holy, 109 GB?

[Birdy]

I hate how so many games now a days are like 60+ GB. What is taking up that much space? The graphics?

[biesoid]

High res textures of all the skins you will never unlock.

[😎Astran😾]

Most of those 109Gb are taken by neglect and the lack of care. All WB games I have are like this.

Black Desert Online with its giant open world and excellent character graphics takes 40Gb.

[StingingVelvet]

Originally posted by biesoid:

High res textures of all the skins you will never unlock.

The textures are indeed pretty high res, at least a lot of them are. Hard to tell if you have all the blur AA on, but they look nice at 4k. The movies are of pretty high quality too unlike the compressed mess of the last two games. Still I'd bet engine optimizations are the real issue.

SSDs are pretty cheap now though, so meh... would rather this than compressing stuff more.

[Treehunter06]

Just like COD started as a 60GB game and is now way over 100GB with map packs that you have to pay for but if you never buy those packs you still install them and they take up space on your computer. Idiot programmers that have zero quality control hence why COD was immediately removed from my machine when the map packs came out and never to be seen again nor any game from that publisher/developer to be purchased again. This game is heading that direction quickly as i just bought it.

[xenon]

It's 109(140)GB because the devs can't compress if their lives depended on it, while using an engine that's 15 years old now.

As for "high texture quality", what a joke. Game cannot even AA properly. Doom Eternal, Metro Exodus... that's "high quality textures", while being almost half the size. Upcoming STALKER2 on Unreal 5 (wake up call for NRS, it's 2k21 already) is 150GB. That's a full open world game with graphics that will make most PCs ♥♥♥♥ themselves.

Cherry on top, on consoles MK11 weighs less while looking better than PC.

[Birdy]

Originally posted by Treehunter06:

Just like COD started as a 60GB game and is now way over 100GB with map packs that you have to pay for but if you never buy those packs you still install them and they take up space on your computer. Idiot programmers that have zero quality control hence why COD was immediately removed from my machine when the map packs came out and never to be seen again nor any game from that publisher/developer to be purchased again. This game is heading that direction quickly as i just bought it.

Ill never understand that, why do I have to download the DLC maps when I dont even have the DLC..?

[shadowflash]

Originally posted by xenon:

It's 109(140)GB because the devs can't compress if their lives depended on it, while using an engine that's 15 years old now.

Cherry on top, on consoles MK11 weighs less while looking better than PC.

That reminds me now delisted MK9 which had huge video files for the time with absolutely garbage quality - compression artefacts all over the place. Developers somehow can't use high quality royalty-free codecs that are free for any use and provide vastly superior video quality for half of the size. Also they can't just make a story game in fighting game as a free DLC like in SFV - so you could just uninstall it after you done with it. Sure you can delete video and audio files related to the story manually but you have to do it each time you want to install the game. Same goes for multiple video and audio files for a lot of languages. Those often waste up to 20-50Gb. Most people don't want to play story every week, they just play it once and then don't come back for a loooong time if ever. Also they don't need all languages from Albanian to Javanese installed at the same time, taking 50Gb of space.