Looking to download Record of Agarest War from the PlayStation Network? Make sure you have some hard-drive space available, because this one's a whopper! The downloadable strategy RPG, originally a full retail title, will chomp up ten gigs of your HDD according to the game's North American publisher Asksys Games. Wow.
"I asked around, and it looks like the final size is going to be somewhere around 8-10 gigs," says an Aksys forum administrator. "It sounds like a lot, I know, but I’ve been downloading the debug ROMs at home to take the load off our office internet, and they only take a few hours–I usually start them when I leave for work, and they’re done by lunch."
The PSN version will include extra content over its retail counterpart, so don't think too hard about importing a physical copy. The game is also heading to Europe on the Xbox 360 as a disc.
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10:00 AM on 12.05.2009
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Speaking of which, does anyone know if PSN/XBLA/Steam games use lossy compression for their audio?
I AM GIGABYYYYYYTTTEEEE\!!! IMMA SHARDEN ALL UR HD SPACES!
Wow hour and a half... It would take me over 11 hours to download, so quit your bitching.
If you go to 'Turn Off System' under the "User" tab, it will ask you if you want the system to automatically turn off when it complete 'background tasks', referring to downloads and installing said downloads.
I've already got the retail release, although I might have to see about this if it has some decent extras. I know at least one of my friends will get it, and I can just leach it from them.
And here I am still using my 500 GB HDD for my PS3.
*goes looking for them 1TB HDD*
Its an external HDD, hooked it up with an internal male SATA connector.
Its the fact of DOWNLOAD 10GB of stuff over the internet.
Say bye to your speed if you have a download limit of 10GB.
Oh look, it's this argument again.
I have no problems with Sony downloads, Jim. They're as fast as any other network in my home - Live, Steam, etc. God forbid, there might be a problem on your end or with your ISP.
Maybe Jim should take responsibility for Jim on occasion.
Also, @x1251x the double sided, dual layered DVD can hold a little over 17GB
Isnt this game the one with the weird anime girl eating a super sausage?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFVreGnkyx0&feature=player_embedded#
ah why yes it is!
Well this game looks like super Hentai talking game with anime-raping-manga-girls-with-almost-toshownakedprivateparts. Sure I'll buy it as well... might make a great right-before-you-sleep game >_>; 10 gigs don't phase my 500HDD-BC-PS3
Is it really that much heavier? I looked around for a comparison and found that Burnout Paradise as a download is 3GB (just the original no updates) and the iso file for the dvd is 2.99GB. I just think they can make it fit with a little effort.
It is? That's cool, now my buddy can get it for his 360.
I, on the other hand, will continue to enjoy my delicious physical copy of the game.
When the damn thing is powered off, it better not be downloading anything! Work of evil, it would be. You can tell your PS3 to shut itself down after all queued downloads complete, you can do that before you go to sleep or something. Next morning, voila, all content is d/l'ed *and* installed.
If you are concerned about the electric bill and you want your ps3 to have a special semi-dormant low power state while downloading, that's something else.
As far as space goes, upgrading your ps3 to a new hard drive is pretty freaking easy. I put a 300 gig in about a year ago and was painless.
"Record of Agarest War is now coming to your Xbox 360 as a full retail product alongside the PlayStation Network verison in the Spring of 2010."
They are even considering a collector's edition.
I have no idea what Ghostlight is doing, but I don't get why people are having issues with this. How many gigs do the Games on Demand take up?
Want to download the game? Download it. Its about the same size as Mass Effect was when it was released on Games on Demand.
If you want to up your download speeds, stop using your wireless. With a wired connection I can download at roughly 1.2 to 1.3 megs per second. Nothing will take 23 hours at that speed.
You can hate digital distribution for various reasons, but that is certainly not one of them. If you're not setup properly to download things at a fast speed how is that anyone's fault but your own or your ISP? In which case, I'd contact your ISP.
Xbox 360 users only get the physical release. PS3 users only get the digital release.
If you want to get the retail version and are a PS3 user, your options are limited to:
A)Import the European version.
B)Bitch and Moan for them to release a retail version.
C)Buy an Xbox 360.
I'm with you on that one Jim. As much as I love the PS3, download times for games and demos are abysmal.
Wouldn't hurt making the consoles a bit bigger and slam a 3.5" HDD into them tho....
like everybody else has been saying, download speeds depend a huge deal on your connection. when i'm at home, a 1GB demo can take me upwards of 20-30 minutes to download, whereas when I'm at my university dorm using a wired connection, it takes less than 5.
And I'll start crapping out $50s in a minute. Unless its half as much as retail, I want my physical media. I was really looking to get it on the PS3, but I guess 360 is the way for me to go once again.
you're right I misread the press release that said: "PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360®video game and entertainment system" as meaning its retail on both instead of retail for the 360 and download only for PS3. In the forums its clear its not coming retail for sony. Which makes the CE version pretty weird for a PSN title.
Its somebody's fault that its not on Blu-Ray. Either Aksys doesn't want to pay Sony to burn it on a Blu-Ray or Sony won't clear it since its not dubbed.