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I mean I can understand how textures add up but 161 gigs for a basketball game seems like a lot of unoptimized stuff going on
The majority of the space on modern games is taken up by high definition audio. Those thousands of commentator lines add up to dozens of gigs alone.
Idk if NBA games have a lot of cut scenes but those are sometimes the culprit; Separate rendered videos in every language that the game supports.
So they're likely not optimizing by not using Opus.
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Do they not even use compression anymore? I've been wondering since Steam came out if I was downloading compressed game files or wasting bandwidth every time. They used to try to conserve storage, compressing everything to fit on one or two discs (or floppy disks before that)
If you watch the download graph, the blue bars is what you're downloading, and is always significantly smaller than the green line which is what is being saved to disk.
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I remember being floored to see that GTA V on my PS3 was a 8gb disc. Zero optimization for consoles these days.
When Baldur's Gate 2 came out it was on 6 CDs, like 4GB. Game was massive.
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Is this forreal
It's because they just Ctrl+X last year's game directory but didn't put it back in a .ZIP file.
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I'd prefer they spend time optimizing CPU, GPU, RAM usage instead of storage size.
These are rarely mutually exclusive. Rather the opposite, as these textures and whatnot need to be pumped through RAM and VRAM via the CPU.
In third world, internet is expensive, so shit like this would cause alot of people to have to download it over more than a month
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Diablo 2 lod installed: 3 gb Diablo 2 resuracted 25 gb
Is 4k images consuming that much more space?
That's nothing compare from ark
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