Top 10 games that hog your hard drive

August 1st, 2012

Solid state drives are crazy fast and should be bundled with every new gaming rig. But they're also smaller in capacity than traditional hard drives, which makes us hate the ridiculous install sizes of the following games even more.

GameSpy ran the numbers and found that The Old Republic hogs almost 20 freakin' gigs of hard drive space. Meanwhile, Rage and Tera each steal 25 gigs apiece, while Max Payne 3 wipes a whopping 35 gigs of space.

At the same time, Skyrim has been dubbed one of the largest most expansive game worlds ever, and yet it uses only 7 gigs in comparison, a fraction of these offensively obese games. 

The worst of them all? X-Plane 9. A full install will cost you a gargantuan 70 gigs of hard drive space. That's crazy!

In terms of size, which game installs do you find most frustrating? 

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It's not the sizes that frustrate me, it's the download times; I've got SW:TOR installing at home right now; it's been running since 10 am and isn't even half way done yet... I mean, gah!!!

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Eirreann
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It's not hard to believe that some MMO's are so huge but I can't believe skyrim is on 7 GB.

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It's not hard to believe that some MMO's are so huge but I can't believe skyrim is on 7 GB.

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TheBizzle1
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Eirreann said: It's not the sizes that frustrate me, it's the download times; I've got SW:TOR installing at home right now; it's been running since 10 am and isn't even half way done yet... I mean, gah!!!


You should download big games out night. It makes it less frustrating.

This reminds me that I should take SWTOR and Rage off my hard drive.

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Eirreann said: It's not the sizes that frustrate me, it's the download times; I've got SW:TOR installing at home right now; it's been running since 10 am and isn't even half way done yet... I mean, gah!!!


My same mentality. I hate having to download forever for a huge game.

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definewikipedia
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Downloading Source Filmaker was a mistake. It was a pretty big download for something I couldn't even comprehend let alone use. It was frustrating.

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SpiralHoriZon said: Downloading Source Filmaker was a mistake. It was a pretty big download for something I couldn't even comprehend let alone use. It was frustrating.


Yeah, saw the size, and luckily passed on that one

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Personally never had such problem. My most consuming HDD space game is 9 GB. With 500 GB HDD it's not a problem.

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ThrobSteele said:
SpiralHoriZon said: Downloading Source Filmaker was a mistake. It was a pretty big download for something I couldn't even comprehend let alone use. It was frustrating.


Yeah, saw the size, and luckily passed on that one


I was going to download it, but now.. I'll just click that X button. Lol

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Battlefield 3 is 16 gb was big for me.

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lozz21
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90GB for that plane simulator, that's so so so wrooooong

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robertxoxo
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never had a problem with hard drive space,i have a dedicated drive for games thats 400 gb and a spare 250 just for my music and other junk,after 40 games i still have 130 gb left on the game drive \m/.

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never had a problem with hard drive space,i have a dedicated drive for games thats 400 gb and a spare 250 just for my music and other junk,after 40 games i still have 130 gb left on the game drive \m/.

its NICE to BE BOSS,but its BOSS to BE NICE.NBB BBN

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zen2525
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never had a problem with hard drive space,i have a dedicated drive for games thats 400 gb and a spare 250 just for my music and other junk,after 40 games i still have 130 gb left on the game drive \m/.

its NICE to BE BOSS,but its BOSS to BE NICE.NBB BBN

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zen2525
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Rage being 21gb i believe was my largest hard drive clogger

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal -Albert Einstein

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TW:Shogun 2 + Fall of Samurai, now that's overwhelmingly dominant over MP3... My main drive is 72gb and I constantly have to install the games into my second hdd and what a hassle that is.

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Rage is bad, Any Max Payne game is bad, TOR is bad and you should feel bad for ever playing any of those.

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Maybe in the near future will appear games with 1 Tb lol

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psforce said: Maybe in the near future will appear games with 1 Tb lol

What are you doing dont give them ideas! I'm still suprised Sykrim is compact enough to be a fifth or less the size of some things though.

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The_Dracoknight
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Largest game I have is wow which takes close to 40GB with all expansions so far

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only 7 for skyrim. very interesting

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wish I could afford the 1.5tb raid 0 ssd right now lmao... now that most new game being so big.

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Lord of the Rings at 14 gigs was my largest game download.

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i like this game

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i ran out of harddrive space a few months after i got my laptop ended up being my FRAPS videos ther like 7 gigabytes a piece

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