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downpunxx, w The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot
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While I've enjoyed seasons past, including the animated bit they put out that one year, after watching an episode and a half of the first half of this last season 3 a couple things became clear, there are too many subplots/characters to the point that I simply tune out all the names and don't care, focusing instead on the main three, and lastly that I'm bored. It's become something tiresome, and I shut it off after a couple episodes, maybe I'll revisit, probably not.

holycrapwtfatheism,

It doesn't get better. S3 is so far detached from what season 1 brought to the table as to be mockery. The acting feels so forced in this one.

_haha_oh_wow_,
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That's a shame, but this kind of shit is why I cancelled my Netflix and never looked back.

CybranM,

Yeah same, I was really hoping the witcher show would turn out great but then when they first showed the nilfgaard armours before S1 I lost hope and my fear turned out to be justified.

Caligvla, w Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it
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What in the fuck. Can devs please start compressing this shit better? I know this is more of a me problem, but this is like half my SSD just for this game alone. Ridiculous.

GeekFTW,
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I know this is more of a me problem

Naw naw fuck that fam, this is very much a them problem. 122gb is fucking ridiculous.

iNeedScissors67,
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I was going to install CoD: Cold War from PS+ on my PS5 since I wanted to check out the campaign but I'd never buy it. Fuckin 230 GB for that shit. I lol'd a bit and moved on to something else. So ridiculous.

GeekFTW,
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Lmao 230gigs fuck that. Sitting here cursing my own life because I have 10 gigs of Sims 4 mods. For 230GB the game better come with a hologram that pops out of a USB port to suck my fucking cock.

iNeedScissors67,
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The only games I'll bother keeping installed that are over 100gb are my ESO with all the addons on PC, and Star Wars Battlefront II on PS5, and only because my friends and I play co-op every Friday night. But it's still ludicrous. My most played game recently, Battlebit Remastered, is a whopping 3 GB lol.

Zahille7,

Is it sad that I’m surprised when a game is under 20gb nowadays?

Zahille7,

I think the largest game I’ve ever installed on any of my devices was like 120gb, and that was The Master Chief Collection so that makes bit of sense.

Raji_Lev,
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Just one more reason why the obsession with the latest greatest OMGWTF HIGH DEFINITION GRAPHICS is the worst thing to happen to gaming since the Atari Jaguar.

LoafyLemon,

We can compress textures into ridiculously small sizes, I doubt it's a problem. Audio on the other hand...

In a dialogue heavy game such as this one, each voice line for each language must be shipped with the game on steam. There's no way to split the downloads between regions and languages from within developer console on steam.

I think it's one of the most popular requests devs posted in the dev forums.

ZickZack,

Standard lossless compression (without further assumptions) is already very close to being as optimal as it can get: At some point the pure entropy of these huge datasets just is not containable anymore.

The most likely savior in this case would be procedural rendering (i.e. instead of storing textures and meshes, you store a function that deterministically generates the meshes and textures). These already are starting to become popular due to better engine support, but pose a huge challenge from a design POV (the nice e.g. blender-esque interfaces don't really translate well to this kind of process).

EvaUnit02,
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Not everything can be easily compressed to significantly smaller sizes. In fact, for any random arrangement of bytes, finding one that is compressable by any significant amount is rare.

that_one_guy,

I’m sure that what can be compressed is compressed in these game files. What we really need is more intelligent assets. When downloading, the platform should take your localization settings and only download the assets required for that locale. I bet this would heavily reduce the size of many of these games.

QHC,
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I don't think that localization would help much. Most, probably all, assets that are taking up so much storage space are not going to include language directly.

crystalcorvid,

I'd be willing to bet that the game will be available in a compressed format from a repack site with no content loss. At least 30% smaller. A recent example that I just checked, Forspoken, Original Size: 103.9 GB Repack Size: from 63.6 GB

Before I had an unlimited connection for monthly bandwidth usage I would frequently download an already purchased game from the repack site and then have steam "repair" it. Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War come to mind specifically. Saved so much of my limits at the time.

conciselyverbose,

What they need to do is utilize steam's branch feature to allow smaller installs for low resolution assets and with minimal language support without an opt in to other languages needed.

The steam deck really has me wishing Steam had pushed for that as part of fully verified (or have "great on deck" be a tier above and only for games that do the extras like that). So much space is spent on things I don't need at 800p

oo1,

yeah, I don't want to fill my steamdeck with 4k res assets.

sunbeam60,

Eh… you can have high quality assets or you can have small size, but you can’t have both.

Game assets are typically some of the most heavily compressed assets there are (it’s often quicker, even from SSDs, to load a compressed asset and uncompress it than otherwise). There’s an entire middleware industry grown up around minimising asset sizes while keeping quality. 122 GB to me just screams “this game is fucking massive” rather than “this game is horribly unoptimised”.

Big_Boss_77, w The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot
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Have they canceled this dumpster fire yet?

thingsiplay, w PAYDAY 3 will use Denuvo anti-piracy technology in its PC version
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@GamerKick Game is dead on arrival. There was rumors before the would be always online. Which at least most (not all!) people would have ignored, because this is an online focused game. But Denuvo? As if the masses would pirate an online focused game, that is online only anyway. I don't get this. Hopefully they will remove Denuvo after some time, like some other devs/publishers do.

Is piracy really such an issue for the PC Gaming industry? They must have some data we don't know. Why would they pay millions of Dollars otherwise?

Raji_Lev,
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Mostly because it looks good for the suits and investors, and since it doesn't actually seem to hurt their sales that much (hint hint)

thingsiplay,
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@Raji_Lev Imagine putting the money into actual development or some online infrastructure. Oh wait, that would make sense. Yeah, not gonna happen.

Ashtear,
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It's digital snake oil.

Products or services that act as fig leaves for C-suites are a growth industry.

recursive_recursion, w Street Fighter 6 tournament accidentally broadcasts Chun Li nude mod to the world
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the awkward pause to the escalation of jokes is great🤣

squidsarefriends, w Anita Sarkeesian is shutting down Feminist Frequency after 15 years

Her videos about women in video games were mind-blowing. And I never forgot her Lego City vs. Lego Friends comparison. Smurfette-syndrome and damsel distress are words I didn‘t know before watching this channel.

hal_5700X, w Anita Sarkeesian is shutting down Feminist Frequency after 15 years
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Wait…that was still an thing?! I thought it died a long time ago.

snownyte, w Disco Elysium for $12 may be the best $12 you ever spend on games in your life
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More like the best $10 I've spent when it once went on sale.

Mandy, w Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it

remember when devs actually tried to FUCKING COMPRESS THEIR FILES AND NOT MAKE THE GAME NEEDLESSLY MASSIVE

fossilesque, w The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot
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You know that meme where the guy riding the bike sticks a crowbar in the tire? Yeah…

Norgur,
BurntPunk,
Norgur,

Acknowledged

BleatingZombie,

Heyyy. I’d really appreciate that as an image of a notice. If you’re able to go ahead and get that on my desk soon, that would be greaaat

fossilesque,
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A hearty chuckle was given.

unreachable,
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technologicalcaveman, w The next Battlefield will ‘reimagine’ the series as a ‘truly connected ecosystem’

It's like they don't want to sell games

CosmoNova, w The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot

The tale of producers dumbing down plot and dialogue for greater main stream appeal is as old as show business. And from my experience said producers are almost always wrong. Sorry pal, but you can’t blame social media for something your peers have always been doing.

kyub, w The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot

This is just damage control, there doesn’t have to be meaning to these words other than a try of appeasing the fans. That said though, it’s ironic how the Witcher games at least (haven’t read the books yet) have quite mature and well-written content compared to most other games, so they’re like the opposite of what he’s trying to say here and people LOVE the games for that. So it’s literally the opposite that’s true. If you put out over-simplified garbage, you will not create anything good with that kind of ingredients.

vewave, w The creators of Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty promise more fixes on the PC version
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Wo Long is the harsh reminder that I shouldn't pre-order games. That one water level is quite literally unplayable even at the lowest settings.

anewbeginning, w The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot

It’s a bold strategy, Cotton!

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