The Nintendo Nsider Forums are lighting up with glee (and spilling onto Digg) at how horribly terrific it would be if Ridge Racer 7 required a 5 GB install on PlayStation 3's hard disk drive. Some generous (in favor of Sony) math calculates that the install would take 9 minutes and 46 seconds. The assumption is most PS3 games will require HDD dumps, forcing users to constantly install, erase, and reinstall -- these data chunks would fill up the drives fast; certainly the 20 GB model.
Remakes and remasters have become a staple of this generation, and Ace Combat 7 Game Director Kazutoki Kono opened a couple of interesting polls on his Twitter account about two of Bandai Namco’s most classic series.
Give me every Ace Combat from 1 to 5 and any Ridge Racer will do. Flight Combat is my favorite genre, Ill take everything you can give me.
AC4 was my first experience not only of the series, but also my first PS2 game. Remember hammering it for hours at Xmas when I got it.
Would love to see it brought back :)
Eurogamer:
"December 3rd, 1994 - Sony launches the original PlayStation in Japan, bringing with it seismic shift in the nature of console gaming. The 2D era of sprites and bitmap art was coming to an end, with polygon-driven 3D the new standard in state-of-the-art visuals. The Sega Saturn launched a couple of weeks ahead of Sony's debut console, but it was the PlayStation that set the standard for technological innovation in this new era. Namco's Ridge Racer launched alongside the new hardware - and it was a revelation."
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiddgeeee Raaaaaaaaccceeeeeeeeeer, everyone!
Says Kaz. Never forget.
the space invader loading screen was great in that game, complete it all to unlock all the cars and the special black car. those were the days, no micro transactions to buy a faster car in those days.
please bandai-namco. bring these classics back with online multiplayer for psn and xbox live. the newer games are utter crap.
Damn! I completed this game 100% once. I got all the cars, did all the crazy challenges to unlock every last one of them. The Space invader thing, everything.
I just gotto say it: THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!! :))
As is becoming more and more common, the PlayStation Store in North America will be holding yet another Flash Sale that runs through the weekend, this time with the focus on racing games.
- PSLS
Nothing for me here, though I like how Sony has been pushing a lot of deals like Steam.
Whoo finally a PS4 flash sale... after I sold it. ):
Wtf one game? They really gotta step up PS4 sales man
nothing but crap i expected better then this oh well if gt 6 was in that list it be autobuy no brainer but its not
Now that's going to suck big time but then again I guess it will be alright if it's once every blue moon!
This is a one time, optional thing that only Ridge Racer fans who play everyday would feel the need to do. And I'm sure Ridge Racer fans are happy about being able to reduce load times by letting the game install once while they're off eating lunch, or taking a shower, or getting some exercise.
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joystiq always bias on anything playstation.other sites are posting this news with headlines like "Ridge Racer 7 can be installed on PS3 HDD" that blog site is a joke
then how long are the load times? I hope its not soooo long that this is required all the time. But if they weren't so bad, would this be necessary? Or maybe the load times are ok and they just have this so that it loads faster than 360 games on DVD so they can say "See ? Blu-Ray even loads much faster than DVD or HD-DVD. Another reason why Blu-Ray and PS3 is better and why you really should buy them." If this is so then Sony is trying to trick everyone into buying their format (lying by omission/misinforming). Lets see - if the load times are bad then that doesn't look too good for blu-ray as its supposidly the best, butif they aren't bad then they might use it as a way to trick people into thinking that blu-ray is technologically superior already in everything, including load times, it being a new format that is untested and all. Which would you prefer?