Total War: Warhammer

[Gusington]

42.20 on Instant Gaming...43.79 on CDKeys...

[Tpek]

Pre-load is up.

Yeah - and its huge ....

10 Gigs isn't huge, it's pretty normal sized by these days' standards.

[Nefaro]

The few times I've pre-loaded a game on Steam, a few days before release, it ended up re-downloading nearly the whole thing all over again on release day.   

It saved approximately Jack & Shit in time and bandwidth.

[Tpek]

The few times I've pre-loaded a game on Steam, a few days before release, it ended up re-downloading nearly the whole thing all over again on release day.   

It saved approximately Jack & Shit in time and bandwidth.

Actually, it's even slower than normal download.
Even without downloading additional stuff, Steam's encryption of the game files and the whole unlocking mechanism is a pretty darn intensive and long process.
I really never get why I keep pre-loading games.  :P

Plus, pre-load means the game has already gone gold and reached the Steam servers, which means that the devs might as well just release it.

[jomni]

General rule is to not pre-load if you have a fast internet due
to additional time unpacking.

[Tpek]

General rule is to not pre-load if you have a fast internet due
to additional time unpacking.

I know, but I'm prone to sillines  :D

[jomni]

General rule is to not pre-load if you have a fast internet due
to additional time unpacking.

I know, but I'm prone to sillines  :D

Nah you're just excited.

There was a person asking in Steam why there's no pre-order option for Sengoku Jidai.
I thought to myself why should we collect money when we can't give the product in return.

[Zulu1966]

Pre-load is up.

Yeah - and its huge ....

10 Gigs isn't huge, it's pretty normal sized by these days' standards.

Well - it was saying it needed 22 GB of space when I started - then it only downloaded 9 ... I guess it must be compressed - I still think 22 GB is big for one game.

[Nefaro]

Well - it was saying it needed 22 GB of space when I started - then it only downloaded 9 ... I guess it must be compressed - I still think 22 GB is big for one game.

They compress the hell out of the TW games. 

22GB is still pretty large, but nothing too unusual for TW games these days.

[Jarhead0331]

I'm nervous from the RPS write-up. Tactical battles sound epic, but the strategic game sounds like crap. I'm really sick of this current trend to dumb everything down.

[Zulu1966]

I'm nervous from the RPS write-up. Tactical battles sound epic, but the strategic game sounds like crap. I'm really sick of this current trend to dumb everything down.

Well...little late for me to be nervous as I already bought it ... but had the same feeling on reading the article ... but reading through the comments below it not a lot a people agreed with his points.

[Zulu1966]

Review here - doesn't seem to have the same concern ...

http://www.gamewatcher.com/reviews/total-war-warhammer-review/12564

[Gusington]

I thought the same thing reading the RPS review.

[Toonces]

^ Me also.

I actually don't like the expanded strategic options in the newer Total Wars- I thought M2TW and RTW were just right.  I realize I may be in the minority, though.

Still, I'm going to wait and see, for now.

[Gusington]

Attila perfected it for me once I learned the systems. To have them taken away now or dumbed down may work because of the fantasy setting but I'll have to play it to decide. And that would require me to buy it...which I haven't yet :)