Smackdown vs. Raw 2006 on PSP : Load Time Hell!

chtimi-CLA · Post by **chtimi-CLA** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:16 pm

i thought it was funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH3dc7IZVPc

Post by **Shatterhand** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:06 pm

Shit, this is way worse than the worst loading times that some Amiga games had, and they came in floppy disks.

The video would be even better if after all that loading time, it actually showed a match, and the whole matched lasted less than 3 minutes (Which usually is the norm in Wrestling games)

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:21 pm

6min 28sec ?!?!

WTF is this game doing? I think I got more than enough time to boot a Naomi.

That is the worst way to utilize the disc spaces.

If every games on PSP is like that, it already lose to NDS.

Anyway, for a handheld game short Load time is important. This kind of loading time is not acceptable even for a console game. Where are those REAL game designers gone? How could somthing like come out?

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:49 pm

This is a joke, right!????

Somebody please tell me they've edited the whole thing to make it look this way...

What were THQ thinking??????

sethsez · Post by **sethsez** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:59 pm

SAM wrote:If every games on PSP is like that, it already lose to NDS.

Nowhere near. THQ is to the PSP as EA is to the DS, apparantly.

Post by **Ghegs** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 7:34 pm

That was...wow. "Interesting", to say the least. THQ must've gone to great lengths to find the laziest programmers and quality controllers ever.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 7:59 pm

Super Laydock wrote:

This is a joke, right!????

Somebody please tell me they've edited the whole thing to make it look this way...

What were THQ thinking??????

Actually, Colt Steele and I were talking about this last night. A 6-man tornado match of create-a-wrestlers can take just under 10 minutes to load (and that is just for a single exhibition match starting from the character select.. which is already what... 3 minutes of loading in to the game?).

UnscathedFlyingObject · Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:17 pm

I bet these guys could make a cartridge system load

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BTW, PSP loading times aren't that bad. The last game I played (MM:MHX) actually loads pretty fast.

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:45 pm

SAM wrote:
6min 28sec ?!?!

WTF is this game doing? I think I got more than enough time to boot a Naomi. That is the worst way to utilize the disc spaces.

Forget Naomi... You could practically run through the Seibu SPI change sequence in that time!

BIG · Post by **BIG** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:15 am

Damn,that's horrible.

I'm glad I am not a wrestling fan.

B-

Post by **Shatterhand** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 3:59 am

Kiken, do you own the game?

How long does a match last, in average?

I remember, for example, Striker on Amiga, it took like 5 minutes to load. for FIVE minutes you were staring at a screen with a guy kicking a ball, and a nice music playing.

But after that, there were no more loads at all, so it was kind of acceptable.

Zool also took ages to load, but each level also took ages to finish, so it was bearable too.

Of course, we shouldn't forget I am talking about FLOPPY DISK games here...

Skyline · Post by **Skyline** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:26 am

And here I was thinking that Wipeout Pure (w/ all the downloadable crap on the memstick) took forever. Holy shitballs.