Do you care about "loading screens" on games?

Rich-Allen1976 · Post by **Rich-Allen1976** » 28 Dec 2023, 13:31

Having grown up playing games on the old ZX Spectrum 40 years ago, I couldn't less of a hoot about VERY short loading screens on modern games, at least modern games don't crash after 30 SECOND loading screens, back in the day we'd wait half an hour for a game to load off tapes and even then they'd often crash!

Thoughts? Poll.

Post by **Beerkeg** » 28 Dec 2023, 13:51

I've got a beefy PC and a proper nvme drive so I don't really have loading screens...
When I did I didn't really mind, it was just part of playing games. The only one that did annoy me a bit was Sims 3 cause those load times were terrible, but thats mostly cause of all the bloat they've added.
I have an Amiga 500 I bought and repaired years ago, people still make games for old hardware. Some of the bigger RPGs basically re-compile the game every time you go to a new area and compiling anything on a single thread 7 Mhz processor takes an age and a half so I'm still used to load times.

Rich-Allen1976 · Post by **Rich-Allen1976** » 28 Dec 2023, 14:01

On a similar note (without a seperate thread), this thing with people on social media crying about the 30 fps non-issue on various modern games! Like I said before, I grew up gaming on the 8 bits back in the 80s, where games ran at like 10 fps if you were lucky, so cry me a flippin' river about the total non-issue that's 30 fps games such as the Xbox version of Starfield.

Post by **LikkleMel** » 28 Dec 2023, 22:17

I don't mind loading screens but it sometimes get silly with Call of Duty sometimes where you're waiting like 10 minutes for the game to load up.

Post by **PharaohAtem** » 29 Dec 2023, 17:31

LikkleClaus wrote: ↑
28 Dec 2023, 22:17
I don't mind loading screens but it sometimes get silly with Call of Duty sometimes where you're waiting like 10 minutes for the game to load up.

Yeah that's annoying as hell. It's like really will yiu load already. I did want to throw my controller st it.

Rich-Allen1976 · Post by **Rich-Allen1976** » 29 Dec 2023, 18:32

Gingerbread Lady wrote: ↑
29 Dec 2023, 17:31

LikkleClaus wrote: ↑
28 Dec 2023, 22:17
I don't mind loading screens but it sometimes get silly with Call of Duty sometimes where you're waiting like 10 minutes for the game to load up.

Yeah that's annoying as hell. It's like really will yiu load already. I did want to throw my controller st it.

Definitely don't do that, a few weeks ago I did, and it broke me telly so I had to get my Brother to buy me a new one for Christmas.

Post by **Beex** » 31 Dec 2023, 01:30

If it's usually fast and it lags, I don't like that.

If it's usually slow and I know what to expect, it's fine.