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[-] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

What on Earth is with the system requirements for this game? It requires a gigabyte of space? Heroes of Might and Magic 3? How's that possible? Judging from the pictures it is not updated or remastered or anything.

[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago

It came on a CD, which is max about 700MB; that could easily unpack to a gigabyte.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

I think I remember its demo being around a 20MB download (for sure under 100) so the full version was probably way less than a whole CD

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm seeing an 848 MB split rar archive in at least one torrent for "complete" edition.

This is an 18 year old torrent too, that's not the remastered version which is more like 3 GB.

PCGamingWiki does show 425 MB in the requirements, but that's likely without the expansions.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Maybe I am confusing it for II

[-] deadbeef79000 22 points 1 day ago

It'll be 700MB of electron based emulation to run it.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago
[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The game to not be as large, I assume

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I get that, but based on what? 1GB unpacked seems reasonable for a 1999 game that was likely distributed on CDs. Not at all surprising.

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