213
modern game sizes
(hexbear.net)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2024
213 points (99.5% liked)
games
20474 readers
328 users here now
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
-
3rd International Volunteer Brigade (Hexbear gaming discord)
Rules
- No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, or transphobia. Don't care if it's ironic don't post comments or content like that here.
- Mark spoilers
- No bad mouthing sonic games here :no-copyright:
- No gamers allowed :soviet-huff:
- No squabbling or petty arguments here. Remember to disengage and respect others choice to do so when an argument gets too much
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
It's quite insane. A couple years back I bought and played an indie space game that had beautiful graphics, weather effects, 'splosions, space stations, hundreds of star systems etc.
That game's installed size? ~~260MB.~~ 186MB on checking.
The full game could fit on a CD-ROM about five times over and it was still many hours of cool gameplay. This massive universe exploration game is smaller than 90% of the 2D procedurally generated games I own.
Looks like they still develop, and still offer demos which I think is awesome. And their game sizes look still super reasonable.
I'm not really sure how you achieve that kind of compression, I assume most textures are hand-written shaders or something rather than 4k .png files.
looks a lot like tachyon. which is a great spaceship game too.
NMS was 6GB on release. Nowadays it's still "only" 15GB.