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PS4 Play As You Download: What Happens If You Stop The Download?

If you want to manage your download rates and play games at the same time, what happens if you reach the point you've downloaded to?

GreenRanger3853d ago

Won't you have to download a certain amount before you begin playing?

FamilyGuy3853d ago

Yeah like the entire multiplayer for instance, or entire single player, or single player up till a certain story point or maps in the multiplayer. Depends on how the devs split it up.

The answer to that twitter question was obvious -_-

Caleb_H3853d ago

If games are 50gb then I'll just stick with discs and download them when I have the time. 6gb takes about 2 hours for me right now, I don't feel like doing the math, but I know that would make 50gb's take almost a day. My gamestop is 10mins away...

Eonjay3853d ago

Got to love Shu's straightforward response:

"@Gaetano_Prestia game would say you cannot play further"

LOL what else would possibly happen!

FamilyGuy3853d ago

Yup, just like old PS1 games stopping and saying "Please insert disc 2". I really wonder what this guy thought would possibly happen other than this...

UltimateMaster3853d ago

The question is; if something stops, will it stop?
The answer is; Duh!? Of course it will.

MurDocINC3852d ago

Better question is when will Steam implement this feature?

jadenkorri3852d ago

HOW THE HELL IS THIS NEWS. Let alone how did such a dumb question get asked on twitter. Ok,I'm done, this site is getting so bad, its beyond bad. I have no words to describe this site anymore It used to be a great site but now is all about hits than news.. I realize its been like that for awhile but still. Was hoping to get better. Yes I was naive, but hopeful.

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kayoss3852d ago

If you stop the download and try to play it afterward. The apocalypse begin.

showtimefolks3852d ago

its like asking what would happen if i turn off my console wile playing a game disk, lol

PoSTedUP3853d ago (Edited 3853d ago )

your Xbox blows up and it makes a Wii U cry.

i already explained this through tetrahedral physics in the other article regading split dementions and whatnot.

Hufandpuf3853d ago

Yes yes, I remember. Very interesting reading I must say.

PoSTedUP3853d ago

thank you, im writing a book titled "the download time of travel" :p be sure to check it out on the Ebook store. xd

sAVAge_bEaST3852d ago

It all breaks down to the flower of life, and the 64 tetrahedra matrix.

s8anicslayer3853d ago

Isn't that kind of a dumb question to ask? If you paused the download and played to the point you paused to where on earth would the data for that game be for you to play any further? It's not streaming your downloading it.

Elimin83853d ago

"where on earth would the data for that game be for you to play any further?"

lol... IKR?!

KONAAs3853d ago

maybe he taught the ps4 would make up the ending of the game, or a clofhanger ending, like if ut download stops in chapter 3 then ur fucked till the sequel comes out

DigitalRaptor3853d ago (Edited 3853d ago )

So Yoshida confirmed that it will prompt a message telling you you can't play any further until more has downloaded? That's reasonable enough, until Gaikai lets you stream the entire thing.

hesido3852d ago (Edited 3852d ago )

Streaming the portion while downloading the game, if that's what you mean, should easily prevent the download, or the download would prevent the stream, unless you have gazillionobit/sec connection, which, in such a case, means you'd need to wait for a few more minutes anyway.

So no, streaming the game from Gaikai while the game downloads in the background. It just doesn't make sense.

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mkis0074h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows904h ago(Edited 3h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis0072h ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel19892h ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw4h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno3h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy852h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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