Ares42

The stealth parts of the AC games has always been the worst parts. Thankfully most of the time they don't require you to be stealthy. The problem is that they have never actually implemented any good stealth mechanics. The visibility mechanics are completely bare bone, there's a complete lack of sound mechanics and the general AI is most of the time hardwired to perform simple patrol routines. Just play the games as if you're a bad-ass hitman and you'll have a much better time, and just try to be patient the few times it actually enforces its poor stealth mechanics.

Well, considering the size of install of some games it seems it's up to the developer. On the gamespot stream they pointed out that Let's Dance basically had no install at all, so it must've still mostly played off the disc.

Need for Speed seems to be the star to me.

Of all the coverage I've seen this game has easily climbed itself to the top of games that makes me want to pick up a console when they are availbale here.

@jayzilla: I played it for a few hours, and even though I love a lot of the stuff going on in the game it just has such a lack of polish that I couldn't stand playing it anymore. I think I got up to (and finished) what supposedly is a broken mission that stops some people from progressing, and almost every step in the process of getting there had me fumbling around trying to figure out what the game wanted me to do. I wouldn't completely discount the idea that there might be a good game in there somewhere, but it does a terrible job at presenting it to you.

The way I see it developers will get a better grip of it as we go along, to the point that you won't even notice you're playing while installing for many games. Also, while it might not be that beneficial when you're talking about discs, considering I'm probably gonna be downloading most of my games this generation I'd much rather get to play quickly than wait for full DL and install.

Well, this is probably just me personally, but I loved AC3, I loved FC3, I loved AC4, I'm having a hard time seeing how I will not love another open-world game built on the same ideas from the same developers with a completely new setting.

@abrasion: The games are probably never loaded from the disc though. It probably just copies the process of streaming download and plays off HDD after having installed the base package. If they have the technology and software to do it with downloads, why not utilize it in a situation where you know you'll have great transfer speed.

I don't see any reason why they wouldn't just start the background install as soon as you launch the game and keep it going until finished. Why would they trigger it by you doing something in the game ? That just seems like a way to ensure people will have a crappy experience.

I wonder, who tuned into any of these streams because they were excited to watch other people buy their PS4 ? Is this really some event that people want to watch live ?