>AAA games are now consistently +100 GB in size and requires a ssd to play
>i still think anything over 50 GB is silly and that hdd works perfectly fine
so this is how it feels to grow old
>AAA games are now consistently +100 GB in size and requires a ssd to play
Devs are shit at optimizing
Also games do not look better than 5 years ago there is no reason they should require 4x the specs
we are talking about game sizes, so its about compression of the files itself and not performance optimization even though it matters as much as the other one
They're both linked to the same issue, being that devs no longer care about low level nitty-gritty and are mostly working with higher level abstractions through their tools.
They no longer need to exploit specific chip eccentricities or shave everything down to fit on tiny storage space, so those skills are viewed as irrelevant when recruiting and consequently the time when those developers start learning those skills, if at all, coincides with development on the game being nearly over.
So you get a game that runs like ass, has incompatibilities on different setups and has so many uncompressed assets that it can't run on spinning rust.
It's a movie about living in Bruges and the existential horror of having to exist within Belgium.
Thank you friends. I just pirated it.
a 1TB SSD costs $30. just how fricking poor are you?
Which backwater shithole do you live in that electronics are that cheap?
>backwater
>cheap electronics
>here in Slovakia, a SSD costs $60, which is 7 years salary for the president
>over 50 GB is silly
yeah
>hdd works perfectly fine
lmao frick no. it is night and day difference. install your OS on an SSD right fricking now
The donkey didn't deserve to die 🙁
I hardly play the newer games that unwarrantedly need all this horsepower. Only game I played that needed a SSD was RE4R and that was to avoid freezes before cutscenes.
>Armored Core 6 is the size of a big 2014 game
>Gankercels refuses to play it because they only play goyslop
deserved.
>hdd works perfectly fine
Then you haven't used an SSD.
This is not something you can deny. It's a scientific fact that the read/write speed is 2-3x as fast. It's a revolution in processing.
not only that but it was THE thing holding back games for decades.
>>i still think anything over 50 GB is silly
translation:
>I have no clue about game development and texture complexity
>I have no clue about game development and texture complexity
Translation:
>I am an obedient goyslop enjoyer and i download 15 language packs with uncompressed sound files
Every 100GB game I download is like 80GB textures.
check out this moron he believes everything he's told
high res texture packs are often as big as games themselves, it's not bullshit
Imagine believing this when they've admitted publicly multiple times that they bloat filesize so that you can't fit other games on your hard disk.
oh no 100gb out of my 5tb, the horror
>you don't understand you absolutely need to download all localization packs for all the languages you aren't speaking including uncompressed audio and video
Imagine having less qol in official releases than shitty slav repacks.
What is this movie called? Thank you.
In Bruges
>HDD is fine because that's what my computer has
Same kind of moron that uses the word "optimization" without knowing what he's saying.
HDDs were only fine when consoles were using laptop tier 5400rpm hard drives and even then you could still drastically speed up load times with an SSD
consoles are using SSDs now which are several times faster than the fastest HDD which means you're in for a bad time when it comes to things like texture streaming and loading in assets
20 GB of distinct low poly art style with soul > 100 GB generic photorealism
SSDs are pretty cheap now, far more than they used to be. The difference is night and day.
>hdd works perfectly fine
"no"
>have gigabit speeds
>routinely still get games that take like 45m or over an hour to dl
>run like absolue dogshit once installed
Instant refund every time, looking straight at you starfield. Complete garbage slop
todd already said you should upgrade your pc
and get used to upscaling, it makes game dev so much easier
>best PC possible
>starfield runs at a slideshow 63fps
>over 50 GB is silly
True.
>hdd works perfectly fine
You have brain damage.