gar3
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This is in fact the only game I ever stopped playing due to load times. It just wore me down over time :-/
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Games You Stopped Playing Due to Shit Loading Times
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Legato.Reborn-
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GTAV MP
hooooooly shit
hooooooly shit
pixelpatron
Banned
Little Big Planet had such potential, but loading a level is such a chore, and if it's by chance an abysmal community level the wait cost infuriated me.
Surprised no one saying gta online. Tried it a couple times but the load was ridiculous
Seriously that game is a nightmare. Long load > Join Session Load > Wait in Lobby > Session reload Lobby ends or Someone leaves > load load load.
Lego City Undercover
*starts game*
*game logos come and go*
*this pops up with looping music*
*music is still looping after 40 seconds*
*still loading*
*suddenly, title screen*
*picks save file to load*
*fade to black*
*looping music comes back*
*still loading*
I would play that game much more often if I didn't have to sit for a minute before the title screen comes up; and then another minute before I could control my character.
*starts game*
*game logos come and go*
*this pops up with looping music*
*music is still looping after 40 seconds*
*still loading*
*suddenly, title screen*
*picks save file to load*
*fade to black*
*looping music comes back*
*still loading*
I would play that game much more often if I didn't have to sit for a minute before the title screen comes up; and then another minute before I could control my character.
Guardian Monkey
Member
All psx games except sotn and mgs. Seriously, I think those are the only two I finished.
Hamburgler
Banned
Suikoden V is the closest I've come to giving up due to loading. It was so frequent and so long it was inexcusable. This was with playing the game installed to a hard drive so I would hate to imagine playing that from disc.
DarkLegion
Member
I think Bloodborne at launch was really the only notable time for me. Luckily I was occupied with school so I put it down for some time and returned to it when they patched it. However, it was still a bit long but I didn't care too much.
Fable 2's loading times are terribad
It made the ingame world for me just even more special, because the loading time music was the shit, and I loved the game to death, and the loading times were just wonderful time spans to enjoy the anticipation till i could get back into the game
Also my first binge gaming experience. Played it like a straight week. At the time, we had extremly much snow outside, and i lived in a small village back then
Playing for a long time, sometimes look out the Window, gaze at the surreal snow landscape, play even more, look outside, feel warm and cozy, have christmas feelings, Sometimes stop playing, see relatives, enjoy the anticipation to play again, play
it was kinda magical
I love you fable 2
It made the ingame world for me just even more special, because the loading time music was the shit, and I loved the game to death, and the loading times were just wonderful time spans to enjoy the anticipation till i could get back into the game
Also my first binge gaming experience. Played it like a straight week. At the time, we had extremly much snow outside, and i lived in a small village back then
Playing for a long time, sometimes look out the Window, gaze at the surreal snow landscape, play even more, look outside, feel warm and cozy, have christmas feelings, Sometimes stop playing, see relatives, enjoy the anticipation to play again, play
it was kinda magical
I love you fable 2
Dedication Through Light
Member
Skyrim, and also whenever a game takes a very long time to connect to a server just to play the game (mass effect 3, Dragon Age Inquisition, NFS at times), I end up just leaving the game and playing something else.
Suikoden 5. I got real far in that game, very close to the end, but I got stick of the 10 second load before every random battle. I had been sick of it all game, but it finally wore on me in one of the final areas of the game and I never actually finished the game. Broke my heart as that's one of my favorite series and that game in particular was great. I ended up watching the ending on Youtube a few years later. I always want to go back to those games and play them again, but the load times are just too much.
Bony Manifesto
Member
Yeah, this is the one game I've stopped playing because of the loading. It's not just that every period of loading takes around two minutes, it's that you're seeing them every five minutes or so as you enter a new part of the level (or even more frequently if you die - which is very likely as it's not an easy game).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9aqMUXh1wc
Was that on UMD or digital download? It's crazy the difference that can make for PSP games. If you rip Gitaroo Man to the memory stick, it goes from taking half a minute to load a level to a few seconds!
To Far Away Times
Member
I remember timing the load times on Crash Bandicoot for PS2 and I think it was around 90 seconds.
Yeah, there must have been a way to do that a little better.
Yeah, there must have been a way to do that a little better.
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Deleted member 752119
Unconfirmed Member
Legacy of Kain on PS1.
Ooooo...this is shit. The fact is that the PS4 can't take full advantage of a SSD compared to a PC. It's not even close.
Dice//
Banned
I toughed through it on the PS2 but I didn't fully explore everything till the 3DS version (Daath, in particular).
ieptbarakat
Member
Natural Selection 2
Sometimes it would go up to 10 minutes before I could finally join a match.
Sometimes it would go up to 10 minutes before I could finally join a match.
Gentleman Jack
Member
I didn't beat ANY of the SNES Square games they re-released on PS1 because of this.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
Okage: Shadow King would be a fun little Tim Burton meets Earthbound RPG, but man, oh man, are those load times horrible. Early PS2 loads at their worst.
Gravity Rush's load times for the challenges were my main issue with an otherwise amazing game. They're probably the biggest reason why I'm excited that the sequel is going to be on the PS4.
Total War: Shogun 2 - I was really excited to try out the series but the load times killed my excitement fast. Even installed on a SSD, they're still brutally slow.
Gravity Rush's load times for the challenges were my main issue with an otherwise amazing game. They're probably the biggest reason why I'm excited that the sequel is going to be on the PS4.
Total War: Shogun 2 - I was really excited to try out the series but the load times killed my excitement fast. Even installed on a SSD, they're still brutally slow.
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Jotamide
Unconfirmed Member
GT5
The most recent example has been Bloodborne for me. I really do like the game, but the loading is just out of control for the most basic stuff. I don't even know why it loads that poorly, especially with the Dark Souls titles being much more expedient.
An older example would be DQ8. Not exactly big on long load times, but there's so many instances between transitions of any kind that it adds up really damn quick. Whatever visual downgrade the 3DS version offers will be more than made up for not having to deal with all that loading ever again.
An older example would be DQ8. Not exactly big on long load times, but there's so many instances between transitions of any kind that it adds up really damn quick. Whatever visual downgrade the 3DS version offers will be more than made up for not having to deal with all that loading ever again.
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Rapscallion
Member
Crash Bandicoot 4: The Wrath of Cortex is another game I gave due to load times.
It's been years since I played the game, but I remember it being considerably more difficult than previous Crash games. IIRC, the game reloads (and reloads for a LONG time) the level when you die. Dying multiple times thus made the game unplayable. Then again, I was also probably 12, impatient, and easily angered.
It also just wasn't a very good game.
It's been years since I played the game, but I remember it being considerably more difficult than previous Crash games. IIRC, the game reloads (and reloads for a LONG time) the level when you die. Dying multiple times thus made the game unplayable. Then again, I was also probably 12, impatient, and easily angered.
It also just wasn't a very good game.
Ghost Slayer
Member
Final Fantasy IX. Shit was too long whenever I went to a random battle and slow ass ATB helped me stop playing it.
brickarts295
Member
Only game I know I quit because of loading times is Duke Nukem Forever on PS3. I think the loading times did me a favor though because it was a shit game anyways XD
XANDER CAGE
Member
I bought The Witcher 3 on PC recently specifically because I couldn't take the PS4's framerate issues and load times anymore.
indubitably
Member
GTA Online, not only does it have an unbelievably long initial load time, but the game doesn't think it needs menus. Imagine waiting 4+ minutes every time you wanted to click a different menu item, that is what it is like playing GTA Online.
IamDodongo
Member
Yes, exactly. The load times make it unplayable for me.
George Claw M.D.
Member
Can't think of any particular games but PlayStation Home definitely fits that bill. I actually liked it but couldn't put up with the loading times.
Worldshaker
Member
Came to post this. Those load times were atrocious.
You said it's a fact that it doesn't make a difference. You were pretty damn wrong.
and yea I have an SSD in my PC and I don't even own a console. You're still wrong.
Yabberwocky
Member
FFIX - I'm not a big fan of random battles at the best of times, but the battle load times, goddamn. Incredible game, though, I think I was 3/4s of the way through when I had to stop. I loved everything else about it. I will finish it one day, I will, I will!
The worst experience I've had with loading times was with Bayonetta on PS3 (pre-patch) - there is a segment on one of the final bosses where you had to aim Bayonetta's lipstick. (It makes sense it context.) I was shit at it. It took me fifteen tries. (Shaddup.) The loading screens were soul destroying, I think it's the angriest I've ever been at a video game.
I'm surviving the load times with the Witcher 3 on PS4, but damn Dandelion's prolonged re-cap after you load up a game. Shut up, shut up, shut up. Often the plot points are really old if you've moved onto a new area. Any affection I had for Dandelion has been burnt in the Eternal Fire.
(I'd apparently repressed the loading screens re: Normandy's elevator until this thread. I let the fish fucking die, it was too many loading screens.)
The worst experience I've had with loading times was with Bayonetta on PS3 (pre-patch) - there is a segment on one of the final bosses where you had to aim Bayonetta's lipstick. (It makes sense it context.) I was shit at it. It took me fifteen tries. (Shaddup.) The loading screens were soul destroying, I think it's the angriest I've ever been at a video game.
I'm surviving the load times with the Witcher 3 on PS4, but damn Dandelion's prolonged re-cap after you load up a game. Shut up, shut up, shut up. Often the plot points are really old if you've moved onto a new area. Any affection I had for Dandelion has been burnt in the Eternal Fire.
(I'd apparently repressed the loading screens re: Normandy's elevator until this thread. I let the fish fucking die, it was too many loading screens.)
NoblesseOblige
Banned
I had to stop playing bloodborne until the loading times were patched.
Rainbow In The Dark
Member
FFVI and FFIX on psn.