I know it makes me sound like an of man shouting at clouds but the other day I installed Morrowind and was genuinely blown away by how smooth and reliable it ran and all the content in the game fitting in 2gb of space. Skyrim requires I delete my other games to make room and still requires a whole second game worth of mods to match the stability and quantity of morrowind.

[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago

High res textures (especially normal maps) and higher quality/coverage audio really made game sizes take off. Unreal's new "Nanite" tech, where models can have literally billions of polygons, actually reduces game size because no normal maps.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Back in the day morrowind was unoptimised too, https://kotaku.com/morrowind-completely-rebooted-your-xbox-during-some-loa-1845158550

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

That's fair, though honestly the only issue I ever had on the Xbox was having a loading screen every 5 minutes.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes, but also community rewrite of the Morrowind engine, to make it even more better: https://openmw.org/

Admittedly, some changes might make it use more resources, for example it's got basically no loading screens, because nearby cells get loaded before you enter them...

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I'm actually giving that a try now because it comes packaged with bazzite! I just wish I could figure out modding lol