games

so -450 total

I feel like firing isn't really the right word

no it is, sorry, those numbers don't overlap

I edited to make it more clear

they're losing 450 total, of that 220 are being fired and 230 are being reassigned to other places in Sony that's ~35% of their staff total they're losing

Marathon is now Bungies only project in development

Ah ok, I reread it and I understand now. I have never enjoyed Destiny, but making a game with expansions and then locking those expansions is pants on head level retarded.

the content vault thing they did, where they'd remove story content to keep the game file size down and "streamline" things

made me never want to pick it up

I doubt they can make a good extraction shooter, but I'd be happy if I was wrong.

Hear me out, make the high rez textures free DLC

Yea, the content vaulting for the sake of file size was very bad. Just let it be modular and have the user decide, I don't see the issue with that.

holy shit you cut your game size in half

thats crazy

Lmao is that actually something they do? I'm sure they don't compress audio either.

But Pika, what if I want to swap between RAW audio from 30 different languages without reloading the game

Polar, no one does that

thats the joke

it is the obvious way to reduce file size when most gamers do not need 4k textures (don't even have a 4k monitor)

that's like 99% of the file bloat problem, textures and audio

The last time I attempted to play destiny 2 I got so bored so quickly. Maybe it was lack of any actual depth outside of boring to shoot gun and waiting for cooldowns

yeah, making languages all DLC as well

I want Marathon to be good, but with the delays and lack of chatter about it make me think it's in dev hell

so you get your base audio, and you can get whatever other one you want

it's audio more than textures now adays for most games

auido is fucked

Pika I'm only confused because Halo Infinite, a horrible game, actually let's you do that with textures I'm pretty sure

interesting, I was not aware

you donjpt need 30 languages stored in a lossless format when 1. most people don't have a setup for it 2. consoles playback lossy anyways

Broken clocks can be right, but Audio is usually the issue. Tekken waste like 40 gigs minimum of space with uncompressed cutscenes files every release

yeah honestly, just turn it all into shitty mp3s

yup, it's getting worse too, where people are baking in support for redarded codecs too in case you have Dolby Atmos speakers to tickle your ceiling

better dedicate 4 extra audio channels to that

Game devs realizing they can just not optimize because retards will just put up with 100+ GB games is the worst thing to happen to the game industry

Cutscenes I'm mixed on, I really don't want devs to move to streaming cutscenes

but yeah, they are often a 10GB+ chunk of file space

even for games with few movies in them

did you know gaming

comparatively dragon dogma 2s meat videos are low file size video files despite being high quality!

wow!

did you know video game dunkey managed to get his game file size down to less than 50 MBs

optimisation is just a lost tefhnique

100%, I also think devs do better work when they have to work around restrictions

it makes them have to be creative

Part of the problem is also the death of AA games

and how everything is either indie or a huge multi million dollar project

as far as languages are concerned they should just make it so they ask you what language you want when you initially download the game and only download that language's audio files. and then give you the option in-game to download other ones if you really want to

I figured out what I was doing wrong in manor lords

did not realize how important the expansion slots for housing are

you can immediately get food variety with some currency cost

its weird that firewood can be traded but charcoal can't

unless that's exclusive to trade routes

https://store.steampowered.com/app/771560/FFXV_WINDOWS_EDITION_4K_Resolution_Pack/ this is the only game I can remember doing that

bethesda games do it

skyrim and fallout 4 you can download the uncompressed textures

the issue is, giving uncompressed textures is not how you should do it

gamers do not need uncompressed textures, it's literally impossible to tell on most setups, you should compress them just losselessly at the highest quality

or even with some loss who cares it's a damn 4k texture

I think just making everything that you do not need to run the game modular to allow people to costumize how much space the game takes up is the move

different languages audio, hd textures, etc

what stumps me about is that games do this for textures but not audio sometimes, like yes big hefty audio is an issue, but you can stoll make it sound good without it taking a bunch of space like when i posted in max chat that specially the ps4 version of skyrim, it doesn't have raw losseless audio but it's not insanely compressed and bit crushed like every other version

Halo MCC allows you to choose which Halo games you want to download. It also let's you pick if you want singleplayer, multi-player or both.

i argubly feel hearing grain and muddy soundtracks is way more obvious than a texture being 1% off

Yeah, audio is easier to tell for most people

the voices not so much

the music though

I think it is more like that the person playing has a decent headset than them having a 4k monitor

almost all headsets nowadays are decent

tvs too

I think there is two camps max

proper headset and 20 dollar headset

20 dollar chinese headsets are good now

if they're from the past 5 years

I am moreso talking about a lot of people will just have beats or something like that

also understandable

but still dumb

Polu, big news

Jonathan Blow's Braid re-release flopped and he had to lay off all 12 of his devs

he's trying to solo-dev his new game to finish it, which has ~8 years of work put into it to this point