Despite cutting the gags, Borderlands 4's PC specs say it still needs 100GB of SSD space

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• AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, 100GB is already 80GB over my allotted games software download maximum. Any game over 20GB, more likely less, if I wanna accept the download, because I need that space for a million other things, is more than enough for any optimized game.

  Maybe if these freaks just actually tried optimizing ( or at least letting the devs do their job instead of micromanaging every single second of their lives ) instead of being mentally deficient people, they could make a game at a reasonable storage needed amount.

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• aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Dang we are actually getting “SSD required” on the system requirements

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  • Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s been a thing for a while now. Basically all the big, modern games, that are also on current gen consoles want SSDs (some are just SSD recommended on minimum specs, but required for higher specs). BG3, Cyberpunk, many of the Playstation Studios games, some Xbox studios stuff, etc.

    Hardware Unboxed recently did a video, if the drive speed matters (mainly about PCIe SSD speed) and tested with HDDs, SATA SSDs and NVME SDDs. They found that some games will give you a notice if they detect an HDD, but almost all will still run, even if the specs say an SSD is required. Most of the time, the initial load times will be loooooong with an HDD, but otherwise the games still work, although a few had graphical glitches because of slow asset streaming. Once you get to SATA SSDs, it starts to matter a lot less, and with an NVME you just want the biggest drive for your budget (like <10% difference for the initial load times, if at all, between PCIe 3.0 and 5.0).

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think this is a good thing, personally.

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    • fading_person@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do you think increasing hardware requirements for a game is a good thing?

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  • Jackusflackus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You think a mechanical hdd is sufficient for playing a 100gb game? That would be so painful it’s not even funny.

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    • aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ps4 had a mechanical hard drive and I played a few enormous games on that. Don’t remember it being a problem so I don’t think that’s such a hard and fast rule

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    • Nima@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      worked fine for me for a couple decades. what’s painful about it exactly?

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    • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, it depends the game.

      There are 20gb games that require much faster medium than retail WoW which is like 80gigs, despite the engines lineage tracing back to when it would’ve been stored on rust made by Maxtor.

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• shani66@ani.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Man, how does borderlands need that much space? I’d give borderlands 20 gigs max

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