News God of War's PC port requires an incredible 190GB for installation — PSN account is also a requirement

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God of War: Ragnarok's PC port system requirements release, and at least one of those requirements is unreasonable for a single-player game.

God of War's PC port requires an incredible 190GB for installation — PSN account is also a requirement : Read more

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

I wish more studios would have the requirements in native rather than including the upscaling tech. Honest approach. I like it.

 

[evdjj3j]

"However, the requirement of a PlayStation Network account for a single-player game has also drawn controversy—mainly because PSN is available in far fewer countries than Steam, effectively locking Ragnarok away from many PC players due to arbitrary account restrictions."

This makes an excellent case for piracy.

 

[JeffreyP55]

Way back when during my Amiga days, I could fit a whole game on a AmigaDOS formatted 880k 3.5" IBM style 720k 3.5" floppy. I admit, sometimes two or more.

 

[txfeinbergs]

"However, the requirement of a PlayStation Network account for a single-player game has also drawn controversy—mainly because PSN is available in far fewer countries than Steam, effectively locking Ragnarok away from many PC players due to arbitrary account restrictions."

This makes an excellent case for piracy.

No, it does not. There is no valid excuse for stealing something maybe other than if you are starving to death. Pretty sure a game doesn't qualify.

 

[vijosef]

All that space for what?
Graphics stopped improving around 2010. Far Cry 2 is still the best looking, more realistic Far Cry.
Games keep demanding more and more hardware, to deliver nothing.

 

[txfeinbergs]

All that space for what?
Graphics stopped improving around 2010. Far Cry 2 is still the best looking, more realistic Far Cry.
Games keep demanding more and more hardware, to deliver nothing.

I can name a few games that have improved. AFOP, and Senua's Sage Hellblade 2 (oh, and the second Plague's Tale Requiem). Those games actually made my jaw hit the floor.

 

[UnforcedERROR]

All that space for what?
Graphics stopped improving around 2010. Far Cry 2 is still the best looking, more realistic Far Cry.
Games keep demanding more and more hardware, to deliver nothing.

I will never understand the "graphics stopped improving" take. There are somewhat diminishing returns, but to say they stopped improving is disingenuous at best. Also, the opinion that Far Cry 2 looks the best is strange to me as well. Far Cry may not be as exciting as it once was, but you can look at 2 and see how dated it is visually. Good for the time, but not even remotely close to current standards.

 

[FunSurfer]

Something weird with the cpu requirements, ryzen 5 3600 is better for gaming than ryzen 7 2700x but appears on a lower tier, so you say 'but the 2700x is an 8 core cpu and the 3600 has only 6 cores', so why the i7 7700k is on the same tier with the 2700x while it has only 4 cores?

 

[hotaru251]

I own a PS5, a PSN, & a pc/steam acct...I will never play a game on PC that requires a PSN acct as Sony has a bad history of data issues & i would rather not have it tied to any other acct/email.

 

[USAFRet]

"However, the requirement of a PlayStation Network account for a single-player game has also drawn controversy—mainly because PSN is available in far fewer countries than Steam, effectively locking Ragnarok away from many PC players due to arbitrary account restrictions."

This makes an excellent case for piracy.

If the rules and conditions of the game are offensive to you, don't patronize the game and/or company.

Piracy for a game is never justified.

 

[enb141]

Now I'm wondering that does apple fanboys think about this amount of storage needed for just one game.

This game is not for macs at this time and probably never will, but I'm wondering how apple are going to address this issue.

Fixed storage on macs and if you want to upgrade prepare to pay for a lot.

 

[awake283]

I dont understand why this is making so much press? GTA V came out a decade ago and was 150GB. A lot of games are 100GB+. Why are people freaking out about this one in particular? CoD6 is rumored to be 309GB.

 

[awake283]

All that space for what?
Graphics stopped improving around 2010. Far Cry 2 is still the best looking, more realistic Far Cry.
Games keep demanding more and more hardware, to deliver nothing.

This is just objectively false imo. Look at Ghost of Tsushima, Control, RDR2, Cyberpunk. Can you really look me in the eyes and tell me those games have "delivered nothing new"?

 

[tamalero]

This is just objectively false imo. Look at Ghost of Tsushima, Control, RDR2, Cyberpunk. Can you really look me in the eyes and tell me those games have "delivered nothing new"?

Avatar game was also amazing.

 

[awake283]

Avatar game was also amazing.

That's on the list! I just built this PC six weeks ago, first new PC in a decade, so I have a *lot* to catch up with still!

 

[hotaru251]

Piracy for a game is never justified.

incorrect.

there is justified piracy if you were stolen from.

Sony/Ubisoft/etc for example removing access to games/movies you paid for is a point piracy is valid as you didn't steal anything you paid for it and they took it from you.

If a company can steal from you legally then you can steal from them legally when the stars align and make it fair.

 

[USAFRet]

incorrect.

there is justified piracy if you were stolen from.

Sony/Ubisoft/etc for example removing access to games/movies you paid for is a point piracy is valid as you didn't steal anything you paid for it and they took it from you.

If a company can steal from you legally then you can steal from them legally when the stars align and make it fair.

Thats a whole different condition.

 

[tamalero]

Thats a whole different condition.

Corpos still say this is "terrible unlawful piracy that deserves 100 years of jail or 5 million fines".

 

[awake283]

If purchasing isnt owning then piracy isnt stealing. I pirate stuff constantly, but if I like it, I buy it. I just dont want to waste $70 on something I don't like. Thats a lot of money. Some games are $100+ with all the BS they pull these days. I wasnt sure if I'd like Elden Ring or not, pirated it, hated it. Did the same for Ghost of Tsushima, loved it, bought it instantly. I dont think theres anything wrong with that personally.

 

[USAFRet]

OK...this has gone far enough down the justification for piracy road.

Let's cease on that concept, OK?

Further comments in that vein will be summarily deleted.

 

[awake283]

You're right.. lets go back to what I dont understand. Why is THIS game getting so much attention for a large install size? Games have been 100+ for what seems like a decade now. I agree it's ridiculous, but why did it take so long for it to get attention?

 

[USAFRet]

You're right.. lets go back to what I dont understand. Why is THIS game getting so much attention for a large install size? Games have been 100+ for what seems like a decade now. I agree it's ridiculous, but why did it take so long for it to get attention?

"attention" has been there all along.
Just that this particular article is what some people choose to glom on to.

Back in the mid 90's, publishers were ridiculed for putting out games that consumed the insane size of 140MB.

 

[awake283]

On my first PC, it had a 220MB HD. Command and Conquer took up so much of it that I had to uninstall it to install ANYTHING else, not just games. 😀

 

[evdjj3j]

OK...this has gone far enough down the justification for piracy road.

Let's cease on that concept, OK?

Further comments in that vein will be summarily deleted.

Oh no! LOL.