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Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by lowdownfool@kbin.social to c/gaming@kbin.social

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Larian has finally confirmed that preloading won't be available, apparently because of a limitation with Steam.

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[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know this is more of a me problem

Naw naw fuck that fam, this is very much a them problem. 122gb is fucking ridiculous.

[–] iNeedScissors67@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was going to install CoD: Cold War from PS+ on my PS5 since I wanted to check out the campaign but I'd never buy it. Fuckin 230 GB for that shit. I lol'd a bit and moved on to something else. So ridiculous.

[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lmao 230gigs fuck that. Sitting here cursing my own life because I have 10 gigs of Sims 4 mods. For 230GB the game better come with a hologram that pops out of a USB port to suck my fucking cock.

[–] iNeedScissors67@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The only games I'll bother keeping installed that are over 100gb are my ESO with all the addons on PC, and Star Wars Battlefront II on PS5, and only because my friends and I play co-op every Friday night. But it's still ludicrous. My most played game recently, Battlebit Remastered, is a whopping 3 GB lol.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Is it sad that I'm surprised when a game is under 20gb nowadays?

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think the largest game I've ever installed on any of my devices was like 120gb, and that was The Master Chief Collection so that makes bit of sense.

[–] Raji_Lev@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just one more reason why the obsession with the latest greatest OMGWTF HIGH DEFINITION GRAPHICS is the worst thing to happen to gaming since the Atari Jaguar.

[–] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We can compress textures into ridiculously small sizes, I doubt it's a problem. Audio on the other hand...

In a dialogue heavy game such as this one, each voice line for each language must be shipped with the game on steam. There's no way to split the downloads between regions and languages from within developer console on steam.

I think it's one of the most popular requests devs posted in the dev forums.