• henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    21 days ago

    When games get this big it merely ensures that they get uninstalled the moment I lose a bit of interest.

  • Dr_Box@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Valheim, a massive open world filled with interesting monsters and beautiful stylistic graphics is 1gb

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      21 days ago

      to be fair, the 4k textures etc take up most of the space in large 3d games. valheim has a low poly and low quality textures style with a lot of repeats. it only looks good thanks to lighting.

      with such a design choice you have an unfair advantage over photorealism and large variety.

      we should however compare different games of the same style. did they use the 8k ulta detailed Hamburger models or did they actually think about Ressource and space management ?

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          19 days ago

          The high resolution bristles were necessary to prevent plague to the teeth of the characters, from the microscopically 3d scanned streptococci.

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    21 days ago

    I was shocked to find out that Balatro was like 80 MB to download. You don’t need million-poly models and 8k textures to make an really good game. Granted, yeah it’s a 2D game, but it’s a beautifully-presented one.

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        21 days ago

        Games like that have nothing to prove. The product speaks for itself.

        Meanwhile, games that take up 300gb of your disk often do this purposefully. In the case of console games, they know it will monopolize your system. The game usually isn’t even enjoyable, but it’s too big to delete randomly, so you gaslight yourself into committing to it

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    21 days ago

    Downloaded factorio yesterday at a wopping ~1.5 gig

    What game is this?

    Have noticed western devs typically can’t reduce file size for shit. Something like killing floor 2 is 97 gigs and elden ring (last i looked) was under 50