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DrXym said:Who says they aren't using compression? Chances are (as with most games), level data is packed into an enormous file and at least run-length encoded, possibly more. It is probably faster to decompress data on the fly than to load the full data off the disk. Perhaps you mean lossy compression. But again, who says they're not doing it already?
As for laziness, I don't think so. Kojima would snap his fingers and his programmers would do what they're told.
Perhaps it just didn't occur to anyone that mandatory installs are an increasingly hated facet of PS3 gaming. My own feeling is that if they can have a detailed render of Snake smoking a cigarette while the preinstall is happening, they could have cached data within the game. There is plenty of down time in the game - logos during startup, menus, cutscenes, lulls in the action where they could have spawned a background thread to be caching data. Perhaps it might have still have meant occasional progress bars if the caching was not completed, but I still think that is far preferable to forcing people to sit there for 10 minutes.
I've read many interviews with Kojima stating his disdain for compression, if he can avoid it, he does. Blu-ray has given him the oppportunity to avoid it as much as possible which is why he used up a DL BD.
Maybe laziness is the wrong word, but if you guys can give me a better one, please do so. All this bullshit about MGS4s scope and scale smells of fanboy faeces. All consoles have had games that use massive scale/lanscapes/scope what have you and yet don't force either multiple discs or use more space than is necessary.
I'm not trying to debate the quality of the game here. The game kicks ass, but I've played many 'huge' games over the years that didn't need 4 or 5 separate installs, PLUS tonnes of loading screens through the entire game.
So if you guys can think of a better word for lazy, please, feel free to word me up. And please, to the 'elistists' talking about how little I know, your one sentence responses of "You don't know what you're talking about", or "Your posts are gold", if you're going to try and appear so superior and clever in your ivory towers, make the effort next time to at least tell me why I know so little and I'm happy to stand corrected.
Hence why I actually responded to the quoted post.