People need to cherish the time they have more, even a loading screen can have meaning and provide great tips.
Keep in mind in the past games weren't ever any bigger than a few MBs, while these days games are MUCH larger in size. Also games are far more complex now than they were back in the day for a number of reasons.
If people want bigger games, it's one of the needed trade-offs.
I'm glad I grew up with PC games, so this has always been a norm and the dumbest shit console gamers these days complain about.
BDs read slow. Gotta install games off 'em to the HDs. Patches gotta happen because games are vastly more complex now than ever before.
You want more complex games, visually and mechanically? This is the price. Otherwise, go back to tiny 5mb 2d games that never need to be patched.
Some games, while still being packed with content, are much smaller in size (Dark Souls II or III, Zelda BotW).
I have been playing video-games since my childhood. Started with the NES and Mario/Zelda, then had every Sega console til the end, and pretty much every Nintendo/Sony/MS console afterwards.
With time, I began to be more and more frustrated by how video-games have been wasting my time (by making me wait). I love playing, and want to spend every minute doing meaningful things. Especially now that I have two kids and that my free time is precious lol.
So when I made the jump to CDs, loading times annoyed me a bit. But I thought to myself "Good things take time". And pretty much accepted having to wait to be able to play great games. Still for games like Grandia, the accumulation of loadings make it a real problem (for example).
Fast forward to 2015/16/17. I currently own an Xbox One. The console in itself provides satisfactory entertainment to me : good looking games, great controller etc...
But way too many things get in the way of enjoyment for me :
- having to download 2 GB, 4 GB or even 10 GB updates : this takes hours for me. I don't have a very good connection
- installing the games : this takes a lot of time, and it needs to download the updates anyway
- loading times : I have been playing Hitman, Recore and Final Fantasy XV recently, and I simply can't stand the loading times anymore
- buy a game digitally, it will take 2 or 3 days to download : it is actually faster to order it from amazon...
I know that I could let the console in "instant start", but this basically means that it is turned on all the time, it makes some noise, and I don't want to have a console turned on all the time. It consumes power. And anyway, it won't solve the other problems.
All of this has become a big hassle, and I can't count anymore how many times I booted the console, to only end up waiting in front of whatever screen. Waiting, waiting and more waiting. I get bored and simply turn it off, to play something else.
Next to this console, I have a ton of older consoles that put me in the action in less than 5 seconds. And CD consoles, probably in less than a minute. A console like the Wii U also loads its game very fast and never annoyed me with installations or massive updates.
tl,dr : To sum this up, the current trend of having always bigger games leads to having to wait all the time for installation, updates and loadings. And it kills my enjoyment of video-games.
How do you feel about this, and do you have any suggestions ?
Yeah, because once you've spent that 20-40 minutes installing a patch, it's not like you get a game that's dozens of hours in length.
Playing video-games nowadays = please wait.
Ahhh the good old days.
It's great that everything up to the minute mark was loading the loading screen.
I remember always being excited about seeing what a particular game would draw for this bit. Good times.
Just buy a Nintendo machine. No bullshit. Only games. I love, for instance, the way my WiiU will sometimes say "Hey, wanna update?" and I can say "No!" then play my game. Can't do that on MicroSony's machines.
To sum this up, the current trend of having always bigger games
the current trend of having always bigger games
the current trend
Just buy a Nintendo machine. No bullshit. Only games. I love, for instance, the way my WiiU will sometimes say "Hey, wanna update?" and I can say "No!" then play my game. Can't do that on MicroSony's machines.
Not everyone lives where there's good Internet max i can get here is 9mbps which eqates to about 1meg a second dowload speed & this is not something that can be sped up its at its maxIt takes you 2 or 3 days to download a game? How about you get better internet?
Also this whole "Nintendo games are instant" BS needs to stop. Games still have loading times on Nintendo consoles! And games are still updated on Nintendo consoles! And when Zelda DLC comes out, guess what...you're going to have to *gasp* download that too!
Also, I don't know what kind of solution you're looking for here. A time travel device that let's you skip loading times?
Yes, I ordered one
My top download speed must be 400~500 KB/sec. So getting a 50/60 GB games easily take 2 days. I only get time to play during evenings. Any update that is more than 3 GB means I will play the game tomorrow lol.Not everyone lives where there's good Internet max i can get here is 9mbps which eqates to about 1meg a second dowload speed & this is not something that can be sped up its at its max
Just buy a Nintendo machine. No bullshit. Only games. I love, for instance, the way my WiiU will sometimes say "Hey, wanna update?" and I can say "No!" then play my game. Can't do that on MicroSony's machines.
Are you serious ? Maybe publishers should start by releasing games in a decent state to begin with ?And saying no to an update, is essentially saying yes to an unfinished game.
Are you serious ? Maybe publishers should start by releasing games in a decent state to begin with ?
Accepting updates is accepting unfinished games, not the contrary.
Hum...Is your reading comprehension ok? That's exactly what I'm saying..
Hum...
You said :
Saying no to an update is saying yes to an unfinished game.
I think that saying yes to an update is saying yes to an unfinished game.
Yes, I was about to edit my post. Sorry about the confusion. I was in fact agreeing with from the beginning, I only read a bit too fast.I can see what you're saying. But I think we are still trying to make the same point. I was referring to the wait time the poster I was replying to was talking about. Absolutely an update in any shape or form is exactly that, an acceptance of an unfinished game. But the poster was using the fact you could say no to an update, as some kind of positive to owning a Nintendo machine. That's what I was taking exception with.
Yes, I was about to edit my post. Sorry about the confusion. I was in fact agreeing with from the beginning, I only read a bit too fast.
From a development point of view, accepting updates means accepting unfinished games.
But once that the game is out and you are in front of your console, refusing an update means accepting playing an unfinished game.
Funny enough i get some free time tonight with no kids, turn on the Xbox One and their is a 960 mb system update. No biggie right?
WRONG! Been updating 20 minutes now and I am at 21%.....
Yup 15 min loading timesThese days is nothing.