Why the fuck is the average size of video games 30GB now? Why is this acceptable? Who can I blame for this...

Why the fuck is the average size of video games 30GB now? Why is this acceptable? Who can I blame for this? Crysis 3 was less than 10GB.

Audio. Spoken lines, specifically. Uncompressed and for an ever increasing array of languages.

uncompresssed fmvs and audio
i really don't understand why cutscenes aren't just in engine nowadays, nier automata looked significantly better during gameplay than in the 50gb of prerendered fmvs it came with.

Literally botnet

>in engine
Just fuck my animation.

>30
Try all 50

Uncompressed audio and pre-rendered cutscenes.
>Titanfall 1 audio was bigger than the game itself

Sony, they had to justify the use of Blu-ray

the cat has your pipe

5 GB of games
20 GB of audio in every fucking language
30 GB of vudeis because LOL COMPRESSION

Piracy protection from third world internet

because the idea of having an option to only install your language and not 50 others is apparently ludicrous to publishers

Blame piracy. 50GB downloads make it less likely for subhuman third worlders to pirate games.

It sucks for poorfags and 3rd worlders but what do you want? Games to be held back? Three hours of uncompressing game files?

That was for performance issues. It used less CPU using uncompressed audio

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Is there a justification for using uncompressed audio?
Considering decoding MP3 / whatever files is so incredibly taxing for a machine from 2003.

dude 50GB of uncompressed files and video so pirates don't pirate but they pirate anyways lmao

Well a lot of people want dual audio and Dolby.

Are you retarded by choice?

And then... the payoff

It's the truth, shitskin. There is no reason to have completely uncompressed files that take up 90% of the file space of a game.

The justification is audio quality.

Some people have a home theater setup.

Look when I pay for a game I want the best shit they can put together. I'm not really concerned whether or not Pajeet from Rajasthan can download it.

Lots of pirates have seedboxes. I can push a 50Gb game to you in one night.

Because it's much more impressive to go HEY LOOK AT THIS 200GB GAMES WE MADE than Hey look at this 20 GB game we made

How is this even a problem. I don't get people who complain about 50gb and below.

Harddrives only have so much space

Harddrive space is only a problem if you start data hoarding, which is subhuman behavior.

why do you care? you can't play them anyways if you don't upgrade your pc

>not having all of your games installed at once so you can immediately jump in to whatever you want
you are the subhuman here

>spotted the third worlder without fiber

Are you really saying that jumping from game to game isn't subhuman behavior? Any decent human being doesn't need more than the 1-2 singleplayer games he is playing right now and the occasional multiplayer game.

Gaming itself is subhuman behavior so appealing to something being subhuman in the context of gaming is not an argument.

No it isn't. It's more decent than any other entertainment hobby.

>Why the fuck is the average size of video games 30GB now?
It isn't?
Maybe some AAA shit but most good games are between 1 and 10.

Everything has gone up size wise except internet speeds at around the same rate. 50GB is nothing to a 4TB HDD

This response perfectly encapsulates a certain major company...

>read a book
>become more intelligent

>play a video game
>???

Reading high level books can be hardly called entertainment. And yes, it's a misconception that some fiction trash will raise your mental capabilities.

>read a book
>become more intelligent
Because we all know how deep and philosophical books like 50 shades of gray are.

>implying actual philosophy books are any better
You should hope people are reading genre fiction because then their minds won't get corrupted by the utter bullshit these ""thinkers"" pump out

Philosophy books are there to make you think. They are as effective as your mind is. No surprise that this is what you got out of them though, brainlet.

>Philosophy books are there to make you think
No they aren't. Almost every book has a agenda but of course people like you will say they "really make you think" because you have an angle to work. Cue the obligatory "brainlet" insult to cow people into feeling stupid.

There are countries were they still have DATA CAPS.

Meanwhile were I live you can get unlimited 4G for €30.

Not really since they have good Internet

One guy telling you about how he felt about life is hardly pushing an agenda. Saying that philosophy books are more damaging to the mind than sex fiction is one of the most retarded things I have ever read.

Name one sex fiction book that has led to social upheaval

Lolita.

well you got me there

>uncompresssed fmvs
retard

>implying 30 is much
60+ is a standard nowadays, even games that used to be 10 gb (like blazblue) are now 50 gb

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If you don't have at least 5 tb to spare you don't know SHIT about video games

Bullshit, it's mostly textures and video. Audio, even uncompressed, takes a couple of gigs tops. A CD is 650MB and contains 75 minutes of uncompressed audio.

>implying the writings of Marx weren't directly responsible for destruction of millions of lives

Uncompressed audio is probably the biggest culprit, but texture resolution shouldn't be underestimated - A square 2048x2048 texture is NOT the same as two 1024x1024 textures; It's the size of four 1024x1024 textures. Assuming most devs use a PBR pipeline they will at least have an Albedo, Gloss and Normal map. Let's say these are for your main character and as such you want them to look good as shit in a cutscene or trailer or whatever so you render each of these three maps as their own seperate 4096x4096 texture.

Let's throw in DRM, third-party software and constant internet connection for good measures. Because you know, every pirated copy is a lost sales.

why doesnt audio just use an mp3 320kbps?

guess you could say he really made some people think huh

kys mp3cuck

held back by what? Tekken 7 download was shaved down to 30 gb with basic file compression

with how little video tekken has, if you were to apply a better video coded you'd fit the game within 20 gigabytes

Reencoding the prerendered scenes in Nier Automata to 4GB (from 25Gb) results in no quality loss
Really makes me think

they put yo mommas booty hidden in the game's files BUT ITS TOO THICCCCCC

>He doesn't know
lol

Literally this. My entire life I've loved vidya and it was my main hobby and interest, but living in a third world shithole there is just no way I can keep downloading 50GB every single time I just want to get a new game to unwind with, so I have to stick to mostly indie stuff or replaying old games. Such is the life of the poorfag.

doesn't know what, faggot?

10 megas is 300 pesos which are $17 monthtly