This Starfield/Baldur&rs📖quo;s Gate 3 situation has become untenable. The twoꦿ RPGs are simply too big to coexist in my life, and more importantly, they’re too big to fit on my hard drive.
Since 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur’s Gate 3 launched, I’ve been wondering how I was going to make it through a minimum of 100 hours with the game before 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Starfield’s release. The answer? I haven’t, and won’t. Thanks to back-to-back reviews of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Immortals of Aveum (pass) and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sea of Stars (smash), I’ve only put about 25 hours into Ba🍨ldur’s Gate 3, despite thinking about it every waking moment since I started my playthrough at launch.
Starfield has been one of my most anticipated games for years, but due to the realities of storage space, I’m now facing the possibility that I won’t get to it until weeks after launch. That’s because Starfield 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:weighs in at a hefty 139.84 GB on PC and, with only Baldur’s Gate 3 ins🗹talled on my laptop, I have just 15.7 GB free. Baldur’s Gate takes up a whopping 136.08 GB.
Okay, I wrote the first part of this article earlier this morning, then spent a solid half-hour going through my storage and deleted anything that wasn't load bearing. Even after that, I now have just 87.8 GB free. Where I'll find the extra 50 gigs, I have no idea.
This isn't normally an issue I run into because my PS5 has a terabyte of storage and I try to play most new releases there. But — hat tip to Xbox for getting a big exclusive — that isn't possible this time around. I wouldn't be hemming and hawing on this if the other big game on my hard drive were anything other than Baldur's Gate 3. Most games, I would be willing to sacrifice at the altar of Starfield. I already did this for Baldur’s Gate 3 after its first patch went live, deleting all the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:short games I had planned to play this week. For 🔯most games, I wou♍ld happily make the space.
I could probably buckle down and finish most games within a week with some serious focus. I just did it twice for those reviews I mentioned. But Baldur's Gate 3 isn't most games. At the rate I'm going, I'll be playing Larian's RPG through GOTY talks at the end of the year.
My computer is providing a pretty neat little metaphor for how I expect those talks will go at a lot of outlets. Will there be room for two massive RPGs? Will some opt to make room for Starfield while others go for Baldur’s Gate 3? Will 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tears of the Kingdom take up the space they otherwise would have occupied? Or will another game that hasn't been released yet plant its flag in the proverbial hard drive?
I don’t know, and I have now also stretc🎃hed this metaphor to the limits of its utility. But, I do know that I’m not the only person who will have to make a choice between Baldur’s Gate 3 and Starfield — now, 🌞and at the end of the year.