We need to fatshame video games - My 600GB Life

Every game is using compressed textures for almost everything. Audio is the real cancer, but if you want that sweet atmos support than there isn't any other way.

The 8 of Spades said:
That's about the same size as ESO for PS4, fucking 190 something gigs. I have no idea why it seems to require itself to be the biggest file on my HDD.
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You have no idea?
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Secret Asshole said:
The Call of Duty Battle Royale Free to Play shit was like 80 gigs and its like holy fuck.
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Every season though is 33 gigs and we're up to season 4

That doesn't include the random 3 or 12 gig patches that are always getting pushed out

I have two games installed on my 500gb drive, Black Ops 4 and MW and i'm like 3/4 full.
 
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Every game is using compressed textures for almost everything. Audio is the real cancer, but if you want that sweet atmos support than there isn't any other way.
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You're on spot. Pretty much all games use .dds files for their textures which pretty much are jpegs that support mipmaps. like you said audio is a total killer. For example, the total install size for left 4 dead 2 is 12.5 Gigabytes and around 6.1 gigabytes are just uncompressed WAV files. Developers could really cut down on audio file size by either using FLAC or OGG Vorbis files.
 
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Once upon a time, World of Warcraft's files and .exe could be slid onto a cutting edge 8GB thumbdrive and played on library and college desktops right off the USB no install, right up until the beginning of Wrath if I remember correctly.
 
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This is one of the reasons I haven't kept up with modern gaming. I live in a place with slow internet and don't want to be sitting around for 2 days waiting for my game to download. That and rediscovering the joy of emulation.

Also, maybe I'm an out of touch crusty old man but what is the point of gaming on consoles now? Used to be you plug it in, insert your cartridge or disk and you are good to go. Why the hell you gotta do day one downloads and install stuff even when you buy a physical game? Just get a PC at that point. Somehow Sony and Microsoft duped consumers into dealing with all this extra shit and eroding the one unique selling point of having a console.
 
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1TB drives are cheap these days.
Just play on Stadia or something, or download a Repack.

edit: you want le triple AAA and full voice acting with 4k support, you're gonna get 120gb bloat monster games. Or sacrifice half your cpu to decompressing on demand.
 
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Capsaicin Addict said:
This. Not everyone has the benefit of optical fiber. It reminds me of my younger days when all I had was dialup. At least with broadband connections you don't have to worry about a hiccup in the phone line fucking it up.
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This keeps the brazilians confined to their digital third world hovels.

They're barely more sentient than actual animals but they'll still piss on the carpet given the chance.
 
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Capsaicin Addict said:
This. Not everyone has the benefit of optical fiber. It reminds me of my younger days when all I had was dialup. At least with broadband connections you don't have to worry about a hiccup in the phone line fucking it up.
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Hiccups interrupting downloads is possible on broadband. Happened to me constantly before I upgraded my 2007 era router. Still happens sometimes.
 
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I really fucking hate this because I have a standard PS4 from around the launch date that's got a total storage size of 400 GB. That might have been fine in the PS3 era, but I can barely keep more than 10 games on my system at a time because every game these days has to be 50-60 GB. Not to mention, I don't know if this is because I have an older PS4, but download speeds are fucking unbearable. It took an entire day to download the FF7 Remake and even smaller games like SpongeBob Rehydrated took way longer than they needed to (it took like 2 hours to download a 20 GB game).
 
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Duncan Hills Coffee said:
I really fucking hate this because I have a standard PS4 from around the launch date that's got a total storage size of 400 GB. That might have been fine in the PS3 era, but I can barely keep more than 10 games on my system at a time because every game these days has to be 50-60 GB. Not to mention, I don't know if this is because I have an older PS4, but download speeds are fucking unbearable. It took an entire day to download the FF7 Remake and even smaller games like SpongeBob Rehydrated took way longer than they needed to (it took like 2 hours to download a 20 GB game).
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Do you hardwire your console to your router? Most modems generate a wifi that still sucks shit compared to CAT-5.
 
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Pargon said:
Do you hardwire your console to your router? Most modems generate a wifi that still sucks shit compared to CAT-5.
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I wirelessly connect it to my router's Wi-Fi. My Wi-Fi sucks ass, but the PS4 is especially horrible with it; what takes my PC 10 minutes to download takes my PS4 a whole hour. I don't really have the option to connect it to a wired access point either, which I totally would if it were possible.

I've heard that the older models have worse antennas so that might have something to do with it. My sibling has a Pro and it's not nearly as bad, even when it's on the same Wi-Fi.
 
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Stasi said:
This is one of the reasons I haven't kept up with modern gaming. I live in a place with slow internet and don't want to be sitting around for 2 days waiting for my game to download. That and rediscovering the joy of emulation.

Also, maybe I'm an out of touch crusty old man but what is the point of gaming on consoles now? Used to be you plug it in, insert your cartridge or disk and you are good to go. Why the hell you gotta do day one downloads and install stuff even when you buy a physical game? Just get a PC at that point. Somehow Sony and Microsoft duped consumers into dealing with all this extra shit and eroding the one unique selling point of having a console.
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Console vs. PC at this point is nothing but a couch vs. desk debate. PC has its own version of the retarded exclusivity war with the infighting between Steam, Epic, Origin, Uplay, etc, and consoles now have similar config/download issues to what the PC has.
 
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