Warhammer 40K Dawn of War II Retribution ... I got up, went to pee, got back, stared at the wall, drew a penis on my notebook ... and it still hasn't loaded
Your worst loading times.
- Thread starter Robert Ewing
- Start date
Recommended Videos
Id have to say morrowind on Xbox when you were far into the campaign.
I had clocked up quite a lot of stuff in that game, loads of loot, loads of quest completed, loads of the world explored, then it was all cut short.
The loading screens evolved to be so long that it would attempt to load for over an hour before telling me it had failed to load.
The thing is though, it wasn't to do with the disk, i bought a new disk and still it wouldn't load.
I was heart broken, utterly, utterly heartbroken, i almost had the whole dreamora armour set as well =(
I had clocked up quite a lot of stuff in that game, loads of loot, loads of quest completed, loads of the world explored, then it was all cut short.
The loading screens evolved to be so long that it would attempt to load for over an hour before telling me it had failed to load.
The thing is though, it wasn't to do with the disk, i bought a new disk and still it wouldn't load.
I was heart broken, utterly, utterly heartbroken, i almost had the whole dreamora armour set as well =(
Quake 4, jesus fucking christ, I started reading books during my gaming sessions because of it's load times, once I went for a shit and by the time I got back it wasn't done yet.
The worst part about that memory leak for me was in the F###ing fade part of the circle tower, traveling between the dreams.mireko said:
Fallout New Vegas (360). The loading times were unbearable, and the longer I played, the worse the loading times got. Plus, there was a 30/70 chance of the game freezing, and then I had to restart my console, which also took for-freaking-ever to start. I got so fed up with the game that I ended up buying it for my PC when the price got low enough and completely abandoned my 360 counterpart.
Oh, and any Source-engine game. Dear god, those take forever, and yes, I have a good computer.
Oh, and any Source-engine game. Dear god, those take forever, and yes, I have a good computer.
R-Type on the Commodore 64, tape version. With most multi-load games of the era, if you ran out of lives/credits on the first level, you could start a new game without having to load the game again. Not so for R-Type. Unless you were pretty good already, you would most likely spend about two minutes getting killed on the first level and then have to load the game again. Which took about ten minutes.
We were on a boat in WoW a few months ago (Stormwind > Northrend) and my friend's loading time was so bad that it didn't load the area until the boat had left, with him still on it.
It was hilarious.
Personally? Playing oblivion on a PS3 comes to mind, the loading being significantly longer than I was used to having played the other versions. And they were never fast.
It was hilarious.
Personally? Playing oblivion on a PS3 comes to mind, the loading being significantly longer than I was used to having played the other versions. And they were never fast.
FO New Vegas on PS3, seriously when I get to the strip 10 minutes going through the gates that seperate it, I've honestly been about ready to turn the whole thing off
oh and the sims 3 on PC, but that's my fault for having too many mods!
oh and the sims 3 on PC, but that's my fault for having too many mods!
TF2 takes forever to load open for me and than joining a server sometimes. WoW and Oblivion have had their waits to. WoW was just because of massive server load on the opening expansion weeks.
Duke Nukem Forever was horrible. And maybe it's because the copy I had was kinda scratched when I rented it, but Mass Effect 2 took forever to load for me.
Sid Meier's: Pirates Live The Life!, or however you call it (2 in the morning...) had a loading screen for everything, if that game was remastered with better tech, I would play the living shit out of it. Still one of my favorite Xbox games
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in general had long loading times. I only played 40 minutes of CoP, but it was with Complete, because there's no other way to play a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game. I don't remember it being worse than usual. Then again, I usually make a cup of tea, or something while S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is loading.SacremPyrobolum said:
I'm largely oblivious to modern loading times as when I started gaming I had to load my games from a cassette tape, which could take 10-15 minutes and was very temperamental.
As well as the long loading times, exterior factors like interference from a vacuum cleaner, washing machine or microwave could cause it to crash, as could the slightest vibration on the desk.
I felt like the cock of the walk when we got a computer with a floppy disk drive, so games only took 5 minutes to load and you could save your progress, via a memory dump, onto another disk.
Them when I upgraded from a Spectrum to an Amiga, I was impressed by how much larger the games were, going from 2-6 games on one double sided floppy from one game on multiple floppies. Some games took a long time to load and required multiple disk swaps, but that was just the price you had to pay for such expansive games with cutting edge graphics.
The only modern loading time I can recall being aware of is the transition between the decks of the Normandy in Mass Effect, because rather than being a loading screen that I can just switch off to, it's disguised as an excruciatingly slow and boring piece of 'gameplay' in an elevator that takes an absurd amount of time to travel such a short distance.
As well as the long loading times, exterior factors like interference from a vacuum cleaner, washing machine or microwave could cause it to crash, as could the slightest vibration on the desk.
I felt like the cock of the walk when we got a computer with a floppy disk drive, so games only took 5 minutes to load and you could save your progress, via a memory dump, onto another disk.
Them when I upgraded from a Spectrum to an Amiga, I was impressed by how much larger the games were, going from 2-6 games on one double sided floppy from one game on multiple floppies. Some games took a long time to load and required multiple disk swaps, but that was just the price you had to pay for such expansive games with cutting edge graphics.
The only modern loading time I can recall being aware of is the transition between the decks of the Normandy in Mass Effect, because rather than being a loading screen that I can just switch off to, it's disguised as an excruciatingly slow and boring piece of 'gameplay' in an elevator that takes an absurd amount of time to travel such a short distance.
I also had an Amiga A1200 where I fitted a Hard Disk drive to it, It bloody cost a fortune but was well worth it. Ive still got the Amiga and the HD still works as good as the first day I fitted it, unlike many modern HD which can lose sectors, start making noises and fail altogether.Jamash said: