LOL ... You are joking right? Or maybe you should hobble back into your cave.
Whilst ED may not have the best textures in a videogame, it has to be scalable, and not end up with a 100GB install (which another high profile Space game in devleopment will have).
I always love it when people say 'this looks like a game from year xxxx', as 100% of time they are talking complete codswallop.
who cares its 10gig , thats almost nothing , most modern games are close to 30 gig , install sweetfx for some better textures