I was going to reinstall MW2019, but that's 75GB from the disc. Even with Warzone 1.0 going away, the file size with CoD is massively bloated. Most of that is multiplayer content with uncompressed textures and unoptimized assets between titles. It's not uncommon for a CoD release now to be in the triple digits in storage space for ONE title or ONE mode. Ridiculous.
Broadband internet and web-based distribution happened, so there's no reason to have to cut down the file size of your game.
1. No compression.
The terabyte became cheap. A 2tb HDD is 70 bucks. If you need a M.2 for fast shit, you can buy a 1tb m.2 in the 50-80 range. Why do you need to compress when you have so much more space?
It’s good that I don’t like any of these anyway.
This does seem to ring pretty true these days. Old games are the best games to invest time in and their file sizes are tiny.
I remember like a decade ago downloading the Japanese dub dlc for darkengaurd 3 and it was a 1/15th of the whole games file size and that just the voices who know how much the all the music and sound effect take up. Still that was the ps3 when you where at least expected to have the full game in the disc so god know how bad it is now...well actual we do know since we can just look at the files I'm just to lazy to look it up right now.
I feel like this is a double edged sword because I was one of those people who used to buy CoD semi regularly, but once the games started getting so fucking enormous, I just called it quits. Like, I wouldn't mind playing Black Ops Cold War, but I'm not having that thing take up a chunk of my HDD just because they can't be assed to compress that shit down.
Soydeveloped games are already choking on modern hardware even when NOT having to decompress assets in the background.
There's a possibility to turn back the clock with procedural generation, AI textures, AI text-to-speech, LLMs, etc. AAA studios won't care about shrinking their games below 100 GB, but at some point it becomes impossible to record as much dialogue as you would want for a 16x larger open world game. So they will do some limited recording with VAs or license voice patterns from a company like Replica Studios. If the game engine can generate the voices in real time or close to it, only the text and markup need to be stored. LLMs can take it a step further by removing the need to write most lines, and allowing the player to type (or speak) directly to NPCs with a written backstory and other contextual information.
retard alert
Others covered high res textures, uncompressed audio, audio in multiple languages, useless engine features, high speed internet, lack of disc space limitations due to consoles coming with hard drives now.
