Well after a week break, we’re back and angry as ever and loading screens are in the hot seat. I know I’m not alone with my feelings of disdain for loading screens. No matter how often or what type of video game people play, most will get annoyed at having to twiddle their thumbs until the game is ready. I understand we need loading screens, as when else will there be time to quickly make a tea. It’s just when games have several loading screens after one another or ones that seem to take an hour they really take the biscuit.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
The Callisto Protocol director thinks the solution involves the right people, the right timing, and perhaps a little bit of AI
I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
For me it's really just the amount of time I've wasted waiting for a game to load.
Who knows how many countless hours of my life I've spent just waiting.
They're not?
I hate them. I was hoping they'd be drastically reduced with the "fast" RAM the PS4 has, but it's something that's never really improved since the introduction of CDs to gaming.
Now that Nintendo's patent on loading screen mini-games has expired, I expected to see some games take advantage of the opportunity by now. If you can't make the game load faster, at least give players a means of distraction.