But Donkey Kong was standing in place ready to be moved while the DkCRTF level was still loading up. Then the clips skipped to gameplay so it may have been even longer than was shown.
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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze has some atrocious loading times
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But Donkey Kong was standing in place ready to be moved while the DkCRTF level was still loading up. Then the clips skipped to gameplay so it may have been even longer than was shown.
DICKS AHOY
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Really hope checkpoints are removed and dying resets a time trial run this time. Was an enormous pain in the ass in Returns having to completely restart a level and sit through the loading times again because my time remained the same despite being sent back to the start of the stage.
Hero of Canton
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Just tested 7 or 8 levels on this (my copy is installed to an external hard drive) and the load times were all between 11 seconds and 16 seconds, with most around the 13/14 second mark. Not sure if having a digital copy is making a difference, but either way it's not as if you're only spending a couple of minutes in each level (well, not until you've had a few playthroughs of it to learn the optimum routes, at any rate). As others have said, there are many other games with worse loading times than this. It doesn't even compare to Lego City Undercover.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Cool, thanks for the info.
Check my post a page back.
No loading when dying or restarting time trials. Also when you finish the stage there's a retry option.
Edit: Oh and dying will reset the timer.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Read the comments.
DICKS AHOY
Banned
Awesome, that's great news. Thanks!Check my post a page back.
No loading when dying or restarting time trials. Also when you finish the stage there's a retry option.
Edit: Oh and dying will reset the timer.
Perfect.
Maybe they even load the whole level into memory because of that.
I mean what's better
- just some loading at the start, but more loading when you die and also loading when you retry a level
or
- more loading on startup and no loading after that
Of course they could have loaded a bit and then streamed the rest of the level into memory while playing and keep it in there (that would allow retry/instant respawn when dying), maybe they even do that already as well. I wonder if it accesses the disc while playing the level.
Usually Right
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I love sarcasm like this.
There was a time when Nintendo designed their whole hardware around making sure there were no load times. N64 and Gamecube both made massive sacrifices in order to preserve fast, pretty much instant load times. Games like Mario Sunshine barely had any and that was loading pretty big worlds.
For a generic 2D platformer to have load times like this just screams either extremely poor hardware design or lazy developers.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
I believe that Smackdown vs Raw game for PSP has something to say about that.
I think that makes it a lot better. Having no loading when choosing to retry is a big plus imo! Of course, it would be great to have no loading at all... But this is the Wii U and so this is probably the smartest option they came up with considering the limitations of the system.
Seems to be on a level to level basis with the one example being the worst, I wouldn't put too much stock in that comparison for the game as a whole
The perfect Dark
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Lol, no...
Thanks for the info.
The Hermit
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Check my post a page back.
No loading when dying or restarting time trials. Also when you finish the stage there's a retry option.
Edit: Oh and dying will reset the timer.
THANK FUCKING JESUS!!
Change the thread title NOW!!!
Your memory fails you. Mario Sunshine had around 10 second load times.
And it had the advantage of Gamecube mini-discs and no HD assets.
I guess I shouldn't have wasted my time...
Nocturnowl
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Check my post a page back.
No loading when dying or restarting time trials. Also when you finish the stage there's a retry option.
Edit: Oh and dying will reset the timer.
Holy Smokes, I might actually try for those time trial medals now.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
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And still nothing on the gamepad.
They should've added something on the gamepad during the load, like playing through original Donkey Kong levels or a little load fmv or something.
They should've added something on the gamepad during the load, like playing through original Donkey Kong levels or a little load fmv or something.
Didn't Nintendo traditionally hate load times? Part of why they went with cartridges on N64, and disks you couldn't fit as many textures on for the Gamecube (it actually had slower reads than xbox, contrary to popular belief, it just loaded less stuff)?
I really wish they included a HDD for installations where developers see fit on the Wii U.
I really wish they included a HDD for installations where developers see fit on the Wii U.
TheSpaceBetween
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Phew. You guys scared me. I was thinking like Portal 2 or Half-Life 2 level of load times.
I figured it would be Assassin's Creed levels of go-make-a-sandwich load times
Thread officially bananas. I do not think it is safe to say this at all, especially not based on loading times of all things.
Edit: why are there still two separate threads for this? Should they not be consolidated (or one locked) since both are discussing the same thing?
They only lost their loading engineer man.
Duke Nukem Forever says hello
Last gen hardware says hello.
Third party with a bad rep says hello.
Game stuck in 50 years of dev hell says hello.
Wow. Such apt. So comparison.
I think we can and should expect better from a first party dev. This is Nintendo right? They stand for quality... right?
TheGreatMightyPoo
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And the game is suddenly not quality because of load times that have, in this very thread, been confirmed to be not so bad after all?
Reallink
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Yea it's real funny, 3 1/2 years to produce a 2.5D platformer with 30 second load times and mediocre visuals. Definitely the same company that did the Primes with effectively 0 load times and benchmark visuals.
Guess you didn't play MP3.
But yeah, there's no way this new, HD game (a first for the studio) would have more assets and textures and animations than any of their other games. It's just a platformer, right!? Thing isn't even that detailed, Retro should really be ashamed.
Nocturnowl
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Zero load times? oh how easily deceived you were by those elevators, occasional barren corridor/connecting rooms and slow doors.
Oh man, don't tell me you thought those elevators were just pretty visuals
TheGreatMightyPoo
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It's not funny, it's hilarious.
You mean a 24 second loading time for only the first level and substantially less for all the others???
Funny that no previews mention these "mediocre" visuals and in fact generally say the game looks very good.
0 load times in Prime???
Dam, you are on a roll(waggle or not, your choice).
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
I remember the days when Miyamoto and Yamauchi vouched for the N64 because of no loading times. How the times have changed.
Off-topic: Someone browsing this thread is in my EIS class right now, like two rows in front of me. Hi!
Off-topic: Someone browsing this thread is in my EIS class right now, like two rows in front of me. Hi!
The perfect Dark
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What I'm trying to say is that there are many games with worse loading times.
Remember Motorstorm?
Everyone will ignore the 11-16 seconds and the no-loading-at-retries posts, right?
They will read the title and come here claiming Retro lost it, right? it will spread into a doom and gloom thread and people will say Iwata needs to be fired. That Nintendo should go third party and the next Metroid should be on the PS4, right?
Just because an hyperbolic title. That isn't entirely true.
They will read the title and come here claiming Retro lost it, right? it will spread into a doom and gloom thread and people will say Iwata needs to be fired. That Nintendo should go third party and the next Metroid should be on the PS4, right?
Just because an hyperbolic title. That isn't entirely true.
Pfffftwahahaahahaahaah! Did you even play Prime? It had tons of loading time just that they were hidden in the form of the elevators ride and that door that doesn't happen to open straight away.
Which is why the title need to changed and the first post updated.
Boy Wander
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Sometimes I come into threads like this and wonder what fucking planet I've just landed on. Game has 15 second loading times and some people treat it like the Mayans were out by a couple of years...
Then there's calls of 'Lazy Developers' or 'Shit Hardware', associating lack of quality with load times, 'Mediocre Visuals' and all manner of other hyperbole.
Yes, I realise 'this is NEOGAF' but this is one of the most batshit crazy threads I've walked into in a while.
Then there's calls of 'Lazy Developers' or 'Shit Hardware', associating lack of quality with load times, 'Mediocre Visuals' and all manner of other hyperbole.
Yes, I realise 'this is NEOGAF' but this is one of the most batshit crazy threads I've walked into in a while.
LiberaTeExInferis
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Right now, we haveTWO threads about those loading times, which as mentioned by me and other who have the game, are around 15 secs...
Can we at least merge them?
Can we at least merge them?
megabytecr
Member
Like we say in my country, what do you want? Medal, Trophy or Pennant?
I would wait for confirmation if this happens on all levels. Bummer yes, not deal breaker, I was happy to endure the LCU loading times because the game was great.
Plus.........
Check my post a page back.
No loading when dying or restarting time trials. Also when you finish the stage there's a retry option.
Edit: Oh and dying will reset the timer.
The Hermit
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Guys, GUYS!
Shut the fuck up!! Don't feed the trolls, ignore list is amazing and is working nicelly in this thread. Also...
This is the REAL news now.
Shut the fuck up!! Don't feed the trolls, ignore list is amazing and is working nicelly in this thread. Also...
Check my post a page back.
No loading when dying or restarting time trials. Also when you finish the stage there's a retry option.
Edit: Oh and dying will reset the timer.
This is the REAL news now.
Never played it but I heard the horror stories. But yeah excessive load times are never acceptable in my book. It doesn't seem to be an issue for this game from some other comments in this thread.
TheAngryMonkey
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I thought Deus Ex load times were bad, then I played and finished Splinter Cell's SP campaign. Back to Deus Ex and it's pretty quick...
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