With the arrival of the New Xbox Experience this past week came the ability to install games to the hard drive, reducing load times and eliminating the deafening noise produced by the console's DVD-ROM. We've already heard reports that some games won't have any improvement when installed, due to the way they were designed. Now, we've received word that some games simply cannot be installed at all.
The good news is that it's an pretty short list of titles (thus far, though more may exist). There are not only very good odds that you don't have most of the games in question, but that you would also not play them with enough frequency for it to be an issue. The only major exception being Crackdown, which does have some annoying load times that I would have liked to have cut back on.
The bad news is that Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 is on the list. I think we all know how interminable the wait can be to have an experience you're really looking forward to, joystick in hand. Well, it isn't going to get any shorter, I'm afraid.
The list of affected games follows the jump.
[Via Polygamia]
- Big Bumpin'
- College Hoops 2k7
- Pocket Bike Racers
- Sneak King
- Crackdown
- Dead or Alive Xtreme 2
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5:03 PM on 11.23.2008
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Go Microsoft and do something about that.
I get distracted and somehow end up with "doa hentai" written on my google toolbar
And frankly I haven't noticed any huge improvements with load times (maybe a few seconds here and there) but that doesn't really bother me. The only 2 reasons I was dying for this function are the MASSIVE reduction in noise (doesn't sound like I'm playing in an airplane hanger anymore) and the reduction of wear and tear on the optical drive.
Reduced load times would be a very nice cherry on top, but I'm pleased as punch even without it.
She looks like she is about to rape me, aaaaaaah!!
Damn DOA graphics, it manages to make it's girls look like freaky dolls sometimes.
...I still have DoAX2, I swear to god I will get 1000gamer score in it one day!
I wouldn't complain, myself.
It also could just be my imagination, which is fine too. If I believe it is happening, then that is almost as good.
I don't even have a big enough hard drive to try installing any of these, so it don' matta to me.
"It might just be me, but it seems like most of the menu lag in Fable 2 is cut back when playing it off the HDD."
It's not just you. On many games, frame rate and menu lag is also improved, especially in Fable II.
Also, boobs.
Plus I only have about four gigs of space left, lol.