It'd be nice if Steam and the other stores gave you checkboxes for a game's localizations and they'd only download/install the ones you actually want.

Of course that's not the whole problem and games also need to use lower texture sizes for small objects instead of using 4k textures all the time even for a toothbrush prop in the background.

Efficient storage and optimized code is my kink for gaming.

I saw ark was 400gb

You know this is old when it's only 155

All in the name of running it at 4k with 10 fps indoors and it crashes when you go outdoors. Thanks game publishers that's just what we all need!

If they're going to stick 83 gigs of uncompressed audio to the end of their 50gb game I want any option where the randomizes each line from the available localizations.

It's quite insane. A couple years back I bought and played an indie space game that had beautiful graphics, weather effects, 'splosions, space stations, hundreds of star systems etc.

That game's installed size? ~~260MB.~~ 186MB on checking.

The full game could fit on a CD-ROM about five times over and it was still many hours of cool gameplay. This massive universe exploration game is smaller than 90% of the 2D procedurally generated games I own.

Looks like they still develop, and still offer demos which I think is awesome. And their game sizes look still super reasonable.

I'm not really sure how you achieve that kind of compression, I assume most textures are hand-written shaders or something rather than 4k .png files.

Not everyone has SSDs, not everyone has 2+ TB of storage, and even if that were true you shouldn't have to ship your entire studios development server to your customer. A game shouldn't be bigger than 50 GBs (Yes that even includes Elden Ring). That's the limit. I can always go online and download more RAM, but I cannot download more storage space. We live in an age where code can be hyper optimized both by humans engineers as well as their thinking machines. Fuckin' make your games smaller and run better.

this trend of idiotic texture sizes and awful LOD overdoses need to stop. The fucking damage unreal engine has done on game design is immense.

Yeah western. Cause Genshin doesn't install terabyte sized patches every 2 weeks...

I want to update baldurs gate but my versions is like patch 3 or 4 or something so it’ll mean downloading the whole game over again which is like 180gb. I also use my laptop for work so space is a little limited and I maxed out my newest backup drive lol

Was part of a small team trying to crack and preserve a delisted game about a year ago. In the process the team realized like half the game's files don't even do anything. Literally ~25GB of data doing fuck all. You can just delete them with no consequences.

I find it very funny that vr games, nominally a cutting edge of game development, are often tiny because they have to more or less run on cellphones (facebook's headsets) and even on pcs the strain of rending can make a strong system cry.

gotta fill it with high resolution microtransaction skins.

Le Nippon, last bastion of small file size in vidyah, has fallen. I'm downloading the isekai Persona demo right now (because I hate myself I guess), and this 10 hours-long shit weighs about 60GB.

I thought about playing the remastered warcraft 3 but it's like 40 ffucking gb fuck that