cobaltTangerine Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 (edited) I'm about 30 hours into the game. Fun game, but as I was knocking off a number of side quests last night, I was looking at a lot of load screens. I realized I'd just finished 100 quests and decided to do the math. How long have I been looking at load screens so far? Each mission will involve anywhere between 3-10+ load screens. These will likely either involve fast travel or entering/exiting buildings and new areas. As a conservative estimate, let's say I'm averaging 5 load screens per mission. Each load screen (PS4) is between 15-30 seconds. As another conservative estimate, 20 seconds per load screen. That is 100 seconds of load screens per mission. During 100 missions, you get 10,000 seconds of load screens, which is 166 minutes of load screens, equaling almost 3 hours. 3 hours. That is the ultimate challenge of this Platinum, not the game itself, but knowing, if I go through with this one, there are easily another 3+ hours of load screens in my future. And they don't even let you cycle through the tips. It's wild stuff. Edited December 13, 2021 by cobaltTangerine 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJsTrophies Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 Who cares. If you enjoy it, play it and deal with it, if this annoys you then stop playing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FocusDR Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 1 minute ago, TJsTrophies said: Who cares. If you enjoy it, play it and deal with it, if this annoys you then stop playing. I disagree, Skyrim on Xbox 360 the loading screens were slightly painful.. on the ps5 I don’t even have time to read the loading screen hints. Straight back into gaming. I am a fidgety person and can’t sit still unless I’m engrossed or occupied so if the loading screens are long in this day and age, chances are I’ll lose interest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cobaltTangerine Posted December 13, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 13, 2021 1 minute ago, TJsTrophies said: Who cares. If you enjoy it, play it and deal with it, if this annoys you then stop playing. I was giving a heads up, plus I thought it was humorous. Thanks for the tip to stop playing if I was getting annoyed. That honestly hadn't occurred to me. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infernopommes Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 Having played Outward, the title almost spooked me away from the game. 20 seconds per loading screen is nothing if you endured Outward on the PS4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikem192 Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 I agree they got very painful towards the end but overall I am spoilt with PS5 loading times. So I tried to ignore it. For a ps plus free game I loved back in the day, was worth the replay imo but they could of worked on more improvements for a re-mastered version of the game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karnacharya Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 55 minutes ago, TJsTrophies said: Who cares. If you enjoy it, play it and deal with it, if this annoys you then stop playing. So, your reasoning is that developers don't need to optimize games as long as the gameplay is fun enough that at least some people will like it? Wild. It's perfectly natural for paying customers to expect quality from their products, as long as they're bringing up reasonable concerns in a reasonable manner. Pointing out poor game optimization is an extremely reasonable concern, even if there's zero chance the load times are getting fixed at this stage in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saiyanbloodstyle Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 Is it any faster playing it on PS5? Would guess not, it is a pretty old game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leon1511 Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 Hey I posted this on gamefaqs and this is about the loading times between the 3 and 4 and this is what I came up with Well I just timed both the PS4 and PS3 versions and the 3 loading times for me was half the time for the 4. I did in and out times going in and out of Gorhart Inn. The times on the 4 were 18 secs in and 44 out and on the 2nd run it was the same, while the 3 version was 10 sec in and 20-22 sec out. I started with the 4 first and then the 3. The 4 version also is darker on my tv then what the 3 version is. When I loaded up the 3 version the colors in the first dungeon were vibrant and colorful while the 4 version was really dark and it was hard for me to see around me. So I'll just stick with the 3. Hope this helps 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobaltTangerine Posted December 16, 2021 Author Share Posted December 16, 2021 I actually played the game on PS3 in 2013 and have no memory of load time issues. I thought maybe I was used to it at the time, with games like Skyrim load screens being a bit long, especially once you had a large save file. Very interesting to know, thanks for info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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