Mon, Jun 09, 2008 | 13:59 BST
MGS4 install times revealed, Kojima makes in-game Blu-ray joke
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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Posted in: Action, Blu-ray, Konami, PS3
Tags: hideo kojima, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, mgs4, Neogaf, spoilers
16 comments
#1
Blerk
09/06/08, 8:46 am
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.
#2
morriss
09/06/08, 8:47 am
Swapping disks > install times.
#3
Blerk
09/06/08, 8:49 am
No it isn’t morris, you lump!
#4
morriss
09/06/08, 8:56 am
Takes me around 10-15 seconds to swap a disk then I can carry on playing.
#5
Blerk
09/06/08, 8:57 am
Disc swapping kills worlds. See “Tales of Symphonia” for reference.
#6
Whizzo
09/06/08, 8:58 am
People who make comments like that should be forced to play the Amiga version of Monkey Island only from floppy!
#7
morriss
09/06/08, 8:58 am
Didn’t kill Blue Dragon. Didn’t kill FFVII. Didn’t kill MGS1.
It wouldn’t kill MGS4.
#8
morriss
09/06/08, 8:59 am
Whizzo: I played CMItalia on the Amiga. 9 disks!
#9
Killerbee
09/06/08, 9:59 am
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!
#10
Tiger Walts
09/06/08, 10:13 am
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.
#11
mart
09/06/08, 10:48 am
80mb KB?! Blimey, someone was doing alright eh?
#12
Killerbee
09/06/08, 10:55 am
Yep.
Ah, when 80MB of storage and 2MB of RAM was all you’d ever need… those were the days…
#13
Michael
09/06/08, 2:27 pm
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.
#14
Blerk
09/06/08, 2:30 pm
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.
#15
Psychotext
09/06/08, 2:57 pm
I’ll enjoy swapping out hard drives like I would memory cards.
#16
Blerk
09/06/08, 3:05 pm
Amazon were doing 1Tb drives for less than £100 the other week. I doubt you’d fill one of those up quickly.