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[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 30 points 12 hours ago (22 children)

Well that's not too surprising, when the original game's installer files are only about 5-6 GB in total, and the remaster requires 120GB of space. They probably have a couple copies of Fallout in there too just for bloat.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 39 points 12 hours ago (15 children)

I mean I'm pretty sure the massive game sizes we see today are almost exclusively caused by high res textures and assets.

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 26 points 12 hours ago

Bethesda was notorious back in the day for using uncompressed textures. Not lossless textures, just fully uncompressed bitmaps. One of the first mods after every game release just compressed and dynamically decompressed these to get massive improvements in load times and memory management.

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