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It'd be nice if Steam and the other stores gave you checkboxes for a game's localizations and they'd only download/install the ones you actually want.
Of course that's not the whole problem and games also need to use lower texture sizes for small objects instead of using 4k textures all the time even for a toothbrush prop in the background.
Communists want to ~~take~~ derez your toothbrush!!!!
Steam has supported this for a very long time, it’s just down to the developer to use it e.g. https://steamdb.info/app/28050/depots/
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/localization
Games do use smaller textures for smaller objects. "4k texture" has little to no meaning.
What would be nice is if high res textures were optional and it downloaded assets in order so you could start playing the tutorial without waiting for everything to be downloaded (like origin)
Games should use smaller textures for smaller objects, but don't, like, audit that shit, and routinely end up having some of them way over-res anyway.