Why have game install sizes gotten so large?

[Doogles]

Titanfall, Wolfenstein The New Order, BF4, Dragon Age and so many more have massive install/download sizes, is it because they are not compressed? I have no idea but it is slightly worrying how big they have gotten over the last 2-3 years.

 

[Doogles]

This. Pretty clear really that as the quality of sound and video increases, then so does the installation size...

I just don't see the amount of improvement to the size, maybe it is a bit of both? Less compression + the extra sound and textures etc?

 

[Doogles]

I am serious considering it takes me overnight to download them, max payne 3 taken me a whole 20 hours to download, worth it but annoying as hell.

One of the biggest things is 1080p FMV cutscenes, these are monsters, and no company wants that huge investment looking artifacty (a real word) by trying to slim off a couple of gig using a heavy handed codec. That and massive amounts of in game textures.

Wait until UHD takes off then we will have 300GB game downloads lol.