Once TTS technology will have matured enough, voice samples might be generated at run-time, eliminating any need of pre-recording voice sample assets, and therefore a few gigs less of data to install/download.Įverybody would have loved if Costume Quest (597MB) had that extra 2gb of voice samples that Psychonauts (5.11GB) benefited!
Some devs choose to play funny sounds instead (e.g., animal crossing, ookami) because of the randomness of the dialogues, reduced budget costs, and/or lack of storage capacity.
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Some games use run-time generated content, which is generated on the client's machine, thus avoid having to install or download tons of pre-generated assets, but voice samples are not run-time generated and don't compress very well. However, larger game filesizes also offer more detail, greater immersion, and better graphical and sound quality, and much more room for content. In the space of a single recent title, I could have hundreds or thousands of 16-bit-era games, many of them just as critically acclaimed, and offering comparable content (as measured in gameplay time). Larger games are more expensive to develop, to manufacture copies of (if you're doing physical media), to download (if you're doing digital distribution, or pirating), and more expensive sales as well (which would tend to exclude consumers on tight budgets). Or do these decorative aspects actually add value? That said, sometimes you could argue that graphical bells and whistles don't really add much to the gameplay-Bejeweled 3 can be 320+ MB on Steam, but can also fit into a 32 MB NDS cart (I haven't played both so I don't know exactly how they're different). On the other end, you have Team Fortress 2 at 10616 MB. While 2.5-D indie title Recettear clocks in at 862 MB, likely getting that much mostly between its many graphics and smattering of voice samples. Which makes sense considering these probably have the minimal amount of graphical assets. I remember reading that two other hacking sim games, Hacker Evolution: Untold and Hacker Evolution: Duality, are also pretty light. The smallest Steam game I have is Uplink, I think, which comes in at just 16 MB.
And console games have also followed computer games in the gradual ballooning of data filesize, the GameCube's discs can hold up to 1.4 GB.įilesize is strongly genre-dependent. I guess this reason is relevant for some games there are a lot of immersive 3D games including many FPS games that pretty much require that level of graphical and audio detail for the immersion. Now, you might say, well, back then they probably had compression tricks and less quality for various things including graphics and sound. Speaking of CC GW, this point was really noticeable when I was downloading f2p games during the Great Gift Pile sale-Spiral Knights was like 700 MB, the nicest of the bunch Rise of Immortals was like 2 GB Rusty Hearts came in at at over 5 GB and CC GW was the biggest offender, topping 10 GB and taking over a day to download on a mediocre connection that I had to share.Ĭontrast this to, say, how SNES cartridges have a maximum size of 6 MB, and even recent DS cartridges have seen a maximum size of 512 MB. Most games are upwards of a whole gig at a time some, like Team Fortress 2 and CrimeCraft GangWars, are some 10 GB each. It's like, every game these days is at least a few hundred megabytes, even for the small indie games. Any prospective player should expect crashes, freezes and a generally incomplete experience.This thread was inspired by the recent thread about hard drive prices. Half of the fun and enjoyment comes from the huge glitches which generally cause the villagers to act in a bizarre manner, ignoring commands and walking around aimlessly. Despite these issues and limitations, Realm of Rulers is enjoyable as a slow paced building simulator. Gameplay is currently limited to collecting resources and crafting pre-built houses for villages who have an extremely buggy AI. It has been actively updated, however, and is in a promising state. With the expansive ultimate plan to become an online open world crafting and combat experience despite a two man development team, the game is a long way from being finished. Ground upĭrawing inspiration from popular titles like Rust, Realm of Rulers is an early access/early alpha title in a very basic state. Collect resources, construct buildings, instruct villagers and explore the land in this early access title.
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