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What happened with no loading times feature of current gen consoles?
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Magic Carpet
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Many games seem to have no loading times unless you die.
winjer
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There aren't many. But here is the list, at least for games that are on Steam.
And some are demos, or benchmarks.
keraj37
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Thanks, but steam? I was talking about console games and console m.2 hardware.
The Cockatrice
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No loading times? Developers can barely optimize their fucking games let alone make them load instantly lmao.
winjer
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I was answering to a point made by another user. Not to your post.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
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I'm playing through FFXVI on PS5 Pro and I was pleasantly surprised how fast it loads from main menu to action phase. It takes like 3-4 seconds tops.
Thebonehead
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Indiana Jones on pc is rapid loading. Just have to switch between levels to see how fast it is.
ID tech was like that on doom though on old hardware
ID tech was like that on doom though on old hardware
keraj37
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Sorry, too much champagne this new years eve.
keraj37
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Oh so? On consoles? I can tell you, i play exclusively on ps5 pro now, and there is no where near no loading times except R&C rift apart.
March Climber
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I was wondering if you could list out which games you are playing for reference and about how long you would say their loading times are.
DenchDeckard
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Fast travel on indy. It's almost instant.
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Ramiro_Rodriguez
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Ghost of Tsushima has no loading times or at least no noticable ones.
But yes, even The Last of us Part I has "loading times".
But everything is so much shorter compared to the PS3 and PS4.
But yes, even The Last of us Part I has "loading times".
But everything is so much shorter compared to the PS3 and PS4.
Crayon
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It's definitely possible. There are several games that use a loading screen, but goes by so fast you can't even read the tip. Demons' Souls, Spiderman, HFW, GT7, Ratchet, and more I'm sure have super fast loading.
The loading screens on console last gen were completely out of control. I remember thinking that instead of a ps4 pro, I'd pay $400 for the same ps4 with shorter loading times.
The loading screens on console last gen were completely out of control. I remember thinking that instead of a ps4 pro, I'd pay $400 for the same ps4 with shorter loading times.
kevboard
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loading speed and seamlessness was always a game design issue and rarely a storage speed issue. fast storage speed makes it easier to do, but go and play Soul Reaver 1 on PS1... that game has fully seamless fast travel through portals and runs on a super slow CD-ROM drive.
Mario Sunshine is the same. load times are basically short transition animations, running on a proprietary DVD drive.
in Super Mario 3D World on Wii U, they had to artificially delay the speed at which you load into the level because they had to give players time to potentially change character or enter the session. and even with that artificial delay the load times are like 2 seconds, when without that delay they would be instantaneous.
fast travel in Ghost of Tsushima on PS4 was less than 2 seconds most of the time as well.
all of that without a super fast SSD, in fact all of these examples ran on super slow storage mediums, from 2x CD drives to shitty laptop HDDs.
but a recent game that does it well is Indiana Jones I think. the main menu background is literally your current save state, and pressing continue seamlessly transitions into the game. fast travel around the hub worlds is less than a second with a short 3rd person animation.
it basically has zero visibe load times whatsoever
Mario Sunshine is the same. load times are basically short transition animations, running on a proprietary DVD drive.
in Super Mario 3D World on Wii U, they had to artificially delay the speed at which you load into the level because they had to give players time to potentially change character or enter the session. and even with that artificial delay the load times are like 2 seconds, when without that delay they would be instantaneous.
fast travel in Ghost of Tsushima on PS4 was less than 2 seconds most of the time as well.
all of that without a super fast SSD, in fact all of these examples ran on super slow storage mediums, from 2x CD drives to shitty laptop HDDs.
but a recent game that does it well is Indiana Jones I think. the main menu background is literally your current save state, and pressing continue seamlessly transitions into the game. fast travel around the hub worlds is less than a second with a short 3rd person animation.
it basically has zero visibe load times whatsoever
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The Cockatrice
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Thats false, even on PC.
Crayon
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I'm trying to think of significant ones and the only I've playtedf is bg3. Not to say there is only one, but rather I'm sure there are more. That's the only one I've had with notable loading screens of everything I played this year, though. If If your problem is 2-5 second loading screens, I don't know what to tell you.
Heimdall_Xtreme
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If they improve something... Bad.
If they make something worse... Bad.
What do people like then?
keraj37
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If they improve something... GOOD.If they improve something... Bad.
If they make something worse... Bad.
What do people like then?
If they make something worse... Bad.
What do people like then? They like GOOD
IntentionalPun
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Rift Apart is just using a visual trick to hide loading times anyways.
Other than that most games are really fast, many are faster than what is essentially a loading screen in Rift Apart.
Other than that most games are really fast, many are faster than what is essentially a loading screen in Rift Apart.
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Heimdall_Xtreme
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Don't even think about pausing this game, it takes a cutscene up to more than 7 seconds to pause the game on PS5.
Heimdall_Xtreme
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I mean, do you miss the loading screen?
GoldenEye98
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what? aren't the game sizes roughly the same?
LostDonkey
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It's called buzzwords and hyperbole to sell consoles.
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One that comes to mind is Infinite Wealth. I have it digitally on the Series X, which means I also have the PC version as its Play Anywhere.
On Xbox, loading is instant. Take a cab, and you're there. On the PC, even with a fast NVMe drive, I get a loading screen of Kiryu looking out the window of the cab and a little tip screen. Even when going into battles there is a noticeable second or so of loading that isn't there on the console version.
On Xbox, loading is instant. Take a cab, and you're there. On the PC, even with a fast NVMe drive, I get a loading screen of Kiryu looking out the window of the cab and a little tip screen. Even when going into battles there is a noticeable second or so of loading that isn't there on the console version.
TerribleAtThisGame
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Returnal and it's actually a great feature.
PixelatedBeast
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The last of Us part 1 wasnt built for the PS5 from the ground up. It really still a PS3 game, but leveraging the PS5 GPU. Anything that is on PS5 or next gen exclusively loads insanely fast, at least Playstation studios that is.
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HogIsland
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No question SSD improved loading times by a lot over last gen. But Sony is advertising "near instant" loading times on their main PS5 promo page, and it's rarely true.
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Giallo Corsa
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...with the exception of WH40K: Space Marine 2 brother
35-40 seconds of loading screens, that shit can go fook itself, literally one of the worst examples - if not the worst - of this generation.
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Fbh
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Can't really think about any current gen game where loading was an issue for me.
Sure it's not completely instant so it's not "no loading". But 3-6 seconds when first entering a game or fast traveling in an open world is a complete non issue for me.
Not too long ago I was visiting a friend and his roommate was playing Hogwarts Legacy on PS4. It's quickly reminded me how good we have it now. I didn't time it but it felt like every time he fast traveled it literally took a minute of loading
Sure it's not completely instant so it's not "no loading". But 3-6 seconds when first entering a game or fast traveling in an open world is a complete non issue for me.
Not too long ago I was visiting a friend and his roommate was playing Hogwarts Legacy on PS4. It's quickly reminded me how good we have it now. I didn't time it but it felt like every time he fast traveled it literally took a minute of loading
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DanielG165
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Completely up to the devs, but the claim of, “zero load times” already happened a gen before with Arkham Knight, a game that was built to run on 5400RPM HDDs. And, Rift Apart does have load times, the giant portals are the loading screens lol.
But we’ve seen games that don’t have any this gen once you’re past the main menu. Indiana Jones doesn’t have any, Hellblade 2 doesn’t have any, and I don’t think Spider-Man 2 does either? Ultimately though, the introduction of SSDs to consoles have made loading screens a complete non issue. No matter what, outside of maybe 2 examples, you’re loading into a game or level within like, 3-6 seconds on either console platform.
Now, unless you’re referring to why we still are seeing corridor crawling in games, when those were apparently going to be “eliminated” this gen… Then that’s purely a creative choice.
But we’ve seen games that don’t have any this gen once you’re past the main menu. Indiana Jones doesn’t have any, Hellblade 2 doesn’t have any, and I don’t think Spider-Man 2 does either? Ultimately though, the introduction of SSDs to consoles have made loading screens a complete non issue. No matter what, outside of maybe 2 examples, you’re loading into a game or level within like, 3-6 seconds on either console platform.
Now, unless you’re referring to why we still are seeing corridor crawling in games, when those were apparently going to be “eliminated” this gen… Then that’s purely a creative choice.
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Is that list reliable? Were these entries added by Steam users or the publishers/devs themselves?
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