Your worst loading times.
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The Force Unleashed had loading screens for every single area you entered, hell every time you so much as paused the game it would load! That was so annoying since the gameplay itself was actually pretty fun.
Oblivion seems to have this weird memory leak-esque problem, so if my playthrough has been going on long enough load times can get pretty horrendous, not helped by the fact that it slows down and then crashes every hour or two at this point.
Using Streamline mod seems to have helped, but it makes you load in stuff -all the time-.
Using Streamline mod seems to have helped, but it makes you load in stuff -all the time-.
My top 3
3. Portal 2. (PC) Not so bad later in the game, but early on when the sequences are short there's an awful lot of loading.
2. Fear Effect. (PS1) Very long load times, exacerbated by the fact you could, and frequently would, die in 3 seconds flat, then have to reload again... and again...
1. The Urbz (XBox) Loading screens to change locations... well okay but they're a bit long. Loading screens to change your damn shirt... arrrghhh!
3. Portal 2. (PC) Not so bad later in the game, but early on when the sequences are short there's an awful lot of loading.
2. Fear Effect. (PS1) Very long load times, exacerbated by the fact you could, and frequently would, die in 3 seconds flat, then have to reload again... and again...
1. The Urbz (XBox) Loading screens to change locations... well okay but they're a bit long. Loading screens to change your damn shirt... arrrghhh!
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay.
The game was bloody amazing but the second Prison yard sequence had the MOST FREQUENT LOADING TIMES FOR EVERY GODDAMN THING YOU DO
The game was bloody amazing but the second Prison yard sequence had the MOST FREQUENT LOADING TIMES FOR EVERY GODDAMN THING YOU DO
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Jokes aside, Dragon Age: Origins was pretty bad with the memory leak. It would start off loading instantly, then gradually slow down the longer you played. Frozen Synapse also has some unbearable load times due to the server being shit.
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Jokes aside, Dragon Age: Origins was pretty bad with the memory leak. It would start off loading instantly, then gradually slow down the longer you played. Frozen Synapse also has some unbearable load times due to the server being shit.
Only one that springs to mind at the moment is Shogun 2.
I caun understand the battles taking a while to load, and I appreciate that.
My issue is the initial game load-up.
I loaded up and honestly thought the damn thing had frozen.
It just takes about 4/5 minutes to load the game, apparently. :/
I just thought my computer (at the time of release, I was using an old, knackered PC) was running out of processor or something during play... :/
That didn't happen when I got my super-computer, so I assumed it was a computer thing.
But...memory leak, you say?
hmmm....
I caun understand the battles taking a while to load, and I appreciate that.
My issue is the initial game load-up.
I loaded up and honestly thought the damn thing had frozen.
It just takes about 4/5 minutes to load the game, apparently. :/
OMG I had this a lot.mireko said:
I just thought my computer (at the time of release, I was using an old, knackered PC) was running out of processor or something during play... :/
That didn't happen when I got my super-computer, so I assumed it was a computer thing.
But...memory leak, you say?
hmmm....
Baldur's Gate used to take forever to load areas and whatnot, but then again, I was on a pretty crappy computer back then.
Uhm,.... Mass Effect 1? Even though I'm sure I've been ninja'd.
EDIT: Apparently I have not. HOW CAN THIS BE?
Uhm,.... Mass Effect 1? Even though I'm sure I've been ninja'd.
EDIT: Apparently I have not. HOW CAN THIS BE?
Well this one is manly blame on the connection but it still it's my worst load time ever.
When Areanet had release a weekend treat to try out Guild Wars Expasion pack "Eye Of The North" to us Guild Wars players I hop into that event. The thing is I was at my parent place when it happen (I normally play the game at University which this was during the summer break). The only connection my parent got is 56k so you know where this will lead to.
I enter into the place to get into the expansion which it took 6 hours to load the area to lead to the new area!!! (It was pretty much installing in the new stuff). So I had to stare at the boring loading screen waiting for the time go by to load it! By the time it finish it was late at night and I quickly finish the intro area and load (which was quicker) and the next post and log out to sleep.
When Areanet had release a weekend treat to try out Guild Wars Expasion pack "Eye Of The North" to us Guild Wars players I hop into that event. The thing is I was at my parent place when it happen (I normally play the game at University which this was during the summer break). The only connection my parent got is 56k so you know where this will lead to.
I enter into the place to get into the expansion which it took 6 hours to load the area to lead to the new area!!! (It was pretty much installing in the new stuff). So I had to stare at the boring loading screen waiting for the time go by to load it! By the time it finish it was late at night and I quickly finish the intro area and load (which was quicker) and the next post and log out to sleep.
(puts on slippers, flat cap & pipe) Hohohohoho! You young whipper snappers dont know you were born! (prods you with walking stick) When I was a lad I had a 8bit Spectrum + 2 home computer which didnt run on floppy disk like the Yanks and rich. No I was poor so we had to stick with cassette tapes and buying budget titles for £1.99 with my pocket money. I remember it like it was yesterday going to the market every friday to buy a game with my pocket money (eyes glaze over)
(Wakes up and prods you some more) And let me tell you about the loading times which took 10-30+ minutes to load up and with each load attempt regularly failing meaning ild have to start again from the beginning. The worst games for wait times tended to be arcade ports that because of limited memory and trying to run something that too advanced for the hardware didnt keep anything in the memory buffer.
So say the tape was 20mins each side with some games having two cassettes. I would first have to wait 7 minutes just to load the a pretty picture, which the devs put in as a big "fuck you kids" then the +2 would wipe that from memory and spend 13 more minutes loading up the games menu screen. where I would enter the game choose control type and start the game. Then I would have to turn the tape over and load stage one, which would take 5-10 minutes (sometimes longer) where I could play a level, if I got to stage two I would need to start the tape deck yet again and load it up.
The kicker was that if when I died (if I died on stage 1 sometimes no loading was needed) I often had to start from scratch minus the pretty picture at the beginning of the tape. So to play a game for 15-20 minutes I might have to spend 40 minutes loading. The odd thing was it wasnt that bad I could go off and do other things as long as I timed it right and stopped the tape at the right spot. And I must stress that many games wernt as bad but it certainly got stupid at the end of the 8bit era when many games were ports of arcade or 16bit games.
I have the patience of a saint which is probably due to 8bit computers (Ive heard that the c64 was even worse)
(Wakes up and prods you some more) And let me tell you about the loading times which took 10-30+ minutes to load up and with each load attempt regularly failing meaning ild have to start again from the beginning. The worst games for wait times tended to be arcade ports that because of limited memory and trying to run something that too advanced for the hardware didnt keep anything in the memory buffer.
So say the tape was 20mins each side with some games having two cassettes. I would first have to wait 7 minutes just to load the a pretty picture, which the devs put in as a big "fuck you kids" then the +2 would wipe that from memory and spend 13 more minutes loading up the games menu screen. where I would enter the game choose control type and start the game. Then I would have to turn the tape over and load stage one, which would take 5-10 minutes (sometimes longer) where I could play a level, if I got to stage two I would need to start the tape deck yet again and load it up.
The kicker was that if when I died (if I died on stage 1 sometimes no loading was needed) I often had to start from scratch minus the pretty picture at the beginning of the tape. So to play a game for 15-20 minutes I might have to spend 40 minutes loading. The odd thing was it wasnt that bad I could go off and do other things as long as I timed it right and stopped the tape at the right spot. And I must stress that many games wernt as bad but it certainly got stupid at the end of the 8bit era when many games were ports of arcade or 16bit games.
I have the patience of a saint which is probably due to 8bit computers (Ive heard that the c64 was even worse)