What do you guys do during loading times?

[Ironic Pirate]

I reach for a gun next to me, load it, cock it, and place it against the PS3. Then I count to ten. If it hasn't loaded by then, I shoot it, and walk away, because the game was a piece of shit.

In reality, I pet my cat if she's nearby, otherwise I'll drink some soda, stretch, etc.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Seriously Half Life 2's loading times feel like they take an eternity to complete. What do you guys do to pass the time?

Long?

Kids these days...7 minutes was the average time to play the game back in mah day.

Remember, if you touched the tape or turned it down in anyway, the game would crash out.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

Read in a book or get some coffee. But it's realivly fast now. My good old C64 should load a game before I went to bed.

 

[captaincabbage]

If you're talking about Modnation Racers, then I usually watch an episode of ZP.

 

[Billska]

I go off and finish the whole MW2 campaign. I still have to wait for it to load when I come back though.

 

[Harlemura]

Well it's not really loading, but when me and me pals are waiting to find a server or something, especially on games that take forever like Left 4 Dead, I'll grab a book and have a little read.
Can't think of any that I've played recently that take that long. Sometimes I just start pressing all the buttons, then don't noticed the game loaded and my guy starts freaking out.
Pretty funny, really.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

Play drums on my desk and whistle.

 

[NoseDigger]

I admire my shoes. Or scratch my balls. Or I go for a leak.

 

[CrashBang]

I post on here, it's when I do most of my posting, thanks to Dragon Age

 

[hurfdurp]

I dunno, press all the buttons thinking it will make it go faster. Or if it's DMC I shoot the loading screen.

 

[IamSofaKingRaw]

Just half life 2?

You're not going to make a thread about any loading time?

Anyways, you want to talk about long loading screens, check out Metal Gear Solid 4, as if the long cutscenes weren't enough....0o

It was 5 minutes. The installation incresed as fast as you could count. The Bioshock 2 install though..... I swear I read every game manual out of my 15 ps3 games twice before that finished.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Depends.
For the vast majority of games I either just wait or fiddle with blue-tac. If it's Halo 3 or Halo ODST, I go to the toilet, walk into town, check my bank account, hit the pub, go for a dental check up, watch a movie at the cinema, go to McDonalds then come back and play.

 

[emptyother]

What i did when i as a five year old was waiting 40 minutes for Turtles to load on my Commodore 64 from a casette? Played with lego or turtles or action man or all at once...

What i did while waiting 2 minutes for Morrowind to load on my old computer? I bought myself a guitar just because of loading times...

Today, if a game takes more than 20 seconds to load, it usually is too heavy for my computer to play anyway.

 

[Rickyvantof]

Doodle on a small piece of paper that's laying around on my desk, usually.

 

[Cekil1]

I'm usually planning my strategy as I wait. Depending on the game I could go over the buttons again or read the little tips they display while it loads. The one thing I will NOT do is think about the cartridge days of yesteryear. Anyone who would do that is just asking for a rage stroke.

 

[Taddy]

Regret not going to the toilet.

 

[Kris015]

Play something on my iTouch