/v/ - Vidya Games

I know man. I actually tried to buy another hard drive but a corporate representative from Activision burst through my front door and slapped the credit card out of my hand and wouldn't let me. We're just stuck with whatever storage came on our pre-built Dell computers. It's so gay.

>>38991
Embark Studios

>>38989
GEG but install sizes really are larger than they have any business being half or more of the time.

Storage has gotten cheaper, at least in Burgerland, as I'm able to get 4TB M.2 SSD storage for like $210 USD now. However, it's still very annoying that we've made all these improvements to technology, only for them to be reduced to nothing due to lazy game developers. Most people aren't the type to spend hundreds of dollars on storage for their favorite vidya and often they aren't the type to stop paying for the shitty games, so what actually happens is that, as you said, the NPCs just play the same few games. Not surprised at this in the slightest, but it is a little unfortunate. I mostly play older games anyways, so it won't affect me very much, but I still notice frens who much more often play newer games lacking storage if they don't uninstall titles.

>>38983 (OP)
1TB SSD is like $40 nigga
But I do agree they do this on console, BO6 was like 350GB or something, so you could only play BO6

People mention how SSD storage prices have gone down, but games are becoming less optimized over time because that makes them cheaper to produce. You might be sitting happy with your PCIe 4.0 drive right now, but when they start making games for PCIe 5.0 and 6.0 more standardized, you won't be doing sop well on your loading times. And file sizes will keep increasing as well. Eventually, we're going to start playing the physically impossible catchup game with every component, not just GPUs. They're already getting away with charging $450+ for 8 core CPUs.

If Bluray discs are cheap enough, I will unironically just start burning GOG and Pirated games onto those, although I feel like it is likely cheaper to just buy M.2 storage by that point unless I were to distribute these games to my friends as well, so they could play without even purchasing a copy of whatever game it is (in such case, it would be some of the few physical bootlegs still around for PC titles, and in the first-world no-less).

>>38983 (OP)
>Tranime
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