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That's one helluva long loading time!

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Loading time from hell

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i though that the loading time at the beginning of GTA III was painful....

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:shock:
Fuck. And for a shitty wrestling game? Bwahahahaha!
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Post by InnocentBystander »

They had the Benny Hill music, why couldn't they have sped up the video? Argh!

That's pretty absurd, the game went to a 10 second cutscene for another minute of loading, geeze.
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InnocentBystander wrote:They had the Benny Hill music, why couldn't they have sped up the video? Argh!
I think the effect would have been lost.

six and a half minutes to get into a game from power on.. That's just rude.
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At least they were considerate enough to keep displaying the logo of the game on the loading screens. So you wouldn't forget which game you went to go play 5 minutes ago.
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Wow. That was incredible. I can't believe I watched all 6 minutes.
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I think I would have gone insane :shock:. I was even skipping bits and found it all but intolerable to keep sitting there.
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Sod that, I'm gonna go and get my Spectrum back out of retirement, it'll take less time to load up.
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Heh wont be buying that game soon. And all that for a WWE game? :shock:
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I thought GTA:LCS had a really long loading time. I was wrong. Sorely wrong.
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Wow


Looks like fun... NOT
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And just when you think you've made it...oh bugger the battery's dead
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You deserve long loading times if you're a wrestling fan.
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Post by Admiral Valdemar »

ANYTHING with the Benny Hill theme playing in the background is hilarious be default. I normally laugh at wrestling fans anyway, but with a game they spent so much on taking so long to load and to that music, it's hysterically bad.
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Heh, it probably runs on the Bubble System and needs to warm up, or something. :P And yes, the use of the Benny Hill theme is great, but it loses major points for using that fucking O RLY? owl. That thing was getting old before it even started.
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Sooooo, that was a total waste of 6 and a half minutes of my life.
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Post by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi »

The startup time for SimCity 4 on my computer is even longer than that. I estimate that last time I played, it took about ten minutes. But, that's probably becuase of my computer, or all the plugins I had for it, rather than the game itself.
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Mother of God! What the hell is wrong with these people? How is that acceptable?
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Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:The startup time for SimCity 4 on my computer is even longer than that. I estimate that last time I played, it took about ten minutes. But, that's probably becuase of my computer, or all the plugins I had for it, rather than the game itself.
Fool! I have time to dig out my Gameboy and start playing Advance Wars while waiting for Half-Life 2 to finish loading.
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This is why the PSP will fail in the end.
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