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[Aenima]

Witcher 3 on a PS4. Took more than a minute loading to do "Fast" traveling around the map.

 

[ebevan91]

BF2 on PC took YEARS to load

 

[Sooner]

 

[NeverYouMind]

PS2 version of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven. It had some 2 minute load screens (I timed it once) just as transitions into certain missions. My copy was a bit scratched up though so I do not know how representative my experience with the game is.

 

[calico]

My brother had a C64 and that shit took forever. I remember watching the counter more than I remember any of the games.

The worst loading times are any which are being deliberately used to influence how you play the game. I hate that.

 

[PeteBull]

Trully worst loading time experiences happend on atari 800/xl cassettes, not only it took some games 15 to 20minutes to load in, sometimes durning that process u could experience critical errors aka u had to star over

 

[Erebus]

Already mentioned but MGS4.

 

[Dazraell]

I'm surprised no one yet mentioned Red Dead 2 on PS4

 

[Thebonehead]

Typing games in from Computer & Video Games counts right - That took a couple of hours

 

[German Shocks]

Typing games in from Computer & Video Games counts right - That took a couple of hours

You actually typed in the code to play?

 

[6502]

Definetly cassette games, I remember an f1 game on bbc that I had to pause the tape between the splash screen rendering and the game proper loading or it would be 10mins wasted.

Beat only by hundreds of lines of magazine game code listings that contained bugs. Which was often.

PSX / neogeo cd too long? those kids complaining didn't know they were born....

 

[GymWolf]

I have never been overly annoyed by long loading times so i cant pin point a specific game to save my life

I guess commodore64 games took a while to load the cassette and that was a bit annoying.

 

[b0uncyfr0]

One of the worst was DMC 5 - there are so many loading screens you had to navigate, it makes it feel like the loading screen doesnt ever end.

 

[Arcane0ne]

 

[EverydayBeast]

ME2 but to their credit the loading screens keep you engaged.'

 

[Thebonehead]

You actually typed in the code to play?

Yeah several pages of data strings .I remember a semi decent breakout clone on the dragon 32

 

[Sticks]

The original Resi games were a pain. All those stupid door animations.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Last Blade on Neo Geo CD always stood out to me. It's so much more tedious than a single long load screen.

Holy crap… that takes the cake.

Did they ever do neo geo cd with faster loading?

 

[NeverYouMind]

Holy crap… that takes the cake.

Did they ever do neo geo cd with faster loading?

Yes. Neo Geo CDZ. It does not help that game though.

 

[Salmon Snake]

Tekken 5 had annoying load times.

 

[JRW]

Back in the day I put a lot of hours into Xbox 360 version of Oblivion and the load times were pretty rough when loading into new areas or using fast travel.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

sonic 06 takes this, truly horrible how they programmed the loading behaviour for it.

 

[German Shocks]

Holy crap… that takes the cake.

Did they ever do neo geo cd with faster loading?

There was a later model that reduced load times, yes.
But it was too little, too late.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

None of these compete with soldiwr of fortune on the dreamcast
2 minutes of loading 30 second cut scene , 2 minutes of loading, 10 second cut scene 2 minutes of loading and so forth

I was scanning the thread to make sure this was mentioned.

I barely played it as I couldn't face the load times.

 

[TheloniusFabdul]

Morrowind on the OG Xbox.

Every time you died or had to load a save it would take about a minute and a half to load.

 

[nkarafo]

This thread makes me feel glad i transitioned to PCs after my N64. PCs were always less susceptible to this problem and i was always good at helping it.

For the worst loading i have experienced i will have to go back to the home computers era. Mainly the 8-bit computers that used cassette tapes. I didn't own one, i was very young for that era, but a friend of mine did still play with his Spectrum in the early 90's. The loading times were so long, they became some kind of a ritual, to the point where old users remember those loading screens with nostalgia and claim they were part of the experience.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

 

[Celcius]

Last Blade on Neo Geo CD always stood out to me. It's so much more tedious than a single long load screen.

I came in here to say this. Anything on the Neo Geo CD basically.

 

[diffusionx]

Great game but yea I think this is the answer

 

[MooMilk2929]

I think shang tsung was toggable in MK for PS1. MGS4 had bad loading time kinda. It made you install a chapter each time you beat one.

 

[PauloRoberto]

Bloodborne v1.0... who in its right state of mind thought that 45 seconds per death/retry would be a good idea ?!

 

[jshackles]

Morrowind on the OG Xbox.

Every time you died or had to load a save it would take about a minute and a half to load.

Came here to mention this one, it was excruciating. They revealed years later that one of the tricks they did with the loading screens was occasionally they would put up the loading screen, then reboot the Xbox but paint over the startup logo with the loading screen, then essentially re-launch the game and re-load the area before finally taking you out of the loading screen and back into the game. It was a way for them to essentially clear the system's memory and keep the game running.

 

[tr1p1ex]

too many to remember. was more the norm back in the day.

 

[Lokaum D+]

No Man Skyrim ( dont remember the game name )

*Starfield

 

[KanKamAndNob]

Sonic 06 is infamous for this.

 

[Codes 208]

Just to prove a point, Lythero had sonic adventure 2 running while playing sonic '06 (he'd switch to SA2 during loading screens)

In those time frames He basically beat the entire dark side story before even getting to the silver campaign

 

[cash_longfellow]

PlayStation Home.

 

[consoul]

Dodonpachi Dai-Ou-Jou Black Label Extra on Xbox 360 took like three minutes to load.

 

[uncreativename]

Came here to mention this one, it was excruciating. They revealed years later that one of the tricks they did with the loading screens was occasionally they would put up the loading screen, then reboot the Xbox but paint over the startup logo with the loading screen, then essentially re-launch the game and re-load the area before finally taking you out of the loading screen and back into the game. It was a way for them to essentially clear the system's memory and keep the game running.

I love that clip


Deus Ex Invisible War would do this too, but they made the mistake of coding the PC version to do the same thing basically. Every time you enter a new level, it reboots the entire executable with a different launch parameter lol, so of course on PC it's extremely obvious, and that's also why that game is hard to get running on modern PC, because modern Windows doesn't like programs behaving like that, apparently.

 

[consoul]

It's not entirely 'load times' but many modern fighting games are terrible.

Between unskippable logos and pinging and authenticating with online servers they make you wait a fucking age before you can actually play.

 

[s_mirage]

Oh god, yeah. It wasn't just that they were long, it was that they were long and very frequent.

 

[German Shocks]

I love that clip


Deus Ex Invisible War would do this too, but they made the mistake of coding the PC version to do the same thing basically. Every time you enter a new level, it reboots the entire executable with a different launch parameter lol, so of course on PC it's extremely obvious, and that's also why that game is hard to get running on modern PC, because modern Windows doesn't like programs behaving like that, apparently.

Ooh, Todd Howard is diiiiirty!

 

[asdasdasdbb]

I think shang tsung was toggable in MK for PS1.

There was a setting to turn off morphing completely or to only be able to morph into the opponent's char.

 

[schaft0620]

The Starfield loading times are inexcusable.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Night In The Woods, when I got this game, I was playing it on Switch. Even in docked mode the loading time was LONG. It was one of the first Switch games I got back in 2017. The game is great but I wonder if they ever fixed how long it took to load everything in the Switch version

 

[Arsic]

 

[Soodanim]

MGS4 had to install and load in between chapters and I could outside for a smoke break, come back and it would still be loading. GTA 4 and Oblivion were also up there but not as bad as MGS 4.

If it counts, this has to be the winner. I remember wanting to show a friend what 4 was like but had to go through the install process again because I was loading Act 1 after progressing through the game. Which also meant I had to reinstall for the Act I was actually on later.

Prior to patch 2.0 that let you install the whole game, of course. What a godsend that was for the trophy hunting.

 

[Major Insano]

Without going back to the 8bit cassette tape era. In recent memory the PS4/Xbone gen had atrocious load times. Especially the PS4 with open world games or Bethesda games like:

Fallout 4
The Witcher
Prey 2017
TC Ghost Recon

And the XOne when it takes 10mins to sync data with da cloud..
God-awful, I used to think the game had crashed it took so long.

 

[PicoLordens]

Pillars of eternity 2 on console. It was so rage inducing it made me stop playing the game.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Surprisingly, no mentions of Bloodborne.