UNCOMPRESSED ASSET TIME

You dont understand, its an immersive sim, so its perfectly fine that it takes up a quarter of my hard drive

I feel like any videos of yours I watch, I get near-schizophrenia.

Optimization? We're not paid enough for that

I hate this video with a passion.
"software bloating" are the exact advances gamers are asking for. remember the days everyone was complaining about "downgraded graphics" well, now we live in the OPPOSITE of that.
and the "uncompressed asset time" just shows the degree of misunderstanding. Even a JPEG is many times more compressed than an "uncompressed asset". we just have a lot of unique assets in modern games.

The real problem lies in the price and affordability. NOBODY would complain if they all had a 4090 to run all the fancy new features but the common folk is still stuck on graphics cards from almost a decade ago.

Bro, the other day I uninstalled Far Cry 6, and it gave me back 170 GB. First CoD, and now the singleplayer games, too?

sir you forgot your clozapine

But you don't understand, the- the AI, the upscaling- it- it's all worth it.

If you think assets in games are uncompressed you may be stupid. And stuck in the past in general if you think games must not grow in size as fidelity improves.

PC gamers are basically the audiophiles of gaming

A lot of this could be avoided by separating the high end textures into optional free DLC packs that you opt in like Siege did.

Oblivion is 1Gb, and the biggest "bloat" comes from the godamn voicefiles!!!

wtf did i just watch

I will old-man-yells-at-cloud this till I die. I dont need or want 4k gigashart graphics, I want riveting gameplay

optimization? what's that? gamers should only have space for 1-2 games on their drive!

Green Is My Pepper

When people ask me what it's like being a PC gamer in 2025, I'm just gonna send them this.

This comment section is amazing

My genuine reaction when a game downloads in 1/4 of the size it takes up on disk

inb4 300gb "open world"

Just look at Avowed, it's got so little content and detail in it but is still somehow 75GB and requires an RTX 3080 minimum. Even though it looks like someone made an Unreal Engine 5 remake of a Skyrim mod that only a single guy worked on. Like, seriously Skyrim was only like 12 GB but still has an unfathomable amount of detail because they actually cared enough and the only way to get all this extra stuff like 4K textures or Ray Tracing is to mod it.

So true bestie

Trying to cure a Hoarder by moving them into a palace and building in more rooms

Fallout 1 Master voices vibes.

I remember back in the day when people were clowning on Titanfall 1 for having 54gb download size.

gimp pepper time

2025: 2 days of downloads over gigabit ethernet
2005: Entire game on single-sided CD
1985: A few lines of machine code in your head

my nipples hurt

I literally get mods for downres'd textures since fallout 4

love the GIMP pepper

God, I hate modern times. Nothing ever gets better, only worse.

Best song ever song made

Unironically rewatch it multiple times a day for last month

THE BRAINROT OF COMPUTERS

sen kafayı sıyırmışsın

Laptop industries, can i have more upgradable parts

To outlast the world and improve longetivity?

Yesssssssss

proceeds to not only solder. molds everything

Meanwhile me playing indi with actual optimization games on high end hardware

What happened to texture reuse? You could have your ultra high resolution textures, just don't have 60 texture variants for brick walls in the game 😂

I mean, seriously, if they really tried, they could probably get away with 25GB and still have a graphical masterpiece.

I have never struggled with not having enough storage. Granted. I bought three enterprise grade hard drives and striped the together in a raid five. I got 32 tbs of space. Because each drive is 18tb. Bring it, video game industry. I do indeed have enough storage!

yesssssssssssss

we are the problem, we let this happen, WE buy uncompressed 4k slop when only 1% of the whole playerbase has a 4k monitor and less than 1% has a pc that can run 4k smoothly, yet all of us buy it. we play these games, we are choosing to eat anything instead of starving for a better meal. get real.

The CS industry milliseconds after hiring anybody with a pulse in 2019 from journalists to humanities majors:
Seriously games nowadays look genuinely HORRIBLE. Cod Cold War was called trash, but litterally looks 50x better than Black ops 6. \
Black ops 6 genuinely is the most visually garbage game to come out in the past 5 years. It looks HORRIBLE and has horrible performance.
You would expect such garbage graphics to atleast be runnable. But nah.

The worst part is it costs almost nothing to do basic optimization and to train your employees to know basic optimization.
Its like they dont even hire knowledgable people. They just hire webdev's.

Dank ass shitpost on real issues, i love it

Buy indie! Buy small!

Imagine using 4k textures to render in 500p and upscale to 1440p having 40fps at best 😂

lol why I get MLGish vibes from this vid

"There was a Western game dev here."
"How do you know?"
"120GB"

Remember how the biggest selling point of the PS5 was onboard hardware compression specifically to max out the transfer rate of SSDs while taking less space?

The weight of the developers sins are stored in the extra gigabytes.

Games from ten years ago look MUCH better than yesterdays release (it runs 720p internally to get smooth 30fps)