Re: Rome Remastered - is size indeed 40+GB?!
Originally Posted by
Dismounted Feudal Knight
Companies have become bolder with game sizes by including all these extra textures because storage is rather affordable these days and it is no doubt 'expected' that people are closer and closer to dealing in TB by default rather than the limited handfuls of GB that have prevailed in the past. This combined with an on average raised expectation for being able to just download everything no problem. This does not apply to everyone and I think the assets that take up huge fractions of game size should be optional, but I expect this is roughly where the line of thought comes from.
And I think the line of 4K textures comes from the, not unrealistic but honestly quite shady expectations that "4K textures and support for such things would have modders spend their free time to make beautiful, high resolution textures that are 2020s standards not mid 2000s standards, effectively doing much of our work for us."
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