''Is it seriously still loading?''

[Palkia]

(as a little celebration for breaking the 700-post barrier...)

What are the most irritating load times you've ever seen in a game? Note: They do not have to be the longest, just the most annoying and persistent ones.

For me, it would be Sonic 06. The amount and length of them feel like the game is a utter chore. Super Monkey Ball DX also had this issue, of long and persistent loading screens, but it wasn't as consistent and only appeared in the PS2 version. (Plus DX is a awesome game.)

 

[Kevin]

Hm... Most of my games are fast, but recently I downloaded Little Big Planet from my WB Package and oh gosh, it takes too long to load. I did finish it in about a week, but still, I might have gone crazy because of its long load time. (PSP version by the way.)

 

[Unknown#]

Sonic 06 had horrible load times, but then again that was a horrible game to begin with. Megaman X7 didn't have long load times, but it had lots of them. Sonic Unleashed (360 version) sometimes had long load times, but luckily they weren't too common.

 

[Captain Hobo.]

Downloading the MAG and Black Ops DLC's took forever for me.

 

[dead-man-walking]

Warcraft 3 on Intel Atom. Thankfully it can be tricked.

 

[Zet]

Loading Dragon Age:Origins/Awakening saves late in the game can have extremely long load times(around 45seconds to 2minutes).

 

[Cherrim]

Honestly, probably the Tales games on the PS2. :s Tales of the Abyss has SUCH awful load times before battles, after battles, going into a room, going onto the world map, saving, etc. You get used to it as you play but it's still really annoying. As for Tales of Symphonia on the PS2... uggggh. At least with Abyss you had no other way of playing it but after being used to the near-instant load times on the Gamecube, playing Symphonia PS2 is such a hassle since you have to wait for everything. :'(

 

[thedestinedblade]

Fable III seems to have a loading screen every 5 seconds. Not particularly long, but seeing the same posters over and over again did bother me a bit.

 

[Yuoaman]

Fable III seems to have a loading screen every 5 seconds. Not particularly long, but seeing the same posters over and over again did bother me a bit.

I agree completely, the least they could have done was design a few more posters so we didn't have to look at the same 20 or so posters all through the game. :\

 

[Tyranee]

For recent games, WWE All Stars and The Witcher 2. All Stars loading screens are HORRIBLY long and almost kill my want to play the game. Witcher 2 just came out but the one loading screen it does have every once in a while takes forever.

Fable III is a runner up but that didn't completely kill the gameplay for me.

 

[Legobricks]

Any Monster Hunter game without install data, and Total War games when it comes to siege battles.

On a contrary note, Halo CE's (PC version at least) load times remain the most impressive I've seen.

 

[mondays suck]

Europa Universalis 3 tends to take an estimated 3-5 minutes to load up, which I find atrocious. Once that's finished, it runs smoothly though.
Spyro IV was (I'm using the past because I haven't played it for an eternity) a pretty bad offender too, if I remember correctly. Far worse, actually.

 

[Lady Gaga]

Red Dead Redemption has no loading times, only once at the beginning when you load your game (mp/sp). They are at least 2 minutes long, ugh.

 

[Sammi]

I tend not to notice load times very much. Most PS2 games I have take a bit to load at points (I'd say Persona 4, Tales of the Abyss, and Okami are probably the worst offenders) but it doesn't bother me.

The only real noticeable one for me was the Chrono Trigger port for the Playstation. On the SNES, it had like no load time at all, but on the PS it took forever to open the menu and it had to load the battles. It probably wouldn't have bothered me if I hadn't played the SNES version before. :/

And I guess Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep's menu takes a few seconds to load. It's not very long but considering menus on every other game I've ever played don't take that long, it's easier to notice.

 

[Drekin]

Just about when I stopped playing my PS2 it had trouble detecting CDs and when it did it was always really slow loading and also choppy while playing. The game that did it the most was Champions: Return to Arms.

Someone mentioned Dragon Age in their post and it reminded me of the incredibly long load times. I remember the dwarven city (can't remember the city) took about 15min to load any of the areas. I put up with it for a few days before I finally tried to fix the hardware issues.

 

[Chairman Kaga]

I think that the record goes to Smackdown vs. RAW 2006 on PSP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjf0D6bRTQ8

 

[alisaie]

Honestly, probably the Tales games on the PS2. :s Tales of the Abyss has SUCH awful load times before battles, after battles, going into a room, going onto the world map, saving, etc. You get used to it as you play but it's still really annoying. As for Tales of Symphonia on the PS2... uggggh. At least with Abyss you had no other way of playing it but after being used to the near-instant load times on the Gamecube, playing Symphonia PS2 is such a hassle since you have to wait for everything. :'(

Can't say anything for the Symphonia PS2 because I never played it, but I absolutely agree with Abyss. D; My sister and I would also joke and laugh about the 'epic saving tiems' and that we could go and get something to eat and it'll still be saving. In reality though we both get pretty annoyed by it, especially if we didn't save not too long before the next time we save.

There's probably a few other games in which I've gotten irritated by the loading times, but Abyss was definitely the first one that I thought of when seeing the title.

 

[インフェルノの津波]

Downloading Bulletstorm Demo from Steam, took 7 hours. Team Fortress 2 had the same time, roundabout.

 

[Daydream]

The Sims 2's loading screens used to get pretty annoying. I always had a book or something else handy while I was playing.

 

[jcsimpson]

I find Red Dead Redemption has some long load times.