game files size is just insane

[REALiNSaNgAMingGODPrODIgY]

i had a ssd of 4 tb and now theres 400 gb left. its insane how each game is like 100 gb now a days. 10 games is 1 tb. like my lord.

so you basically forced to play like a couple games on a ssd since the bigger ones are mad expensive

[Stingray_tm]

What's even worse, games like Vermintide 2 force you to download 60GB just for patching the game, because the programmers are too lazy to write an efficient patch routine and just brute force reinstall the game.

[sleeps]

game devs hate this simple trick

"4k textures as dlcs"
"hq sfx as dlcs"

[Electric Cupcake]

Did they ever fix FX Pinball so it only downloads the tables you actually bought and not all of them?

[REALiNSaNgAMingGODPrODIgY]

Originally posted by sleeps:

game devs hate this simple trick

"4k textures as dlcs"
"hq sfx as dlcs"

i love games having ray tracing installed with the game even tho 1% of people can actually run it

[Krypto]

Jedi Survivor and FF7 Rebirth are both 150 GB's each. It's nutty how big games have become when titles like Mass Effect 2 on the 360 were about 14 GB's.

I have a 4TB external HDD to use as mass storage for when I need to transfer to and from my SSD. It's fine to play from with older titles, but I just prefer the loading times of an SSD.

[REALiNSaNgAMingGODPrODIgY]

Originally posted by Equinox:

I keep only several games installed at the same time so I don't have this problem. When I'm done with one game, I uninstall it and download another.

i hate the feeling of having to slog through a game just to uninstall it. i did that with atomicheart. cranked it to easy and speedrunned it. having many games installed for my certain mood is nice.

and you can't beat multiplayer games, sea of thieves and rust are legit almost 100 gb and same with others.

[DoomsDay]

my mind right now is floating around the news that Trump getting convicted. and everyday my work keeps throwing new chore at me, and I keep losing the pattern I build up to adapt the work.
why is modern game taking up huge disk space? I dont know, sorry.

[Electric Cupcake]

I've just been going through my downloads and videos folders to find stuff to move to the storage drive or delete to free up space.

[xjulep]

It’s because normalcattle are visual animals. Their perfect form of media is high definition video. So it will never get better

[Phirestar]

That’s one of the perks of having a good mixture of both big and small titles in your library.

Something like Elden Ring might take up 60 GBs (and more with the DLC), while an indie title such as Hollow Knight is only around 9 GBs or so, last I checked.

It’s basically putting a couple big objects into a tub and then filling in the gaps with smaller things.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Originally posted by sleeps:

game devs hate this simple trick

"4k textures as dlcs"
"hq sfx as dlcs"

Language packs should all be DLC as well, I don`t need twenty languages worth of voice acting taking room on my SSD. Let me just have damn English.
Almost every day some game is downloading some Chinese or whatever language pack that I don`t need and bam another GB added.

[Uncle Sam]

Originally posted by sleeps:

game devs hate this simple trick

"4k textures as dlcs"
"hq sfx as dlcs"

Agreed with this, also OP nowadays games seems to be far less optimized tbh.

[Sixtyfivekills]

I especially love when devs include bonus FMVs which end up taking huge part of the game size.



How much space can you restore after deleting them from the likes of Mortal Kombat or Tekken? A lot. Why is that a problem then? Because every time I want to download it I have to wait 6 hours for it to finish and by the time its finished I am not in a mood for it.

[LoveAndPeace]

Originally posted by Uncle Sam:

Originally posted by sleeps:

game devs hate this simple trick

"4k textures as dlcs"
"hq sfx as dlcs"

Agreed with this, also OP nowadays games seems to be far less optimized tbh.

coded like absolute trash...

[Krypto]

That's why we have upscaling, to brute force what the developers choose not to do - optimization.

Despite that not being what the original intention for upscaling was supposed to be.

Didn't take long for that to change.