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Computer games these days are FREAKING HUGE

glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
edited 2011-06-25 11:23:22 in Webspace
Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
A look at some of my Steam games:
* Alien Swarm: 2060 MB
* Alliance of Valiant Arms: 5032 MB
* Champions Online: 2594 MB
* Forsaken World: 8678 MB
* Global Agenda: 6500 MB
* Spiral Knights: 480 MB
* Team Fortress 2: 6979 MB

* Deus Ex: 720 MB
* Recettear: an Item Shop's Tale: 862 MB

Biggest GBA cartridge: 32 MB
Biggest DS cartridge: 128 MB
Biggest N64 cartridge: 64 MB
Biggest SNES cartridge: 48 Mb = 6 MB

Comments

  • inkblotinkblot
    edited 2011-06-25 11:41:24
    000
    Killzone 3: 41 GB
    Uncharted 2: 22 GB
    L.A Noire: 23 GB
    Heavy Rain: 20 GB
    FFXIII: 20 GB
    Katamari Forever: 10 GB
    Bayonetta: 12 GB
    Gran Turismo 5: 16 GB
    God of War 3: 40 GB

    Also, DS cartridges can go up to 512 MB.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Oh, they can?

    Oops.

    That said, seems like I'm just never going to bother with any of those last three games that are 20+ GB in size.
  • SotiCotoSotiCoto
    RE-ANIMATOR
    Modern games:   100x the disc space requirement, half the content.
  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    That's nothing, WoW is almost 30GB at this point.
  • SotiCotoSotiCoto
    RE-ANIMATOR
    Izzat all?
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    More reason not to play WoW.
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    3DS games have more. My Ocarina of Time 3D is 2GB.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    ...that game's already out?
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    Came out sunday.

    According to the team that is making MGS: Snake Eater 3D, Nintendo is giving them special 4gb cartridges (3DS can handle 8-10) Super Smash Bros 3D is set to use 6-8.
  • ┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻
    Tableflipper
    Why are you comparing those to SNES to DS stuff?
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I wasn't sure whether to put that last one, to be honest.

    That said, I guess if you wanted to compare this to Playstation games, then you'd get several hundred megs each.  Such as:
    * Castlevania: Symphony of the Night: 556 MB
    * Final Fantasy Tactics: 516 MB
    * Mega Man Legends: 500 MB
    And these are concurrent with the N64.

    And the GameCube's special optical disc 1.4 GB.
  • MoeDantesMoeDantes
    no longer cuddly, but still Edmond
    I think he's trying to illustrate a point that a lot of games today use more space than is really warranted.

    To which I agree. I mean, I have Doom and Doom II, the expansion packs, and a CD packed full of WADs, Source Ports and Frontends, and that doesn't even fill the entire 650MB CD-R. That, my friends, is what you call "bang for your buck."
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    I like that the 3DS is on level with ps2
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Of course it's small.

    The space is mostly taken up by the graphical component of the game.
  • TheMightyAnonymTheMightyAnonym
    ~♥YES♥~! I *AM* a ~♥cupcake♥~! ^_^
    My 60GB computer is like a blade of grass to these things.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I have over 300 GB of storage space and I'm still crying foul.
  • ┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻
    Tableflipper
    I was thinking of PS2 games since those graphics seem to be the most similar to what I usually see on 3D computer games these days, but okay.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Yes, I'm aware that the graphics takes up a lot of the space.

    Though for what it's worth, the vast majority of the size of Dracula X: Rondo of Blood on the PC Engine (a.k.a. Turbografx) was actually CD-quality music, whose quality was lost on my ears anyway (apart from noticing that everything sounded way too aurally sharp).

    I think music takes up a significant chunk of CvSotN's space too, as well as the space of various other games that use XA audio.
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    Games have too much in them nowadays, or use too many heavy imagery.
  • ┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻
    Tableflipper
    Some of my visual novels, which consist of images that sometimes all put together are around 60 MB, are some gigabytes in size.

    The next biggest thing I can think of is sound, but Dirge of Cerberus is less than 1 GB (I think, not sure, I think the torrent I saw had it less than that, but then I decided to just rip my PS2 disk of it) and it's a Final Fantasy game made after FFX for the PS2.
  • inkblotinkblot
    000
    SotN is 17 MB without music.
  • CommandoDudeCommandoDude
    CRIMINAL SCUM!
    My Age of Empires game produced 11 years ago takes up less then 400Mb even WITH all the custom maps I downloaded into it.

    Also, guys. IF you're running into problems, just buy a 500Gb harddrive. They cost like...50$ after taxes.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I dunno about Dirge, but I know that the FF games generally use console music systems rather than recorded audio.
  • DYREDYRE
    edited 2011-06-25 13:07:21
    A 2TB hard drive costs like $100.  So it's not like these games really take up that much space, relatively speaking.  Yes, older games were smaller, but people also had much less space to store them on.
  • CommandoDudeCommandoDude
    CRIMINAL SCUM!
    Are they XBOX HUEG?




  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Oh, I guess the TF2 number was without updates.  The total thing seems to be some 9570 MB.
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