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Bloodborne PSN Pre-Load has started

ViciousDS said:
oh crap...the fast and furious xpac is this week as well?


lord have mercy its to much!


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are you sure those are not remasters?
 
schwabdizzle said:
What ad advantage to I get digital vs disc? Load times any better or?
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Loading won't matter as the PS4 installs all disc based games on the HDD in full. The disc is only inserted as a check, like 360 discs were when installing was introduced.

The benefits of digital is no need to insert the disc when you wanna play. It will always be on there for Souls goodness.
 
schwabdizzle said:
What ad advantage to I get digital vs disc? Load times any better or?
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No load time difference. Advantages are not having to swap disks, you're guatenrpteed to get it day 1 and if you're abroad it's probably cheaper and you get it earlier. Disadvantage is not being able to sell.
 
autoduelist said:
Well, I mean, the whole point is you get to start playing the game after only ~5 gig downloaded. If you want a way to play the entire game without the possibility of hitting the wall and not progressing further... you'd need to download the entire game before you started. PS4's solution is absolutely fantastic and is damn cool tech. Spinning it into a negative because you still need to dl stuff after you can start playing seems rather silly to me.
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I don't mean it as a negative really, I just think it should be better-labeled. The confusion over it seems proof of that. Instead of saying "complete(d)" on one menu, I'm not sure why they can't mention a name denoting that the first part is installed, and ready to be played. Having to go to a separate menu which tells you that you aren't actually fully-installed just seems unnecessarily convoluted to me, but maybe I'm alone. It's again, not a deal-breaker (and it's good overall), I just think they could word it more accurately.
 
autoduelist said:
Well, I mean, the whole point is you get to start playing the game after only ~5 gig downloaded. If you want a way to play the entire game without the possibility of hitting the wall and not progressing further... you'd need to download the entire game before you started. PS4's solution is absolutely fantastic and is damn cool tech. Spinning it into a negative because you still need to dl stuff after you can start playing seems rather silly to me.
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the only negative is absolutely how dreadfully slow background downloading is handled on the PS4. On my PS4 it maxes at like 1MB/s while you are playing a game or using any other system resource. It won't use my bandwidth until I close all apps and let the console sit....or just go into rest mode which is btw the fastest way to download anything on the console. I monitor all the traffic on the PS4 from my router and it gives me steam levels of download speed when not being used, but its atrocious when doing any activity on the console.


Revengineer said:
Tip for people - put your PS4 in standby mode, it downloads faster. Mine does at least.
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yup, rest mode is the fastest way to download anything on the console. I just run it and monitor the usage by the router. Once it drops I know I can power my console back on.


or sitting in the information screen on a game.
 
Quick question, I haven't played any of the souls game, always wanted to but just never found a window in these past few years of school and work. I know a lot of the story was told via in game items and lots of people talking and sharing about it. And I know this isn't a sequel but...

for Bloodborne, am I going to be completely lost? I haven't seen any media or read anything about it on purpose but would it be better to go in completely blind or would I benefit from some back story to align my bearings and actually know what the hell I am doing?
 
Fachasaurus said:
Quick question, I haven't played any of the souls game, always wanted to but just never found a window in these past few years of school and work. I know a lot of the story was told via in game items and lots of people talking and sharing about it. And I know this isn't a sequel but...

for Bloodborne, am I going to be completely lost? I haven't seen any media or read anything about it on purpose but would it be better to go in completely blind or would I benefit from some back story to align my bearings and actually know what the hell I am doing?
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Nope, there is nothing gained story wise from reading up on souls lore
 
Fachasaurus said:
Quick question, I haven't played any of the souls game, always wanted to but just never found a window in these past few years of school and work. I know a lot of the story was told via in game items and lots of people talking and sharing about it. And I know this isn't a sequel but...

for Bloodborne, am I going to be completely lost? I haven't seen any media or read anything about it on purpose but would it be better to go in completely blind or would I benefit from some back story to align my bearings and actually know what the hell I am doing?
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You should go in blind. The backstory will fill in with bits and pieces.
It's also completely separate from the souls series.
 
shwimpy said:
Monday, March 23rd 9pm PST
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Just out of curiosity, how many hours is this away?

I'm in Australia, and the game doesn't come out here until the 25th. I have a US PSN account, so I'm tempted to buy it digitally if it means I can play on Tuesday night here. Hehe.
 
Poimandres said:
Just out of curiosity, how many hours is this away?

I'm in Australia, and the game doesn't come out here until the 25th. I have a US PSN account, so I'm tempted to buy it digitally if it means I can play on Tuesday night here. Hehe.
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If you buy it on your US PSN account you'll be able to play it on that account tomorrow at 3pm.
 
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