Has any group ever made an attempt to try to tune down the file size for 50GB+ games like DOOM to be around 20 gigs...

Has any group ever made an attempt to try to tune down the file size for 50GB+ games like DOOM to be around 20 gigs? I think it should be possible, most of the game's file size comes from the uncompressed textures I think? Compressing each to around 3-4mb should reduce it quite an amount

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sounds pretty disrespectful to the developer's vision. Huge files sizes is an artistic choice

>frogposter
>brainlet ideas
pottery

If that Yea Forums meme were true and it was that easy they would do that. Stop listening to retards on here and taking their nonsense at face value.

Yeah, I don't care.

Try actually explaining why it's a brainlet idea, saying "this is dumb" is basically you telling everyone that your IQ is lower than your chromosome count

large reductions in file size have been achieved by just removing copy protection on some games

I have more chromosomes than you, bitch

Shit's gonna take CPU processing power. That's basically the dilemma since the beginning of computing. Reduce memory = increase computation, increase computation = reduce memory. Performance is top priority in games, so of course you wouldn't compress things. I remember KGB though(offline archives, like RAR/ZIP), it achieved some good compression ratios.

Dont know about you guys, but (almost) every torrent I get from a russian site is almost always compressed in the installer without making the qualoty of installed product suffer.