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awkward-teabag · 4 months ago

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Remember when games used to include an optional download for HD textures because 1080p was new but the developer still wanted people to have an option to used higher res textures if they had a 1080p display? We should go back to that but with 4K textures being the separate and optional download.

If you don't have a 4K display, there's not really a reason to have gigabytes worth of 4K textures on your HDD/SSD and it needlessly slows down your ability to play the game.

if your game needs 150 gigabytes of my hard drive it better come out the computer and suck me off. i hate you

#but bloated storage requirements are another symptom of companies not caring about optimisation #and expecting consumers to have/buy hardware to compensate for the lack of optimisation on their end #see it a lot with ram and vram and how common memory leaks are now #especially now that they don't have to care about physical storage limits there's less concern about game size or compressing files #before they had to pay for the physical storage so the bigger the files the more they'd have to spend on printing physical storage #plus dealing with losing sales because the more disks a game had the fewer would be inclined to buy it #oh yeah and assuming everyone has fast internet and no caps so it shouldn't be a big deal if a game is massive #see that assumption come up every time always online/call home drm is brought up by people who live in a major city and have unlimited fibr #then whoops what do you mean rural internet is different and a number of console owners chose console #*because* they had slow/unreliable/no internet but still wanted to play video games

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