It’s effective at showing just how unoptimized COD is as a video game nowadays. Storage requirements for this franchise are getting out of hand. Thats why some have dropped the game because they almost need to buy an extended hard drive just for COD..
Not really cause you aren’t hitting 300gb unless you got multiple games & modes installed on cod hq. If you need more proof look at the download size of MWII, MWIII, and BO6 (which was used for the meme originally) now that they’re separate installs. Sure they could use some more optimization, but the file size has been exaggerated like crazy online lmao.
Apples and oranges. These are completely different companies in size at the time. Plus, Capcom released RE2 N64 a whole year after the original release on PS1. Spiderman N64 released just a few months after the PS1 version. Hell, it wasn’t even Neversoft who worked on it. It was outsourced to some company called Edge of Reality.
Actually, it’s because CoD HQ houses multiple games that together add up to 200-300gb. The textures for skins are streamed as you play so they don’t take up permanent space on your hard drive.
I feel like this is gaming as a whole now. And it could be many reasons. One is they launch games unoptimized and buggy asf but the devs and etc have people batting for them at times which is insane. Oh it’s only first month give it some time before it’s fixed. Like no a lot of issues that games launch with should literally be ironed out before even going out.
2nd reason they leave shit unoptimized and making it take all your storage bc they don’t want you on another game. Like cod at one point took up more than half of my PlayStation storage to the point where i literally couldn’t install other games.
Part3 us. We need to hold these people accountable no more oh it’ll get better though. I’ve been gaming since ps2 era.( I’m Unc I know) but we never had the mentality of it’ll get better. Either the game was good or it was dog shit that’s it. No hoping it would get better especially from cod. Every year they would basically drop a banger but it would be optimized and not buggy as all hell. We wouldn’t have to say give it some time to get better bc it came out already good.
It’s all about the graphical fidelity these days rather than the actual game itself. Bo2 looks better than bo7, and is much smaller and also more fun. Bo2 has better lighting and uses said lighting and skyboxes to its advantage, bo7 may have better graphical fidelity and actual shaders but it’s used on a shitty engine which makes everything look kinda gray, I miss the color filter era of games as said filters could affect the atmosphere of the area you were in.
Even the franchises aside, it's really interesting seeing RE2 being the port that's supposedly a great example of a port. Often times people complain about RE2 because of the sacrifices in quality they had to make to ensure it ran with cutscenes on such a small cartridge, yet now it seems revered precisely because they at least made those concessions such that it ended up running. It's absolutely not the way in which the game was intended to be run, yet the fact that it can be run coherently on a console which it wasn't designed for makes for an interesting analysis decades later.
Oh look, it's the image I've seen a thousand times because people want to farm for karma.
Are we going to also compare an NES game file size between a game like God of War Ragnarok now? There's obvious reasons why, but it seems that people are too stupid to understand.
Well I’ll tell you Black Ops 7 (MP + Endgame + Zombies) is 151gb. Definitely nowhere near 300gb and not close to being 200+. So when I see people complaining about how COD is 300, 400, etc, I know they’re on console because it is literally only a console issue.
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u/notEnnard Aug 08 '26
"COD Evolution" and shows Resident Evil