What do you do during Loading screens?

[Cari Scholtens]

We've all been there. You are just about ready to enter a new Hold of Skyrim, City of the Mojave Wasteland, or Crime Scene of a seedy 1940's Los Angeles...and we wait. So what do you do when the old loading screen graces your screen. Do you stare like a zombie? Make a mad dash for the fridge? I once knew a guy who ripped off twenty push-ups. Sound off loyal Escapist readers! What do you do when your game is loading?

 

[TehCookie]

Watch anime on my second monitor, talk to friends on my laptop or eat.

 

[shrekfan246]

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Okay, that was crude. Besides, loading screens are rarely long enough for that.

I usually just sit and wait.

If the loading screen is particularly long, because I'm on the PS3 or something, then I might go get a drink or check out a website on my laptop.

 

[Misterian]

During 360 loading time, I press the Dashboard button, go make myself a snack, then head back to the game to see if it's finished loading.

 

[octafish]

I lean back in my chair and then it is ready. Loading screens don't take very long unless the game is broken. I'm looking at you ME2 on a dual core machine.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Wait. I've yet to see a loading screen that is too long for me to wait out patiently.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

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Besides, loading screens are rarely long enough for that.

hah i kid, but i did come in here having the same troll answer you did, so had to add that.

OT: usually will think about what i've played before that load/checkpoint, just to make sure i got the story/characters down right and where i should be heading next.

if not, i'll probably be thinking about snacks and what i want to eat soon.

 

[TheMagicIndian]

Ah, the joys of an SSD. The only game I really have to wait to load is DayZ. Everything else loads in a couple of seconds or less. Unless I'm hungry or thirsty, I just sit and wait. It's easy to make a mad dash to the fridge when it's only a few feet to my left.

 

[scorptatious]

I usually just wait. Most games don't have very long or very frequent loading screens. (Unless it's Sonic 06)

 

[Razentsu]

I usually go and grab some food.

 

[BathorysGraveland]

Well, I only play on a PC, so fortunately loading times are more or less a non-issue for me. So I don't really do anything, just sit there and wait. Usually only takes a few seconds.

 

[Dandark]

Ah, the joys of an SSD. The only game I really have to wait to load is DayZ. Everything else loads in a couple of seconds or less. Unless I'm hungry or thirsty, I just sit and wait. It's easy to make a mad dash to the fridge when it's only a few feet to my left.

Your avatar goes so well with what you just said xD


OT: I usaully just sit and wait it out, if I am on Xbox I may bring up the dashboard button and look at my friends list or something. On PC I usaully just wait unless im playing in windowed mode, then I switch over to browsing the internet while I wait, usaully this site.

 

[hazabaza1]

MASTURBATE CONSTANTLY
Okay, honestly? Stretch, take a drink, wait. At most loading screens are like, 10 seconds, so no biggie.

 

[manic_depressive13]

I just stare at them. They rarely take long enough to allow for much else.

 

[EHKOS]

I either stare at them, or a wall or light. I just drift. I've never encountered terribly long, consistent loading screens.

 

[Cuacuani]

When Snake smokes, I smoke. Hideo Kojima gave me lung cancer.

 

[EvilMaggot]

the loading times are so short on my PC so its either grab a sip from the nearby soda on my table to refresh while there's a small break

 

[Psychoninja7]

Bob up and down, humming in my mind. Loading screens aren't usually long for me.

 

[Patrick Buck]

Stare blankly at the screen, or read. Occasionally I get so attached reading, I ignore my character after the game has started, and they get killed. So more reading. It's becomes an endless loop!