• Samus Crankpork@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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

      • Samus Crankpork@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        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

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          1 year ago

          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

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          1 year ago

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

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        Not expensive, but it’s another expense that not everyone can drop immediately.

        For most it would be a choice of upgrading to a new drive or getting two games.

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          Sure. And of course it remains to be seen whether Starfield is worth it, but it’s undeniable that a game of this magnitude isn’t a common occurrence. If they realize the game’s potential, then missing out on it because of a relatively inexpensive hardware upgrade seems like a shame.

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            1 year ago

            a game of this magnitude isn’t a common occurrence.

            It kind of is though. We’ve already had at least 3 games of this magnitude drop this year alone.