yes, compressed, but how?
with a mere bzip?
I don't have TLOU at hand to check it.
Imagine if they are just bzip compressed WAVs, instead of using a specialized compressor like WAVPac or FLAC, if they want it to be lossless. but even more, they could be lossy compressed, just the permissible, and they would be even smaller files.
The games that at one time I supercompressed myself, some were like that, had the voices in wav, so in the compression script I recoded them to AAC, just like the music. the effects were left untouched. but then I used UHARC, which has subroutines dedicated to compressing multimedia, to compress the rest of media files. Other files were compressed with 7zip. during the decompression everything returned to its original formats.
I remember some supercompressed game that, whoever made it, recompressed the textures in another format and during the "installation"/decompression reconverted them to the original texture format.
Of course, all this only saves on the installer files, in the end everything is occupying the same space. but a lot can be compressed in a way that is suitable for each context of use and type of file.
but some different examples, Crysis 1 and Crysis Warhead, the first Call of Duty MW series and earlier CoD, and other games, their files are Zip compressed but with little or no compression, only used as containers. so, in my "decompressor" I compressed them to the maximum that zip would allow. That's why I ended up with a lot of games sometimes taking up only half of the disk space, with only a slight increase in load times.
Even Quake 3 back then had many of its textures in JPEG.
Then, I've seen UV textures maps that are absolute wasteful. either the artists are lazy or the tools are rubbish.
on of those game that I have ever seen that deliver more content in less space are the Elder Scrolls and the Fallout series
Has anyone here played .kkrieger?
