Gaming

Game's size depends on many factors. Besides devs' laziness or the abundance of inique assets and dupes, I had a fun ride with Vermintide 2 whose devs were able to cut game's size from 100gb+ to 60gb+ at once because they added all incrimental updates as additional archives and also prefered to have all assets for one level in one place even if they are shared, so it grew out of proportion over the years before they decided to cause a complete asset restructurement and dublicate hunt before the major update. It made players redownload big chunks of the game but resulted in a way less terrifying size to those players they wanted to start it or return into.

Downloaded factorio yesterday at a wopping ~1.5 gig

What game is this?

Have noticed western devs typically can't reduce file size for shit. Something like killing floor 2 is 97 gigs and elden ring (last i looked) was under 50

When games get this big it merely ensures that they get uninstalled the moment I lose a bit of interest.

What's that FPS someone made to be as small of a file as possible? It's like a Quake rip-off, but the game runs as a single executable and is small enough to barely take up the space of a floppy disk (like just a few kilobytes)?

8gb is probably a bit too small for most photorealistic style games at maximum settings, but maybe they should introduce optional games asset support to steam. No point downloading the full resolution textures if you're playing on low texture settings.

What 8GB. Some of the best games ever fit in a floppy disk (a real life save icon for the gen z people around here).

Reject modernity, Return to Zork

No point in playing that game lmao

ARK?