17.3GB?

[Atsu]

That sounds very small for a game like this. Bigger than it's prequel, but I can't help feeling like it really should be bigger. Please, someone, talk some sense into me.

[Larry]

How is it small? It's a linear game, not an open world and it was developed primarily for XBone. The previous game was very linear for the most part with some semi-open zones littered across the game world but nothing that really warranted calling it an open world.

Plus it's 25GB which isn't small.

[Tawm]

Filesize has nothing to do with game length or scope.

[Deathu]

thats the download size or size it wil take up on your hdd ?

[omed_86]

Don't worry, it'll unpack and hog up all your HDD space lol

[Rekalty]

Originally posted by Tawm:

Filesize has nothing to do with game length or scope.

Case and point: RAGE.

Anyway, almost 20GB for a linear game is pretty reasonable.

[Echo Blakely]

^^ this (Rekalty's comment). Seems pretty reasonable compared to other games like Bioshock infinite

[TR-Jaybles]

17,3Gb is just the pre-load and thoose are zipped end encoded once they are unpacked it'll be somewhere around 25Gb... But like Tawm said big file sizes have nothing to do with the length of the game.

Not to mention it doesn't have Multiplayer so it's just singleplayer content and that is usually the smaller package of the 2.

[Atsu]

Thanks, guys. I needed that reality check.

[Deivis]

Game size (in GBs) means nothing :P

[Kazuhira]

Why do you feel it should be larger?

I find it disconcerting that people directly relate a game's length based on the amount of data the installation will take up. You should really do some research on the matter before you make that assumption.

Take Skyrim for example, only requires 6GB of free HDD space (on PC anyway) and yet it is a huge game with lots of longevity simply due to all the scripting involved which makes up the game logic and all the quests and so on. And that in itself doesn't take up much space as it is simply put, just many lines of code.

The data that takes up a lot of space is all the other things, such as textures, models, sounds, animations, pre-rendered cutscenes (this in particular can take up a lot of space. If rendered IN-ENGINE, however, a lot of space can be spared. Some of these are often compressed to allow for smaller file sizes, but at the expenditure of longer loading times when accessing this data, as well as usually worse quality. Therefore some game developers sometimes choose not to compress these files for faster access naturally, but at the expenditure of larger file sizes and often better quality.

You can tell absolutely NOTHING about the game length or even the quality for that matter, simply based on the installation file size.

[DirtyMacho]

Yeah its still not extracted just a preload . Once released say 2 days and odd hours from now it will extract to 25gb as it was mentioned in the minimum requirement. So 25gb is more than twice than 2013th edition sized 11gb i guess.

[Marsson]

Size doesn't matter ;)

[DirtyMacho]

One fact about game size is textures if 4k support will have to exceed 30gig say gta v , just cause 3, wolfeinstein both sequel 45gig. Last but not least call of duty mordern walfware woofing 65gigs

[Patton]

I think it should be around 35-40gb, around the size of batman arkham knight

[Powdersz]

If you want more, the baba yaga dlc is coming out for pc at release too and that has 3 hours of gameplay added to it. and I think that if you really play this game instead of rushing, it won't feel short at all.