CYF game puts a ‘Stranglehold’ on your hard drive — UPDATE
Yeah yeah, Bioshock and Halo 3, blah blah blah. The game I was waiting for all year was John Woo Presents Stranglehold, the TPS based on Hard Boiled, the greatest motion picture ever made.
But Chow Yun-Fat wants a lot of real estate. Stranglehold for PC, due out next Tuesday, is a 50 GB install on your poor, beleaguered hard drive.
Why? Sure, there’s a lot of detail; and destructible environments require tons of data. Still, 50 GB is excessive. I mean, it’s just the Unreal Engine.
Still, if you’re gonna have Tequila, you might as well have a lot of it.
UPDATE:
Okay, Epileptic Gaming’s own Rance “djROME” Costa has set me straight on this. The way Direct2Drive works, you download a huge installer file; this is then extracted, and temporary files are created. Also, there is “security” software to prevent you from using the game the way you want. This in its entirety constitutes the 50 GB.
At the end of the install, the installer file and temp files are deleted, and Stranglehold only takes up 20 GB permanently on your hard drive.
Still, 20 GB is huuuuuuuuuuuge. The more memory we get (RAM and hard disk, the more the software bloats to fill it up.
21. September 2007 at 8:20 pm :
The game itself actually requires 15 gigs of space. The story of this 50 gig install is from if you obtain your Stranglehold from Direct Download…12 gigs download, then another 12 for extract, then the installation itself.
If you want to stay safe, just buy it at the store and you will have it sooner and without the hassle of massive space requirements
22. September 2007 at 10:20 am :
is this game mediocre or what?
22. September 2007 at 6:32 pm :
I just estimated the final install size after temp files were removed… 15GB wouldnt surprise me but that would mean very little extraction takes place during the install, and we know games typically spread out when installing :P