I miss well-optimized video games. Now because processing power keeps increasing nobody in the industry cares.

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Anonymous 2021-06-13 (Sun) 02:48:41 No.10011

I miss well-optimized video games. Now because processing power keeps increasing nobody in the industry cares.

Anonymous 2021-06-13 (Sun) 04:12:39 No.10017

How big were those games originally? Or is that their original size?

Anonymous 2021-06-13 (Sun) 04:23:49 No.10021

>>10017
My Dreamcast GDI for SA2 is a total of around 1.2GB

Original release of Yume Nikki is a whopping 64.04MB

Anonymous 2021-06-13 (Sun) 05:13:10 No.10023

>>10021
>Original release of Yume Nikki is a whopping 64.04MB
Holy shit, how did it go from less than 100MB to 3.5GB?? High-res images?

Anonymous 2021-06-13 (Sun) 05:19:23 No.10025

I also miss when composers worked with hardware limitations to develop techniques to get around them or evoked much more with well-selected samples and notes

Anonymous 2021-06-13 (Sun) 05:42:22 No.10026

>>10023
I think it's that shitty dream diary remake

Anonymous 2021-06-13 (Sun) 08:40:02 No.10028

>>10026
I had no idea there was such a thing

>>10025
Same, worst example for me being the Pokémon games (it's all barely catchy synth-orchestral shit now)

Anonymous 2021-06-13 (Sun) 12:39:32 No.10030

>>10011
This is random

Anonymous 2021-06-14 (Mon) 02:05:34 No.10040

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Anonymous 2021-06-14 (Mon) 09:17:28 No.10044

>>10040
NO!
I'm pretty sure most modern game developers write little scripts for an old crufty engine, that gets barely enough patches.
Most money is likely spent on highres models and marketing.
Even new low-level stuff is probably written in C++ with boost libs.
Just look at how poor of a performance Pokemon games can get away with https://old.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/bzw5pk/gamefreak_optimization_problems/

Anonymous 2021-06-14 (Mon) 13:43:00 No.10048

>>10040
So… indie games?

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