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Bigger Than Godzilla: Why Are Games Using So Many Gigabytes? (www.techspot.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is such a weird take. Of course, for the things you mentioned, yes.

But in the case of storage, it's not like the devs purposefully increase the sizes of their game for some reason. If indie devs had the resources to easily make graphics as advanced and voice every little thing in their games, they would, and their games would become as big.

The only reason it doesn't happen is because they literally can't do that with their resources, which are better spent elsewhere. But this is not an inherent advantage of indie games, in fact, it's quite the disadvantage. I'd love if my indie games at least had the possibility of cutting edge graphics and voice for everything.