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Segata Sanshiro wrote: August 6th, 2023, 14:26
GhostCow wrote: August 6th, 2023, 13:58
Guys a 1tb SSD is like $40 now. Whining about file sizes is the dumbest **** and I don't know why so many people keep complaining about it.
Slippery slope.
I'm the kind of guy who downloads uncompressed bluray rips where a 20 minute 1080p video is 6.5gb. I would have rather have beautiful uncompressed data or at least data with lossless compression than be worried about file sizes. Uncompressed textures mean less work for your CPU when gaming too.
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GhostCow wrote: August 6th, 2023, 13:58
Guys a 1tb SSD is like $40 now. Whining about file sizes is the dumbest **** and I don't know why so many people keep complaining about it.
Because nothing warrants the file size increase.
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GhostCow wrote: August 6th, 2023, 13:58
Noooo just consoom more thing!
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rusty_shackleford wrote: August 6th, 2023, 06:04
maidenhaver wrote: August 6th, 2023, 03:54
Philips on screws is ********
Ftfy

Also, write a complaint. People rarely ever submit formal complaints for this sort of **** so nothing gets done.
I wrote to steam support.

They should be embarrassed about using phillips.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: August 6th, 2023, 21:58
GhostCow wrote: August 6th, 2023, 13:58
Guys a 1tb SSD is like $40 now. Whining about file sizes is the dumbest **** and I don't know why so many people keep complaining about it.
Because nothing warrants the file size increase.
Higher resolution textures and more cutscenes at a higher resolution and bitrate. Not to mention that characters have to have multiple textures now for light diffusion and such. Do you think the file sizes just went up for literally no reason or that devs forgot how to compress files? Textures are already so compressed that consoles have specialized hardware to help with the decompression.
maidenhaver wrote: August 6th, 2023, 21:59
Nooo! You have to make everything fit on my 500gb HDD from 2005! I never want to delete anything or upgrade my storage ever!
Stop being dumb
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GhostCow wrote: August 6th, 2023, 22:54
Higher resolution textures and more cutscenes at a higher resolution and bitrate. Not to mention that characters have to have multiple textures now for light diffusion and such
But I don't want games with any of these things.

I'm not sure where you're getting $40 SSDs from. I just checked and from what I can find it looks like a 1TB SSD ranges from $80-120.
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Acrux wrote: August 6th, 2023, 23:59
I'm not sure where you're getting $40 SSDs from. I just checked and from what I can find it looks like a 1TB SSD ranges from $80-120.
You must not be looking very hard then. Here's a ton of them. Hell, there are some 2tb drives for as low as $65

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/inter ... ice&page=1
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GhostCow wrote: August 6th, 2023, 22:54
Higher resolution textures

Yet the games don't really look better, they're just copy-pasting textures from public texture archives.
Same sort of **** that leads to this:

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GhostCow wrote: August 6th, 2023, 22:54
Stop being dumb
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GhostCow wrote: August 6th, 2023, 14:16
a second drive
Only a second?

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Smart game for smart gamers

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They are just trying to stay faithful to their predecessor

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Real gamers will be playing Stellar Tactics instead of Starfield.

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Acrux wrote: August 17th, 2023, 02:32
Real gamers will be playing Stellar Tactics instead of Starfield.

I'm tired of isometric.

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The projection is wrong, Arcanum didn't use the same as Fallout.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: August 22nd, 2023, 10:57
The projection is wrong, Arcanum didn't use the same as Fallout.
but this is not Arcanum. It's Arcanum 2.
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honestly looks worse than the original. original was crisp, also more colorful. that looks dull and blurry and like it had a sharpening filter applied to it, which seems to be standard practice for most of these types of projects
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agentorange wrote: August 22nd, 2023, 11:16
that looks dull and blurry and like it had a sharpening filter applied to it
Might just be yewtube, they've been making the compression significantly worse lately.
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It took decades to get devs to respond to something like color-blindness, and many still don't address it. 1 in 12 men have color blindness, 8% of the target audience of most video games.
It's sort of amazing how fast they pander to something that is .1% of the population and far more likely to be a "shitlib" who just steals things rather than buying.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: August 22nd, 2023, 11:25
agentorange wrote: August 22nd, 2023, 11:16
that looks dull and blurry and like it had a sharpening filter applied to it
Might just be yewtube, they've been making the compression significantly worse lately.
They probably lowered the bitrate because you can pay to view at a higher bitrate now
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https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rJeaPe
Compiled using ready-to-use assets (except UI)
based on the CRPG being developed by New Blood Interactive.
@wndrbr any idea what he's referencing here? Does he work at New Blood Interactive?
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GhostCow wrote: August 22nd, 2023, 15:08
They probably lowered the bitrate because you can pay to view at a higher bitrate now
It's not only bitrate; now 1080p is like 720p (with bad bitrate) upscaled, 720p is 480p upscaled... **** gotta jew.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: August 22nd, 2023, 15:10
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rJeaPe
Compiled using ready-to-use assets (except UI)
based on the CRPG being developed by New Blood Interactive.
@wndrbr any idea what he's referencing here? Does he work at New Blood Interactive?

yeah it's old news. He does 2d art for an unnamed rpg. I thought you knew about it.