Early games: We gotta come up with the most efficient ways to do everything. Only the simplest sprites. Only a couple colors in any given square.
Large RPGs = 4 MB of data.
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Now:
We're going to make incredibly detailed models with features no one will even notice.
Large RPG = 100GB
Large RPGs = 4 MB of data.
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Now:
We're going to make incredibly detailed models with features no one will even notice.
Large RPG = 100GB