100gb is ridiculous for such a simple racing game.

[z4v3k]

This isn't an open world game like Forza horizon 4 which has over 450 cars and only requires about 63gb, nor does Grid 2019 look like a current gen game, which will probably only have about 20 locations or so with 20-30 cars.

Seriously this is unacceptable for such a simple game, either compress the files or give us the option to download the singleplayer and multiplayer separately, or even better do both together.

[Squiggy Wigginz]

Proof it's NOT a SIMPLE "Game". It's an all-out SIMULATOR! WOOT!

[MancSoulja]

Imaging referring to someone else's game as simple, when you don't even have 100GB of storage to spare.

[Coneheaded Goon [DK]]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Imaging referring to someone else's game as simple, when you don't even have 100GB of storage to spare. :tgrin:

Uhh, you didn't get the point... which is that it shouldn't take 100GB, as it's not current gen, and doesn't look the part, nor will it have the content to justify it.
Usually huge install sizes are due to bad optimization of assets, and are far from synonymous with quality.

I got plenty of space btw, still chiming in that 100gb is ridiculous for what this game is.

[☎need4naiim☎]

it is probably due to the usage of unique assets for each location and circuit. Even if some textures are nearly same for different circuits, there is a single one for each independent track. This can easy up the future DLC implementations through seasons but it covers more space than actually needed. It does not show a bad optimisation necessarily. But if you check DR2.0, then you are right that optimisation will not be perfect or near perfect.

[limelight1210]

I seriously cant tell if OP is cheap, trolling, or just dumb.

[Omiley]

Gamers better adjust cause its where we're headed. It cost devs less to not improve on compression ratios....why, cause storage is extremely cheap. A 2TB HDD is $60-$70, more than enough space for games....and they know this. Most gamers are running the SD/HDD combo ( solid state for OS hdd for storage) and even then some SD's are pretty cheap now.

[Acquire]

Forza Horizon 4 is 86 GB. Forza 7, which is closer in design to this game than Horizon, is 99 GB. I know Forza 7 has some very high resolution textures. The game was designed to fully showcase 4k HDR on the xbox one x after all. Maybe this game is also pushing some extremely high resolution textures? The textures are also most likely unique per car and track given how they scan them and model them into games.

Games in general now are just huge. Most recent example I have is Wolfenstein Young Blood. Not a huge game in terms of gameplay content, but it's 40GB.

Storage is super cheap now though. HDDs are a cent a GB. A 1TB SATA SSD is about $100 with nvme versions at about $200 or less.

[Omiley]

Originally posted by Acquire:

Forza Horizon 4 is 86 GB. Forza 7, which is closer in design to this game than Horizon, is 99 GB. I know Forza 7 has some very high resolution textures. The game was designed to fully showcase 4k HDR on the xbox one x after all. Maybe this game is also pushing some extremely high resolution textures? The textures are also most likely unique per car and track given how they scan them and model them into games.

Games in general now are just huge. Most recent example I have is Wolfenstein Young Blood. Not a huge game in terms of gameplay content, but it's 40GB.

Storage is super cheap now though. HDDs are a cent a GB. A 1TB SATA SSD is about $100 with nvme versions at about $200 or less.

1TB M.2 is $114 (Western Digital) and so are SSD's at that capacity.

[k'nt]

"Forza horizon 4 which has over 450 cars and only requires about 63gb"

and Gran Turismo 6 on PS3 runs at 60fps, is 30~ GB and exceeds well over 1000 cars... what is your point. Forza is bad - get over it.

[dannyj147]

The current Forza Motorsport is around 100 gb. GT Sport is getting around this size now with it's updates too now I think.

[☎need4naiim☎]

100 gb is becoming more and more possible for a single game size.

Thinking about it, my computer had 2 gigs of PATA hard drive in 1999, but i was able to play games like Mortal Kombat 4, NFS3, Hexen II, TombRaider III, Viper Racing... etc. and never felt my 2000 mb sized storage is small.

What a phenomenon that History is.

[Omiley]

It's all about money the reason games are getting so huge. Reason ? it's much cheaper to use less and less effective compression ratios compared to the average cost of storage. With the average user affordably having 1tb or more, theres less incentive for publishers to make games as small as possible. Hell you can get a 2tb hdd for $60.

[Shrimp On The New Breed]

most likely the textures for people who can play at 4k

[Realazio]

You do know that killzone uncompressed was 290 GB? Keep in mind that game was out in 2013. So 100 GB in 2019 is still "ok"

[Shrimp On The New Breed]

Originally posted by Realazio:

You do know that killzone uncompressed was 290 GB? Keep in mind that game was out in 2013. So 100 GB in 2019 is still "ok"

uncompressed audio can make files pretty big as well

remember this being case for titanfall