The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Shivering Isles is out!

[MECHAN1ZED]

Details from Major Nelson:

Name: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Shivering Isles

Price: 2400 Points

Availability: Not Available in Japan

Dash Details: Play the official expansion for Oblivion – the 2006 RPG and Game of the Year. Shivering Isles features more than 30 hours of new gameplay as you are sent to explore the realm of Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness. Shivering Isles adds to the existing world of Oblivion, so you can continue playing with your existing save game/character, or create an all-new character just to explore the new content in Shivering Isles. New quests, creatures, weapons, armor, ingredients, and more await in the land of Mania and Dementia.

Size: 993.75 MB (approx.)

[Mikewarrior]

Max out my Hard Drive space FTW?:(

I already paid $70 for this 360 game... How much is the PC version that comes with everything?

[big isy]

UK prices for the Pc versions (http://shop.gameplay.co.uk/webstore/advanced_search.asp?keyword=oblivion&platform=PCS&ref=HOMEPAGE)
I was looking at it for myself lol, works out cheaper by a pretty large margin.

[Mikewarrior]

UK prices for the Pc versions (http://shop.gameplay.co.uk/webstore/advanced_search.asp?keyword=oblivion&platform=PCS&ref=HOMEPAGE)
I was looking at it for myself lol, works out cheaper by a pretty large margin.

:mad:

And that's why the 360 fails with this DLC at $30 after I already paid $70 for the game... I’ll wait to see if a GOTY edition of Oblivion comes out, just like Morrowind, and I won't buy unless it's $30.

[Sirharper]

EARLY!!! :)

That mean I'm out fools. Peace.

[Sirharper]

:mad:

And that's why the 360 fails with this DLC at $30 after I already paid $70 for the game... I’ll wait to see if a GOTY edition of Oblivion comes out, just like Morrowind, and I won't buy unless it's $30.

Since I am waiting for the download...

Only problems are GoW won GOTY and all the content is now too big to fit on a DVD9.

...BluRay doesn't sound too bad in that case does it?

[Mikewarrior]

Since I am waiting for the download...

Only problems are GoW won GOTY and all the content is now too big to fit on a DVD9.

...BluRay doesn't sound too bad in that case does it?

No... DVD9 is fine. Oblivion got close to 5 Gigs and the Shivering Isles download is less than 1 Gig = It would all fit on a 8.75 GB DVD9 disc.

Also, better compression techniques can further DVD9's lifespan to where Blu-Ray is pointless... It is so far.

[big isy]

so why was content like the horse armor mod not in the DVD? Where they planning to skivvy us all along?

[big isy]

Didn't Sirharper have a post about the size of oblivion here?

[Sirharper]

No... DVD9 is fine. Oblivion got close to 5 Gigs and the Shivering Isles download is less than 1 Gig = It would all fit on a 8.75 GB DVD9 disc.

Also, better compression techniques can further DVD9's lifespan to where Blu-Ray is pointless... It is so far.

The Oblivion disc contains 6.4GB of data. I popped it in and checked. That means with SI and Knights of the Nine alone you would almost max out that DVD9.

More compression would yield longer load times.

BluRay has already proved superior with tested real-world better load times on the PS3 version (dispite cries from 360 fans that it was slower). The added capacity is just icing on the cake.

[Sirharper]

Didn't Sirharper have a post about the size of oblivion here?

Yes, I made a screen cap showing the capacity of the Oblivion disc at 6.4GB.

Then...making my point even better it was discovered to have a second partion at around 500MB.

I will need to redo my screen caps.

[big isy]

I just assumed it got deleted as it completely vanished. Good stuff with the screen cap though.

[Sirharper]

I just assumed it got deleted as it completely vanished. Good stuff with the screen cap though.

Thank you sir. The truth is out there...and it is on our side my friend.

[Sirharper]

Sheesh...talk about a slowwwwwwww download. :(

[DeaconBlade]

well at least you have 2400 points to spend. :loser:

[Sirharper]

Thanks for the support Deac.

[Sirharper]

BTW...still only at 89% complete over 2 hours in.

[DeaconBlade]

that's a long time. it didn't even take me that long to download the Shadowrun beta and that was huge.

[Sirharper]

They had to have restricted the bandwidth for this (and likely other) downloads. Thats something they did not do for the Halo3 tease and should have.

[DJSteel]

i'll be getting this...but later on...

[Mikewarrior]

The Oblivion disc contains 6.4GB of data. I popped it in and checked. That means with SI and Knights of the Nine alone you would almost max out that DVD9.

More compression would yield longer load times.


Well that's strange... I would have thought Oblivion for the 360 would be no bigger than the PC's version...

http://www.techspot.com/gallery/data/504/medium/Memory.JPG

So thanks for checking. However, adding SI & KotN to the 6.4 GB OBLIVION disc would not even be 8.5 Gigs on a 8.75 DVD9... So there is plenty of space left.

Also, Compression gives you faster loading times over uncompressed files... And loading times are really up to the developer.

[DJSteel]

wrong because you'd have to uncompress then load instead of just load

6.4 + 800 = 7.2 + 993.75 = 8.193...minus the extra downloads.. add in the disc securities...i dunno it's close...

[Mikewarrior]

wrong because you'd have to uncompress then load instead of just load



Funny, I've always heard that compressed files load faster than uncompressed files.

[Antediluvia]

Well, compressed files would load faster from the source, but then you have to spend processor cycles uncompressing them for use. So long as the Xbox isn't doing anything too processor intensive at the time, it will come out ahead. I don't know for sure, but my guess would be that compressed files do tend to load faster.