Not many people these days understand that Steam used to suck bad.
I have heard that people used to be super PISSED that steam is required for valve games. I guess it makes sense now considering hdd sizes back then.
I’ve never been pissed off over a game before i even played it, except for Half Life 2.
Full game on the disk.
Requires internet to install.
Requires Steam.This was before broadband, so the awesome game you bought hung over won’t be installed until late tonight, instead of the normal 10 minutes off the cd.
Now what sucks is that people are okay with underaged kids gambling because, come on, it’s Steam!
I might be hijacking conversations too much…
wait till you hear about CCGs
To be honest yea, I just feel like it’s pretty much gambling, now that there’s a real market around it. I would be for banning them for minors and regulating them in a similar way
Gone are the days when a game delivered on seven floppy disks was considered “overblown”.
I installed HL2 from five CDs back in the day
I can’t be certain but I seem to recall installing Unreal Tournament 2004 from seven CDs
Saaaame
When I was young, I was not allowed to install anything on the family PC whatsoever. I had a 100MB Zip disk and was told anything that I wanted to keep, I could keep on there. That disk got a big workout. Had Duke 3D and the Half-Life Uplink demo on there, plus about 30MB to spare! Great days man.
Man I was jelly green over classmates that could afford zip drives. They’d bring it to school retiring computer class, whip it out, both showing off and fake-lamenting that oh they didn’t know the school didn’t have zip drives.
Zip drives filled such a small tech window between floppies & CD-Rs.
I was the ubernerd with the Zip 250, lol
Hah I was the same. Downloaded demos (happypuppy.com, gamesdomain.com), installed on a Jaz drive.
Those iomega devices had a pretty awesome design.
Oh, maaaan. HappyPuppy. I haven’t thought of that in ages.
Oh man I forgot about those site! Back in the day my mom couldn’t afford to get me many new video games, so I’d download tons of demos.
So. 1 TB drives indeed were out before Half-Life 3.
But I’m nostalgic over a simpler time when 1 GB for a game was a lot.
just cause they were out doesnt mean people had them.
Theres 30tb hard drives today.
You’d be hard pressed to find anyone that had them in their gaming rigs.
I think you’ve missed the joke where Half-Life 3 is still not released.
yep, add me to the wooshcrew
Lol next thing you know they’ll sneak HL3 into a VR game
… oh
HL:A isn’t bad though
Yell that to everyone that refuses to recognize it’s HL:3
Who cares about the number. It’s obviously not meant to be the “3” people were waiting for, but it’s a Half Life game giving us lore anyways
There will never be a HL:3 anyways. We’re doomed now.
The next game will be third life or quarter life
Wait until they get to the end of level one and have to turn the tape over and press play.
I still remember when I had to reinstall my WindowsXP from the 3GB HDD onto my 1.5GB HDD so I could install The Sims 2
And now 1.5GB RAM won’t even load Windows.
It will. I’ve tried. It’s not a pleasant experience though.
But 2GB on Fedora was pain as well, though definitely more usable.
Puppy linux works quite well with 2gb, on the other hand.
Not even close to loading it
Looks at 500 gb New Vegas install
Yeah I don’t see the problem here.
How is that even possible? Even with 8k retextures of every single asset of the game I can’t imagine it being half that size.
Uncompressed audio and way too many mods with unique assets, also I think something duplicated a bunch of random assets. I’ve tried to fix it but noooo apparently duped ruble13 is load bearing. But hey at least it doesn’t CTD so there’s that, ignore NPCs just not spawning and some terrain just not appearing note this is not due to conflicts it fits when I restart the game and I don’t know if it’s the SSD or not.
The lack of any comment saying “Half life is not retro gaming” is concerning to me.
Half Life came out in 1998 (27 years ago) and this post is from 2003 (22 years ago). Half Life is retro gaming.
Please stop, you are hurting me with facts
This world is too cruel
I love you had this ready and/or knew exactly where to find it.
I think the first time I saw this meme was an edit posted on Chubbyemu’s channel where she says “I don’t know what -emia means”.
Barely over quarter-century life by now
And I still haven’t gotten past the crabs suddenly showing up and eating your face. I got as far as the flooded corridor and could never find my way out.
I feel like gaming generations are distinct from hardware generations, and we mostly haven’t moved on much from whatever gaming gen Half Life is in.
I don’t understand. Please elaborate
I bet they had a raptor hard drive, something about 160 GB ticked my mind.
Increments of 80 GB were fairly common. My desktop had an 80 GB Maxtor and my laptop later had 320 GB.
In hindsight, I do not remember if the Maxtor was definitely 80 GB, or if Windows was showing it as 80-something GB. But the laptop was definitely 320. I googled it. Google AI of course said “Based on Ebay listings it seems to be 1 TB”, very useful. Spec sheet says 320 GB.
Man, I remember lusting over getting a WD Raptor back in the day. They were so much more expensive and lower data density it I couldn’t justify for my low budget.
As was already said, 160 was pretty common, think increments of 20 or 40 is what i remember. Raptor drives had kinda odd size increments compared to other consumer drives. Looks like it would be 36Gb circa 2003.
I once got some retired scsi drives. Man 10,000rpm drives were loud and hot…
Thanks for bringing back some old memories
Lol those were the days. I remember Simcity 4 releasing back then and how quickly my mod folder blue up. Then by the time that game was old it was only 2.15gb and that was nothing. The jump from >10gb to 50gb games was insane. Now the jump to 100+ Gb hurts a lot. Any time a game is iN MB I do a little happy dance.
how quickly my mod folder blue up
Mine was green.
I remember clearing drive space on my first computer once, I went off of install size and anything other than a couple of key games that took up multiple hundreds of Mb got the boot and anything less than 100 Mb stayed installed for a bit longer. When you’ve only got a 40GB drive, thems the choices you have to make!
Meanwhile I’ve seen Fortnite literally fail to update with less than 100GB free because it needs to modify so many files in its gigantic install
Lol.
I’ve now got Steam games spread across 5 hard drives. One of which is a 5tb old school disk drive for the games I have A LOT of user made content for. I’ve gotta be in the terrabytes range at this point.
They are out… They are out before Half-Life 3…
Fun fact:
There was actually 4 games planned with the fourth one being an epic End Game style cross over finally of Portal, TF, Left for Dead, CS, and Half Life all coming together to fight the combine But unfortunately the series only had a Half Life and decayed down to 2 games in each series.
I want this to be real
I think portal was supposed to be in the HL2 universe, at least at some point… obviously l4d and tf2 are not.
They are canonically in the same universe, there are references to Black Mesa in Portal 2
When I die, I’m gonna close my eyes and dream of this.
People getting whoosed by this is hilarious. Nicely done.
I think the TF2 crossover is just a little too ridiculous.
Yeah i agree
Narrator: Then while Casey sips his tea, dozen of lemmy users think for themselves “heh… stupid casey made me chucke…”. As he puts down his tea he winks, and everyone had a moment there…
Lol we got affordable multi terabyte SSDs before HL3
I haven’t bought a non-NVMe drive in the last 5 years.
Get a NAS.
Or, even better, repurpose an old computer. Just stuff it with drives and install truenas.
Me neither, haven’t bought any drives
Well, Petabyte drives are out there for a while. I think their price drop is imminent.
Not in a single drive yet, but very viable in a single server these days.
Uh, source?
The biggest I could find is this 245TB SSD from Kioxia
Oh really? I’m assuming not in a consumer form factor? If so that’s completely passed me by
This is as much of a valid complaint now as it was back then.
There is absolutely no excuse for games now to be over 100GB in storage space. Unless you have the longest game ever that span across like 1 and a half “normal” game lengths. The biggest games now should be 60GB or less. So many developers refuse to compress things that could be compressed with zero noticeable loss in quality except for maybe a camera being really close to an object with an 8k display resolution.
At the absolute worst, do what games used to do for like 6 months before not caring: make the game for 1080p players, compression and all, then offer a free DLC with all the uncompressed stuff. At least make the storage feast optional.
even 60GB is absurd, tons of games get by just fine with like 10GB while having no lack of content and graphics.
Nah, I understand a AAA game being up to 60GB. Sometimes the amount of content really is that big. Elden Ring, for example. Its a big game with a lot of content, and its pretty close to 60GB I think. And yes, Morrowind has explorable space probably equally as big as Elden Ring for just 1GB. But compared to Elden Ring, Morrowind is like an empty barren wasteland. Maybe Elden Ring’s landmass data could have reduced filesize if it used prodecurally generated mesh if it doesn’t already, but in the end I think 60GB and under is fine.
While indie games can easily fit under 10GB because they are tiny or 2D, I get why bigger AAA games can’t.
A lot of that is shadows and lighting data, sometimes in unusual data structures without readily available compression methods. Compressing textures also impacts load times, obviously decompressing 10gb of jpgs could take a while. Still probably there are good compression methods and good tradeoffs to make, if any AAA studios actually cared about storage space (They do care a lot about GPU memory, just not storage space).
I wish games would release with low/medium, up to 1024x1024 textures and stuff by default and let people choose to download/install higher res stuff. If I’m not going to use the 4k pack, I don’t need it sitting on my hard drive
The most annoying thing is there is a trivial to implement way to close to halve these stupidly inflated sizes: make the highest resolution of textures a free DLC that you optionally install
/c/YourCommentButStroke
I mean, if the base game folder is .8 Gb, then aren’t their 3 mods the 1 Gig culprit? That’s a moddev issues and not many are concerned about optimizations.
Edit: I did misread the bit about the original game size.
You did misread but you’re probably also still correct. The modded game files are 1.82 total while the previous version of the game was 0.837, while I don’t know for sure what the newer version filesize was it was still an odd complaint for them to make.
Reminds of the those shitty Battlefront Remasters with upscaled 8 or 4k textures or whatever it was. Games went from being less than 5gbs to being 60 gb or something like that.
