Rask
Shared on Sat, 06/14/2008 - 07:16So I'm catching up on a few blogs and come across PA's Tycho's post from Friday, June 13th.
The last part struck me as very interesting:
"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."
This it is true that DVD9 would be a problem because of the apparent sheer size of the cutscenes, I can't see how 5 different installs (1 when you first start and one between each game act) that are roughly 3-4 minutes long is even remotely better than the 30-45 seconds it takes to swap disks between chapters.
I guess the whole Konami NDR thing on install times in reviews kinda make sense now..
The last part struck me as very interesting:
"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."
This it is true that DVD9 would be a problem because of the apparent sheer size of the cutscenes, I can't see how 5 different installs (1 when you first start and one between each game act) that are roughly 3-4 minutes long is even remotely better than the 30-45 seconds it takes to swap disks between chapters.
I guess the whole Konami NDR thing on install times in reviews kinda make sense now..
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