You may have heard about the Midway/John Woo game Stranglehold, which promises plenty of “shooting people in the face while imagining they are your ex isn’t this THERAPUTIC!?!” action, but there might be one little tidbit you may have missed, which is plainly (and repeatedly) explained on Direct2Drive:

Installation Notice:
Stranglehold requires 50GB of free hard disk space during the installation process but, once installed, the setup files can be removed or stored elsewhere. If installing Stranglehold to a secondary drive, your system’s primary drive requires 20GB of free hard disk space during the installation process.

That’s right…you have to have FIFTY GIGS of hard drive space free to install this thing. This may explain why it’s called Stranglehold…that’s what it’ll have on your storage space, unless you’re going to open a private server-farm for your games.

Now admittedly, as drives get bigger, so do the games. I imagine there are quite a few people that won’t even blink at the 50g requirement. However, I game on a TRS-80 Color Computer…it’s annoying enough to wait for SWG to load off a cassette tape drive as it is.

And if bigger equates to better…why do I enjoy Peggle so damn much?

Game design, people…game design. I don’t care if I get to experience “Hyper-Ultra-Uber-Bullet-Rainbow Sprite Time” in 4D with surround sound and the aroma of freshly-baked cookies, as long as it’s fun…and as long as I don’t have to go invest in more equipment to play the damn thing.

I’ll now sit back and patiently wait for the flood of “buy a bettr cmptr n00b” responses.