Apparently Mass Effect 2 is big...

[funguy2121]

So I finally invested in a current-gen console (PS3). Last night I spent hours playing the first Dead Space. Today, I played some God of War and Ninja Gaiden Sigma. Just now I booted ME2 for the first time, and the same screen popped up as with the other games:

Installing game data.... Please do not turn off your system.

After a couple of minutes, it was at 9%, so I went to smoke a cigarette and came back.

Installing game data.... Please do not turn off your system.
33%

Now it's at 46. Just how big is this game?

 

[Mylinkay Asdara]

It's got a lot of choices to make and saved information for the future game and stuff - not sure if that makes it "bigger"

 

[sephiroth1991]

Very I imagine

12GBs on my PC to be precise, honestly when a game has RPG in its blurb it always means BIG!!.

 

[Lono Shrugged]

12 gigabytes


that's how big it is. Just saved you a google search. How about this heat we're having?

 

[llew]

was your game pre-owned? because mine took a couple of seconds to load, one minute max

 

[StBishop]

Yeah, just be glad you're not trying to play Final Fantasy 13 on PS3.

 

[DazBurger]

Not quite as long as the first game, but still a few days of joyfull playtime.

 

[funguy2121]

Update: now at 71%. Should I have gone with the 320-gig hard drive instead of the 120?

 

[twistedheat15]

Update: now at 71%. Should I have gone with the 320-gig hard drive instead of the 120?

120 is fine if you aren't keeping a ton of other things like music and videos saved on it. Even when it's filled up ya can just delete the installed data of some old games ya haven't touched in months to free up space for a new one. I played with a 80 gig for about 2 years before I finally upgraded to a 500, and I have a ton of music and crap on mines.

 

[funguy2121]

was your game pre-owned? because mine took a couple of seconds to load, one minute max

Shouldn't matter. The PS3's less than 24 hours out of the box.

Just loaded! Hooray!

 

[funguy2121]

Oh! Hi there, Martin Sheen and Seth Green!

Sorry, just excited to be playing with my new toy.

 

[Agayek]

So I finally invested in a current-gen console (PS3). Last night I spent hours playing the first Dead Space. Today, I played some God of War and Ninja Gaiden Sigma. Just now I booted ME2 for the first time, and the same screen popped up as with the other games:

Installing game data.... Please do not turn off your system.

After a couple of minutes, it was at 9%, so I went to smoke a cigarette and came back.

Installing game data.... Please do not turn off your system.
33%

Now it's at 46. Just how big is this game?

The PC version with all the DLC is about 17 GB.

I dunno if the console install is the same size, but it should be close.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

It's big alright, 2 discs on 360. LA Noire was bigger again, took 3 discs.