ShockingAlberto
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At least they had the minigame to keep you from going batshit nuts, though
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Great games that have been ruined by horrible load times?
- Thread starter CurseoftheGods
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At least they had the minigame to keep you from going batshit nuts, though
Motorstorm is odd. The load times for tracks are fine. And races can be restarted without any loading time (or stops in the music, etc.). It's just that loading during vehicle selection takes a bit of time. Not a lot of time. But it's an odd place to have to wait for something to load and it makes it annoying.
Actually, this doesn't bother me. I ussually know which vehicle I want and can select it pretty fast. But, I see why this bothers other people.
I remember loading during character selection as well as during item/accessory selection on the PS1. But, its a bit unexpected for a PS3 game.
Actually, this doesn't bother me. I ussually know which vehicle I want and can select it pretty fast. But, I see why this bothers other people.
I remember loading during character selection as well as during item/accessory selection on the PS1. But, its a bit unexpected for a PS3 game.
I figured this thread was about Motorstorm
Danne-Danger
Member
Huh? I can't even remember any load times from that game, and I played through it a few weeks ago... Isn't encounters and stuff pretty much instantaneous? :S
Suikoden V on the other hand... that gives me nightmares. Still need to finish it...
Red Scarlet
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Ultima 6 for the Amiga 500.
4 disks, only had 2 drives, the content on the disks didn't help reduce the amount of swapping.
4 disks, only had 2 drives, the content on the disks didn't help reduce the amount of swapping.
ShockingAlberto
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They weren't so much long as they were incredibly frequent.Danne-Danger said:
I could rack up 70 fangs in two hours just playing the paw minigames.
This thread is going to contain a bunch of games that I'll scribble down in the black book of 'do not play'
... and probably a painful number that I've already played through
I _hate_ load times. They may not be my absolute #1 gaming hatred, but they are wayyyyyyyy up there (not quite ads-in-gaming or gamespy level, but you know... high)
... and probably a painful number that I've already played through
I _hate_ load times. They may not be my absolute #1 gaming hatred, but they are wayyyyyyyy up there (not quite ads-in-gaming or gamespy level, but you know... high)
Thermite said:
when this released I didn't have a powerful enough PC to play this so I decided to buy the Xbox version.
to my surprise it took almost 30 minutes to load; I never got to experience this 'masterpiece'.
End thread. It took nearly 2 minutes for the initial load and every few minutes another 30 second one.
The load times everytime you left an area killed me. It seemed sometimes you'd walk for 10 seconds and then wait another 5 for it to load. Repeat x 10 for anytime you want to run to another place.
Couldn't finish playing it because of that, totally sucked me out of the experience.
RiskyChris
Banned
Powerslave said:
I entered this thread to post this. Good lord, talk about downgrade total.
With the frequency of random encounters and the associated loading times, you'd want to rip your eyeballs out. The game makes you want to run from battle more often, gimping you later in the game.
Edit: I'd say Killer 7 was an awful loading time contender, but the game was so impossibly perfect otherwise that I could tolerate it. FF6 had to live up to the SNES game.
Half Life 2
I wouldn't say ruined, but it did interupt the flow of the game. I still loved the game but i sometimes wished as i was going from one area to the next that i wouldn't be going into another loading screen because i was having so much fun.
I wouldn't say ruined, but it did interupt the flow of the game. I still loved the game but i sometimes wished as i was going from one area to the next that i wouldn't be going into another loading screen because i was having so much fun.
The loading was a pain in Okami, yes. I never really cared about load times in general though. Excessive/pointless/unskippable cutscenes when I want to play a game are what I can't stand.
What was a bitch was the Saturn and Dreamcast ports of KOF games. They used redbook audio, but the game had to load when a new fighter joined the match. You either had to play team mode and constantly have the music restart, or play single mode and enjoy the awesome music, but missing lots of the fun.
What was a bitch was the Saturn and Dreamcast ports of KOF games. They used redbook audio, but the game had to load when a new fighter joined the match. You either had to play team mode and constantly have the music restart, or play single mode and enjoy the awesome music, but missing lots of the fun.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
okami's loads were unbearable
i think i would have loved the re
utbreak games if not for the god awful load times
i think i would have loved the re
utbreak games if not for the god awful load times
Death_Born
Banned
Walter Matthau
Member
Loaded for PSX and the Samurai Shodown 1&2 import
chinmonster
Member
The load times in Okami weren't what killed me. It was the endless "voiceovers." Awful. Still an awesome game, though, IMO.
tambourine
Banned
The loadtimes in Dead Rising totally killed the game for me. It was a bit excessive, I've got a HDD on my system ****ing use it.
Son of Godzilla
Banned
Pokemon Pearl seems to be plagued with load times.
Doom_Bringer
Banned
Death_Born said:
yeah I just stopped playing this game. No good maps at all plus horrible load times.
Half Life 2 without patches had horrible and constant load times and sound glitches.
tambourine
Banned
Dragona Akehi said:
The loading wasn't too bad on X360 with a HDD either.
Walter Matthau
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Mikazuki said:
It's just the first two games with some extras like BGM and a couple pictures of each character. It was good to have at the time (despite load times of literally 15 seconds between matches) if you didn't have the Neo Geo versions because it was the only one that was "arcade perfect". Now with Virtual Console and PSN, they'll show up again.
Saterium said:
Only game I've put down because of craptastic loadtimes.
Oh and the Quake 2 port for X360 (that's included with Quake 4) takes about 30 seconds to load a level.... I don't get it.
I'm okay with the initial load times for PGR3 but the reloads take too damn long. Almost every other racer has instant reloads so it must have been something that was overlooked by the PGR3 team.
The Crash sections were ruined by the horrible decision to slowly zoom back to the beginning, instead of instantly doing it. This was fixed in the 360 version, I hear.
Also,
This game would have been a LOT more enjoyable if the loading times didn't suck so much, it was a drag because of it.
..pakbeka..
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did you play the ps2 version? the GC version is fine but I hear the ps2 one is plagued with load timesmedrew said:
The load times everytime you left an area killed me. It seemed sometimes you'd walk for 10 seconds and then wait another 5 for it to load. Repeat x 10 for anytime you want to run to another place.
Couldn't finish playing it because of that, totally sucked me out of the experience.
alistairw said:
At least with PS2 games and the right version of PS2, there's a way for you to fix the load time. You could always get a HD loader and plug in an old Harddisk, and it will work for most games. I know I bought my second PS2 just for BH Online, which has harddisk support.
For next gen games, I think we have approached the point that, even with HD support, we are still getting substantial load times due to the among of data that need to be loaded. Come on, HD manufacturers, we don't need bigger HDs, we need much faster ones!
SHOTEH FOCK OP said:
Loading on Sonic 360 literally KILLED the game. I mean, it had many other problems too, but the loading time was the #1 issue for me. I will never know if there was a great game underneath, as I didn't play for more than a couple hours.
This game was killed by a number of technical and gameplay issues, with load times being one of them (and I have beaten it, an achievement in itself :lol ). Regardless of how some felt about the story stuff, I always thought this game would have at least been okay/above average if they delayed both versions to really polish it.
chinmonster
Member
QFT.alistairw said:
Seriously. I liked it a lot, but I've never finished it, just because of the goddamn loading every time I fight someone.
CurseoftheGods
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Son of Godzilla said:
WTF? I am going to buy that version tomorrow. Is there something I should know?
BelligerentOC
Member
Midnight Club for the PSP. As a game it was amazing. Graphics were top notch and the races were insane... however 2 or 3 minutes of load time on a portable system is deadly...
UB edition for the PSP.Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
CurseoftheGods said:
I have it, and I have no issues.
The one crash game that came out on PS2. It was fun, but goodness. The damn loading times were terrible. You could take a shower come back, and still see the thing loading.