Comment on I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 1 week ago
Final Fantasy 7R was so egregious with the shimmying loading screens but I blame Sony for using a 5400RPM shitty hard drive in the PS4.
tal@lemmy.today 1 week ago
I haven’t played it, but if you can’t skip the animation, that actually highlights the issue I complained about in another comment, where the animation becomes the bottleneck. Say they do this, and it’s tuned to that hard drive. Then someone decides that they’re willing to spend more to improve performance and goes out and gets an SSD for their PS4. Now the game probably doesn’t need to spend all that time hiding the loading, but the player’s still stuck with it in the game.
Gwyntale@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Absolutely. One reason why I love playing old ass games is that they practically don’t have load times anymore.
FF7R will stay very annoying to play even twenty years down the line, because the animations take a fixed amount of time, while a loading screen only takes the amount it needs.