'Spyro the Dragon: Reignited Trilogy' Retail Version Will Only Require Partial Downloads

The team at Achievement Hunter recently had a chance to visit the team at Toys For Bob, who are hard at work on finishing up Reignited Trilogy in time for its release. In the video, which you can see below, the team finally addresses what’s going on in terms of downloads with the retail version.

[FallenAngel1984]

Go screw yourselves Hacktivision

[badz149]

yeap...I'll pass. love Spyro but I'm not gonna give in to this scummy practice

[-Foxtrot]

LOL...Space issues? They are kidding right?

Crash Bandicoot fit on no problem and you have demanding games like the Nathan Drake Collection fitting on there

No excuses

[anonymousfan]

Even if it was a size issue... They should have released a second disc. Blu-ray are dirt cheap in this day and age. But you're right it should have fit on 50 GB. I guess we'll find out the install size later.

[Profchaos]

Nathan Drake wasn't native 4k

[badz149]

LOL you think they put native 4K assets in there?

[Platformgamer]

i'll wait the complete edition... and spyro is not a fighting game, craptivision needs to die already

[nucky64]

i'd really like to play; but, it's a no-buy for me until all 3 games are on the discs.....it's not even a hard decision.

[isarai]

Same, i really live the original trilogy, but this is just unacceptable imo. This is destined to literally become a paper weight for anyone who plans to hold onto their physical copy. Once the servers no longer allow you to download the required data, its gone forever

[rainslacker]

Yep. Went from must buy, to might buy when it's cheap....and then, only if it doesn't require a download code, because those expire usually within 2 years of a release. If you can download just by putting in the game, then I'll buy new when it's cheap, because I only buy digital titles when they're cheap. So, if Activision is going to treat this like a digital title, I'll hold it to those standards.

[Profchaos]

Three 4k titles can't fit on a Blu ray disc well I get it and it doesn't bother me all that much. I'm happy to see the game getting the 4k treatment so I'm happy regardless I could care less about a patch

[rainslacker]

BS. Looking at the trailers for these games, there is nothing about them which suggests that the textures used wouldn't easily fit onto a single disc. While they look good, they still aren't overly complex.

No way the textures and content of this game equal over 50 GB, and even if they did, much bigger games, or collections were able to fit on disc.

there is a great misconception that 4K requires something called 4K textures. There is no such thing as 4K textures. Just more detailed textures, and not everything needs massive detail when it's in 4K. 4K resolution, does not mean all the textures need to be bumped up to something massive because that's not how texture maps work.

If they're so concerned for space, then I hope they dont' have some stupid making of video, or retro outlook video, which could also be downloaded for those that care. Someone is going to analyze the file size of this game on disc, and it'll be apparent if Activision tries to hide the size of this game with a dummy file to make it look bigger than it is, because they know that people aren't happy about this.

In any case, they could have made it two discs. It's a collection, and it doesn't take many people not buying it because of this to make up the difference in cost for producing a 2nd disc.

[Profchaos]

Still don't get what's wrong with a patch on day 1 rdr 2 had one and Spiderman had one but Spyro gets hate

[rainslacker]

Because this isn't a patch. Only parts of the 2nd and 3rd game are on the disc. To get the full game, you need to download it. That's basically what they had before, and shows that Activision either didn't care, or didn't understand why people weren't happy with all 3 games not being on the disc.

[Chaos_Order]

It's okay, Activision just doesn't want my money. It's fine, I'll give it to someone else instead.