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twesterm on 21 December 2009
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huaxiong90 said:
twesterm said:

Uncharted 2 has loads, they're just hidden by movies.

You don't experience loads when you die because when you hit a checkpoint it just saves the basic state of the game.  It can do that because there's not to re-setup when you load:

  • Reset physics objects -- there aren't a lot of these so that's simple
  • Despawn enemies - simple
  • move Nathan - simple
  • set weapon/ammo - simple

Reloading checkpoint done!  You don't really notice it because it doesn't actually reload the level there.

And I'm not downplaying anything there, I think that's a great design choice, I'm just saying Uncharted 2 does have loads but they're just hidden well.  If you want to know how long their insane load times are, just quit the game in the middle of a level and then come back to it.

Why would I regard that as criticism? Lol. But thanks, interesting read, short as it was.

I could see how some people could see I was just putting down another PS3 because of the huge fanboy I apparently am.  :-p

Like I said many times, Uncharted 2 is a marvel so no worries in my saying anything about it.  While it's pretty common to mask load times with videos, I *really* like how they did checkpoints.