Tired of mandatory hard drive installs on PlayStation 3? Blame Blu-ray and DVD.
Capcom took a public stoning last month when "Devil May Cry 4? was released on PS3 with a mandatory 20-minute installation not necessary on Xbox 360.
Since then, Capcom VP of business development and strategic planning Christian Svennsson told me his company didn't realize the issue would "blow up." He says the company will take the response into account for future releases.
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The Tales Of series are some of the best RPGs I've ever played, and the characters are a big reason for that. I don't think I played a single game in the series that I didn't enjoy. Rest in peace.
Damn, that sucks to hear... His designs were always wonderful.
Wow she was the character designer for Tales of Destiny one of my favorites of all time =(
I love the Tales games. Phantasia will always be my favorite. Ironically I felt like as the series progressed the character design became too “anime cliche.”
Gary Green said: The concept for a good sequel is not a complicated thing. You take your original idea and expand on the lore, then you fix anything that was broken the first time around. You might want to introduce some new features too; This is fine so long as you don’t go overboard, and you don’t change the overall flow of the game. Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory ticks all of these boxes, so surely then it should be the perfect package? Well, almost. It really is rather good.
Look at the comments of Jonathon at the bottom of the article. Dont you wish you could disagree with him?
Edit: wtf dude??? do you really think im a fanboy? Maybe you should read my comment history. Just cause i like halo doesnt mean im a fanboy... And yes i have played Resistance, Uncharted, Motorstorm, Resistance...lol, infact i own about half of those.
You ps3 fans are crazy...lol
Oh and i never said i agreed with him...i just like how you guys disagree with everything i say.
lol, he says Lair "Rocks". 'nuff said.
If I get home, and I want to jump into the game(like ut3) I dont want to sit in a lengthy install, after time though I did install it to reduce loading times.
Epic has the best model for this. Capcom and SOny should follow when developing games that aren't streamloading.
Mandatory Installations aren't a mystery. They're required because the games are on 50gb Blueray discs. The drives are slow. They don't make drives that can read through 50gb instantly just to find a bitmap.
Thats one flaw of the Blueray drives... just not good for archiving data. It's nothing against the technology, but just the drives are slow.
Developers have come to grips with reality and have learned to deal with it, and mandatory installations of reoccuring textures is one of them. Another method that they used previously was actually saving multiple copies of 1 bitmap in several locations across the discs.
This is nothing new and is completely logical. Until they find a way to speed up the process, it is going to be slow.
Movies and such play just fine because they act as a vinyl record where it starts on the inside and works its way out.
The slowness comes, again, from archiving and trying to locate a 4mb file on a 50gb disc. It just ain't gonna happen in a quick enough time for gaming unless you find ways around it.
Makes it seem like there been a dozen titles with a MANDATORY install... I mean no1 can find bad sony news so they post this?? DMC only game that does this and honestly I think its just lazy coding on Capcom part. If any1 who played Uncharted knows that any install for any game what so ever is pure not neccesary. Uncharted loaded 1nce for me and thats to load my save data and then never loads again. I dont know how they do it but its so seamless its incredible.