Longest load/save screens in a game

[segarocks30]

the longest to me is when you save your franchise and profile after a agme in franchise in madden 2005

[ECWSandmanECW]

NCAA Football always has longer load/save times than Madden.

[Quintracker]

I havne't played too many cd based games, but so far the worst that stands out in my memory was Stuntman for ps2. At some points, the time I played was shorter than the load screens I waited through. It was hard to stay interested in a game like that.

[scooterb23]

You guys never played Mastertronic games on C64 did you?? I distinctly remember the title / load screen staying on for up to 5 minutes for those games. Those were bad, so was Dr. J vs. Larry Bird basketball, watching that stupid Electronic Arts logo color scroll for 3-4 minutes...

[evil_genius]

Hmmmm Die Hard Arcade for Saturn. Very long and very frequent. It takes away from the fun of the game big time.

[Bluteg]

Neo Geo CD... enough said.

During the loading you can make some coffee, run a mile, masturbate, create new language and write a dictionary/thesarus for it, restore arcade cab, reverse alphabetical order of game collection, masturbate again and it MIGHT be done loading.

[norkusa]

Willy Beamish for SegaCD and all of the Namco Museum titles for PS1 both have horrible load times. Beamish I could understand because of all the FMV and audio used in the game, but what is Namco Museum's excuse???

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

If you hold down L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 on the Namco Museum PS1 load screens, you can make Pac-Man or Mappy or whoever run a lot faster. Doesn't speed up the load at all, but it sure does make for a good excuse to say "WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!", doesnt' it?

[PDorr3]

crash:the wrath of cortex or whatever on ps2 has some really long loading screens, they are so long its made into a mini game while you wait.

[DigitalSpace]

Simpsons Road Rage on PS2 comes to mind, especially on the side missions, where the load times can be longer than the alloted time to complete them!

[Jumpman Jr.]

For some reason Sonic Adventures comes to mind. I don't know why though. Does that game have long loading times?

[Nez]

Other then that damn jugiling monkey for the neogeo, id say HalfLife 2 on my laptop. Good god dieing is such pain.

[UnInformer]

I never timed it out, but Darkstone on PSX has rediculously long load times.

[Haoie]

Longest I've seen was Digimon World 3, both with saves and loads.

But from literature, I think it might be Hexen for the PS. That thing takes up a wopping 15 blocks, as in the whole card. Crazy.

[pragmatic insanester]

tobal no. 1's load between the sony/dreamfactory logos and the opening cinema. anyone remember that?

[Nirvana]

Simpsons Road Rage on PS2 comes to mind, especially on the side missions, where the load times can be longer than the alloted time to complete them!

Holy crap, I thought the same exact thing when I saw the title of this topic. I remember going upstairs and putting a full meal of food on my plate, and coming down to find that the game is still loading! I was like...boooo....

[Gemini-Phoenix]

I'm put off playing some games due to their infinite load times... Everyone automatically thinks of Resident Evil in this instance, but I can tell you there are some worse loading times out there for current gen consoles...

Hehe, and don't forget the old Speccy / C64 / Amstrad loading times! They were epic!!!

[-hellvin-]

Floppy games for the atari 800xl. I hadn't played it for YEARS until recently, and my good god are the load times long! Some games like Karateka and Ultima on diskette can take a good 2 to 3 minutes of that beeping before they finally load.

[walrusmonger]

blood omen: legacy of kain for ps1 has horrible load times. moving from screen to screen is something like 27 seconds. bringing up your inventroy is 10 seconds, crazy crap.
awesome game though

[qbertandernie]

have none of you played Herdy Gerdy PS2?

i got it in the CC sale a while back...im STILL playing it! and ive seen three screens! i come home from work to find it still loading!

yes, i exaggerate...but not by much...