Yeah, it seems to be an increasing norm for PS3 games. Some outright require the installation, others vastly encourage it. I heard Heavy Rain is glitchy even after the large patch so be careful yo. (Kotaku does have useful info posted now and then after all!)
For me, I'm just going to skip the game unless a Greatest Hit version comes out that's pre-patched. The thing about me is that I'm the kind of guy that'll go back to a game even years later for one more play through. Heck, I just went through River City Ransom. So getting buggy games are undesirable even if they get patched. It's likely I'll go back to the game long after Sony/Microsoft/etc stopped providing the patches and find I no longer have it pre-patched (Especially with these insane installation requirements - FFXIII on the PS3 is going to need like 38gigs or something?) which means I have a bug ridden game to play at best.
Now, that's how I currently feel about it, and it's likely how I'll remain feeling about it. But impulse buys are impulse buys, so if I see Wal-mart a few years from now with Heavy Rain in the discount bin for 10 bucks, I'll likely pick it up anyway so long as the patch is currently available at the time.
Apparently the installation trend is because the glorious blu-ray drive which has a fast data transfer rate, has a slow seek time to find the data to begin with. Slow enough to make loading finding/reading it from the harddrive preferable.
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Date: 2010-02-26 07:33 pm (UTC)For me, I'm just going to skip the game unless a Greatest Hit version comes out that's pre-patched. The thing about me is that I'm the kind of guy that'll go back to a game even years later for one more play through. Heck, I just went through River City Ransom. So getting buggy games are undesirable even if they get patched. It's likely I'll go back to the game long after Sony/Microsoft/etc stopped providing the patches and find I no longer have it pre-patched (Especially with these insane installation requirements - FFXIII on the PS3 is going to need like 38gigs or something?) which means I have a bug ridden game to play at best.
Now, that's how I currently feel about it, and it's likely how I'll remain feeling about it. But impulse buys are impulse buys, so if I see Wal-mart a few years from now with Heavy Rain in the discount bin for 10 bucks, I'll likely pick it up anyway so long as the patch is currently available at the time.
Apparently the installation trend is because the glorious blu-ray drive which has a fast data transfer rate, has a slow seek time to find the data to begin with. Slow enough to make loading finding/reading it from the harddrive preferable.