Top 7 things to do while waiting for a Playstation 3 game install

June 19, 2008 by Micah Bleich

Being a Playstation 3 owner you're going to have a little bit of free time with those mandatory installs for games like Devil May Cry 4 and Metal Gear Solid 4 and any other games with 4 in it. Here are the top 7 ways for you to kill some time.

7. Browse the auction house on World of Warcraft
Don’t deny it; the AH is the reason you play WoW. Greedy capitalist and socialist gold farmers are all the same, they’re in it for the dough. While you may not be selling it for real money (You’re a gamer, that would make it work, and cut into weed smoking and watching Anime time) you still enjoy hording gold to lord over your friends as you ride around on your 5th type of epic mount. Kudos to you! All hail the King of the Lazy Moguls.

6. Make nachos…..mmmmm nachos.
If you need a specific reason to make some nachos... then you need an attitude adjustment!
Nachos are god’s gift to mankind to make up for natural disasters like tsunamis, Britney Spears, and Unlimited SaGa.

5. Finish a few missions in FF7: Crisis Core
Our guess is that making FF7: CC mission based was Square’s secret plot, so that you don’t mind the eventual 6 hour load time required when FFXIII finally drops.

4. Check to see if Final Fantasy 13 has a release date yet.
It won’t. Check again in a few weeks. It still won’t.

3. Setup your Metal Gear Online account
If you can manage to wade your way through the veritable jungle of links and unnecessary information before that 20 minute install is done, then you are a better man/woman/gamer than I. I salute you.

2. Play the game on Xbox 360 because it doesn’t have an install time.
Ok Ok, theres no MGS4 for Xbox 360, but pretty much everything else you can just pick up the Xbox 360 version, and while the other suckers are in “Read Blu-Ray Disc For Install” land, you’ll be partying it up in instant-gratification-ville.

1. Die a few more times in Ninja Gaiden 2.
THE GAME IS HAAAAAARD.
If you are sitting there right now claiming you don’t die at least once per area, then you madame gamer, are a liar, and a poor one at that. Anything short of Neo from The Matrix is going to get smoked and sliced up like Christmas ham. Not that Hayabusa has time for things like Christmas, pretty sure he only ascribes to the church of stab-you-in-the-face.
I heard on Christmas day Jesus gives Hayabusa presents just so he doesn’t do a wall climb up to heaven and throw ninja stars at god.

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