The loading screen is dead, long live the loading screen

From NME: "Thwipping about and taking in the sights of the bustling streets of New York City is one of my favorite pastimes in Marvel’s Spider-Man, but sometimes I just want to get on with the story. When that happens, the best bet is the game’s fast travel mechanic which has Spider-Man ride the subway from one end of the Big Apple to the other."

[Darkborn]

Not gonna lie, I almost miss loading screens because having no loading screen feels too fast to me lol. Like I've been trained to put the controller down and go get a drink or go pee if I die or fast travel, but now it's like wtf, I feel like I have no time to do that. Spiderman also had a really cool loading screen and now we'll never get to see it again on ps5.

[roadkillers]

Meh, loading screens are still here. Just played Flight Simulator on Series S and GTA5 on PS5. They are still present.

[Darkborn]

I havnt played the series S or those games on the ps5, but most ps5 enhanced games I've played have no loading screen, or like a second loading screen if anything. Some of them like pop up the loading screen and then it goes away and your in the game. You can barely even see what the loading screen looks like in time, it's almost like screen tear lol.

[Dabigsiebowski]

GTAV doesn't have an official PS5 release yet.

[elazz]

Played rift apart a month ago and now busy with FF7 remake intergrade. Instant loading is great and can't go back. Hopefully every developer will design their games like that.

[MrNinosan]

GTAV doesn't excist on PS5 fyi

[darthv72]

Flight sim is understandable with its loading screens. Its a beast of a game with all the data it has. It would be way worse if it had to load from a traditional hdd.

[Popsicle]

Loading in Flight Simulator has more to do with the game reading real time weather patterns and traffic control utilizing your personal online connection speeds than it has to do with the SSD.

Secondly games that are not fully optimized for the PS5/Series X do not take full advantage of the SSD architecture which translates to lower speeds. For example, if I play the PS4 version FF7 Remake on my PS5, I am subject to loading screens. They are much shorter then they were on PS4, but they are still there. However, if I play FF7 Remake Intergrade which is fully optimized for the PS5, the loading screens are gone and the transitions are near instantaneous.

[Silly Mammo]

Its tough trying to read the hints/tips on the load screen nowadays with the PS5.

[EvertonFC]

Yep I'm like oh hint press x and it's loaded 😔 kinda miss them 😔 R. I. P hints 😢

[EvertonFC]

They were great for a smoke break go grab a beer or sometimes have a slice of pizza or your kebab 😊 (clean hands obviously)
Edit: I've just ordered a kebab now

[LordoftheCritics]

You can put your controller down anytime. It's called self control.

Games of the future with absolute zero loading screens will allow varied pacing. You know like in real life, you choose your pace on things. Highly immersive games will get there. Zero loading will forever kill loading. This is it.

[Popsicle]

This is very true Lordofthecritics and I need to work on this myself. Since upgrading to a PS5 and Series X I have noticed that my bladder feels as though it is about to burst much more often than it did when I played on last gen consoles. I could darn near do the laundry when I fast travelled in Witcher 3 on the PS4 Pro, but with current gen consoles I am likely to end up with a bladder infection if I do not practice more self control.

[EvertonFC]

"You can put your controller down anytime. It's called self control"
We were being light hearted, have some fun and stop being so serious jeez

[Sayai jin]

Not just loading screens, but with quick resume, you jump right back in the game where you left off. Switching between multiple games on seconds is nice.

I ebjoyed the loading screens for MGS in the PS3.

[I_am_Batman]

Did you know that most games have a pause function?

[IamFrasierCrane]

How dare you point out this helpful feature that’s been present in gaming for decades….

[XxINFERNUSxX]

The ones with the mini games are fun, wouldn't mind if they came back 😀

[SDuck]

And then there's GTAV... F that game's loading screens!

[LordoftheCritics]

GTA online loading screens makes not want to play it.

[SDuck]

Same. Decided to play it again after years last week and now when I think of what game to play, I wonder if I really want to sit through its loading time rather of how much fun I have playing it

[Psychotica]

Imagine if "Notepad" had a loading screen..

[LordoftheCritics]

Imagine if thoughts had loading screens?

Thats how I feel about them. Get rid of them asap.

[roadkillers]

When you ask someone a question and they need to think about it.

[LordoftheCritics]

@roadkillers

Now imagine a loading screen while trying to think about it. The world will start feeling like a turn based game.

[neutralgamer1992]

I am ready for them to disappear. Was playing one of my favorites games HZD and the load screens were sometimes upwards of a minute or more.

[Bathyj]

Where am I gonna get my game tips from?

[YodaCracker]

Strategy guides, duh!

[EvertonFC]

I guess it's the cards now

[CobraKai]

They were good for tips, but Spider-Man was the only Loading Screen that I enjoyed sitting through. I wish Miles Morales had more variety in his Subway Scenes.

[masterfox]

You know they should specify in the title that only PS5 has this spec advantage and probably in the rest of all this game generation, cause the competition need to literally create a totally new custom sdd architecture in order to compete with the PS5 specs. Lots of people might not know but PS5 are leaps ahead of any other game device including the most advance gaming rigs at the moment, and all thanks to this unique ssd tech found in the PS5 imo.

[specialguest]

I never liked the loading screen. I came from the 8bit and 16bit era gaming as a kid. Hardly ever had loading screens until the 32bit era and forward came along. Nope, I won't miss it

[Popsicle]

Same. I remember playing a 32 bit console for the first time as a kid in Toys R Us and distinctly remember how odd it was to me for a game to need to load.

[RPGer]

No I don't miss The Witcher 3 loading screen, nor can say I am happy with what GTa5 is doing right now.

[sourOG]

Good riddance. There should be a save feature on cutscenes though. I’m playing yakuza like a dragon and it has some looooong scenes. I’m like “okay when I take control again I’m going to save and go to bed” but they just keep going and going and going lol.

[plmkoh]

There are some games that have taken on the loading screen as an art form, like the original Assassins Creed. But the majority of games just have some lazy static picture or logo.

In general it's good riddance, but not without casualties to cultural value.

[Pyrofire95]

I hate titles like this.
Almost as bad as titles that talk about 5 things that cool [And 5 that not]

[CrimsonWing69]

Play Witcher 3 and tell me this.

[Magog]

Switch still exists so you can get your loading screen fix there.

[Skuletor]

How am I going to get my game hints now? Also kinda miss when games had mini games in the loading screens, like in Tekken 5 I think I was one at the start