they don't rush games year after year. Because of this the prices hold near original.
Re downloading times. Just buy the disc. It's a pretty easy workaround
To be fair, R* are pretty good at not releasing games till they’re ready. Something as high-profile as this isn’t likely to be a complete bugfest.
Rockstar pretty much bet it right straight away as they don’t rush games year after year. Because of this the prices hold near original.
Yeah and it’s also the sequel to a pretty buggy game 😉
I’ll probably buy the disc version, mostly because it’s usually £15 cheaper.
My MO is to pick it up in the morning, slot it in the machine and leave it do it’s thing whilst I’m at work. I get 300Mbps at home, but I’ll never see that on launch day, I’ve seen it as low as 5Mbps on Xmas Day.
At my old house I got a whopping 4.5Mbps, I bought one of the Grand Tourismo games on PS3, that really was a horrible mess of a game 48 hours for day 1 patch.
Re downloading times. Just buy the disc. It’s a pretty easy workaround
The 25Gb disc will not quite hold 94Gb of data.
The 25Gb disc will not quite hold 94Gb of data.
XboxOne and PS4 can read dual-layer Blurays I believe, so 50GB, it’s not unusual to have multi-disc games (GTAV came on 7 discs for PC!).
So in theory they could release a 2 disc game that’ll work ‘out of the box’ without a download, not saying they will though, much smaller games have been released “internet needed”.
See above someone else and very wise suggested similar.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-10-20-red-dead-redemption-2-comes-on-two-discs
48 hours to go! hype hype!
Realism article in the Grauniad including those horse testicles again!
Stop it I'm already like a kid at Christmas.
There's also a few seconds of leaked play out there but I'm not leaving linking to that.
Mrs Pondo's away all next week - I wonder if she'd notice the appearence of a PS4...?
Almost certainly. Get an Xbox instead. (-:
Hmm... * Stifles instictive disdain and goes to do some research 🙂
Buy one PS4 that is of course.
Stifles instictive disdain and goes to do some research
In seriousness, there's little between the two. The advice I usually give is "get what your mates have" then you can play online together.
Just got notification from Amazon, my copy has been dispatched.
A little bit of squee just came out.
#metoo
So how many of us are sitting up tomorrow night watching the countdown timer?
my amazon notification came through - think its been on preorder for over a year
really not even that bother to be honest
I'm sure it will be amazing though
That's some preorder time.
#metoo
was faintly hoping it landed a day early - has happened before
me too! hope it doesnt land today - gotta be up early tomorrow!!
was faintly hoping it landed a day early – has happened before
Given it needs a download too it's likely not to unlock until midnight anyway but you never know maybe not.
Even if it lands a day early I don't think it will let you play it until the release date, will it?
I bought a digital copy the other day, it's downloaded onto my Xbox now,but won't let me play it.
I bought a digital copy the other day, it’s downloaded onto my Xbox now,but won’t let me play it.
pesky - could still stroke the box though 😉 (fnar fnar)
i will pe playing it THE SECOND the kids go to bed on Friday night. 7pm my time 6pm yours. Saturday will be a right off. sorry kids
Reviews are appearing now it's IGN so not always reliable and I didn't want to spoil it by reading the full review.
a near miracle says the grauniad
It's been confirmed as a miracle.
there’s a subliminal message in there too - it says ‘ps4’ - what a day! 😉
Hahaha! Well spotted.
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">do we know exactly when it’s playable from? apols if i missed the post explaining but if it’s released tomorrow (ok the disc didn’t arrive early) does it mean that the digital version is playable from midnight tonight? or perhaps midnight us time so could be one of 5am or 7am?</span>
Midnight local time It's counting down on mine.
I've avoided reading the reviews but the Metacritic score is 97.
The critics like it at least!
Yeah I've only checked out the scores. All are hitting high.
Spoiler alert: Actual gameplay (1) and cutscene (2). Hard to distinguish between them!
1. 
2.
😂
The downside of being a teuchter is that the nearest stockist doesn’t open till 6am, and post doesn’t get here till 2pm.
The downside of being a teuchter is that the nearest stockist doesn’t open till 6am, and post doesn’t get here till 2pm.
100GB install....and 85GB release day patch...
what!? Can it be played without an internet connnection? reddit is awash with rumour!
The downside of being a teuchter is that the nearest stockist doesn’t open till 6am, and post doesn’t get here till 2pm.
Digital download had me on at midnight.
what!? Can it be played without an internet connnection?
Maybe once installed.