The Clip if you’ve never seen it before.
Recently I’ve been archive my PS3 library of games, and I just finished backing up MGS4. Normally a third party PS3 game is between 7-12GB, however MGS4 is 33GB. To play MGS4 on a 360 you’d need like 4-5 DVD’s depending on how they compressed it.
Didn’t realize how large games were back even a decade ago.
I had those. I am pretty sure they were huge because everything was mostly uncompressed.
I remember using a program to extract game data. Every environment was a literal bitmap image the size of the area, and there were additional bitmaps of the same size for each, where pixel colours were used by the engine to check where characters could walk, what part of the scenery is overhead, etc.
It was cool looking into the adaptive music though. Every track was split in multiple bits of a couple seconds, so for example if the battle theme needed to end it could branch into a specific ending variation seamlessly. I don’t think a lot of games did that back then.