Rant rant rant. Blah blah blah. I’m warning you up front that I’m going to be complaining about stuff in this post. So if you don’t like that, move on.
And I’ll get right to the point: I hate games that take forever to start.
All that has to load is a couple menus. Is that so hard? Why does it take SO LONG for most games to start up? It just doesn’t make sense. The game should be able to load up some basic menus very quickly, and then load other stuff while you’re navigating the first couple menus. It’s not that hard to do, from a programming point of view. Maybe I’m just missing something here?
It’s especially annoying when a game is patched, on purpose, to prevent you from skipping ahead to the menu. ( *cough* Killzone2 *cough* ) That just shows disrespect to the gamer. I’ve already shelled out my $60. You don’t need to subject me to your advertising anymore, thank-you very little.
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a long time, and you know what prompted me to write about it now? A new game that just came out that lets you get right into the menus pretty darn quick. What game is that, I hear you say? I say: MW2! Yup! Anyone notice that you can skip the opening IW twirl, and hit X and get right into the menus pretty quickly? It’s nice. And it respects the gamer, the person who’s already spent $60 on the game, and let’s them get to it.
Thanks, IW.
Written by: Blackstaffer
#1 by yodaddy on November 13th, 2009
“say it with me…. Mellow……. Mellow…….. MELLOw Melloooowwww… ” Tommy Chong in “up in Smoke”
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#2 by Ian on November 13th, 2009
You are ridiculous.
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#3 by JimmyMagnum on November 13th, 2009
lol, I agree. Sometimes getting to the main menu takes forever. Hence why I go leave the room while a game is starting up so I can get a drink of water or something
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#4 by Ceidz on November 13th, 2009
Borderlands (on PC at least) also takes forever to load. 5 videos at the startup that cannot be skipped. SOOOO LOOONG !!!
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#5 by Angus-MacGyver- on November 14th, 2009
Playing Metal Gear Online is the worst in my opinion for game starts.
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#6 by Segitz on November 14th, 2009
Dragon Age Origins on PC lets you set “skip intro videos” in the options, which is GREAT.
Though it has a nasty bug, which makes the game take ages to load, when you play in longer sessions (initially 5sec loads turn to 2+minutes after 2hrs).
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#7 by Eddie on November 14th, 2009
Yea I love MW2 with skipping the liscensing screens lol.
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