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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.
Isn't DLSS just rendering the game at a lower resolution and AI "enhancing" the resolution to the target one to get higher framerate for unoptimized games?
Yes, but this is something else. I'm not gonna pretend I understand that article but it's supposed to cut down on memory and storage use
As far as I understand, that's just a new compression algorithm that uses artificial intelligence techniques to get better compression. I don't think artificially generated textures are here yet
me installing “monster Hunter world dragon cocks”
I mean it's nice of them to include the mods out of the box not make people go find them 😂
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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
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
I read somewhere once that Activision was intentionally inflating the install size of Call of Duty so people would be less likely to play other games but I can’t remember who wrote it.
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."
It's 110GB of pre-loaded NSFW mods
Please god make this sell like shit. I just want bethesda to die in a fire im so done
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?
That's the regular size of games with modern features and assets. (And also Starfield lmao)
Extremely detailed Alto Wine model for 60GB
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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I don't know what people would even want out of that that isn't already provided by OpenMW. As far as running at modern resolutions, faster load times, higher FPS, etc. It even runs on phones.
Oblivion is similar enough to Skyrim and Starfield that a remake isn't that far out there. Do people really just want Morrowind in the skin of those games?
They have pretty much nothing in common system or writing wise. I can't see any situation where it isn't just a lesser product.
Morrowind also needs redesign of combat system because misses with zero damage were just so stupid. Remaster would be great time to also address that. Oblivion didn't have this issue anymore.
Morrowind combat would be improved immensely by the addition of a combat log. And wouldnt you know it? There's a mod for that now
~yeah~ ~i~ ~know~ ~it's~ ~only~ ~a~ ~hit~ ~chance~ ~mod~
I don't want to spend 5 days chasing the right mods and installing them just for them to conflict. I just want to play man.
You're in luck, no requirements except OpenMW which is what you should use for Morrowind anyway.
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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)
Free space is wasted space!
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
Probably true, I just wanted to dunk on Bethesda some more. Really, blending parts from various engines and frameworks is de rigueur for modern development.
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
Most game engines are actually composed of several subsystems working together. Commonly you'll have a renderer (translates art and geometry into 3D graphics), a sound system (managing channels, dynamic music cues, sound effects), physics and collision (given positions and velocities of things figure out how those should change), scripting, net code for multiplayer, and then each game will have various specific subsystems.
Like Oblivion has a massive system for managing dialogue: what NPCs say, what responses you have, how stats and items influence that, what audio voice clips are attached to each written line. All of that could still work with basically no changes.
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