File Size

[Raiden]

I've noticed a disturbing trend lately, a bloated file size for an increasing number of games.
For example, the combined size of the ps2 versions of X and X-2 on emuparadise is 6.2 gb, This hd remaster of the two is ~5.5 times larger at 34 gb.

I recognize that the hd remastering is going to increase the file size, but by a factor of 5?
I'm really just looking for some rational in this case. Anything to make this make sense would be awesome.

I also recognize that languages probably account for the majority of the size.

[Lambs2Lions]

Languaes don't account for the size, high poly textures do. Modern RPGs and other games are around 60GB in size. A remaster only being approx 30GB is good imo.

[Raiden]

I hadn't realized the high poly took up so much of the space. I just figured it wasn't the resolution because Skyrim took up only 8.8 gb, Fallout New Vegas took 9.8 gb, and Galactic Civilizations 3 took up 11 gb.

I suppose that I'm just salty about the large file size. It makes it something that I can't download at home without devoting a (figurative) day to do so.

Mind telling me about some of the RPG's you're talking about? I mean I know they're large sizes, but I might be interested in them anyway.

[Charllize]

FF 13 - 60GB
Witcher 3 - 55 GB
Dragons Dogma PC remaster - 20 GB
Valkyria Chronicles PC remaster - 20 GB

Well, games bloating every year, new technology , HD textures, voices, languages etc.
Vagrant Story for PS1 have 78 mb file size..hehe.

[Serafie1999AD]

FFXIII is so big only because of the Japanese video and audio files. Delete them, and the game becomes 29 GB.

[Lambs2Lions]

Originally posted by Sefie1999AD:

FFXIII is so big only because of the Japanese video and audio files. Delete them, and the game becomes 29 GB.

RPGs have a lot of cutscenes at are 4K, 1 hour of cutscenes is around 2-3 GB. If i'm not mistaken.

[Kaldaien]

Audio assets for both languages are the bulk of the data. Audio is almost the entirety of the game's storage in fact, it's been that way in this game since its inception. They really didn't know what to fill the DVD with on the PS2, so they just went to town voicing stuff over inefficiently :)

Better than FFXII though, that's for damn sure. Most of those character voices are so heavily compressed, they sound like they're 20,000 leagues under the sea talking through a tin can.

[Plex]

The HD remaster contains:
- video in upscaled HD resolution with both languages
- voicedata in both languages
- for soundtrack FFX also contains the legacy PS2 soundtrack besides remastered
- higher model and texture resolutions
- also contains PS2 ressources including PS2 models,maps, events and animations and more
some of them are unused and only waste space, no clue why they haven't removed the unused stuff.
and also the extra stuff like the audio drama and eternal calm cutscenes.

[Raiden]

Wouldn't it make sense to have the game download in the language you have steam running, then have the other languages as optional downloads?
It'd decrease file size for sure, but are there some issues with this that I'm not seeing?

[Kaldaien]

Significantly more complicated QA testing.

Square-Enix never patches their games, so we cannot really use that as an excuse. Their software deployment procedure is brutally simple: release once, never push an update again. So it doesn't matter how many different configurations they have, lol.