So, I really loved the game. I actually enjoyed it more and more as it progressed, and not strictly from a story standpoint, but I thought the gameplay became more compelling. I am very much looking forward to playing back through the game and really working on fine tuning how I play.
I'm curious though. My biggest problem with this game is the way loading is handled. It seems to me that with the game requiring five separate installs, loading time should be non-existent, at least ideally. I'm willing to accept loading times, especially with as much content as was seemingly crammed onto the Blu Ray disc. However, I thought the loading screens, their presentation and the fact that you had to press start to progress to the next scene, was a pretty big step backward in terms of presentation for the series.
I'm not sure what the problem was with the standard loading screen; the black screen with the name of the area you're entering displayed while it loaded, which automatically went away once the area had loaded. It felt more streamlined to me in each of the other games (excluding PO), whereas I felt the loading screens were designed to make it very clear that you were, in fact, playing a video game. That, of course, felt like it was flying in the face of every other element of the game's presentation, which bothered me even more.
I'm certain I'm making this sound like a bigger deal that I really think it is, but I think that speaks to how great I feel the game is otherwise. This one minor thing stood out so much to me because, as far as I'm concerned, there wasn't much else to find fault with. I was pleased that as the game progressed I became more forgiving towards the loading screens, but I'm wondering if anyone else even cared about them, or if I'm just a dope.
(unless you mean the AI-s themselves on the ship or sth)
