According to one report, Sony's upcoming Heavy Rain: The Origami Killer will require quite a large install. Consider this your advance warning to free up some space so you can playing straight away.
But while you wait for the lengthy install, there'll be a little lesson in, yep, origami.
Just Push Start says that while you wait there'll be a 12-step guide showing you how to make a Swan Origami (featured in the game).
Maybe we'll do a competition to see who can make the best one? We're sure Andy or Mike will be able to rustle something up that money can't buy. Who's in?
Bought one of those one terabite (sp?) external hard drives from PC world couple of years ago and I just realised I can back up all my PS3 data to it. So I've a great deal of space on the old box now.
Annoying, but I'll get over it. As mentioned, why these lengthy installs are necessary is beyond me; my 360 games get going straight away, and I never suffer overly long loading times.
I'll bet someone, somewhere, has had a power cut whilst a PS3 game installs - what fun that must be.
Annoying, but I'll get over it. As mentioned, why these lengthy installs are necessary is beyond me; my 360 games get going straight away, and I never suffer overly long loading times.
I'll bet someone, somewhere, has had a power cut whilst a PS3 game installs - what fun that must be.
What would happen if the power cut?
I think I read somewhere recently that the 360 has a faster disc read speed than the PS3.
The worst game for installs was MGS4. In our household with two (or maybe even three) people playing their own save game on the same system - the game would do an install for each chapter, but if I had progressed to chapter 2 and then someone else played chapter 1, the game would reinstall chapter 1. Then when I load my game again, it would have to reinstall for chapter 2...
Tedious.
In comparison, a one off install bears no consequence at all...
Its a shame this isn't coming out on the 360 as the crappy installs are one of the main reasons I hardly use my PS3.
If "crappy" installs are preventing you from getting a ps3, you don't deserve to own one. Installs are small prices to pay for truly unique innovations in gaming.
Shut the f**k up, open your third eye and play mgs4 - your life will have meaning!
Its a shame this isn't coming out on the 360 as the crappy installs are one of the main reasons I hardly use my PS3.
If "crappy" installs are preventing you from getting a ps3, you don't deserve to own one. Installs are small prices to pay for truly unique innovations in gaming.
Shut the f**k up, open your third eye and play mgs4 - your life will have meaning!
I'm not sure that's the right game to recommend to somebody who hates installs!
The installs are because of the Blu-ray read speed. It's great for big files but pretty slow for small ones. Texture files, small 3D objects, sound files, etc are all pretty small and usually loaded on-the-fly. If that can't be done fast enough you end up with horrible pop-in like Mass Effect 1. You don't want that in the middle of an action sequence and what you miss is important audio cues. Or you get a blob of untextured crap fly past you.
I'd rather suffer the install and have a smooth game when it's time to play than skip it and have the gameplay ragged all over the shop.
Its a shame this isn't coming out on the 360 as the crappy installs are one of the main reasons I hardly use my PS3.
I bet your same person that says that disc swoping on 360 is not an issue!
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Before this gets taken the wrong way, disc swoping is not an issue, but nor is game installs. You can't just slate PS3 for installs then claim disc swoping is all smiles and rainbows.
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