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naznatips on 04 November 2007
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EnosStory said:
naznatips said:
There is no denial in my statement Enos. Chill. Sony promised that blu-ray would be used to increase game content and length. It has not. In fact, the PS3 has the shortest games of the generation so far. All you are listing are graphics and sound effects, which have nothing to do with game content or length.

 

Prove it, you cant.

Would Ratchet be as long with out BR, who knows.

All you are doing is posting your opinion as fact.

 


Enos you really need to calm down.  First of all, the burden of proof lies on the people making the claim that they are able to do something more.  Sony claimed that Blu-ray will be used to make games longer than they could be without it.  It has nothing to do with the capability.  It has to do with developers actually spending the time it takes to make games longer.  Until games are longer on the PS3 than they were last generation, Sony has failed to deliver on this promise. 

Case in point, you brought up Ratchet & Clank.  Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction is about a 15 hour game.  Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal is more than a 20 hour game.  It also has more content than F:TOD does.  It has a co-op mode and a battle mode as well as online multiplayer.  So, on the PS2, which used DVD-9, I played a 20 hour game with more game modes and content.  I know.  I own it and I have beaten it at least 6 times.  On the PS3, I can play a 15 hour game with none of that content.  

Now, as the company claiming the Playstation 3 will make games longer than they would be otherwise, it's up to Sony to show us games of not just ordinary length, but extraordinary length.  Uncharted is reported by the developers to be 12-15 hours, so that game will not be proving Sony's claim either.  Again, there are Gamecube games that are totaling 40-50 hours on discs that are 1.5 GBs.  The PS3 has yet to deliver the extended gameplay time and content that it promised. 

I'm not saying it's not capable of delivering that.  Obviously more size gives you more options for game length.  I'm saying developers aren't capable of delivering that.   I think the difficulty of development for the PS3 has made the benefits of Blu-ray a moot point.  Developers can't spend the kind of money it takes to make longer games on the PS3, so they use up the space with miniscule improvements like uncompressed audio or duplicating data to reduce load times.  Blu-ray is not being used to increase content and length.