Penny-Arcade- interesting note about MGS4 install times

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ZenfoldorVGI said:

twesterm said:

I read this over on Penny-Arcade and thought it was pretty interesting (NOTE-- whole post here):

In the space of our play experience, we've already seen two separate installs. The game is still broken up into discrete areas, which I found odd, the assumption being that if we were taking time out to install shit it was because we were doing it to sustain a single world. You would have a hard time convincing me that multiple installs over the course of playing a videogame are worse than disc swapping. This has become some kind of theological question on forums, a kind of philosophical pinata, except no matter how many times you strike it no reward is forthcoming. Blu-Ray is only a convenience if it is actually convenient, if it doesn't require concessions either at the beginning of an experience or at several points throughout. It's amazing to me that this is considered progress.

They do raise a good point there. Is BluRay really convenient if instead of swapping discs you get installs at various points in your game?

No. I thought it was fairly obvious that for gaming, Blu-Ray is little more than a talking point.

 

Its true purpose is to add a Blu-Ray player into the PS3, as well as to move Sony's infant format into as many homes as possible, as quicly as possible. There is no better way than speed-welding it to a Playstation console, even if its weight did almost sink the brand early on.

You know, I'm sure a lot of people said the same thing about DVD around the time Baldur's Gate came out on either 6 CDs or 1 DVD...why do we need a new format? More space? Nah... MGS4 is huge. My only complaint is not having the option to choose a big install for all the chapters at once. I don't want to wait 2-3 minutes inbetween chapters, assuming I ever want to go back and forth..which come to thnk of it, I probably won't...but the fe minutes wait 5 times in the game isn't bad. I understand the reduction in space needed but I don't worry about that. As others have said, though, the speed of blu-ray (at 2x on PS3) is faster than the DL-DVD at 12x that the 360 uses. Uncharted = no load times. There is nothing wrong with blu-ray.