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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/2277558

On PC, the game is 139.84 GB. On console, it's 100.19 GB for Standard or 117.07 GB for the Premium Edition

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[–] Crankpork@beehaw.org 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I want to play it, but finding 120gb for Baldur’s Gate 3 was hard enough, so I’m going to have to pass until I can afford a bigger hard drive.

[–] phuntis@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure bethesda said playing starfield with a hard drive isn't great 1tb SSDs aren't too expensive anymore I'd really recommend moving away from a hard drive

[–] Crankpork@beehaw.org 33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Ah, yeah, I was using hard drive as a catch-all term. My laptop only holds M.2 drives. I’m old, it’s all hard drives to me. =P

[–] MrZee@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Old curmudgeons unite! I totally knew what you meant.

Edit: that said, I would add NVMe SSD as the way to go… although I think that is pretty much all you find these days. Are non-nvme m.2 drives a thing?

[–] lloram239@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

M.2 SATA drives are still a thing, same port, but different slower protocol as NVMe. They are less common, but still around and available in TB size. Don't think there is any reason to get this outside of compatibility with old hardware.

There is also mSATA, which is a different port from M.2, but has a very similar look and size. Also slower than NVMe and no reason to get them unless you have hardware that uses them (e.g. some old Beelink miniPC have them).

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I definitely support the hypothesis that calling all storage drives hard drives is an old curmudgeon thing 😅 I've been doing computer nerdery for way over 30 years, and a hard drive is a hard drive even if it doesn't have spinny disks in it

[–] Crankpork@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know when I became my mother. It happened so gradually I barely even noticed.

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

I think we all swear to ourselves that we won't grow up to be like those old people who seem to cling to the past.

Then one day you find yourself going "well it's a hard drive to me, I don't care what it should be called"

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

SSD's are hard!

[–] phuntis@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago
[–] hogart@feddit.nu 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

A 1tb Steam Deck-sized NVMe drive is about 120 bucks right now. Not cheap. But not insanely prices either.

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Huh I always thought "hard drive" was the umbrella category, and SSDs and spinny disk drives are subcategories.

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah, the "SS" and "HD" bits refers to how each storage disk reads data. HDDs use hard metal disks to read & write data, hence it got the misnomer hard disk drive. SSDs use solid state flash memory to read & write data, hence it being called a solid state drive.

If you want the general category, you'd want to say "storage drive" specifically since if you say "drive", that can also refer to an optical drive (AKA the CD slot) or a USB drive (AKA flash/thumb drives).

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[–] Naatan@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago (12 children)

You do realize storage drives aren’t exactly expensive?

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[–] realChem@beehaw.org 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Exciting stuff. I've long since vowed never to pre-order anything from Bethesda ever again though, so I'll be waiting to hear what the vibe is once other folks start playing it. Right now it very much seems like it could either be great or disappointing. We'll see in a couple weeks' time I s'pose

[–] ludwig@reddthat.com 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I've vowed never to pre-order, period.

Or at least until there are solid reviews, which was what I did with ToTK.

Gaming companies have to earn their money from me every single time.

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's the best selling game on steam facepalm

[–] ludwig@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] monad@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Starfield and it’s not even out yet

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Steam muddies this a bit though, since you have two weeks or two hours of playtime to try it out and get your full money back, so it removes a lot of the risk in the first place; in some cases, it removes all of it.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I've spent like 5 hours tweaking & compiling shaders in TLoU. lol
And it took 1-2 months for it to be in a playable state.

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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’ll be playing it via GamePass and can try to report back once I have some hours under my belt in it.

[–] CMLVI@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

it is on gamepass

I'll just delete the large anti-preorder manifesto I was typing lol. Not that it doesn't remain, just not for this game for me in particular.

[–] Sina@beehaw.org 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Have a low-medium texture download/install option. It's time!

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Do we have any sort of information on how big the Shattered Space Story Expansion is supposedly going to be? Because 30 bucks extra seems excessive, especially when the game is already 70 bucks. Kinda feels like they just want to lure you with the early access, which will likely be a hot mess anyway.

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

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[–] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

On console the Premium edition includes it, and is 17GB larger.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

File size isn't a good indicator for content. The majority of a game's file size is made up of assets, so at best you have most of that to be new models and textures of "something".

[–] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry, I mistook “how big” as literally the file size.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Oh, sorry. No. I meant the actual content. Whether it is some short side story or a proper expansion of sorts.

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

I never, ever preorder. But, the Ryzen 5 CPU I just bought came with a code for Starfield. So I guess I may as well try this one out cold.

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