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You can often start a 40GB game pretty quickly while it's still downloading on Xbox One and PS4. Although it's usually not used very well - often it just means

by Reedx 11y ago

You can often start a 40GB game pretty quickly while it's still downloading on Xbox One and PS4. Although it's usually not used very well - often it just means you can go to the game's main menu and you have to wait there anyway, heh. But I'm sure we'll see this improve over time.

pilif 11y ago
This is what has really impressed me back in my WoW days when they added streaming support with - I think it was WotLK. Even after downloading only 1-2 gigs, you could start actually playing the game. Yes, it would look crappy and some non-essential stuff would be drawn as something similar to wireframes, but you could actually play the game. This was really impressive to me and also confirmation that what Apple is asking from the developers now must absolutely be possible.
- mcphage 11y ago
  > Even after downloading only 1-2 gigs, you could start actually playing the game. Oh, I had forgotten about that—I tried WoW briefly just after WotLK came out. And Diablo 3 has the same as well. I definitely was a fan of it. I hope Apple's implementation works as nicely.
- Reedx 11y ago
  Oh yeah, that actually reminds me of an even earlier example. The first Guild Wars you could play very quickly while they streamed in other areas of the game. I remember being really impressed by that and it felt like the future. But kind of forgot about it since I didn't see it much until the PS4 and Xbox One, though they tend not to do it even remotely as well.
  - ascagnel_ 11y ago
    The entire Guild Wars engine was massively impressive on a technical level. The levels were large for their time, less powerful systems could run the game well, well-populated cities didn't drag the system down very much, and the instanced environments performed spectacularly well.
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cwyers 11y ago
Yeah, Batman Arkham Knight did it to where you could go into the menu and just stare forlornly at it while the rest of the game loaded. Many other games let you actually play while it downloads the rest, though, which is quite nice.
gambiting 11y ago
Actually, making the user wait is against Sony compliance and the game won't be certified. In order to do that you have to get a waiver from them, and you need to make a good case for yourself. GTA and Batman got away with it because they both have a huge open world that can be navigated wherever, so the whole thing has to be installed to actually play the game. On any other game, Sony allows you to install 5GB install chunk and you should be able to play at least something from that install chunk(a tutorial level for example) while the rest of the game is installing to the hard disk.

by Reedx 11y ago

pilif 11y ago

This is what has really impressed me back in my WoW days when they added streaming support with - I think it was WotLK. Even after downloading only 1-2 gigs, you could start actually playing the game. Yes, it would look crappy and some non-essential stuff would be drawn as something similar to wireframes, but you could actually play the game. This was really impressive to me and also confirmation that what Apple is asking from the developers now must absolutely be possible.

mcphage 11y ago
> Even after downloading only 1-2 gigs, you could start actually playing the game. Oh, I had forgotten about that—I tried WoW briefly just after WotLK came out. And Diablo 3 has the same as well. I definitely was a fan of it. I hope Apple's implementation works as nicely.
Reedx 11y ago
Oh yeah, that actually reminds me of an even earlier example. The first Guild Wars you could play very quickly while they streamed in other areas of the game. I remember being really impressed by that and it felt like the future. But kind of forgot about it since I didn't see it much until the PS4 and Xbox One, though they tend not to do it even remotely as well.
- ascagnel_ 11y ago
  The entire Guild Wars engine was massively impressive on a technical level. The levels were large for their time, less powerful systems could run the game well, well-populated cities didn't drag the system down very much, and the instanced environments performed spectacularly well.

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cwyers 11y ago

Yeah, Batman Arkham Knight did it to where you could go into the menu and just stare forlornly at it while the rest of the game loaded. Many other games let you actually play while it downloads the rest, though, which is quite nice.

gambiting 11y ago

Actually, making the user wait is against Sony compliance and the game won't be certified. In order to do that you have to get a waiver from them, and you need to make a good case for yourself. GTA and Batman got away with it because they both have a huge open world that can be navigated wherever, so the whole thing has to be installed to actually play the game. On any other game, Sony allows you to install 5GB install chunk and you should be able to play at least something from that install chunk(a tutorial level for example) while the rest of the game is installing to the hard disk.