CarbonScored [any]

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  • CarbonScored [any]@hexbear.nettogames@hexbear.netmodern game sizes
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    2 months ago

    It’s quite insane. A couple years back I bought and played an indie space game that had beautiful graphics, weather effects, 'splosions, space stations, hundreds of star systems etc.

    That game’s installed size? 260MB. 186MB on checking.

    The full game could fit on a CD-ROM about five times over and it was still many hours of cool gameplay. This massive universe exploration game is smaller than 90% of the 2D procedurally generated games I own.

    Looks like they still develop, and still offer demos which I think is awesome. And their game sizes look still super reasonable.

    I’m not really sure how you achieve that kind of compression, I assume most textures are hand-written shaders or something rather than 4k .png files.








  • Skyrim is dogshit

    Skyrim has a boring world, dogshit quests in both writing and design, combat design that sucks from any approach

    the main story is awful

    There are games I can accept just aren’t for me … but Skyrim <not good>

    These are objective statements. At no point in fact did you ever say or even hint these were opinions, I can only find objective statements declaring an absolute truth. The word “realise” alone implies people are coming to believe a certain truth.

    Maybe we’re just talking across dialects and crossing wires, so if that’s not what you meant, then sure that’s fine and apologies for the misunderstanding. But with your wording, that’s how it comes across to me.

    I read a very different meaning from the phrase “Watching Gmers slowly realise Skyrim is dogshit has been an experience" than I would "Watching Gmers slowly agree with me that Skyrim is dogshit has been an experience”, for example.

    EDIT: If we had an emoji called “opinions” I could’ve avoided this silly argument, QED it should exist.