New Doom (2016) Thread

[VGames]

That cat was hardcore. So cool. I'd play a Doom like game like that.

[The Happy Friar]

That's a CAT video.

Makes me want to mod Doom 3 to look claymation now.  :p

[oneofthe8devilz]

DOOM 2016 on Pascal GTX 1080 with Vulcan API

[VGames]

Wow. This new GTX 1080 is ground breaking stuff. Will be buying whatever version they have of it next year for sure. So powerful and so cheap.

[romulus_ut3]

GTX 1070 is the card to look for, budget wise. AMD is done for.

[VGames]

So true. The 1070 is still faster then the Titan x at around $400. 

I think they're using ancient Chinese black magic.

[The Happy Friar]

Box copy only includes 9gb of data, need to download another 45.  Steam preorders now get free Wolf: The Old Blood, box copy only gets same crappy skins as before.  Box copies can't preload data so will need to wait ~a day after launch to play, Steam & console preoders can play right away.

I don't normally do this, but if you think that's a bunch of crap feel free to retweet me: https://twitter.com/The_Happy_Friar/status/730375523524870144

Who knows, after Friday my "go to" game for fast action could very well still be Duke Nukem Forever.   

[motorsep]

Hmm.. Not sure why do you expect something different with boxed version in this digital age A developer makes more money from selling on Steam vs selling in the box. So, the more money they make, the more extras they can afford.

[The Happy Friar]

If they felt that way they wouldn't offer boxed copies at all.  for indies I understand.   If they felt that way they'd let box copies predownload so they aren't behind the 8 ball.   If they felt that way they would of announced over a month ago this decision.  Even those who ordered the "collectors edition" have to download for several days AFTER they pick it up, and they paid a lot more then the Steam buyers.

They're looking at adding ~$1 to their costs & would make a lot of people happier.  Just cheap cheap CHEAP imho.  See attached picture for reference. 

[oneofthe8devilz]

55 GB free HDD space 

Didn't they say they ditched MegaTextures for idtech6 ? Even though I have over 10 TB of HDDs installed, that still seems like an absurd amount of HDD space requirement for a single game to me...

[motorsep]

Lol, did you skip all recent Bethesda (and not so much) games? That's about correct size of a modern game.

[The Happy Friar]

Wolf: TWO was ~40-45gb.

The beta had megatexture's in there.  I thought they said they were ditching megatextures too, but maybe the performance increase made it worth it.  I know, 55gb... I remember when Doom 2's 4 floppy's was "HOLY CRAP THAT'S A LOT OF SPACE!"    a 20mb HD cost ~$200 thought, at that time. 

[nbohr1more]

HD Video takes a lot of space too. Don't be surprised to find that the bulk of the storage is just cutscenes and cinematics.
People aren't happy with 640x480 ROQ videos these days, ya know. (I prefer in-engine cutscenes but that's just me. It's not
like one of the most popular games of all time (cough HL2) used them to great acclaim and people have been complaining about
pre-rendered cutscenes both before and after that release... Nope, gamers know nothing... Just keep wasting their HDD space
with video files...)

[motorsep]

HL2 is overhyped. I didn't find it to be exraordinary, especially when it comes to storytelling aspect. I always preferred Blizzard's cinematics.

[The Happy Friar]

HL2 was just meh at best. 
An hour of HD should be ~8gb with little compression (nowhere near as much as most codec's used for streaming), so I'm betting it's all megatextures.