Tekken 7 is a great game, but I can't recommend it because it is too absurdly huge for a freaking fighting game. It takes up about 70 GB, which is more space than Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3, Arma 3, and a bunch of other games with large worlds -- games where large space requirements feel justifiable and are to be reasonably expected. This wouldn't be much of a problem if you could just install it in the more plentiful storage of an HDD, but in an HDD the load times for every single fight will be long enough that you will get bored of and annoyed from staring at the load screen. Given that Tekken 7 is played as basically sequences of two-minute fights in different stages, if you install it in an HDD you can expect a big chunk of your playtime to be comprised of staring at a loading screen for annoyingly long periods.

Sure, I can always install the game on my NVMe drive, but that has much more limited space, and with Tekken being a game that I like to play doing a few fights on and off, then quitting to do other things, it doesn't feel like a game that can justify competing for space with others that are huge time sinks that will attract me for large, continuous amounts of hours, and that's not to mention my operating system and other non-game software that needs good read speed. This is without bringing up the fact that a large chunk of Tekken 7's data is a bunch of full-motion videos that bring nothing to the gameplay, which just adds insult to injury. In the end, I haven't played Tekken for months because I simply can't bring myself to free up the very large space to install it.

I would like to encourage gamedevs and publishers to be more conscious of the user's storage space, and since Tekken 7 is the very polar opposite of conscious in this regard, I can't bring myself to recommend it.

Tekken 7 is a great game, but I can't recommend it because it is too absurdly huge for a freaking [b]fighting game[/b]. It takes up about 70 GB, which is more space than Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3, Arma 3, and a bunch of other games with large worlds -- games where large space requirements feel justifiable and are to be reasonably expected. This wouldn't be much of a problem if you could just install it in the more plentiful storage of an HDD, but in an HDD the load times for [i]every single fight[/i] will be long enough that you will get bored of and annoyed from staring at the load screen. Given that Tekken 7 is played as basically sequences of two-minute fights in different stages, if you install it in an HDD you can expect a big chunk of your playtime to be comprised of staring at a loading screen for annoyingly long periods. Sure, I can always install the game on my NVMe drive, but that has much more limited space, and with Tekken being a game that I like to play doing a few fights on and off, then quitting to do other things, it doesn't feel like a game that can justify competing for space with others that are huge time sinks that will attract me for large, continuous amounts of hours, and that's not to mention my operating system and other non-game software that needs good read speed. This is without bringing up the fact that a large chunk of Tekken 7's data is a bunch of full-motion videos that bring nothing to the gameplay, which just adds insult to injury. In the end, I haven't played Tekken for months because I simply can't bring myself to free up the very large space to install it. I would like to encourage gamedevs and publishers to be more conscious of the user's storage space, and since Tekken 7 is the very polar opposite of conscious in this regard, I can't bring myself to recommend it.