This is one of the things I hate the most about modern games.
Nowadays 30 megabytes or more tends to be the norm. I think some of my NWN2 saves have been 50 mb, and already Fallout 2 took up 20-30 mb per save.
This is more than was taken up in entire games (which had as much or more complexity) in the mid 90s.
Compared to Fallout 2, Fallout had 1-2 mb save files. What justified multiplying the amount of disk space needed by a factor of 15?
At the same time CPU has increased so compression and time to write to disk (also HD rpm has increased) should have been reduced.
When you have a 100 gb hard drive, and 10 games installed at a time, games taking up 2+ gb just in saves becomes a problem. Especially when games don't tell you that the save couldn't be written, leaving you to find out next time you try to load it up - and find that your last twenty saves are corrupt.
Any techies know the answer? Is this just like the exponentially increasing level/scene load times, lazier programming across the whole industry or is there a legitimate reason?
Nowadays 30 megabytes or more tends to be the norm. I think some of my NWN2 saves have been 50 mb, and already Fallout 2 took up 20-30 mb per save.
This is more than was taken up in entire games (which had as much or more complexity) in the mid 90s.
Compared to Fallout 2, Fallout had 1-2 mb save files. What justified multiplying the amount of disk space needed by a factor of 15?
At the same time CPU has increased so compression and time to write to disk (also HD rpm has increased) should have been reduced.
When you have a 100 gb hard drive, and 10 games installed at a time, games taking up 2+ gb just in saves becomes a problem. Especially when games don't tell you that the save couldn't be written, leaving you to find out next time you try to load it up - and find that your last twenty saves are corrupt.
Any techies know the answer? Is this just like the exponentially increasing level/scene load times, lazier programming across the whole industry or is there a legitimate reason?