Which games have the worst loading times and frame-rate this generation?

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#1 deactivated-5f4694ac412a8
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For loading times, the first game that comes to mind is Fable II. When I was watching my friend play it, he accidently walked in to the wrong part of time, and was like, "Whoops," and then walked back to the other side... which had another long loading screen. It was pretty awful. I couldn't even bare playing the entire game because of that, even if it didn't totally suck.

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#2 aaronmullan
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Fable II is one that comes to mind. The loading times were really bad. Too bad it was a decent game, too.
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#3 legol1
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fnr3 ps3
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#4 funked_up
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E:TW has had the worst loading times in existence.
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Going from no loading, to 15 seconds of loading each time really hurt the experience. There are times I was going to play it but decided not to because of the load times.

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#6 aaronmullan
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E:TW has had the worst loading times in existence.funked_up
Oh god yes. I remember playing the demo. 5 minutes of loading, ftw!?
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#7 shadow_hosi
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Fable ll gave me the most problems
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#8 agentfred
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Anyone remember The Witcher's load times pre-patch? It wouldn't have been so bad if they weren't all over the place.
[QUOTE="funked_up"]E:TW has had the worst loading times in existence.aaronmullan
Oh god yes. I remember playing the demo. 5 minutes of loading, ftw!?

Eh, they improved greatly after the first couple loads.
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#9 aaronmullan
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[QUOTE="agentfred"]Anyone remember The Witcher's load times pre-patch? It wouldn't have been so bad if they weren't all over the place.
[QUOTE="funked_up"]E:TW has had the worst loading times in existence.aaronmullan
Oh god yes. I remember playing the demo. 5 minutes of loading, ftw!?

Eh, they improved greatly after the first couple loads.

True. At least you got to get something to eat while it loaded for an epic battle :P
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#10 mitu123
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Sonic 06, takes really long to load between sections and the framerate doesn't hold up sometimes even when there's barely anything on the screen. The PS3 version is worse.

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#11 BioShockOwnz
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Loading... Loading... Loading... - Sonic Next Gen

Framerate - Two Worlds

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#12 pyromaniac223
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The Witcher Pre-patch.
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#13 Mckenna1845
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fable 2 for loading mass effect 360 for framerate, that got nasty most of the time while playing 2 great games though especially mass effect, the second is going to be awesome.
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#14 PAL360
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Maybe Oblivion. Its still one of my favourite games this gen

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#15 Ze_ALEX
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a whole lot of psp games come to mind

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#16 mo0ksi
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The Witcher Pre-patch.pyromaniac223
Definitely. They were nearly unbearable. Good thing the game was awesome.
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#17 3KindgomsRandy
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Personal experience:

Frame Rate - Last Remnant - 360

Loading - Lost Odyssey - 360 Battle start up time was silly.

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#18 Filthybastrd
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Framerate: Crysis (Well.... Only way I can push my settings are downwards so lots of room for improvement :))

Loading: Mass Effect (maybe not but the elevators are bloody annoying)

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#19 njean777
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fable 2 had problems with loading and framerate which is what turned me off of the game

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#20 Ibacai
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Two Worlds and FEAR (PS3) both come to mind.
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#21 sirkibble2
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Framerate: NFS: Undercover
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#22 NoobisMaxcimus
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Of the games that i own, Oblivion.

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#23 Nintendo_Ownes7
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Going from no loading, to 15 seconds of loading each time really hurt the experience. There are times I was going to play it but decided not to because of the load times.

2-10-08

It's not 15 seconds it is atleast 8 seconds which is only twice as long as Melee because sometimes at the most it took Melee to load was 4 seconds. Also 15 seconds is nothing most 360 games have really long load times I can't stand load times. That is one reason I like Nintendo games they try to keep the load times to a minimum. I can't really think of Long Load Times because the games I played didn't really have long load times or they did but I didn't notice because they were still faster then last gen consoles except GCN.

For Framerate I would say Bangai-O Spirits it isn't bad but sometimes it slows down so much but that is when I create my own levels and I have like 10 Longai-O on the level I created their one move creates the most lag the DS will ever experience. But they will do that even with just 2 Longai-Os.

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#24 Fizzman
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E:TW has had the worst loading times in existence.funked_up

I only saw one loading screen for E TW, and it was like 3seconds long.

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#25 Androvinus
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did anyone play NFS undercover ? that game has a horrible framerate on the ps3, and on the psp its just a joke
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#26 pyromaniac223
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MGS4 had a pretty messed up framerate. It would sink sub-20 in some areas, then immediately jump up to 60 if you panned the camera around to a sweet spot.
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#27 SparkyProtocol
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Framerate goes to Two Worlds. It is a fact
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#29 COD_GOD
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I spent way too much time at the Oblivion load screen
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#30 Sully28
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Battlefield 2 had a really long loading time the first time you booted up the game because it had to calibrate all the shaders and what not. It was usually only a one time thing, but you also had to do it after installing a patch aswell. Not a game breaker beacause after you do it the one time the game loads up beautifully.

Also on battlefield, battlefield 1943 possibly has the quickest loading time in a game this gen, you can get in a room from the time you start the game up in about 30 seconds, its amazing.

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#31 Wii_Gamer_277
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Mass effect takes the cake for Frame rate dips. And red steel had some horrendous frame rate dips as well especially when you blow up a barrel.

Oblivion, Fallout 3 or fable 2 for loading.

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Fable 2 never bothered me that much for loading, but then again I did install it. FO3 wasn't uninstalled for me for a while, and the loading times were insane, and since it was the beginning of the game and there's a loading screen everytime you enter a new building, Megaton became Load-a-ton. ME is pretty bad for framerate, and it has horrible pop in, even when installed it's basically a choice, don't install it and have character pop in and character texture pop in or do and have environment texture pop in.
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#33 sonicthemegaman
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Sonic 06, takes really long to load between sections and the framerate doesn't hold up sometimes even when there's barely anything on the screen. The PS3 version is worse.

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Oblivion.

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#35 BoloTheGreat
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The Witcher Pre-patch.pyromaniac223
Add to that both STALKER games pre-patch.
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#36 adamosmaki
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necrovision ( the demo at least) had terrible loading times 3-5 minutes initial load and even a quick load needed 30-40 seconds a quick load!!!!!

at least it had decent frames when playing even on relatively low hardware

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#37 moose_knuckler
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ME gave me quite a few problems
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#38 Silent-Hal
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The PS3 port of FEAR. That was a gash port in every sense.
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#39 Tezcatlipoca666
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Fable II and Lost Odyssey have slow and frequent loading. Mass Effect was poorly optimized on 360 so it can become quite choppy at times.