And not in a good way. Halo is my favourite game and has been for 15 years, but I cannot justify this one game taking up the space of three games. The game doesn’t need to take up this much space. Thousands of armour pieces, for example, don’t get used and clog up the game. Hundreds of weapon variants clutter the multiplayer (it’s good multiplayer as it is, you don’t need to rely on four of each weapon and AR’s with long-range scopes, which FYI is stupid). The content updates are decent enough but really should have been there from the get go (Old argument, I know, but come on). I love Halo and wish I could continue to play it, but it’s ninety-two bloody gigabytes. That’s insane. ESO, an MMO, only takes up 78gb. Destiny, an FPS/RPG shooter and takes up 48gb. For a standard FPS game, Halo is absurdly large. Obviously it’s too late to do anything about it, but I implore 343 to not fill their next Halo game with constant -Yoink-. It doesn’t matter how much content you add, players aren’t going to want to keep a Halo game over multiple other titles because you added a different stripe of paint to an existing armour piece. The storage size needs to be dialed back or else people won’t keep the game.
Here’s a list of multiple titles you can have in your hard drive rather than just Halo 5:
Gears of War 4 and Rise of the Tomb Raider
Elder Scrolls Online and Rocket League
Dragon Age Inquisition and Dishonored: Definitive Collection
Destiny and Forza Horizon 3
I have reinstalled Halo 5 to try out the new update, and I wish I could justify keeping it for a while, but new games are coming out that don’t require nearly as much space as Halo 5. Honestly, it’s arguably the biggest if not one of the biggest issues that have kept more players away from the game.
And that is why I bought myself a 3TB external hard drive for my Xbox One (I don’t have to worry about hard drive space at all). I love Halo, and I really like Halo 5, so it’s worth keeping it on my console. Do I think they should try and compress Halo 6’s Memory Space more? Yes. Does it make me less attracted to all of the awesome stuff in Halo 5? No, not really.
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> A true Halo fan doesn’t care how much space it takes up. yeah I have a 500gig console and don’t care that H5 is a fifth of it.
I don’t mind you disagreeing with me, but the words “A true Halo fan…” are cancer. And this isn’t about true Halo fans (no such thing, it’s a pretty fluid definition when elitism isn’t taken into account) it’s about the casual player. “True” Halo fans alone would not hold up the servers. You need the droves of casuals to maintain the game, and Halo’s numbers are falling (natural for a year old game before someone tries to “but actually” me), and I doubt the humongous storage size helps.
Buy an external hard drive. Especially around this time of year you can get them for super cheap. 1tb for maybe around $50 and I’ve seen 4tb for $110 (fantastic deal). Just look around Amazon.
Yeah it’s pretty ridiculous how big the game is. I ended up buying an external 2TB HDD for my Xbox because Halo 5 alone took up like half of my space. 500gb is nothing now.
The file size is no biggie for those that already have been with Halo 5 since launch, but what about the newcomers that come into the game now? We all know Internet speeds are terrible in the US, without paying a hefty price and even then they are subpar to the file sizes we see know; so this nearly 100GB would take forever to download digitally, or even with the physical copy, it would still be about an extra 50GB that people have to download, that’s about the size of another game or two. These bloated game sizes are starting to become a -pun intended- big problem. I’m no game programmer or developer, I don’t know if it’s possible to go back and try to compress the game files and give it back to us as a new update.
It’s not really about whether or not we mind the size of the game, but rather a matter of how accessible it can be to everyone. Hard drives don’t last forever, so downloading Halo 5 again would be a hassle to all of us if our internal or external hard drives were to go kaput, there’s no denying that.
my bro and i play different games so i’ll likely have to buy an external drive to support both “sides” of our games. I pretty much only play Halo 5 lol rest of the games are his
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> (I don’t have to worry about hard drive space at all). Do I think they should try and compress Halo 6’s Memory Space more? Yes.
Lol, I thought the same when I got my external, I have 400gb left I also agree with compression, some games ( Halo 5 ) are massive when it comes to the GBs.
Edit = Problem solved. My wife just bought me a 4tb seagate HDD as part of my Christmas
A lot of the games are like this now, however. The reality is we have to add more memory to our xboxs by buying external hard drives or stop buying games.
I’m no game designer but I imagine the extra skins etc. take ups surprisingly little space. To me, elements like Forge are almost an entire game in itself. I’d be interested to know how many users use Forge, and if it could be disabled by individual users to save space.
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> I’m no game designer but I imagine the extra skins etc. take ups surprisingly little space. To me, elements like Forge are almost an entire game in itself. I’d be interested to know how many users use Forge, and if it could be disabled by individual users to save space.
I’d enjoy the ability to disable forge but I certainly enjoy what this amazing forge community does for Halo.
Armour skins don’t take up that much memory. The forge items, new weapon sets and vehicles with all their new animations and sound, forge canvas that takes up space.
You see how one can scroll through all that armour quickly and just equip one then swap to another, if it really takes ‘a lot’ of memory as you say then we would have trouble loading up all the armour and helmets and their variants.
Its not the end of the world if you run out of storage space, you simply just get more.
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> I’m no game designer but I imagine the extra skins etc. take ups surprisingly little space. To me, elements like Forge are almost an entire game in itself. I’d be interested to know how many users use Forge, and if it could be disabled by individual users to save space.
Doesn’t really work like that.
The Forge mode is a glorified game type, removing the mode itself wouldn’t reduce space, If they were to remove all of the related assets, (uncompressed sounds, hundreds and hundreds of objects, etc.) Then yeah, the game would eat up less of your hard drive. But since those are used in gameplay, this isn’t really feasible either.
To the OP, though. Externals are.your friend, and they don’t exactly cost a arm and a leg these days.
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> And not in a good way. Halo is my favourite game and has been for 15 years, but I cannot justify this one game taking up the space of three games. The game doesn’t need to take up this much space. Thousands of armour pieces, for example, don’t get used and clog up the game. Hundreds of weapon variants clutter the multiplayer (it’s good multiplayer as it is, you don’t need to rely on four of each weapon and AR’s with long-range scopes, which FYI is stupid). The content updates are decent enough but really should have been there from the get go (Old argument, I know, but come on). I love Halo and wish I could continue to play it, but it’s ninety-two bloody gigabytes. That’s insane. ESO, an MMO, only takes up 78gb. Destiny, an FPS/RPG shooter and takes up 48gb. For a standard FPS game, Halo is absurdly large. Obviously it’s too late to do anything about it, but I implore 343 to not fill their next Halo game with constant -Yoink-. It doesn’t matter how much content you add, players aren’t going to want to keep a Halo game over multiple other titles because you added a different stripe of paint to an existing armour piece. The storage size needs to be dialed back or else people won’t keep the game.
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> Here’s a list of multiple titles you can have in your hard drive rather than just Halo 5:
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> Gears of War 4 and Rise of the Tomb Raider
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> Elder Scrolls Online and Rocket League
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> Dragon Age Inquisition and Dishonored: Definitive Collection
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> Destiny and Forza Horizon 3
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> I have reinstalled Halo 5 to try out the new update, and I wish I could justify keeping it for a while, but new games are coming out that don’t require nearly as much space as Halo 5. Honestly, it’s arguably the biggest if not one of the biggest issues that have kept more players away from the game.
I also agree with compression, some games ( Halo 5 ) are massive when it comes to the GBs.