Question about the Installs For Heavy Rain and FF13! (a thinking mans question)

ok Heavy Rain has some amazing graphics and a very short game over all (6-8 hours if i can recall) and it reuqires 4 gigs of HDD space

while

FF13 has great graphics (a little lesser than Heavy Rain) and its story mode is about 60 hours long from what Ive heard..... BUT theres no install at all, except for 500kbs for a save file.

Why is that a 6-8 hour game with great graphics has such a massive install , and a game with graphics that are nearly as good but a 60 hour campaign have no install?

This might have somethin to do with Squares awesome ability to program games. This runs along the same question on how does Square manage to avoid long loading screens.

Why do you think that length of gameplay has anything whatsoever to do with whether a game uses installs?xaos

This might have somethin to do with Squares awesome ability to program games. This runs along the same question on how does Square manage to avoid long loading screens.

SupernaturalX55

I do know that they use some loading times during cutscenes. It could be why sometimes the frame rate seems to be a bit sluggish.

[QUOTE="jerkface96"] well wouldnt the length of the game have something to do with more memory, and more processing, and what ever tech nonsense there is to be done? sorry i am not a techy, so maybe that is why i am asking the question..... and i thought the length of the game would correlate with installs because Oblivion and Fallout and all the "big games" i have tend to have large installs. so i thought a huge and beautiful game like FF13 would need installs kinda like MGS4. emitsu97

o ok, so then how does that explain HRs 4 gig install? and thanks :)jerkface96

QD chose to put 4GB worth of assets on the HDD for quick reference. HDD access is faster than BR access.

[QUOTE="jerkface96"]o ok, so then how does that explain HRs 4 gig install? and thanks :)emitsu97

QD chose to put 4GB worth of assets on the HDD for quick reference. HDD access is faster than BR access.

[QUOTE="jerkface96"]o ok, so then how does that explain HRs 4 gig install? and thanks :)emitsu97

QD chose to put 4GB worth of assets on the HDD for quick reference. HDD access is faster than BR access.

Since FF13 is extremely linear, its easier for the programmers to stream since they know exactly what will happen each and every time.

Heavy Rain, on the other hand has an open story. Every choice you make affects dialogue choices and other things that happen in the game. There are many branching paths, which would make it very hard to stream.

Basically FF13 is a straight line whle HR is a fork in the road that leads to another fork in the road, that leads to another fork in the road.

o ok, so then how does that explain HRs 4 gig install? and thanks :)jerkface96

QD chose to put 4GB worth of assets on the HDD for quick reference. HDD access is faster than BR access.

This might have somethin to do with Squares awesome ability to program games. This runs along the same question on how does Square manage to avoid long loading screens.

SupernaturalX55

*goes back to play all FF games*

Holy **** your right:o