They are out.... They are out before Half-Life 3....
Fun fact:
There was actually 4 games planned with the fourth one being an epic End Game style cross over finally of Portal, TF, Left for Dead, CS, and Half Life all coming together to fight the combine But unfortunately the series only had a Half Life and decayed down to 2 games in each series.
I want this to be real
Narrator: Then while Casey sips his tea, dozen of lemmy users think for themselves "heh... stupid casey made me chucke...". As he puts down his tea he winks, and everyone had a moment there...
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.
The most annoying thing is there is a trivial to implement way to close to halve these stupidly inflated sizes: make the highest resolution of textures a free DLC that you optionally install
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A lot of that is shadows and lighting data, sometimes in unusual data structures without readily available compression methods. Compressing textures also impacts load times, obviously decompressing 10gb of jpgs could take a while. Still probably there are good compression methods and good tradeoffs to make, if any AAA studios actually cared about storage space (They do care a lot about GPU memory, just not storage space).
I mean, if the base game folder is .8 Gb, then aren't their 3 mods the 1 Gig culprit? That's a moddev issues and not many are concerned about optimizations.
Edit: I did misread the bit about the original game size.
You did misread but you're probably also still correct. The modded game files are 1.82 total while the previous version of the game was 0.837, while I don't know for sure what the newer version filesize was it was still an odd complaint for them to make.
Wait until they get to the end of level one and have to turn the tape over and press play.
I hope 100 TB drives are out by the time HL3 comes out.
By the time H3 comes out your great great great grand children will be reminiscing about how games once were about gameplay and plot and not the 100th version of Call of Duty or Assassins Creed. I'd say Madden too but let's face it no one will play it 150 years from now unless it's VR.
Nah, I'm willing to bet HL3 will come out (at the latest) 5 years after Gaben's death. Not because he's witholding it, obviously, but because whoever comes next will probably try to make as much money as possible and that's an easy first way to do it.
It's gonna suck when Steam immediately enshitifies to the max after he dies.
I bet they had a raptor hard drive, something about 160 GB ticked my mind.
I was about to say, I recognize that name... Then I saw forum name and the year...
I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago...
Kids these days don't know how to have a proper brick party in forums anymore.
Lol we got affordable multi terabyte SSDs before HL3
I haven't bought a non-NVMe drive in the last 5 years.
Get a NAS.
Me neither, haven't bought any drives
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.
Me too. I still have it.
Edit:
HOLY SHIT!! I’ve been missing my civ II disc for 20 years. It was in my half life 2 box!!!
I miss box games.
Few things more precious 
I remember when Steam came out and everyone hated it because of how slow and buggy it was. Crazy how times have changed.
The client is still rather resource intensive, it's just that computers have gotten so much faster that you don't notice it.
Now, if Valve would ever deal with the download and sync issues, that would be nice.
Steam is still slow and buggy.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Steam used to be slick and fast before it changed over to chromium and started trying to become a social media platform.. also wish it had a simplified legacy version so people could still run it on older OSes to run the games they own that only run on older OSes. but apparently thats a super controversial topic that makes people unhinged
I still have my 3 disk box
I still have my original box/CDs too.. i have no idea where they are, but I know i have them...somewhere.
did counter-strike 2 come with half life? i vaguely remember half life but i remember counterstrike 2 being played a lot in the dorm floor in uni. i feel like i remember them being connected some how but i can't recall.
No, Counterstrike 2 came out a couple years ago.
before that was global offensive.
the counter strike that came with HL2 was Counterstrike Source.
CS:S was such a phenominal game.. So many years of nights spent staying up till 2am playing on the same server, with the same guys.. and all of them gone now, like tears in the rain..
Kinda miss waiting fucking forever for games with multiple CDs. I know I had a game that came retail with 5 discs, I just can't remember which one. I remember KOTOR had 4.
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".
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
And now 1.5GB RAM won’t even load Windows.
It will. I've tried. It's not a pleasant experience though.
But 2GB on Fedora was pain as well, though definitely more usable.
Not even close to loading it
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.
The lack of any comment saying "Half life is not retro gaming" is concerning to me.
Half Life came out in 1998 (27 years ago) and this post is from 2003 (22 years ago). Half Life is retro gaming.
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.
Vintage gaming community.
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