• daniyeg [he/him]
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    9 days ago

    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
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      169 days ago

      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

        • Programmer Belch
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          49 days ago

          Isn’t DLSS just rendering the game at a lower resolution and AI “enhancing” the resolution to the target one to get higher framerate for unoptimized games?

            • Programmer Belch
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              49 days ago

              As far as I understand, that’s just a new compression algorithm that uses artificial intelligence techniques to get better compression. I don’t think artificially generated textures are here yet

    • goferking (he/him)
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      49 days ago

      I mean it’s nice of them to include the mods out of the box not make people go find them 😂

  • Horse {they/them}
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    7910 days ago

    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 [any]
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      259 days ago

      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

  • Azarova [they/them]
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    519 days ago

    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

    • Stolen_Stolen_Valor [any]
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      29 days ago

      I read somewhere once that Activision was intentionally inflating the install size of Call of Duty so people would be less likely to play other games but I can’t remember who wrote it.

  • loathsome dongeater
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    9 days 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.

    • Inui [comrade/them]
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      49 days 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
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    209 days ago

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

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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      249 days 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 [comrade/them]
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      219 days ago

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

      • graymess [none/use name]
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        19 days ago

        If Bethesda lawyers take down Skyblivion after like a decade of very public development because of this remaster, I’m never buying fucking anything that Microsoft has ownership of.

    • Inui [comrade/them]
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      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
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        139 days ago

        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.

    • @Daggity@lemm.ee
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      19 days ago

      There’s a lot of controversial content in Morrowind. Also its gameplay is a lot more dated. Morrowind is my #1 game of all time, but I can’t see them navigating a new release successfully.