Yo guys, as a sidenote.....

We managed to defeat some weeb at the nerdcaste.. uhh i mean at gamerant with a large margin....

He starts his article, or is it a she ? it... anyways with a game barely in excess of 50GB!!!

Trolollol

https://gamerant.com/pc-games-file-size-hd-space-biggest-huge/#tom-clancy-rsquo-s-the-division-2-ndash-58-gb

Also depends on how it's done. In BloodRayne for example the videos are actually stored in different languages.
In other games, video and audio track are separated, that saves a lot of space, and works as long as there is no translated contetent shown in the video (why does no one ever use videos with multiple audio tracks? Viewing angles would work for the translated content, done so for the intro of the Star Wars Blu Rays or Joker - the letters are translated, for that scene multiple angles are used).
Spoken words do not take much space, if the devs know what they are doing. Ogg is an excellent compressor for voice, leaves out the frequencies that a human can't produce anyway. But devs became quite lazy, use one format for everything, maybe even only track for the whole prerendered or realtime cut scene in the first place.

Many games that let you switch language during game play and feature voices were produced during a time when games were still shipped on CD or DVD and also played from these on consoles, so the size of the additional languages was only a minor concern.

as a note. Started with the FFXV download.

download size - 78.3 GB
complete size - 86.2 GB

see attachment.

This raises a couple of questions. Is FFXV's data much more difficult to compile then other companies that easily manage to shave 20 to 30 GB of their download size?

Should a game be mentioned as 100 GB+ game if this not the result with the 'vanilla' ?
Does ME Trilogy deserve mentioning because you only can download the whole package ?

Just was downloading me the lossless-audio files for Legend of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel: 11,7 GB, thanks NIS, Falcom or whoever was in charge!

The thing is, every human got another focus when it comes to the natural senses and what may be noticed the most. To some humans graphics or sound is barely any matter of importance and never its "accuracy" and to some other humans even the slightest bit of improvements may still be noticed somehow; even at a level already hilarious. We can not clearly say if they are wrong, as the range of how a human is able perveice their environment can vary a lot. Sure, we can say... driving a car is over 90% a visual matter, but it is sometimes completly different when it comes to the inter-human communication where the audio is the main source of information (so, our ears), thats why humans with bad hearing may become a lot of social issues. You can drive it even to crazy levels... without much sense, yet... we never can clearly say "it is wrong"... humans simply got different perceptions and we should respect any of those.

The FFXV 4k resolution pack is 66.2 GB installed

If you worry file size, you are probably at the wrong place because the most huge installers i got are both from CDPR:

Witcher 3 with all the Extras: 145 GB
Cyberpunk 2077: 113 GB

Installed files are much smaller because this is a "general installer" which can handle any languages and options. Yet, clearly... those are no small games.

There are some shops only focusing on Indie games i guess... you may be knocking at their doors. GoG, influenced by CDPR, are rather a "hybrid-shop" nowadays and focusing on old and new games together. Although, the margin of old games are bigger than what we can see on Steam.

However, GoG never was focusing on small games... old is small but not always and not forever.

Of course "old" is a very relative term: To some people a game over 2 years of age is already old and to other people a game above 20 years is old... any other game almost new... so we fail to have a usable term.

I know someone telling me: Her notebook is "almost new", yet the age is actually over 5 years already. And she wonder why her keyboard is not working properly anymore. My answer would be: This notebook is already old and it has never been designed with high quality in mind, so... having a glitchy keyboard at this age is pretty usual. So yeah, everyone got some other views and always very relative terms.

Well, you clearly got no interest using this pack if you do not own a 4k screen. Those owning a 4k screen are usually at the same time owning lot of space and a good GPU too. Without a 4k screen you do not need those textures, makes not much sense as you are almost at the limit the screen can handle.

It would make no sense owning a powerful car but unable to pay the gasoline... more "powerful" tech comes at higher cost.

Nowadays the majority of the gamers are still playing in 1080P (around 3/4), yet the amount of 4k gamers are slowly increasing because 4k is for many years a new TV standard.

Yet, there is still over 100 million PS4 owners and "only" around 40 million PS5 owners, reason why most devs still was supporting a PS4, although it is now already 10 years of age (in hardware-terms, very old). We clearly can say, the mainstream-customer is not very "tech-affy", they try to use the old tech for as long as it may last... in usual, due to different reasons, but mostly economical. Every cent may count, however... it does not help that the cost of living are increasing world wide, at some locations even with crazy speeds... although, it will become "a matter of priority".

I always like to see it as using a high tier gpu as a street legal race car...... Only race it on sunday on the tracks.... and the occasional traffic light drag race.....

anyway.... the full size according to windows for FF XV is ........


163,616,540,304 bytes
71,173 Files, 19,450 Folders

4K textures don't need a 4K screen. Textures can be wrapped round objects, or be on flat objects that are near enough to the player to be larger than the screen size.

A sudden realization hit home. I have both games installed too. Through Galaxy. Respectively 51 and 63 GB.

You still can not see enough details on a resolution to low, no matter how close you are forcing your texture. Apart from that, this is not a "usual situation" you may experience a lot during gameplay.
Yeah, just use the installer through galaxy... so you do not need "non required language files" this way, because the Installer is made in a way so it can offer any language for everyone. It is not made in order to save up as much space as possible as it got a archive-function.

Do you mean Quantum Break? Control has no 'video episodes'.

Looks like it; Must have gotten the names crossed in my head.

I remember having friend who told me he loaned a shooter for the ps1 for the wkend... Not sure which one anymore, could have been doom. For some reason he put that disc in the cd player and one of the maddest hardcore.... ehm ... hardcore as in house, 180 beats per minute or more. cd's he ever heard started playing. Of course i had to come over right away and was indeed hit with this very sick beat. Some gothic background if i'm mistaken combined with a fast deep baseline

You have those educational video's? Quite creepy too. hard to miss