Nintendo still optimizes at least, they can fit a 100+ hour game into 10 GB if not less... And if you want to install and uninstall something due to space being full its easy cause you can just leave it off while you do house chores or something Meanwhile other games are like 300 GB and 99% of that space is just spaghetti code and hyper realistic eyeball graphics cause that matters in gameplay... Gotta leave my console on for 2 days straight to download a single game

We need to start punishing them, If a game looks & feels like it doesn't need 300GB then it DEFINITELY DOESN'T

Yeah back in the day you had optimized code written by the biggest geniuses in computing history. Now you have spaghetti code written by Indians

It is too late, this level may be a DLC!!!!!!1111

Yep....

dude they literally just removed some musics from the original ps1 version of resident evil to put it on the n64 cartridge, the thing that takes more space in the ps1 was just the music and the quality of the sound, in fact, resident evil 2 itself don't have any need to be puted in 2 cds it will fit well in just one, capcom just put more musics and make the game unecessarily bigger to make it fell ''bigger'' that the original RE because ''now you will need 2 discs for this game when'' in fact, this game wasn't really bigger than RE1 without some unecessary musics

Yiu forgot thst RE2 was on two discs, so around 1.0 to 1.4gb into a 64MB cartridge

RE 2 came on 2 discs on ps1 so it was more like 1.4 GB

Overfocus on Realism over aesthetic or visual style.

Because of jews.

i remember a mario game called Super Mario All Stars + Super Mario World and its the first 5 super mario bros games (including the japanese Mario 2), and all of them (except Mario World) you could have 3 or 4 save files i think, im amazed

That still happens, this is what good switch ports are, too bad a lot of companies can't get that right and the main console release is gigantic while the switch one sucks

While I personally enjoyed The Gate 2, I still didn't get its story. The main problem I had was that instead of making a new model for Anna, they just used FakeFactory Alyx in her place.

I love the source engine

mods back then was team fortress classic dota 1 zombies in counterstrike and it turned into left 4 dead

Money and laziness is the reason on all areas

Mods then: I added CJ and le epik kek memes to my game Mods now: I added cars with good physics, with a gasoline and repair system to an unoptimized game running in an engine from the 90s

NFS Underground 2 car mods now: Here's an add-on car with vanilla-style parts (and a few real-world extras) that matches the visual fidelity and quality of Underground 2's vanilla cars, as well as fitting the game's atmosphere and time period. NFS Underground 2 mods then: Uhhh Bugatti ported directly from Forza with no tri count reduction, can only change colour, window tint, and rims. Replaces the Miata.

Also portal on n64 is incredible

They stopped optimising performance because management told them to stop optimising performance and focus on optimising the microtransactions instead. Also the smartest low-level engineers capable of doing the optimisation don't work for game studios anymore, they work for big cloud companies, HFT firms and AI startups where they pay far more and have better working conditions.

Animal Well is like 50 mb

no you don't understand it's a HORROR game the guns are SUPPOSED to suck and feel like limp wieners (doom 3 is actually my favorite of them all)

I thought N64 cartridges had 256mb

They want to push game streaming so you can get used to not owning your games.

Half Life 2 mods before: ModDB Half Life 2 mods now: Steam Workshop

Black Mesa development started in 2005.

Limitations breed creativity

in my opinion i think the reason that game devs stopped focusing on optimization is because of nvidia dlss and framegen im assuming their thinking process goes something like this "oh why should we optimize our game when nvidia dlss and framegen exists"

Or stop focusing on Split-screen multiplayer and just More fun and colorful games like remember Mojo the ball and blocks game !?

"Geez are we still doing this in 2020?" MAN HOW THAT AGED SO WELL 😭😭😭 I will forever miss Taco Man. I might've been too young to watch this during my youngin years but I don't regret ever doing so.

This reminds me how Assetto Corsa can squeeze half of entire game content (including the vanilla ones) through its compression tools without errors or degradation using an external launcher complete with auto update features!

Black ops 6 is 70 gbs

Back then ppl actually had fun making mods and they were more of a personal thing, most of them werent trying to mass appeal to edgy prepubetscents by making the same game but edgier (looking at you stalker anomaly and entropy zero)

Bid for Power reflects this, specially when you compare 5.0 final vs Ultra BFP

Why don’t we store everything in zip files. Here me out: they can decrease something’s by 50-90%. 200gb game can become way simpler if we just unzip the needed stuff when needed

It's not even because of compression. They just write complex code instead of basic functional code.

Also, windows 98 was 195 MB. Windows 11 is 27 GB.

They don't even care bro

the sun is leaking

Besides, The Gates 2 is pretty much a disappointing sequel compare to it's predecessor.

Developer had that shiz in 144p lol, shit now though for some stupid reason is in 16k and fully uncompressed because fk u for not having a 20 thousand work station with 2 Petabytes of storage to render tracer's jiggling buttcheeks in Maya under 2 pico seconds with 20 trillion polygons lmao

Game developers had one chance to make the greatest game ever because they couldn't just update them like they could now and it shows MAN IM SO SMORT

Isn't the point of a "Then vs Now" meme like this to show a decline in something over time? I feel like "getting better over time" isn't as much of a surprise as the opposite.

funny thing is they even made "AKUMA MOD" at RE2, normally it was an april fools joke but somebody turned it into the mod

AS A SOURCEMOD MAKER i dont care my mod is just testing PHYSICSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

The sound effect of the ball bouncing on the walls and platform sounds like it's saying "doom".

Optimization could really help with weak PC.

There is a 100gb Call to Arms mod 😭😭😭

Empire at War modding be like

I wish the gate 2 still worked, i've seen screenshots and for a source engine project it looks well done in the level design aspect.