Best Load Screen?

[Dr. James]

I was just thinking about random stuff and I began to wonder, what is the best loading screen from a game? The one that sticks in my mind was watching Old Snake chain smoke in MGS4 while the game installed, that was pretty fuggin' awesome. So anywho, what is everyone else's favourite loading screen?

 

[Wordsandstuffwillbenexttothis8465]

Definitely

 

[Ashbax]

Definitely

That isnt a load screen, thats a wait on an elevator in Mass effect ^^

 

[Wordsandstuffwillbenexttothis8465]

That isnt a load screen, thats a wait on an elevator in Mass effect ^^

If i have to wait as long as I did for each elevator, its load screen enough for me.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

Devil May Cry 3

You gut to slice and shoot the Now Loading part. It's pretty cool.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

That isnt a load screen, thats a wait on an elevator in Mass effect ^^

If i have to wait as long as I did for each elevator, its load screen enough for me.

Really? I saw it as a toilet / drink / lunch break.

 

[Wordsandstuffwillbenexttothis8465]

That isnt a load screen, thats a wait on an elevator in Mass effect ^^

If i have to wait as long as I did for each elevator, its load screen enough for me.

Really? I saw it as a toilet / drink / lunch break.

Yea, just like any good loading screen.

 

[Pandalisk]

the cod4 load screens were pretty good

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Surely Mass Effect elevators are one of the slowest and most boring loading screens? Maybe they could put a 10 minute watching paint dry minigame into the sequel to top it.

I think that Space Channel 5 has a pretty memorable loading screen just because it said "Now Moloading."

 

[Jovlo]

I always liked the loadscreens in The Sims.
They have random lines of text passing at the bottom of the screen saying things like:
Calibrating snowflakes, Generating angry boss, Fine-tuning bladder, Generating random lines of text passing by...
They keep you entertained for a while.

 

[RAKais]

Surely Mass Effect elevators are one of the slowest and most boring loading screens? Maybe they could put a 10 minute watching paint dry minigame into the sequel to top it.

I think that Space Channel 5 has a pretty memorable loading screen just because it said "Now Moloading."

They made the loading screen at least interesting. Like it was still part of the game.

 

[Kahvimies]

the cod4 load screens were pretty good

I'll have to agree. I didn't even realize that it was the loading screen the first time.

 

[Wordsandstuffwillbenexttothis8465]

I always liked the loadscreens in The Sims.
They have random lines of text passing at the bottom of the screen saying things like:
Calibrating snowflakes, Generating angry boss, Fine-tuning bladder, Generating random lines of text passing by...
They keep you entertained for a while.

Yea, those were great, mostly gibberish but fun none the less.

Great avatar BTW I'm a big fan.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Definitely

That isnt a load screen, thats a wait on an elevator in Mass effect ^^

The elevators were the games way of skipping load screens.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Man, how I wish Oblivion had a minigame in its loading screens...

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Surely Mass Effect elevators are one of the slowest and most boring loading screens? Maybe they could put a 10 minute watching paint dry minigame into the sequel to top it.

I think that Space Channel 5 has a pretty memorable loading screen just because it said "Now Moloading."

They made the loading screen at least interesting. Like it was still part of the game.

Oh, it fitted in with the rest of the game. I'll give them that.

 

[Jumping_Over_Fences]

Ratchet and Clank's loading screens always worked for me. They just showed you ship flying to your next destination, so instead of feeling like you were waiting for the game to load, it just felt as if you were traveling better planets. This eliminated the frustration of the load screen.

 

[Davey Woo]

I liked the Skate load screens, with "lift music" versions of some popular rock/metal songs.

There was a really old game, where the loading bar was a fuse on a bomb, and there was a parrot sitting on the bomb, obvious things happened when the game finished loading.

On a general rule though, I like any loading screen where I can tell that it has frozen (e.g music that will freeze/ a loading bar) Games that just post a random screen shot up at every loading screen are annoying cos I don't know whether the games frozen or not.

 

[_Janny_]

I always liked the loadscreens in The Sims.
They have random lines of text passing at the bottom of the screen saying things like:
Calibrating snowflakes, Generating angry boss, Fine-tuning bladder, Generating random lines of text passing by...
They keep you entertained for a while.

I love those too, very creative. A shame it only appears at the beginning of the game...