Can you reduce the size of the game by deleting other language files or online components?

[bulldog0890]

just wondering if this is a game you can safely delete stuff from to save some space. 100+ gb is just nutty

[in]

Game only has one language. Subtitles barely take extra space. Regarding online you could probably delete some rpf files without breaking the game until some updates redownloads stuff.. But tbh 100gb is normal in 2022. maybe it's time to buy bigger/extra drive.

[bulldog0890]

Originally posted by in:

Game only has one language. Subtitles barely take extra space. Regarding online you could probably delete some rpf files without breaking the game until some updates redownloads stuff.. But tbh 100gb is normal in 2022. maybe it's time to buy bigger/extra drive.

lol 100+gb is NOT normal. what are you smoking? theres like 3 games I can think of that go up to that, and two of them are rockstars

[in]

Well clearly you don't know many games that came out this century.

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by bulldog0890:

lol 100+gb is NOT normal. what are you smoking? theres like 3 games I can think of that go up to that, and two of them are rockstars

Take a look around - It's big 'cause it's EPIC.
EPICness comes at a cost.

I have plenty of space left on my WD 6TB HDD.
Game runs fine on it.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes you can change the language; via the Rockstar Launcher.

No you won't free up space by deleting files. Most of the game files are within other larger asset files. Plus if you were able to do it, they would have to all be redownloadrd again should you need to verify the game at some point.

Just be glad you don't have the game on console, as it's roughly the same size and consoles don't have as much options for storage.

Maybe get yourself a 2TB SSD. If you need a large drive for older games that don't need benefit from being on an SSD, maybe get a 4TB or larger, 7200rpm SATA HDD.

[Demonsouls1993]

Originally posted by bulldog0890:

Originally posted by in:

Game only has one language. Subtitles barely take extra space. Regarding online you could probably delete some rpf files without breaking the game until some updates redownloads stuff.. But tbh 100gb is normal in 2022. maybe it's time to buy bigger/extra drive.

lol 100+gb is NOT normal. what are you smoking? theres like 3 games I can think of that go up to that, and two of them are rockstars

dont play cod or ark survival then lmfao

[Bad 💀 Motha]

ARK is over 300GB with all the dlc maps
GTAV is around 100GB now after the last major update.

RDR2 is only 119GB
Seriously, get a 2TB SSD to run games off of.

[Mewsha]

I would say the average size of a triple a game is around 50GB, and it's 80+ for an open world title. RDR2 has one of the largest open worlds while still being at the highest quality. A lot of other open world games are generic and randomly generated whereas RDR2 has so many different things going on.

I can see why you got that jester award too. You really think subtitles account for a significant portion of the size? Surely you're not being serious...

What really takes up the bulk of the size is the cinematic cutscenes, and that's just what you're getting from Rockstar. Their goal has always been to bring the big screen experience to gaming.

I'm assuming since you're stressing over size you must have a gaming laptop or something where they price a laptop cheaply by only providing a 500GB SSD, and the unspoken understanding is that you'll upgrade the SSD on your own dime. I don't think you need to go overboard with storage space personally, but I do think it's worth it having 2TB.

If you're PC gaming, it's an investment because games are only getting larger, and if this is your first introduction to an open world game made in the past five years, you're in for a rude awakening when it comes to other games.

[Eminem]

Originally posted by bulldog0890:

Originally posted by in:

Game only has one language. Subtitles barely take extra space. Regarding online you could probably delete some rpf files without breaking the game until some updates redownloads stuff.. But tbh 100gb is normal in 2022. maybe it's time to buy bigger/extra drive.

lol 100+gb is NOT normal. what are you smoking? theres like 3 games I can think of that go up to that, and two of them are rockstars

Noob

[ant_sh]

Originally posted by Baby Ghoul:

What really takes up the bulk of the size is the cinematic cutscenes, and that's just what you're getting from Rockstar.

IMHO cutscenes are done in-engine and they don't take that much space. What takes space are geometry/textures and audio for legion of NPCs.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes cut-scenes are not "video files" in games like GTAV and RDR2; they are scripted and use the in-game graphics for those.

[cowa]

Originally posted by bulldog0890:

Originally posted by in:

Game only has one language. Subtitles barely take extra space. Regarding online you could probably delete some rpf files without breaking the game until some updates redownloads stuff.. But tbh 100gb is normal in 2022. maybe it's time to buy bigger/extra drive.

lol 100+gb is NOT normal. what are you smoking? theres like 3 games I can think of that go up to that, and two of them are rockstars

Guess you've barely played any video games

[Mary]

Originally posted by cowa:

Originally posted by bulldog0890:

lol 100+gb is NOT normal. what are you smoking? theres like 3 games I can think of that go up to that, and two of them are rockstars

Guess you've barely played any video games

It sounds like we gots a GrassWalker in here.

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by Mary:

Originally posted by cowa:

Guess you've barely played any video games

It sounds like we gots a GrassWalker in here.

Lower'n Nite Folk themuns is.

[Someguyinhere]

Average IQ of Rockstar fans on display in this forum. 100+gb is not yet even remotely close to the average size of even most AAA open world games. Guess most of you morons saying "Hurr durr noob lel don't play many games" didn't play RDR 2 when it actually released. RDO didn't release until a later date, and until it did, RDR2 was well under the 100 mark.