Danny takes a look at the modern day loading screen and ask what happened to the humble progress bar? Remember if you have any ideas for the future of loading screen technology, post it here and we’ll talk about it on the weekly Citizen Gamecast.
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that was an AWESOME video feature Danny, nice one. Very Charlie Brooker
Fucking Tamoor beat me too it; and it’s such a dumb patent too. It’s like saying no, you can’t have gameplay.
I guess I can only have my mini-games in load screens in games like Muscle March and all those shovel-ware Gundam games.
Apparently Namco Bandai owns the ‘play a game in the loading screen’ patent, that’s why no one does it.
Bombcast knowledge dropped!
I recall the first Broken Sword having a great game of Brick Breaker during the install, but for loading screens of shooters, maybe they could show a slow-mo reel of your deaths in a previous level, MW2 killcam-style
The best loading screens are the interactive ones. For the Dragon Ball Z Budaki games-which is still think are great games- you would just mash a button to make a little character fly around the screen; and the harder you pressed the button the cooler things he did.
Cheers guys, my favourite part of the video was when I talked about the comment box being below, when its clearly on the sidebar.
Well it’s not as if I designed this entire website or anything…
Had to wait for 2 minutes for the video to load on my shitty countryside internet.
*facepalm*
Haha love the WoW player stats.
haha brilliant, I did the same thing with Killzone 2.
For the definitive Loading Screen your must seek out Peggle and The Sims – Comedy “non-loading” jargon.