Why is the game so big

[Odium]

105 gigs. Decently large game. If its sounds and languages does anyone know where they are located so I can remove the ones I dont need and shrink down the filesize? Its not that storage is an issue. Just a tad absurd how large the game is and its only act 1 isnt it? So its going to get bigger

[ExcaliburV]

Well, I don't think they've fully optimized the game yet either. They're in the polish stage of development, and I assume optimizing is part of that.

[Yojo0o]

Is removing other languages to reduce file size a thing?

I feel like I would have heard about this before if it was a thing.

[Mosey]

Baldur's Gate 3/Data/Localization

And it's only about 8GIG.

Since it's not a finished game, it isn't packaged like a finished game.

Also if you start erasing core files, the game probably won't run without some kind of script mod.

[Odium]

Originally posted by Mosey:

Baldur's Gate 3/Data/Localization

And it's only about 8GIG.

Since it's not a finished game, it isn't packaged like a finished game.

Also if you start erasing core files, the game probably won't run without some kind of script mod.

Worth a shot. If so ill just repair it

[Ronin Gamer]

*Looks at some of the downloads he's made installing different games from his library...*
I don't think that's a large size now a days, that's closer to normal size.

[IRMcG]

Originally posted by Yojo0o:

Is removing other languages to reduce file size a thing?

I feel like I would have heard about this before if it was a thing.

Yeah it is, can do it quite often with games with huge VO files although with Steam games it keeps loading them back in when there's a patch :P

[Yojo0o]

Originally posted by IRMcG:

Originally posted by Yojo0o:

Is removing other languages to reduce file size a thing?

I feel like I would have heard about this before if it was a thing.

Yeah it is, can do it quite often with games with huge VO files although with Steam games it keeps loading them back in when there's a patch :P

I should keep that in mind. Thanks!

[RealDealBreaker]

Originally posted by Yojo0o:

Is removing other languages to reduce file size a thing?

I feel like I would have heard about this before if it was a thing.

Since the voices are English only, removing the text files for other languages wouldn't do much. My entire 215 page doctoral dissertation is only 1680 kb. Text doesn't take a lot of data.

[LeftPaw]

Personally I thing 50% of the game is unnecessary fluff and bloatware and has no game play use at all. See a squirrel, talk to the squirrel. It tells you how many nuts it's collected today and then scurry's of up a tree. You examine the pot, roll dice, dice fail, pot goes un examined. Need to take a dump, roll dice, dice fail, zhit your pants.

The game needs ripping apart putting back together and streamlining. Over the years to much useless garbage and bad ideas has been added.

Dice roils should only be needed for the important parts of the game. There should only be cut-scenes for the important part of the game. The game is to saturated with this junk.

[Miss Anonymous]

Originally posted by LeftPaw:

Personally I thing 50% of the game is unnecessary fluff and bloatware and has no game play use at all. See a squirrel, talk to the squirrel. It tells you how many nuts it's collected today and then scurry's of up a tree. You examine the pot, roll dice, dice fail, pot goes un examined. Need to take a dump, roll dice, dice fail, zhit your pants.

The game needs ripping apart putting back together and streamlining. Over the years to much useless garbage and bad ideas has been added.

Dice roils should only be needed for the important parts of the game. There should only be cut-scenes for the important part of the game. The game is to saturated with this junk.

You must be new.

[Jon]

Originally posted by LeftPaw:

Personally I thing 50% of the game is unnecessary fluff and bloatware and has no game play use at all. See a squirrel, talk to the squirrel. It tells you how many nuts it's collected today and then scurry's of up a tree. You examine the pot, roll dice, dice fail, pot goes un examined. Need to take a dump, roll dice, dice fail, zhit your pants.

The game needs ripping apart putting back together and streamlining. Over the years to much useless garbage and bad ideas has been added.

Dice roils should only be needed for the important parts of the game. There should only be cut-scenes for the important part of the game. The game is to saturated with this junk.

^This, especially when there's real and meaningful things being left without proper attention because of this bloated no-content content being such a massive workload, need to learn to pick your battles.

[Farsha]

It's full of cutscenes and voice acting. Also it supports 4k, so 4k textures?
Unless they compress it, it will be around 200gb on launch, which is pretty possible.
If they compress it, then you will wine about slow loading times instead, so they can't win.

[Aytum]

Originally posted by LeftPaw:

Personally I thing 50% of the game is unnecessary fluff and bloatware and has no game play use at all. See a squirrel, talk to the squirrel. It tells you how many nuts it's collected today and then scurry's of up a tree. You examine the pot, roll dice, dice fail, pot goes un examined. Need to take a dump, roll dice, dice fail, zhit your pants.

The game needs ripping apart putting back together and streamlining. Over the years to much useless garbage and bad ideas has been added.

Dice roils should only be needed for the important parts of the game. There should only be cut-scenes for the important part of the game. The game is to saturated with this junk.

LOL

[LeftPaw]

They are trying to replicate the old BIoware but failing because they can't restrain themselves. They take something good from Bioware game and then spam it into oblivion so that it loses and virtues it had. In this case, less is better.

Bioware were experts at story telling, this is what glued everything else together. Larian brush over the story, any old daft rubbish will do. They don't get it, they are looking for the Bioware magic in the wrong places.
No one can tell me that the story in BG3 is top notch because it's anything but, it's a pathetic story. Full of holes and contradiction with no solid foundation to stand on.

[Lord Adorable]

Originally posted by LeftPaw:

Personally I thing 50% of the game is unnecessary fluff and bloatware and has no game play use at all. See a squirrel, talk to the squirrel. It tells you how many nuts it's collected today and then scurry's of up a tree. You examine the pot, roll dice, dice fail, pot goes un examined. Need to take a dump, roll dice, dice fail, zhit your pants.

The game needs ripping apart putting back together and streamlining. Over the years to much useless garbage and bad ideas has been added.

Dice roils should only be needed for the important parts of the game. There should only be cut-scenes for the important part of the game. The game is to saturated with this junk.

So a D&D game..
Plays exactly like a D&D game?

Huh. Sounds fun.