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Pre-load your Borderlands 2 now!

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lazytev

And it's surprisingly light, only 4,6 GB to download.

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wuodland

wow! a 60 USD game so light?

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MegaGiga

What's the 'weight' have to with price? You pay for quality not for quantity.

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0x442E472E

Seems like that's the case nowadays :/. People are complaining Torchlight II is only 1.4GB and they fear TL2 only has little content

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MarvelousMax

Maps are randomly generated so maybe that makes it little int he beginning.

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MegaGiga

HD graphics and HQ audio pull most of the weight of the games. Actual content/programming is often in very small files.

For example, Paradox developed games (Hearts of Iron, Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings...) have usually <1GB because they don't have a whole lot of graphic content, yet they have a >100 hours of gameplay/replayability. And the expansions for those games are often 20 MB a piece, because only the .exe and a bunch of .txt files get modified - yet they change the games in a million ways.

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0x442E472E

I agree, big textures, models and sound files are mostly the reasons for a big size and not code or some numbers in a database that spawn specific enemies. That's why i don't see the correlation between the amount of content and the file size like some people do

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wuodland

hopefully the game will be good -_-

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MegaGiga

Because it's less likely it will be good if it has "only" 5 GB? What a dumb logic.

Blinding of Isaac has like 50MB, yet it's immensely fun.

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Jonex

You wouldn't pay the same price for Isaac though ;)

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gororules

I would gladly drop $60 for Isaac but that's just me, I have over 400 hours into the game.

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samozwaniec

"weight" is not dependent on the price, but the programming skills and the type of program that you use to program.

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DrHouse

99.8% of the "weight" of a game is for models, textures, sound and maps. The programming of any game will almost always (procedural generated graphics apart) be a very small percentage of a game's "weight".

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samozwaniec

Programming is also modeling the props and making maps etc. but the main "weight" of the game is the engine and the scripts of A.I. behavior.

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GuenniKurti

Otherwise Max Payne 3 would be the best game ever.

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sodantok

Yeah, 60USD/50EUR on steam vs 48USD/37EUR pre-order steamworks physical copy. So you pay LESS for game on phsycial medium, in physical box with some physical bonuses delivered by someone who needs wage and something which needs fuel than digital download, delivered throught internet, without any fees for making and delivering physical items...

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Rheed

I paid 37 for digital BL2 copy. Yes, it was an offer, like the 37 you say of physicall copy. Here in spain almost every single shop sells it for 49. Also, I don't care about a crappy plastic box and a 2-page instruction booklet. And what I want for the CD if it takes less time to download than install and I'll probably have to download patches soon?

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mathiaslylo

Burnout paradise had 3gb, and it is awesome and has a big city.

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kamenipsixi

i bet he will see cyrilic characters :D

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Caspernomnom

probably not the full game because says 20 gig hdd space needed in requirements

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Jonex

They may be referring to the 4 future dlc packs as well.

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Shierzhi

Wasn't expecting that, could it be that Borderlands 2 is actually pretty optimized?

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TimeBomb

Got mine from GMG, looks like I'll have to wait >.<.

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Ryan983

I got my key in an email from them yesterday, already pre-loaded.

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TimeBomb

I just checked the keys section of my GMG account and found my BL2 key. Preloading now :).

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Chris

A new ~4.5GB download chunk each day until the release.

  • 4.5GB + 4.5GB + 4.5GB = ~13GB = Minimum hard disk space requirement

Then the DLC is an additional 7GB which is why the recommended hard disk space is 20GB

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Jonex

Seriously? Where'd you find this information?

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Andarus

These are no informations, its just a useless Post from someone who has no idea how the internet works.

Download Size |= Install-Size

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Jonex

Good.

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PhantomLord

Yep, Steam will deliver the game as a set of compressed files that when installed require ~13GB, but only uses 4.5GB on your downloads.

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ibanez543

it must be the whole game it doesn't makes sense to download more on the day other than a small patch as it defies the point of pre-loading :s

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Jonex

Agreed. I reckon it's all done now.

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Devious

if i remember correctly, skyrim was around 5gb when it came out and have been slowly growing bigger from updates and whatnots

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Tycrane

My key from GMG doesn't work?

It says that the key is invalid? Any help?

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ibanez543

Say whaa! try gmg support and double check you havnt missed a character :/

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Tycrane

Yeah, I'm asking GMG support right now and just waiting for a response.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure that I haven't missed a character since I double checked each letter to see if they were correct.

:/

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Closed 12 years ago by lazytev.