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10 gigs of proprietary dlls
10 gigs uncompressed audio
20 gigs of uncompressed 8k textures (AI upscaled)
80 gigs of 4k NSFW futa mods
someone help me budget this my game is getting too bloated.
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Try to compress the audio? Or bundle 1080p textures with an AI model that generates the 8k upscaled during loading screens. There is no other way
NVIDIA is working on something like that, no joke, there's a GDC talk.
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me installing “monster Hunter world dragon cocks”
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at a guess:
- pointlessly large textures
- uncompressed intro video
- uncompressed audio
to which my response is "squish that shit motherfucker, i'm not made of hard drives"
It's always the damn textures. Gamers nowadays can't enjoy a story if they can't inspect the individual fibres on Hieronymous Rex's bedsheets
8k uncompressed textures and then they just turn on balanced DLSS anyway
It's like every company thinks their game will be the only game on your drive. It wouldn't kill you to do at least a modicum of compression!!! 
Being the only game in your drive is a feature for GaaS slop
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Not being limited by physical media has ruined everything, frankly
Nah, I'm putting this squarely on executives being dogshit at actually managing game development for the purpose of appeasing shareholders.
Yeah but back in The Day publishers would push for small file sizes to fit on less physical media.
Then there were things like late 360 games coming with like six disks
going from swapping disks on whichever mass effect to pirating it on pc was cool
they forgot to take out the Starfield assets
It's a shadow drop because 99 percent is Ai generated textures and voices. Calling it here
bet they download the game like 4 times - 1 for each language
2 of the languages are just "American English" and "British English."
Please god make this sell like shit. I just want bethesda to die in a fire im so done
It's 110GB of pre-loaded NSFW mods
Who has the internet speed and bandwidth for these games?
Spending a week unable to use the internet because all of my bandwidth is being used up by Steam is the best part of any new release.
Here I am with openra/openttd and a tethered mobile
My basic Internet has download speed of 40 MB/s. That downloads 80 GB in about 30 minutes. Not really a big deal?
Was thinking Diablo 2 Resurrected would be a good game to keep around in my Deck's back pocket but the game is like 25GB. The original came out a about a quarter of a century ago. These folks don't care about disk usage for some reason which baffles me.
Edit: to clarify I'm aware that Blizzard and Bethesda are different entities. I was talking about slop publishers' attitudes in general.
Extremely detailed Alto Wine model for 60GB
That's the regular size of games with modern features and assets. (And also Starfield lmao)
Why didn't they remaster Morrowind? It's the game that needs remastering the most out of the modern 3 TES games.
The free modder project Skyblivion is also dropping soon and Bethsoft decided to step on their toes for whatever reason
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Well, supposedly its running the original Oblivion engine to manage the gameplay and such, but piping all the graphical rendering to Unreal 5. So maybe its huge because it has 2 separate game engines? I'm sure running both of those is going to be so performant too.
The Ninja Gaiden II remake was the same setup and runs fine. If anything, it'll run poorly because it's an open world Unreal 5 game
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That's possible? You can mix game engines?
all the gameplay logic runs one one thing and all the graphics instructions get interpreted into something the new engine understands
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eh, good for my seed stats from little piggies (target of bds btw, so no purchases 
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i wonder tho, i think i achieved 100% invisibility, did all the side chains and then abandoned it, but i do remember the story being absolute drivel (aside from shady guy in a cowl, which was mildly entertaining)
One of the weapons added in the new post game content is an SEM.
Scanning Electron Microscope?!
It's like those Skyrim wabbajack mod lists.
You probably pay for it, unless you want to manually download 1200 files.
Like 80% of the downloads are stuff like "Ruined book texture - 4K"
756 GB
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