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[Shake Appeal]

I just wish games that gave you "tips" on their loading screens gave you actually insightful tips, and not just recaps of the tutorial you cleared 10 hours ago.

 

[Draft]

Bayonetta: the best

DMC3: second best. Very satisfying to slash the heck out of that logo.

 

[SargerusBR]

Berserk.wmv

Okay i need to ask. What is the deal between Berserk and Idolm@ster?

EDIT: omg now i know. MIURAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

 

[sixteen-bit]

Namco had classic arcade games, but IIRC they patented that and no one else can do it.

 

[retroman]

Namco had classic arcade games, but IIRC they patented that and no one else can do it.

The patent expires this year!

"A recently resurfaced patent has revealed the reason why Namco Bandai titles are the only titles to have mini-games in their loading screens.

The patent filed way back in 1995 allows Namco Bandai to run an “auxiliary game” (or mini-game) whilst players are faced with the much loathed loading screens. Examples of this include the shortened Galaxian stage in the original Ridge Racer and a video game based on an early 3-D Namco space flyer StarBlade in Tekken 5.

This system was implemented as “Unnecessary wastage of time can be prevented by first loading the smaller, auxiliary game program code into the games machine, before the main-game program code is loaded, then loading the main-game program code while the auxiliary game is running.”

Non-Namco titles such as FIFA and Bayonetta have contained similar gameplay features in their loading screens, such as one-on-one vs the goalie gameplay and combo practice. These features are already built into the games coding and aren’t “auxillary games” so don’t breach the patent.

Patents typically expire 20 years after they are originally filed so from November 27th 2015, we could be seeing more mini-games appearing in loading screens across all publishers."

Source: http://www.sticktwiddlers.com/2012/...e-only-titles-with-mini-game-loading-screens/

 

[Starwolf_UK]

Please anything but random sentences from the instruction manual (or the operations guide since physical manuals died), why not let me be able to read the whole manual...

Every next gen loading screen should just be this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWxnDUSg-NU

Still less annoying than pausing Wario world. Though that does have an easter egg if you leave it running for 50 minutes.

 

[Sami+]

Best loading screen is no loading screen.

 

[bathsalts]

ssd, see if you can read the gameplay hint before its done loading is a fun game.

 

[NEO0MJ]

Still less annoying than pausing Wario world. Though that does have an easter egg if you leave it running for 50 minutes.

What? That was hilarious. You're just jealous of Wario's smooth brain.

 

[NickatNite]

Snowboarding down pipe in the Shawn White game.

 

[Edwardo]

I like in some sports games when they have a practice mode during the loading screen.

 

[Five]

Sugarcoating loading times is like putting makeup on zits, but some faces are just more prone to breakouts and the amount of work it takes to avoid a breakout is insane.

This is really immature, but my favorite loading screen was from Crash Tag Team Racing. Each of the face buttons resounded with a different belch noise, and each of the directional buttons barked off a fart sound. This was especially hilarious in multiplayer when someone would be like "seriously, no more farting" and then someone did and you didn't know who it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmu49bXdbTs