RetroGaming

They are out.... They are out before Half-Life 3....

Lol we got affordable multi terabyte SSDs before HL3

This is as much of a valid complaint now as it was back then.

There is absolutely no excuse for games now to be over 100GB in storage space. Unless you have the longest game ever that span across like 1 and a half "normal" game lengths. The biggest games now should be 60GB or less. So many developers refuse to compress things that could be compressed with zero noticeable loss in quality except for maybe a camera being really close to an object with an 8k display resolution.

At the absolute worst, do what games used to do for like 6 months before not caring: make the game for 1080p players, compression and all, then offer a free DLC with all the uncompressed stuff. At least make the storage feast optional.

I was about to say, I recognize that name... Then I saw forum name and the year...

I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago...

I hope 100 TB drives are out by the time HL3 comes out.

1.82 GB out of 160 GB and they are worried. Imagine how they feel now with 500 gb and 1 TB drives with some AAA games being 250 GB.

I'm old enough that I got HL2 in a retail box, when it was new.

and the fucking disks installed the game encrypted, and I could not use my computer until the next day, due to it thrashing my HDD and CPU so hard to decrypt the files that my computer was functionally useless that evening, and overnight.

now THAT was some bullshit.

This was too, cause I remember steam games bloating with temp files back in the day and regularly having to clear out the folder so you had HDD space.

We'll have petabyte drives for $50 before HL3 appears.

The reason why HL3 is not out yet is because valve is waiting for consumer adoption of 10TB drives

Gone are the days when a game delivered on seven floppy disks was considered "overblown".

Tech prophet circa 2003.

Lol next thing you know they'll sneak HL3 into a VR game

... oh

Not many people these days understand that Steam used to suck bad.

Wait until they get to the end of level one and have to turn the tape over and press play.

When I was young, I was not allowed to install anything on the family PC whatsoever. I had a 100MB Zip disk and was told anything that I wanted to keep, I could keep on there. That disk got a big workout. Had Duke 3D and the Half-Life Uplink demo on there, plus about 30MB to spare! Great days man.

I still remember when I had to reinstall my WindowsXP from the 3GB HDD onto my 1.5GB HDD so I could install The Sims 2

So. 1 TB drives indeed were out before Half-Life 3.

But I'm nostalgic over a simpler time when 1 GB for a game was a lot.

Reminds me of the time I had checked my TF2 folder after IDK how many years of playing, and the folder was like 500GB because of temp cached files not being deleted.

I bet they had a raptor hard drive, something about 160 GB ticked my mind.

The lack of any comment saying "Half life is not retro gaming" is concerning to me.

Oh that poor innocent soul. They must not have been old enough to remember needing boot disks because your 90s jalopy couldn't handle Warcraft or Myst.

I remember buying a 100MB hard drive and thinking how hard it was going to be to use all the space. It really was...

Times have changed.

Looks at 500 gb New Vegas install

Yeah I don't see the problem here.