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It amazes me that the new Halo game is 65 GB.

by ntumlin 12y ago

quotient 12y ago
As with most applications, it could be a lot smaller. But storage is so cheap and abundant that size is no longer really a constraint. Consequently, engineering for size is no longer a priority.
- aroch 12y ago
  4 games would use up the "fair" and "more than enough" bandwidth cap my ISP set :-/ It's either OK internet with caps or vDSL that doesn't really work
  - noir_lord 12y ago
    Depends where you live. I'm in the UK I pay for 100/10 I get 200/20 and I have zero bandwidth caps.
- Houshalter 12y ago
  Is bandwidth not a concern? 65 GB could take weeks to download.
  - gambiting 12y ago
    It could. But then where do you set the limit? At my parents house downloading 5GB of data would take a week. So what is the "reasonable" size? 1GB? 10GB? 50GB? Or maybe we can assume that only people with good enough bandwidth will buy a 65GB game online,and the rest will buy the disc?
  - sampo 12y ago
    > 65 GB could take weeks to download. If someone lives behind a 1 Mbps home connetion, then yes, about 1 week.
  - mycookie 12y ago
    It's possible for it to download compressed data and 323 used uncompressed textures/meshes/sounds/etc.
taternuts 12y ago
WOW, me too... I guess it's been a long time since I regularly played games
jknightco 12y ago
To be fair, the "new" Halo game is technically the first 4 games all redone for the Xbox One packaged together.
aaronem 12y ago
Texture mapping has come a long, long way. It's a shame AAA game mechanics haven't kept up, but, hey, that's a hard problem. (I just bought Alien: Isolation the other day, and found it disappointing -- silly me, thinking I'd bought a game I could play as I pleased, rather than a movie which would punish me for trying to step outside the predefined narrative it wanted to relate.)
- eru 12y ago
  Play Thief Gold or Deus Ex, if you want that.
- spiritplumber 12y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZtBCpo0eU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZtBCpo0eU Obligatory.

It amazes me that the new Halo game is 65 GB.

by ntumlin 12y ago

It amazes me that the new Halo game is 65 GB.

As with most applications, it could be a lot smaller. But storage is so cheap and abundant that size is no longer really a constraint. Consequently, engineering for size is no longer a priority.

aroch 12y ago
4 games would use up the "fair" and "more than enough" bandwidth cap my ISP set :-/ It's either OK internet with caps or vDSL that doesn't really work
- noir_lord 12y ago
  Depends where you live. I'm in the UK I pay for 100/10 I get 200/20 and I have zero bandwidth caps.
Houshalter 12y ago
Is bandwidth not a concern? 65 GB could take weeks to download.
- gambiting 12y ago
  It could. But then where do you set the limit? At my parents house downloading 5GB of data would take a week. So what is the "reasonable" size? 1GB? 10GB? 50GB? Or maybe we can assume that only people with good enough bandwidth will buy a 65GB game online,and the rest will buy the disc?
- sampo 12y ago
  > 65 GB could take weeks to download. If someone lives behind a 1 Mbps home connetion, then yes, about 1 week.
- mycookie 12y ago
  It's possible for it to download compressed data and 323 used uncompressed textures/meshes/sounds/etc.

taternuts 12y ago

WOW, me too... I guess it's been a long time since I regularly played games

jknightco 12y ago

To be fair, the "new" Halo game is technically the first 4 games all redone for the Xbox One packaged together.

aaronem 12y ago

Texture mapping has come a long, long way. It's a shame AAA game mechanics haven't kept up, but, hey, that's a hard problem. (I just bought Alien: Isolation the other day, and found it disappointing -- silly me, thinking I'd bought a game I could play as I pleased, rather than a movie which would punish me for trying to step outside the predefined narrative it wanted to relate.)

eru 12y ago
Play Thief Gold or Deus Ex, if you want that.
spiritplumber 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZtBCpo0eU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZtBCpo0eU Obligatory.