will DOOM 4 be a download only game?

[gent11]

I bought fallout 4 and it came with only one disk and the entire install I s like 25 GB, so you need to install steam and you need a real internet connection. Will DOOM be the same?

 

[shortylickens]

Very likely.

I've got several huge games from Steam. Some are 30, 40, and even 80 gigs.
Thats multiple blu-rays.

I dont know of ANY windows games that use a blu-ray.

 

[Crusty]

Very likely.

I've got several huge games from Steam. Some are 30, 40, and even 80 gigs.
Thats multiple blu-rays.

I dont know of ANY windows games that use a blu-ray.

My Battlefield 4 folder is 65GB 😱

 

[DaveSimmons]

You will need Steam, but if you buy it on disc the downloaded part might be much smaller.

i got X-Com 2 on DVD from Amazon for the 20% Prime discount. It requires Steam but the included 3 DVDs did load almost all of the content from disc so that saved a lot of time.

 

[shortylickens]

You will need Steam, but if you buy it on disc the downloaded part might be much smaller.

i got X-Com 2 on DVD from Amazon for the 20% Prime discount. It requires Steam but the included 3 DVDs did load almost all of the content from disc so that saved a lot of time.

but with steam you can start the download and walk away.

 

[DaveSimmons]

but with steam you can start the download and walk away.

Yeah, but saving 15+ GB of download time was nice. I have the best speed my ISP offers but it's only 12 mbit 🙁

 

[Stg-Flame]

but with steam you can start the download and walk away.

Why walk away? Start the download then play another game. Why stop there? Start the download, load a game like Dungeon Defenders, make an afk build, minimize that game, then load up another game and play that. Multitasking at its finest.

I still leave Dungeon Defenders running in the background while I play Witcher 3. Every now and then I'll swap back to DD to restart the map then switch back to TW3. Good fun.

 

[IGemini]

Yeah, these days it's much more practical for a lot of games to let Steamworks handle the installation backbone than the publisher to make multiple DVDs. Blu-ray drives haven't hit price parity with DVD yet so they won't be using those for PC game distribution anytime soon.

Why walk away? Start the download then play another game. Why stop there? Start the download, load a game like Dungeon Defenders, make an afk build, minimize that game, then load up another game and play that. Multitasking at its finest.

In the interest of disclosure, Steam doesn't default to that behavior. "Allow downloads during gameplay" needs to be enabled in Settings.

 

[shortylickens]

I enabled that years ago.

Saved me lots of time. It does thrash my hard drive however.

 

[Stg-Flame]

In the interest of disclosure, Steam doesn't default to that behavior. "Allow downloads during gameplay" needs to be enabled in Settings.

You can still alt-tab out of game and restart the download to bypass enabling anything in the settings.