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Someone over at NeoGaf has posted the in-between-chapter install times for MGS4, the total install being 4.6Gb.
This comes at the same time as an in-game conversation between Snake and Otacon is revealed where Otacon is telling Snake he doesn’t have to change disks because of the capacity of Blu-ray.
As the Metal Gear Solid 4 street date was broken by Wal-Mart last week, spoilers and in-game have inevitably made their way onto the internet.
Spoilers through the link. Watch the video here.
By Mike Bowden
8 Minutes = first install, when you start the game.
Then before each act, the time it takes to install is as follows
Act 2 - 3 mins
Act 3 - 3 mins
Act 4 - 2 mins
Act 5 - 1 min
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Blerk said:
Well… that’s not too bad? Is it? I mean, you sit and watch Snake and someone-else-on-the-other-end-of-the-com rabbit on about relationships and Chinese philosophy and such for at least ten minutes every time you try to save.
morriss said:
Swapping disks > install times.
Blerk said:
No it isn’t morris, you lump!
morriss said:
Takes me around 10-15 seconds to swap a disk then I can carry on playing.
Blerk said:
Disc swapping kills worlds. See “Tales of Symphonia” for reference.
Whizzo said:
People who make comments like that should be forced to play the Amiga version of Monkey Island only from floppy!
morriss said:
Didn’t kill Blue Dragon. Didn’t kill FFVII. Didn’t kill MGS1.
It wouldn’t kill MGS4.
morriss said:
Whizzo: I played CMItalia on the Amiga. 9 disks!
Killerbee said:
I dug out my Amiga copy of Beneath a Steel Sky the other day: 17 floppy disks.
Thanks goodness I had a capcious 80MB hard disk in my A1200!
Tiger Walts said:
If those installs are hidden behind cut-scenes then..
ABOUT FUCKING TIME someone did this.
If not, then at least you can go and make a fresh pot of tea/coffee.
mart said:
80mb KB?! Blimey, someone was doing alright eh?
Killerbee said:
Yep.
Ah, when 80MB of storage and 2MB of RAM was all you’d ever need… those were the days…
Michael said:
What do you to after you’ve bought 10 games with mandatory installs, and your hard-drive is completely full?
Wait seven minutes every time you want to play a game?
Man, it’s like the Commodore 64 all over again.
Blerk said:
Well, what did you do last generation when you went to play a game and your memory card was full? You deleted some old shit you weren’t playing any more or you bought another memory card.
Psychotext said:
I’ll enjoy swapping out hard drives like I would memory cards.
Blerk said:
Amazon were doing 1Tb drives for less than £100 the other week. I doubt you’d fill one of those up quickly.