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[–] daniyeg@hexbear.net 91 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

10 gigs of proprietary dlls

10 gigs uncompressed audio

20 gigs of uncompressed 8k textures (AI upscaled)

80 gigs of 4k NSFW futa mods

someone help me budget this my game is getting too bloated.

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Try to compress the audio? Or bundle 1080p textures with an AI model that generates the 8k upscaled during loading screens. There is no other way

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

NVIDIA is working on something like that, no joke, there's a GDC talk.

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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

me installing “monster Hunter world dragon cocks”

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[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 79 points 1 week ago (1 children)

at a guess:

  • pointlessly large textures
  • uncompressed intro video
  • uncompressed audio

to which my response is "squish that shit motherfucker, i'm not made of hard drives"

[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's always the damn textures. Gamers nowadays can't enjoy a story if they can't inspect the individual fibres on Hieronymous Rex's bedsheets

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

8k uncompressed textures and then they just turn on balanced DLSS anyway

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's like every company thinks their game will be the only game on your drive. It wouldn't kill you to do at least a modicum of compression!!! meow-tableflip

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago

Being the only game in your drive is a feature for GaaS slop

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[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not being limited by physical media has ruined everything, frankly

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah, I'm putting this squarely on executives being dogshit at actually managing game development for the purpose of appeasing shareholders.

[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah but back in The Day publishers would push for small file sizes to fit on less physical media.

Then there were things like late 360 games coming with like six disks

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

going from swapping disks on whichever mass effect to pirating it on pc was cool

[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

they forgot to take out the Starfield assets

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

bet they download the game like 4 times - 1 for each language

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

2 of the languages are just "American English" and "British English."

[–] makotech222@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago

It's a shadow drop because 99 percent is Ai generated textures and voices. Calling it here

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's 110GB of pre-loaded NSFW mods

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week ago

Please god make this sell like shit. I just want bethesda to die in a fire im so done

[–] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Who has the internet speed and bandwidth for these games?

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Spending a week unable to use the internet because all of my bandwidth is being used up by Steam is the best part of any new release.

[–] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Here I am with openra/openttd and a tethered mobile

[–] Biddles@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My basic Internet has download speed of 40 MB/s. That downloads 80 GB in about 30 minutes. Not really a big deal?

[–] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Was thinking Diablo 2 Resurrected would be a good game to keep around in my Deck's back pocket but the game is like 25GB. The original came out a about a quarter of a century ago. These folks don't care about disk usage for some reason which baffles me.

Edit: to clarify I'm aware that Blizzard and Bethesda are different entities. I was talking about slop publishers' attitudes in general.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

Extremely detailed Alto Wine model for 60GB

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago

That's the regular size of games with modern features and assets. (And also Starfield lmao)

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Unless it's as funny as the original why would anyone want this?

[–] variants_of_concern@lemmy.one 15 points 1 week ago

I guess we'll find out in a couple hours when it's revealed

[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

there's a cult of gamers who eat this series up

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Day 1 Bethesda bugs are usually pretty funny, so I'm waiting for it to download right now. A friend of mine played Skyrim first time and during the intro cutscene on the wagon where you can't move, he got mobbed by wolves that flipped it over and broke the whole scene. Good stuff.

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Why didn't they remaster Morrowind? It's the game that needs remastering the most out of the modern 3 TES games.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

Because the newer the game the easier it is for them to asset flip. They could only rerelease Skyrim so many times so I guess Oblivion was the next newest after that.

[–] fox@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The free modder project Skyblivion is also dropping soon and Bethsoft decided to step on their toes for whatever reason

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[–] Inui@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't know what people would even want out of that that isn't already provided by OpenMW. As far as running at modern resolutions, faster load times, higher FPS, etc. It even runs on phones.

Oblivion is similar enough to Skyrim and Starfield that a remake isn't that far out there. Do people really just want Morrowind in the skin of those games?

They have pretty much nothing in common system or writing wise. I can't see any situation where it isn't just a lesser product.

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Morrowind also needs redesign of combat system because misses with zero damage were just so stupid. Remaster would be great time to also address that. Oblivion didn't have this issue anymore.

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Morrowind combat would be improved immensely by the addition of a combat log. And wouldnt you know it? There's a mod for that now

~yeah~ ~i~ ~know~ ~it's~ ~only~ ~a~ ~hit~ ~chance~ ~mod~

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't want to spend 5 days chasing the right mods and installing them just for them to conflict. I just want to play man.

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

You're in luck, no requirements except OpenMW which is what you should use for Morrowind anyway.

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

eh, good for my seed stats from little piggies (target of bds btw, so no purchases angel-biblical-shh )

i wonder tho, i think i achieved 100% invisibility, did all the side chains and then abandoned it, but i do remember the story being absolute drivel (aside from shady guy in a cowl, which was mildly entertaining)

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well, supposedly its running the original Oblivion engine to manage the gameplay and such, but piping all the graphical rendering to Unreal 5. So maybe its huge because it has 2 separate game engines? I'm sure running both of those is going to be so performant too.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Ninja Gaiden II remake was the same setup and runs fine. If anything, it'll run poorly because it's an open world Unreal 5 game

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[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's possible? You can mix game engines?

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

all the gameplay logic runs one one thing and all the graphics instructions get interpreted into something the new engine understands

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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One of the weapons added in the new post game content is an SEM.

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Scanning Electron Microscope?!

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's like those Skyrim wabbajack mod lists.

You probably pay for it, unless you want to manually download 1200 files.

Like 80% of the downloads are stuff like "Ruined book texture - 4K"

756 GB

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