• affiliate@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        each cod game also costs around 450 million dollars to make, so i can’t help but imagine that some of the file size bloat is caused by a need to “justify” the budget in some way. because as we all know, 300gb games have so much more game when compared to a measly 60gb game. you won’t be getting dynamically sized horse balls in a game that only takes up 60gb.

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            8 months ago

            it’s 120gb which is less than i was expecting but still way too much. i have no idea what the call of duty games could possibly be doing to justify 240gb. its utterly insane. that’s more than like 4,500 times the size of quake 1.

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        8 months ago

        Aka: CoD. I honestly still don’t understand how people can justify to themselves the $70 price point for each game, or the sheer ridiculous size of the fucking thing. It’s gotta be mental gymnastics, right? Are they really that good that people will overlook the bullshit like shitty launchers and Warzone bleeding into how the games play nowadays?

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      8 months ago

      Animal Well is a staggering work of art on multiple fronts, not least of which is the code golf required to keep its size so small. Incredible game.