In what has become an all-too common story for PS3 games, BioShock 2 will require a mandatory installation on Sony's Black Box o' Blu-ray. Just be warned that you'll be hanging around for a while after you pop the disc in the system. Because nobody liked to just play the videogames they've purchased, right?
The PS3 experience seems to be centered around watching very slow installation screens and waiting for things in the XMB to bother loading, so this should be business as usual for all PlayStation fans. Have fun with that!
BioShock 2 on PS3 requires mandatory 5Gb install [VG247]
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5:30 PM on 02.03.2010
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Put the damn DVD in your 360 and play. Don't bother installing it to the HDD if you are impatient to play off the DVD.
Bluray == faster than DVD read, but accessing all that damn contents in the bluray still takes much longer time which translates into slow load time.
I normally install game on 360, but all the snotty people who keep saying it's okay to install, I salute you with my little finger and smell the success.
I seriously have no clue what I am typing, but I feel better now.
[QQQQ]
/shrug
Oh yeah... I don't care.
You have fun paying for a service that should be free now.
Yes, unless FF XIII is on a CD-ROM, I won't buy the damn thing. The proper experience you can have with any FF game is the mandatory multi-discs.
Might want to get your PS3 looked at. Something might be wrong with it, just saying.
A five minute install for a game's worth of short load times is a no-brainer for me.
Ah, fuck it, I'm getting it on PC anyway. I don't care.
Couldn't agree more bro :P
Only idiots sit in front of their TV staring at the bar slowly go up. Economize the time!
No it's more like 5~20 minutes installation times (I think I saw multiple screen of installation b/c an update is available. Sony did revolutionized the console by getting rid of instant play from the optical drive concept. I am just so much happy that my essential gaming experience comes down to this:
- Insert the game disc.
- Click a few times to start the install.
- Go take a dump for about 15 minutes come back and realized that my PS3 waits for my input on something. Click a few more time.
- Go make yourself a sandwich.
- Watch the horizontal bar or non descriptive spinning things on the screen wondering if my PS3 froze up.
- Go wash my face and come back.
Viola! Game is up and running!!! Then I decided to play something else.
Hope you recognize a sarcasm. More PS3 games should do the mandatory installation. PS3 users are patient. They waited 2 years to play decent games on PS3. They can wait a few minutes.
"That's life theft. Which is essentially, murder."
-Jim Sterling
If I didn't know any better I would swear he's just another fanboy. But I digress, I own a PC (that can run the game), a PS3, and (did) own a 360. Can't say I care about loading times to be honest.
Now, if the PS3's framerates were significantly slower, or the Xbox was tearing, that's another situation entirely.
Meh, must be a slow news day.
If worst comes to worse, Home can go. That's eating up a significant portion and I haven't touched it for about a year. Its only really there to look pretty and annoy people when they accidentally click it and have to sit through a loading bar before they can get back to the menu.
http://kotaku.com/353612/devil-may-cry-4-ps3-the-mandatory-install-final-time-22-mins
(ps3 has blueray2x speed 9M/s, x360 dvd12x 16M/s)
*spit take*
5 GB?!?!?!@@#!@??
*smashes PS3 with hammer*
BUT, when I saw Carlton say "Installs > disc swapping" I was reminded the other night of when it was midnight and I was prompted to put in disc 2 of ME2. I groaned that I physically had to get up, and then felt horrible because I must be slipping down the slope of becoming a slovenly, lazy, and worthless human being :P I don't mind changing discs, so that's not a big deal for me, just in the same way load times when you get a new game aren't a big deal for others.
Never thought I'd find myself wishing for a Samit sports blog..
That's funny because Uncharted 2 didn't even have an install...