Grand Theft Auto IIIII - HDD City Stories
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Joeboo
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The problem here is:
1) No game in the history of console games since hard drives became a thing has actually performed BETTER off of the disk, rather than with a full HD install
2) This game is the .001%(only game, ever) of games that performs better off of a disk than with a full install to a hard drive, and Sony/Rockstar didn't warn anybody about that fact before they bought the game.
Whether it's Sony's fault, or Rockstars fault is irrelevant(actually both are a bit to blame), but it's poor customer relations/service regardless to not make that knowledge known to everyone who is looking into purchasing the game.
The speed of the damn hard drive is irrelevant, nobody who has done any console gaming in the last decade would ever assume that playing from a disk would be a better option than installing to a HD, regardless of HD speed. A 5400 RPM hard drive still transfers data MUCH faster than a DVD/Bluray disk drive. The fact that the developers designed the game in such a way as it directly contradicts traditional knowledge, and not letting people know that ahead of time, is beyond shitty.
1) No game in the history of console games since hard drives became a thing has actually performed BETTER off of the disk, rather than with a full HD install
2) This game is the .001%(only game, ever) of games that performs better off of a disk than with a full install to a hard drive, and Sony/Rockstar didn't warn anybody about that fact before they bought the game.
Whether it's Sony's fault, or Rockstars fault is irrelevant(actually both are a bit to blame), but it's poor customer relations/service regardless to not make that knowledge known to everyone who is looking into purchasing the game.
The speed of the damn hard drive is irrelevant, nobody who has done any console gaming in the last decade would ever assume that playing from a disk would be a better option than installing to a HD, regardless of HD speed. A 5400 RPM hard drive still transfers data MUCH faster than a DVD/Bluray disk drive. The fact that the developers designed the game in such a way as it directly contradicts traditional knowledge, and not letting people know that ahead of time, is beyond shitty.
DickTrickle
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Hey look, yet another Bad who keeps mentioning Sony without mentioning Microsoft.
Joeboo
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360 owners were warned. Also, everyone on the 360 who owns the game owns a disk, so at worst, you fuck up and just have to delete your install and play off the disk. It's a 30-second fix.
PS3 owners were not told anything, and digital game purchasers have no way to correct the problem that they were not forewarned about.
This is not a retarded Microsoft vs Sony dick-measuring contest like you constantly participate in over on the new console thread, this is just "PS3 gamers got pooped on here", with Microsoft not being in this discussion whatsoever.
Did you get raped with a Zune in a previous life or something? Jesus. Not everything that happens related to the world of Playstation is Microsofts doing.
PS3 owners were not told anything, and digital game purchasers have no way to correct the problem that they were not forewarned about.
This is not a retarded Microsoft vs Sony dick-measuring contest like you constantly participate in over on the new console thread, this is just "PS3 gamers got pooped on here", with Microsoft not being in this discussion whatsoever.
Did you get raped with a Zune in a previous life or something? Jesus. Not everything that happens related to the world of Playstation is Microsofts doing.
Btw, full HDD installs arenotthe norm at all. The norm is buying a disc and sometimes a minor data install for PS3 versions. Full Digital versions are a relatively new and recent thing.
So hey, way to be wrong some more.
So hey, way to be wrong some more.
And if you're talking specifically PS3, like you were trying to, that simply has never been an option.
Why do you guys get so upset over what some bargain bin lifestyle waste of space says? Let some idiot call you a bad because you didn't know what was under the hood of a ps3 who the fuck cares?
They don't do full installs from Disc, just varying data installs. There's full installs from Digital Downloads, but big AAA releases on that is a relatively recent thing.
khalid
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So installing on HDD with digital download was never an option for games before...
Oh, so it was an option just not for AAA games?
Damn, keep your story straight baddy. If you can't figure out that digital downloads could be on HDD, you really don't deserve to post on this forum.
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This is the main problem. While people can remove disc 2 data from Xbox, the people that bought the game on PSN got a sub-par running game with no warning that it wasn't optimized to run off the HDD. All the other PSN games run fine off the HDD so people had no reason to think GTA would be any different.
My story was straight, you fail at reading comp 101. Fucking bad. That was in reference specifically to Disc installs, not digital shit. Discs installs on the PS3 aretotally differentfrom X360 installs.
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