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Wed, 12 Jun 2024 19:01:33
gamingeek said:

I quite enjoy shorter games these days. I get the sense of completion after beating them, with the knowledge and feeling that I'll play it again someday.

Game length is why I haven't picked up the Paper Mario and Xenoblade 1 remakes.

Most adventure games are under 11 hrs, usually less.

Yeah, I almost bought Paper Mario TTYD on Switch but remembered it's like a 40-50 hour game.

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Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:59:06

Gg, Brothers is only about three hours. Good and short.

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Wed, 12 Jun 2024 21:16:02
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Gg, Brothers is only about three hours. Good and short.

Nice.

The Switch version says you have to play as both Brothers? I'm wondering if it might be too difficult?

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Wed, 12 Jun 2024 21:18:08

The controls will feel very weird at first, but you'll get used to it. Use the left stick for the older brother right stick for the younger one. Just remember to keep them on the correct sides.

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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:06:22
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So....

Ah....

I guess this is not a new thing to you guys, but this is the first time something like this has happened to me.

So here's the story. When I bought Snowrunner physical, I was surprised that it downloaded a 9gb patch.

Okay, I thought, a bit large, but there is some content they added once the main game was out. That you could play for free, rift level, free trucks.

There's 4 years of dlc available, to put things in perspective there are like 4x as many dlc maps than are in the main game (and the main game lasted 230 hrs)

These long games I can play as they're broken up in shorter tasks/missions.

Anyway so the dlc went on sale yesterday and I bought 3 years worth of gamepass.

I cleared out like 28gb of data expecting a massive download. But when I looked at the data requirement, it said 60mb.

When I purchased it, the software downloaded in about 30 seconds. I was perplexed.

I still haven't tested it yet, maybe once in game they will ask me to download a massive content update?

But I suspect that the 9gb download that downloaded when I bought the main game, was all the actual content from the available dlc. A

That is terrible! It never occurred to me that was even an option!

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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:07:48
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And now it is online only even in single player because they are streaming some textures in!  So even AFTER you've installed it everytime you play it is is using more data to stream assets.  That's so insane I could not come up with that if I tried!

Seriously, stuff like that should be prohibited by law.  Or it should at least be mandatory to warn of it on the box.  Kind of like those warnings about smoking damaging your health.

I think it is class-action worthy if it is not disclosed -- and I mean on the box, as you suggest, not burried in a EULA.

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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:08:20
travo said:

The controls will feel very weird at first, but you'll get used to it. Use the left stick for the older brother right stick for the younger one. Just remember to keep them on the correct sides.

Yes, this.

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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:11:40

No news today. Either my RSS is broken or it is a slow day as not-E3 attendees travel home.

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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:35:15
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New PC aquired. To be hooked up in media room:

AFTERSHOCK PC AUSTRALIA - Custom PCs, Notebooks & Workstations

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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:28:48
travo said:

The controls will feel very weird at first, but you'll get used to it. Use the left stick for the older brother right stick for the younger one. Just remember to keep them on the correct sides.

thanks, I'll remember that.

I need to plough through Apollo Justice first.

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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:35:43
aspro said:
gamingeek said:

So....

Ah....

I guess this is not a new thing to you guys, but this is the first time something like this has happened to me.

So here's the story. When I bought Snowrunner physical, I was surprised that it downloaded a 9gb patch.

Okay, I thought, a bit large, but there is some content they added once the main game was out. That you could play for free, rift level, free trucks.

There's 4 years of dlc available, to put things in perspective there are like 4x as many dlc maps than are in the main game (and the main game lasted 230 hrs)

These long games I can play as they're broken up in shorter tasks/missions.

Anyway so the dlc went on sale yesterday and I bought 3 years worth of gamepass.

I cleared out like 28gb of data expecting a massive download. But when I looked at the data requirement, it said 60mb.

When I purchased it, the software downloaded in about 30 seconds. I was perplexed.

I still haven't tested it yet, maybe once in game they will ask me to download a massive content update?

But I suspect that the 9gb download that downloaded when I bought the main game, was all the actual content from the available dlc. A

That is terrible! It never occurred to me that was even an option!

Wouldn't surprise me. On the disk DLC been around since the Xbox 360, maybe earlier. Probably easier and cheaper for the devs/publisher to have a single game install and wall off sections of the game for DLC.

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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:59:17

Anything with any kind of multiplayer component will automatically include any dlc in the base game download. This is for compatibility issues when playing online. Single player only games might do this too, but I’m not certain. It might have to do with perhaps balance changes and/or perhaps some other changes that the dlc provides for the base game that isn’t necessarily exclusive to those who purchase the dlc. Probably easier to do it that way then to split things up especially if you have multiple dlc packages.

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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:10:03
I like how SF6 installs only the game modes you want to play. I only have Arcade mode installed and left off the Online and the open-world story mode, which reduced my install footprint to about half. No need to install stuff I'm never going to play. 👍

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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:27:47
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I like how SF6 installs only the game modes you want to play. I only have Arcade mode installed and left off the Online and the open-world story mode, which reduced my install footprint to about half. No need to install stuff I'm never going to play. 👍

Yeah, that is definitely a nice option for sure.

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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:18:58
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Anything with any kind of multiplayer component will automatically include any dlc in the base game download. This is for compatibility issues when playing online. Single player only games might do this too, but I’m not certain. It might have to do with perhaps balance changes and/or perhaps some other changes that the dlc provides for the base game that isn’t necessarily exclusive to those who purchase the dlc. Probably easier to do it that way then to split things up especially if you have multiple dlc packages.

Yes there's online multiplayer and split screen. Plus loads of different dlc packs.

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Fri, 14 Jun 2024 05:38:18
gamingeek said:

Yes there's online multiplayer and split screen. Plus loads of different dlc packs.

Ah ok. Yeah they force the download to keep everyone in the same pool then.

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Fri, 14 Jun 2024 13:12:40

Hey Archie, I just noticed you beat Hellblade 2.  How did you like it?  I read it's even more an 'on rails' experience than the first and is often very gruesome.  How do you feel it compares to the original?

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Fri, 14 Jun 2024 13:38:43

Just started Callisto Protocol. Is this a Dead Space ripoff?

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Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:44:07
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Hey Archie, I just noticed you beat Hellblade 2.  How did you like it?  I read it's even more an 'on rails' experience than the first and is often very gruesome.  How do you feel it compares to the original?

I really enjoyed it. Probably a bit more on rails then the previous game but largely similar in the exploration aspect. Enemy encounters are easier though. Shorter game as well. Looks amazing graphically, found the combat fun, and was intrigued with the story. It’s a very polarizing game though. If you have Game Pass though then it’s at least worth checking out.

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Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:46:09
travo said:

Just started Callisto Protocol. Is this a Dead Space ripoff?

It was developed by the Dead Space series creator and is considered a spiritual successor.

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