RetroGaming

Not many people these days understand that Steam used to suck bad.

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.

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.

They are out.... They are out before Half-Life 3....

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.

Lol next thing you know they'll sneak HL3 into a VR game

... oh

Gone are the days when a game delivered on seven floppy disks was considered "overblown".

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.

Looks at 500 gb New Vegas install

Yeah I don't see the problem here.

I hope 100 TB drives are out by the time HL3 comes out.

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.

Lol we got affordable multi terabyte SSDs before HL3

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

I was about to say, I recognize that name... Then I saw forum name and the year...

I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago...

I'm old enough that I got HL2 in a retail box, when it was new.

and the fucking disks installed the game encrypted, and I could not use my computer until the next day, due to it thrashing my HDD and CPU so hard to decrypt the files that my computer was functionally useless that evening, and overnight.

now THAT was some bullshit.

This was too, cause I remember steam games bloating with temp files back in the day and regularly having to clear out the folder so you had HDD space.

The reason why HL3 is not out yet is because valve is waiting for consumer adoption of 10TB drives

1.82 GB out of 160 GB and they are worried. Imagine how they feel now with 500 gb and 1 TB drives with some AAA games being 250 GB.

The lack of any comment saying "Half life is not retro gaming" is concerning to me.

I bet they had a raptor hard drive, something about 160 GB ticked my mind.

We'll have petabyte drives for $50 before HL3 appears.

Tech prophet circa 2003.