Forspoken Will Take Up a Hefty Chunk of Your PS5 Storage Space

I will probably and most likely get this on sale but with Hogwarts right around the corner I can't do open world back to back I get exhausted of open world POI clutter.

I think this game is shaping up nicely

Given the graphics don’t look ground breaking anyone any clue why the size?

Just to say again, the demo's a good chance to try it if you haven't liked the look of it before, I think the character's will mellow later and hold the square button to grapple...something the demo doesn't actually explain.

I’m fine with that! I feel like I’m one of the few people who play games one at a time so I don’t really need a whole bunch of games downloaded at any given time Haha

I still have no idea what to think of this game.

@Splat Same haha But here’s to hoping it’s awesome!

I played the demo and was put off straight away.

The graphics to me look to busy, if that makes sense and I didn't like the way it felt controlling. Its a hard pass for me.

I'm not sure what they think they have in this title. More looking forward to Harry Potter and then jedi survivor. Or which ever way it falls

@itsfoz sound files and pre-rendered cutscenes take up A LOT of space. Guessing this has a ton of high quality music and dialog since we haven’t seen much in terms of cutscenes.

So, let me get this straight...........

Part of me wants to buy this game AND Hogwarts Legacy day one, just to anger the partisans on each side who are hating on these games for stupid political reasons.

Being me, however, I'll pick them both up on sale in a few months - after the patches clean up whatever day 1 problems there are.

No it wont....cause im not getting it.

Game looks like a highly detailed world, and I imagine there's probably going to be a heavy amount of movement going on in the world, be it plot or just world deformation. That would probably account for a fair chunk of the space taken.

@NEStalgia Not the worst dialogue I've ever heard in a movie, TV show or game, but according to the internet you'd think it is.

@itsfoz it’s not just related to graphics. Overall compression, audio files, probably any pre-rendered scenes… the engine itself and how assets are handled.

No, it really won’t.

@somnambulance It's not the people buying them that are stupid partisans, it's the people hating on them.

That's not to say every criticism against either game is stupid or partisan - just specific criticisms, the type which can be made without playing the game (or demo).

Personally, I've largely sworn off buying games Day 1 as a general rule. GoW:Ragnarock got me to break that rule, but it released within a couple days of my birthday, so I made an exception. Any more, I wait for a price drop AND a couple rounds of post-release patches for pretty much everything.

Wasn’t impressed with the demo. Saving my SSD space for Dead Space

30 GB is a ton for a demo. But 87 GB seems normal for a big Square Enix game. Waiting for reviews before I decide if I want it later on or not

I don’t know what it is but I just really like the look of this game. It feels like I should be expecting a train wreck like everyone else… but the closer we get the more excited I am.

That frikkin zombie-bear thing looks incredible btw!

@thechetearly I hear ya man. I strictly have 2 on the go at any one time. Stops you getting massive un-clearable backlogs and buying games unnecessarily.

Nothing surprising at all. It's a big open world game. They are usually always fairly large in size, especially when they are graphically demanding games.. Hey, it's still a fraction of Call of Duty games.

As long as my copy arrives on release day, it will be taking up however many GBs it takes on my hard drive on day 1. I already committed to buying this months ago.

The demo was disappointing for me, so I'll wait for the reviews on this one. Not in a rush to get it, may wait for a discount anyway.

Besides, I'd rather explore the "Dead" of "Space" this month...
Not to mention there will be big spells to cast next month as part of a renowned school's "Legacy"

I was excited for this game and was going to pre-order. The demo changed my mind the combat is clunky movement is clunky. I'm going to wait to see what the review scores are since this is a new ip.

Good luck to Square on the launch of this new IP. I will not be buying it (no PS5) but they will be getting money from me with another game that will be released within the month of this one, Theatrhythm Final Bar Line.

Thanks for the PSA. Looks like I’ll have to do some housekeeping to avoid the disappointing ‘failed to download’ error from popping up in my near future.

@RobN
It is kind of sad to see people let their personal politics get the better of them. I actually just didn't click with the demo for this one so that's why I'm skipping it. Also Fire Emblem Engage comes out next week so I'll be playing that and by the time I'm finished with that, Hogwarts will be right around the corner.

The game looks stunning, voice acting was decent, combat was great but having the attack moves on the triggers could get tiresome after long play sessions. The only negative for me though was the constant chatter which hopefully we will be able to tone it down in the settings.

@UltimateOtaku91 Frey got her dialogue tips from Aloy

If the reviews are good, might buy it. Need to try the demo

@BuGGy2DaB But that’ll only take up dead space…

@doctommaso but how can space be dead ?

30GB isn't that alarming. I mean Horizon: Forbidden West took up almost 100GB, so 30GB for a triple A Square Enix game seems fair to me.

It won't take up any of my drive space...

Demo didn't do it for me... Might give the full game a go down the road a ways when it's cheaper! There's a lotta other games that look a lot better coming over the horizon soon tho to spend my moneys on!!

The next Babylons Fall

All the more reason to get a M.2…which I have already

@itsfoz The demo was quite underwhelming for me. I was expecting it to be first truly next-gen showpiece.

I played the demo like everyone else, and the first try for about 30 mins I wasnt greatly impressed, but upon going back, and getting more into the combat system, it started to become pretty damn fun. You got to switch around from melee to ranged, etc. I think the combat is above average really.

BTW, if you arent buying this because you think its woke, you are a total tool bag. Grow up.

Ok so the demo for the short burst it was and not all that great of a way to show off the game was 30gb by its self. But the full game which is suppose to be open world and alot of material to cover from the media and Square, its 87gb, something isn't right there.

@vikramsingh What does a next gen game look like anyway? It seems like we're already brushing against the limits of graphics and world size. What's the next innovation?

@Paultall Storage space doesn't really translate well to game size. There's zero chance you could predict how large a game is given how much space it takes in storage.

@itsfoz you seen those combat menus bro!!
🤣🤣

@nomither6 Ah yes, the real question...

My intentions are to pick it up day one. Either for PS5 or PC. Performance reviews will decide that. If it’s a stutterfest on PC (like many day one releases…) I’ll grab it for PS5.

With Dead Space and some recent PS5 upgrades I have no reason to get this. It also doesn't seem to be very good, politics aside.

@vikramsingh So was Sony I suspect but once Square got Sony money I suspect they cut resources on the project an rush it to completion.

@Paultall it could be that they gave us a uncompressed version of the demo or that they gave us the whole world in the demo and just block the stuff they didn't want us to see.

@itsfoz Because of all the exhausting dialogue 😋

@CWill97 Demo was pretty crap to be honest, I'm going to buy it on sale.

Will eventually get to it after finishing Ragnarok.

Well AC Valhalla is around 100GB, so what¡s the big news?, need more room, delete the games you don't play, ah genius!

I’d like to see some poll questions about how much a game’s size affects the gamer’s decision on whether or not to purchase the game. Hate to say it, but there are several AAA titles I’ve not purchased (and others I’ve only spent a handful of hours playing) just because of the massive size. Ultimately, I want to play these AAA games, but I don’t want to delete half the games on my system just to fit one big game on the SSD…so I often pass.

Game sizes are massively exceeding available, affordable game storage. That's a problem that needs to be fixed.

800-ish GB is not enough. I know of course that you, technically, only need one game stored at any one time. But I don't play one game at a time to completion and I imagine those that do are in the massive minority.

@Mythologue Indeed, the lines have blurred between generations now. For someone who started gaming during 8-bit era, my mind is conditioned to see clear boundaries with generational jumps. For now, I would settle for native 4K with ray-tracing and 60fps 😄. But apparently that's too much for PS5 to handle right now.

I think character models and general graphics reached a stage during the PS4 Pro days, which was sufficient to deliver impactful gaming experience.

@knowles2 Oh. Well, we're not far from the launch date, so we'll soon know how many corners were cut. For the sake of everyone following it, I hope the final game turns out to be good. I foresee a lot of patches in the future though.

That's huge, but I suppose I have to get used to that as we go deeper into this gen.

BTW, apparently "stick sensitivity" in Forspoken is the dead zone setting. I was looking for that option because the default has a huge dead zone, the right stick was not responsive enough by default.