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Posted December 13, 2017
Bullshit!

Old games take up just as much space as the new ones!

:D
Posted December 13, 2017
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mafon2: It drives me crazy that AAA games nowadays take around 100 Gb and indies around 10. 'member when Civ 4 was 1.4Gb? Yeah, I 'member. Member Doom 3 1.4 Gb? Warcraft III – 1 Gb? Not mentioning some pixel platformers bellow 1 Mb. Yeah... that were the days.

It stops me to play in many recent releases, 'cause I can't afford that much space – vids, music, soft, everything's chewing on memmory, like there's no opttimisation anymore.

I have 5 freaking HDDs (3 internal (>3TB) and 2 external (1.5 TB)) in my PC and it's still not enough – every day I wage a war for free space.
Yeah, I recently installed a game that takes up almost 100GB of space and I'm like WTF... Okay, it's a game that takes place in a large world, I understand that but 100GB? Damn, I'm going to have to spend a lot of $$$ on hard drives in the future.
Posted December 13, 2017
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deja65: We are in the “muh 60fps,muh 4k textures,muh online social space” era now and it will only get worse... Cheers
You are right, we should all be ashamed. 12 FPS and 16x16 textures are the best. I also miss stone axes, cannibalism and slavery. Though I still sometimes get flashbacks from that one war when the walls of Jericho fell.
Posted December 13, 2017
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tinyE: Are we sure?

I don't know about really new games like the new CoDs and the new Wolfenstein, but my two biggest downloads from GOG are somewhat older (Sacred 2, Jade Empire) and the StarCraft 2 free release is a 30Gb download and that game isn't exactly new either.

Of course the SC 2 download may be 1 Gb game and 29 Gb Blizzard bullshit. :P
the main reason for increased file sizes as the amount and fidelity of the assets
Posted December 13, 2017
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tinyE: Bullshit!

Old games take up just as much space as the new ones!

:D
Do you think damp is a problem in that kind of environment?
Posted December 13, 2017
My first PC from 1999 had 32 MB of RAM and a hard disk of 8 GB, but my current PC has 8 GB or RAM !

It had 16 MB of VRAM, while today you can get GPUs with 4 or 8 GB of VRAM.

That is an increase in over 200 times.

And already in 1999 you had games that came on 2-3 CDs and were over one 1 GB. If anything the size of games has increased slower than capabilities of the PCs.
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