| makingmusic476 said: @blizzid: Oh c'mon. So it loads during cutscenes. There are still no pauses in the game at all. It goes straight from gameplay, to cutscene, back to gameplay. And there are also long stretches of just gameplay, like the demo on the PSN for example. And I can't really think of any drawn out cutscenes. I mean, you're totally missing my point with that one. Most games have cutscenes AND actual loading screens. Uncharted has no visibile loading at all. Name a game that does it better.
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Hiding load times behind cutscenes and having no load times are very different things. Before I played Uncharted, I read several forum reports that it streamed all level data off the Blu Ray disc. I wasn't sure how that was possible, since even streaming from a hard drive usually causes noticable texture and/or model pop-in problems, but I believed the forum reports anyway. Then when I played the game, the first cave had several lengthy load times. No, they don't switch to a load screen or pause the game with a "Loading" message. I still had to watch a scene where Drake and Sully stand around in a tiny room while a fire slowly lights, a door closes behind them, and then the door in front of them opens. It doesn't take long relative to a typical start-of-level load, but it's quite lengthy when compared to typical mid-level loads. It breaks the flow of the gameplay just like a load screen. "Gameplay, to cutscene, back to gameplay" is a pause in the game when the cutscene serves no real purpose and can't be skipped.
Maybe the rest of the game hides them better, I don't know. I'll buy a PS3 when Final Fantasy XIII comes out if nothing convinces me before that, and I'll play Uncharted all the way through then.
You'll probably read this as a knock against Uncharted. It's not. The little I played of it was fantastic, and the visuals are gorgeous. From what I heard from my friend (the only PS3 owner I know), it only gets better. However, after hearing so much about "no load times", I was disappointed to see what was really happening.
