This Starfield/Baldur’s Gate 3 situation has become untenable. The two RPGs are simply too big to coexist in my life, and more importantly, they’re too big to fit on my hard drive.
SinceBaldur’s Gate 3launched, I’ve been wondering how I was going to make it through a minimum of 100 hours with the game beforeStarfield’s release. The answer? I haven’t, and won’t. Thanks to back-to-back reviews ofImmortals of Aveum(pass) andSea of Stars(smash), I’ve only put about 25 hours into Baldur’s Gate 3, despite thinking about it every waking moment since I started my playthrough at launch.
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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 Starfieldweighs in at a hefty 139.84 GB on PCand, with only Baldur’s Gate 3 installed 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 myPS5has a terabyte of storage and I attempt to play most new releases there. But — hat tip toXboxfor 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 theshort gamesI had planned to play this week. For most games, I would 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? WillTears of the Kingdomtake 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 stretched 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.
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