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[–] daniyeg@hexbear.net 90 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days ago

me installing “monster Hunter world dragon cocks”

[–] Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Install fewer 4k NSFW futa mods

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[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 79 points 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago

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

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 51 points 2 days 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 2 days ago

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

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[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 49 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not being limited by physical media has ruined everything, frankly

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 33 points 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago

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

[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 36 points 2 days ago

they forgot to take out the Starfield assets

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days 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 2 days 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

Probably true, I just wanted to dunk on Bethesda some more. Really, blending parts from various engines and frameworks is de rigueur for modern development.

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

That's possible? You can mix game engines?

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

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

Most game engines are actually composed of several subsystems working together. Commonly you'll have a renderer (translates art and geometry into 3D graphics), a sound system (managing channels, dynamic music cues, sound effects), physics and collision (given positions and velocities of things figure out how those should change), scripting, net code for multiplayer, and then each game will have various specific subsystems.

Like Oblivion has a massive system for managing dialogue: what NPCs say, what responses you have, how stats and items influence that, what audio voice clips are attached to each written line. All of that could still work with basically no changes.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago

Extremely detailed Alto Wine model for 60GB

[–] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Who has the internet speed and bandwidth for these games?

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days 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 2 days ago

Here I am with openra/openttd and a tethered mobile

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

[–] makotech222@hexbear.net 33 points 2 days ago

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

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's 110GB of pre-loaded NSFW mods

[–] Lemister@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

Free space is wasted space!

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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.

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days 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 2 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@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days 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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago

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

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

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

[–] variants_of_concern@lemmy.one 15 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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)

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