Submitted 2 weeks ago by emb@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
“First and foremost, personally, I’m very happy that we are able to release a physical disc version of FFVII Revelation considering how the entire gaming market, or the landscape, is veering towards the disc-less direction,”
Except… this might as well not be a physical disc version. It’s like, the worst of both worlds.
It might let you download less than would be the case if it were purely digital.
Fair point, that is an upside. But it still feels like it has all the other downsides of both formats. They can take it away whenever they want because the full game isn’t on disc, and it required all the plastic and shipping to move a physical product without all of the product actually on disc anyway.
like buying a steam game retail and just getting a slip of paper with a code in it.
Space available on a bluray disk: 50GB max for a dual layer disk.
Game’s total size: 145gb.
The only other choice was to do what they used to do back in the day: Put it on 3 disks.
So there indeed was a perfectly good other choice.
I would guess that most of that is textures.
They could probably reasonably just ship half-resolution textures on disc and make higher-res textures be a downloadable option. Bethesda did that with their games, later on added free, downloadable higher-res textures. Shouldn’t require a lot of technical work. Maybe reducing texture resolution could trip some existing bug, a race condition somewhere, but it should be pretty mechanical, as changes go.
I don’t really have a dog in this race—I wouldn’t get the game either way. So I’m not pushing for that as an option. Just saying that I think that it’s an option from a technical standpoint, if one wanted to provide a compact, on-disc version of the game.
A normal part of game optimization is making sure that it doesn’t take up all the storage space on every device.
What exam is in that game that justifies those file sizes?
Wonder if these 210gb are worth 210h of normal playtime. If the game is 20h long, all these textures and gigs are worthless.
It’s hard to imagine what in this game needs to take up 210GB…
4k uncompressed texture, Tifa’s gigantic fist attack.
Weapons big.
Rebirth is almost 150GB. In Revelation, they’re cutting the Mythril Mines and some places like the Gongaga reactor that you wouldn’t return to at this point of the game, and they’re adding the Northern Crater, Wutai, Mideel, Rocket Town (remade as a space center), and Midgar is back. They’re not adding full underwater exploration, but there are underwater events.
I don’t know how this game can be under 250GB.
I had totally missed the news that the last part of FFVII remake wouldn’t get a functional physical edition. So disappointing! Especially in the last year of discs. Don’t see why it can’t be on 3 discs, or have been made with 2 discs in mind.
Not doing physical is a way bigger compromise to me than anything else they could have landed on.
No Choice
No buy
Simple as😊
Yeah but people will still buy consoles. So not simple. They can’t control the hardware and then whine about discs. Meh.
If you don’t like, don’t buy.
to many gamers that find their self worth in buying the latest shiny to ever do that.
Peffse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“no choice”
If only lies had consequences.
There were choices. They could do a play/install disc combo. If Sony didn’t allow that for some reason, they could easily split the game in two and put the two SKUs in the same case.
They just didn’t want to. It wasn’t a scenario where there were no options.
Wakko@hell.cloud 2 weeks ago
They do. It’s called “voting with your wallet”. Don’t like this decision? Don’t buy the game.
Peffse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
as if that wouldn’t be misconstrued as “people don’t want physical media. Just look at the poor sales”