7 Weird Ways Games Disguised Loading Screens

[@maxlittlewood]

Not really a loading screen but that dinosaur game when you lose internet connection on Chrome is pretty great

[@quackerjack0118]

Max Littlewood that’d be a great video idea: surprisingly good games in places you wouldn’t expect

[@darkprime6815]

yeah i like to call it dino jump

[@erinhaury5773]

We play it when the internet goes out at work. It is pleasantly entertaining.

[@quackerjack0118]

Lmao I remember playing minesweeper and somehow I always ended up clicking on a mine tile on the first try

[@Nugcon]

lmao

Anthem cleverly hid gameplay using loading screens.

[@Ekuuu]

Ádám Pajor hahahaha, I was looking for a comment like this.

[@StiffAftermath]

Hahaaa good one

[@chubbs4373]

Ádám Pajor ayeeeee😂😂😂

[@UrbanaticLemonade]

LoL

[@Samuitsuki]

I was considering making a comment like this xD

[@bigsoulja73]

I’m glad you added the “FIFA 19” Spoiler warning. I couldn’t handle knowing how that game ends.

[@anuvette]

Same 😫😫😫

[@ryanavfcc]

Dirk McGough 😭

[@ajanthony1356]

Yes, Alex walker does make out with his half sister

[@MrPoutPout64]

Was looking for this 😂

[@gonsa_pro]

@@ajanthony1356 *bangs

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

"Quick, construct the world, the protagonist is approaching!"

[@SideEffectsmusic]

This would make good flavor text on a loading screen.

[@plainblocks2]

Just imagine a cutscene where the developers was voice-acting and saying that line while dragging everything suitable in that next area.

[@davidscann]

I'd love this to be in a fourth wall breaking game.

[@problematicdino3811]

400th like :)

[@gelatinocyte6270]

This sounds like a Wreck it Ralph movie

[@KevinCow]

The older God of War games also had a clever way of avoiding loading screens. There were doors throughout the game that you'd have to hold or mash a button for Kratos to dramatically open, like a massive stone door that he'd strain to lift with his bare hands. And considering how much of the game is spent holding or mashing a button for Kratos to dramatically do something, it didn't feel out of place. But those doors were actually there to make sure the next area was loaded. Also gotta give credit to Metroid Prime, whose loading doors, elevators, and hallways likely influenced several games on this list.

[@isabellajemica]

Miss those times

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

Fits right into such a world, too. Security is actually proper-but still not good enough. Those are the best sorts of loading period scenes: the ones that make sense regardless.

[@wariodude128]

They also did the thing the Tony Hawk game mentioned in the video did. Make you go through long and fairly featureless corridors, sometimes with enemies showing up to stop you going forward so the entire game could load in the next area. Gotta get those red orbs, you know?

[@MataNui.]

Though it did seem a bit odd seeing as Kratos can hold back both atlas and chronos but has to struggle to open a door.

[@braydenpayne8617]

Yeah, uncharted did the same thing.

[@JReaLBiz86]

I'm only 0:46 seconds into this video, so I haven't seen any of the 7 selected, but I just want to mention that whoever came up with the "playable loading screen", where you can learn functions of the game or get some practice in while the game is loading (saw this mostly with sports games when it was first used) is a genius. That is all.

[@spongebob2456]

I know right,idk why is this thing is not a common feature already..

[@dmetrisamuels3029]

@MrTical91 you cant trademark something like that...

[@PinkiTadinki]

@MrTical91 Namco held the patent over minigames on loading screens that do not use the same code as the actual game. That's why they were the only ones allowed to use Pacman or other Namco games. Other developers can use playable loading screens though, like FIFA and Bayonetta do with training sequences. Or DMC. Even AC. They're just not allowed to use a different game.

[@SirYodaJedi]

Namco's patent actually expired recently.

[@SirYodaJedi]

@Overlord spudpiggy "Recently", as in within the past 10 years 😛

[@andrewadams247]

The new voice over over the spoiler warning crawl is my favorite thing

[@dontmindme5879]

Idk how this aasnt already a thing....but the minor changes are the best....it was so subtle to add in as well. Love it!!

[@maxvel0city906]

I really want Andy to do this in OXTRA'S lists as well, preferably not telling Ellen and Luke that he's going to do it.😂

[@andrewadams247]

Max VelOcity especially if Luke or Ellen freak when Andy's voice just comes out of nowhere

[@maxvel0city906]

@@andrewadams247 That or he appears from behind the SOFA, OUT of NOWHERE! Andy: Did someone say SPOILERS, don't worry I'm here. I'm always here.

[@HazeEmry]

@@maxvel0city906 unless anything that resembles Yoshette appears. Then he's out of there

[@ReiAyanami8]

Wasn't Assassin's Creed's idea of giving someone something to do during a loading screen to just let the player run around in a white void?

[@Chaos89P]

Bayonetta does something similar, except you can practice performing combos.

[@sly992]

I remember that, I rotated my analog stick just the right way to make Ezio dance while I waited

[@sharadkumar3474]

@@sly992 Same! Ezio was a masterpiece

[@Kytetiger]

@@sly992 I made him walk like a duck (sprint+rapid direction and stop)... And in every other AC games since then that I could play. can someone confirm if it still works in Odyssey ?

[@vanadis2420]

@@Kytetiger As a possessor of AC:Odyssey, I must say that the loading screens are kinda rare but kinda boring (hopefully they're quick tho)

[@ellie-ys5hw]

GTA V is laughing.

[@mindofanintrovert2046]

Loading Screen Simulator

[@geniusn8343]

@@mindofanintrovert2046 AKA GTA online

[@captaincaptain2128]

Red dead redemption 2 is laughing.

[@fabianweber6937]

But the nice thing in gta is that it's only one long loading screen at the beginning.

[@theduder3017]

Clouds Simulator

[@user-oo8wt3hr1t]

Shout out to Skyrim for letting me spin objects to pass time during loading

[@starwalkingsage7489]

Fallout 4 as well. Gotta love spinning random objects.

[@GHOS7v]

dragon Ball Budokai game had it where you can spin master roshi on his turtle shell

[@Burningrobes]

You have enough time to play with the objects on the loading screen? PC problems, Skyrim loading screen doesn't last long enough.

[@hunterr6692]

Burningrobes When you have to stroke off yourself about what you play on because reasons.

[@TooRudeProductions]

Speaking of Fallout, what's up with hitting the x button in the loading screen and then the object being made a green or white or purple or whatever color you chose for your light?

[@MrDoctorSavage]

I liked the elevators in Mass Effect. It may be the far distant future but we are still stuck with bad elevator music and awkward small talk. Plus i liked the news updates

[@superphantom100]

Same I was just replaying the game earlier I’m I’ll be heading to Faros when I get back to it.

[@andrewolson5471]

The elevators may have been slower than molasses in January, but it was immersive.

[@macdofglasgow772]

Yeah, I liked the news updates and the more subtle character interactions. Good for the story obsessed types but I can see why they drew some ire. Did like hearing some of the teammate-teammate interactions that you really don't hear otherwise, but I love Mass Effect.

[@AbenZin1]

"i HAVE A SHOTGUN!"

[@deathdude360]

I always assumed the elevators took forever because it's a really huge space station, seeing as the normandy is as big as a small house, and it looks like a fly in comparison to the citadel. That has to make the Citadel what, the size of a small country/US State, if not bigger?

[@emptycan6424]

Also in the new Tomb Raider series. Every time Lara has to walk through deep snow or mud, or craw through the small crevasses, at excruciating slow speed.

[@yuithekitsune]

Empty Can there were still loading screens but I guess that also makes sense

[@Foxy02016]

Empty Can how about BioShock Infinite? It freezes you for a second

[@HandmadeGoose97]

Also shout out to Boarderlands the Pre-sequal who desquises a cutscene as a loading screen

[@HandmadeGoose97]

@@Vanever In the beginning of the game when you first get in the pod and are shot towards the moon there's a wierd looking cutscene, this actually a loading screen. Also the bane of many speedrunners

[@groot8774]

There is also Batman Arkham Knight which does this.

[@howHumam]

I feel that isn't totally unique, but I do love all the Borderland games.

[@HandmadeGoose97]

@@Vanever I mean the cutscene were they get shot out of the space pod and their flying through space. Games Done Quick talks about this during their Pre-sequal run last summer

[@kallasantysanty6092]

And what about that travel/digitalizing/desintegration thingy when you use any fast travel station, it is a cool looking loading screen :D

[@maxvel0city906]

Anyone remember Assassin's Creed, where you would run around an infinitely large white space, PUNCHING THIN AIR and slashing your sword at NOTHING. I also remember ridge racer 7, where you could play an old school game, space invaders or something like that while the game was loading. That was pretty META.

[@akitoakito]

They made a video about loading screen mini games. You should check it out.

[@maxvel0city906]

@@akitoakito Yes of course I vaguely remember that one, will have too re watch it now, thanks for reminding me about that one.👍

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

Assassins Creeds loading screens weren't even hidden, except for one at the start of Brotherhood when Desmond and Lucy are going into that cavern.

[@davidkennedy1077]

I used to love that silliness in Assassin's Creed, it must have worked to a certain extent because I didnt find it annoying (unlike most noticeable loading screens) And I'm pretty sure my mate had Ridge Racer with the mini shoot um up, good fun.

[@maxvel0city906]

@@davidkennedy1077 Those were the days, back before I was an adult and had responsibilities and all the fun things being an adult entails. Man I need TIME TRAVEL PIKACHU. Can I borrow him @OutsideXtra, pretty please.

[@darthlazurus4382]

There was a PS2 game called Primal that hid loading screens in a clever way. You had to manually power up these stargate like portals to travel to other worlds. Primal had you, the player manually load the next level!

[@boy_with_sleeveless_jacket7951]

Wow that actually ingenious ideal, I wonder why other companies hadn't thought of this idea

[@bradyhoneycutt3564]

I remember that how did I not realize that?

[@jeans4632]

Isn't that what they did in God of War with the bifrost?

[@nikbol43below]

My favourite game to do this is the Witcher 3. Every time you loaded the game for a new session, you'd get a recap of what just happened in the main plot. This was fine while the main plot was happening, but when I was doing sidequests for 30 hours, I didn't want to hear about the Ugliest Man Alive 12 times in a row. I get it, Future Dandelion, I'm abandoning the quest to find my daughter and going on contracts to get paid. I don't need to be reminded of that every time I start the game up.

[@nikbol43below]

@Mr Bojangles My thoughts are with you in this trying time.

[@Timboslice475]

Or even when travel between Velen and Skellige.

[@EthanBradburyVlogs]

The game sucks

[@Timboslice475]

King Bradberry False.

[@theelement_c6684]

I don't know if you're still struggling with that but there's a mod that can skip those recap(i don't remember the exact mod but you can google it)

[@reyo0531]

Yeah EA did a good job hiding loading screens,I can't believe it loads while it asks me to insert my debit card details.

[@homegrowntwinkie]

This needs so much more upvotes.

[@jgn]

Thanks CEO for making EA MemEA

[@jgn]

@pilgrimsoft *looks at Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer which you kinda need to do to get the best ending and the color thing (ending) exists*

[@mmmmm4932]

what are ur debit card details? Ill give you a premium VIP gold crate box!

[@amyhoard1222]

Hmmm...I thought you had to insert your credit/debit card info before it even allows you to choose to start a new game.

[@BabyKrogan]

Man I remember when FF7 came out I was all like "imagine if the gameplay someday looked as good as the cutscenes!" lol

[@Ozzymandias0]

you dont have to go back this much. I thought same thing with psp, and just last year when god of war trailers came out I was thinking "This must be cutscene. I wonder how real gameplay looks." aaaand turned out it was real gameplay :D

[@Raven777777777777777]

Yeah, we used to say it back then and some of us still do today. Games have evolved over the years but with some games cutscenes are still very much ahead of gameplay itself.

[@bobshortforkate2364]

Finally..

[@TooRudeProductions]

Batman can't have airpods because they don't come in Black

[@xprznina1582]

Maybe in the next game with the AirPods 2 coming in black

[@Joy_Gow]

The Angry Gaming Stoner he already has Batpods

[@marcusdyer2104]

The Angry Gaming Stoner Its rumoured AirPods 2 will come in Black

[@Kayracam]

He can paint them

[@claywhite1400]

Not even Bruce Wayne can afford them

[@iggyfan11]

wait, no bayonetta, where the loading screen was literally a red void you could practice combos in?

[@AGrumpyPanda]

That wasn't really a disguise though, it was quite obviously a loading screen just they let you do things in it.

[@stoptakingusernamepls6381]

Pretty sure they have this on devil may cry too.

[@74G_]

Yep

[@aviatoravis7551]

Assassin's Creed as well.

[@matthewskullblood9778]

@@AGrumpyPanda so then wtf is the last mention?

[@Hakeaa]

I got the strangest loading screen for the video itself! This weird swirly dot with a trail that went around in a circle, crazy! What will they thing of next!!

[@JargonMadjin]

You used to be able to play Snake with that loading circle on KZbin videos, not sure if it still works anymore though

[@shazthegamer2583]

@@JargonMadjin Lol

[@ayanhaider303]

Can't wait for the spin-off video, "loading screens disguised as games." *Eyes Skyrim in the corner

[@OooItsBlue]

I hear the Witcher 3 somewhere in the background 🤔

[@maxvel0city906]

@@OooItsBlue I never had any issues with Witcher 3 loading times, but I did have it installed on my freshly built PC on an SSD at the time.

[@OooItsBlue]

Ps4 loading times are the longest loading times I have ever experienced x)

[@MatthewSchooley94]

I think you're looking at the wrong game, son. *points to the copy of Sonic 06 next to it*

[@MoostachedSaiyanPrince]

I decided to play my first WWE 2K game since before they added the 2K to the title last year. My nickname for WWE 2K18 is "WWE Loading Screen Logo the Game."

[@skybloomchannel]

What if ads are disguised loading screens?

[@deoclasher88]

What about when ads also load?

[@drewbechtel9183]

Sooo mobile games?

[@PolarisCastillo]

They should put games we can play as ads to pass the time

[@oooooo2972]

*Me: "I Can Bypass This"* *_Clicks Adblock_*

[@brokeangryjerry9605]

@@oooooo2972 HaCkEr MaN

[@the3dotsguy...610]

The spoiler warning actually spoils the actual video 🤔

[@acefist5745]

"Careful, He's a Hero"

[@luigy7223]

Well technically it was a spolier warning The spolier warning warned that us that spoiler warning would the spoil the video

[@imatoaster_is_here]

Yeah, this is big brain time.

[@TWITTERCOPY]

Fax

[@miguelleis1607]

I mean that IS why it is called a spoiler warning

[@jameshamilton2462]

Spoiler warning for Tony Hawk's Underground, but spoils American Wasteland. Absolutely devastated.

[@TeraunceFoaloke]

someone failed at loading the script.

[@saintvalentine4040]

Smh ;( American wasteland was a lot game too

[@Dingg00se]

I remember the opening mission to American Wasteland where you bash that dudes head in

[@XaneMyers]

When I saw the logo appear, I was thinking "Wait, Underground has the usual obvious loading screens, how could it cover up loading?" I should've figured the real game would be the one with the weird corridors, American Wasteland…

[@johnnygma]

Great, now I'm scared of going through tunnels too quickly, because I'm thinking my town might not have finished loading the next area yet.

[@internetguy692]

speed limits exist for a reason, not to protect pedestrians from being hit, to protect drivers from falling off the map

[@dylang1138]

that's how the Allies won WWII. They tricked a huge army into running through a tunnel really fast.

[@B1SQ1T]

GTA Online still takes 10 minutes to load lol

[@AAhmou]

@Vectrum Until you switch servers.

[@gnatshat]

Or until everyone on the server happen to "quit" all at once

[@nayabali7326]

Gekyoi Speghetti lobby kick glitch

[@gnatshat]

@@nayabali7326 oH RealLy

[@vetrix7105]

No it doesn’t, you just got crappy internet bro...

[@James.Stark.Ben.Edition]

10:15 That's push to talk, my dude. You wouldn't want the other person overhearing *_everything_* that's going on.

[@respectableaf9061]

Silent Hill fog, not a loading screen per se, used to cover rendering limitations but just turned out to be scary as hell!

[@kylerbartsch3898]

STOP IT YOUR PROFILE PICTURE IS FREAKING ME OUT

[@JoelHernandez-tz3vk]

I think this is also called N64 fog.

[@VinLuiK]

At first I thought your pfp was animated

[@prettyboyjeremy]

This If I ever make a horror game it will be able to run on an N64 with all the scary door animations, dense fog, fixed camera angels and purposefully bad voice acting that clues you in there’s something seriously wrong here as they slowly go from well spoken to choppy aliens then betray you

[@zenkim6709]

Technically this was a long-running graphics design trick used throughout the game industry to conceal render-distance limitations in either 3D or psuedo-3D environments (going back @ least as far as Shadowcaster on DOS PCs) -- the result being that nearly every game back then was set in either a foggy fantasy world or a nighttime-only scenario. As late as 2001, the same basic technique was used in TES3: Morrowind due to the graphics limitations of the render engine.

[@ricksanchez8584]

Lol Anthem's loading screens let you take a nap

[@johnwheels89]

They was never long for me

[@xanderzmartini]

Anyone one remember the DBZ BT loading screens? Blowing up blocks, eating food with Goku, push-ups with Vegeta, pulling swords with Gohan, all good time killers

[@starwalkingsage7489]

I think it was budokai 3 maybe one idk one of the budokai games. They let you spin master roshi sitting on a turtle shell until he took flight.

[@anthonyontv]

Alex Martinez yeah that was a good call back

[@hidof9598]

Same!!!!Mine would be so faulty that the loading wouldn't end!

[@Dekushi]

As a little boy I always thought that when you can pull out all swords something special happens, but when I managed to do it I was dissapointet that nothing happened.

[@dbzandnarutomaniac]

Deku kinda like the show huh lol

[@alanwhite8678]

I may be late to the party, but didn't Silent Hill's fog also serve the dual purpose of disguising the load time AND prepping our bladders for evacuation at the drop of a dime?

[@medusathedecepticon]

True

[@scienceface8884]

Also, if I recall correctly, reduced the amount of things that needed to be rendered at all, which I imagine cut down on loading time. If you couldn't stand right next to it, it didn't exist.

[@wariodude128]

Well, I heard it's because the PS1 couldn't do draw distances very well. So they hid that by putting fog everywhere. It worked so well they kept it in the next two entries even when they didn't need to put it in there.

[@MaxMalevich]

Yeah, if you remove fog, you can see that the render distance is pretty low

[@JaelinBezel]

I used to watch The Rocketeer all the time as a kid.

[@auto_toons_official2423]

Tony hawk is still more active then most teens today so give him some respect he is still the greatest skater even in his 40s

[@bbkangs]

What about when you first get a game nowadays and it takes 2 hours to update it before you can even start playing!

[@davidkennedy1077]

I detest this in console gaming now. It used to be so easy for a mate to pop round with a new game for you to try, now you get to twiddle your thumbs for several hours before you realise you dont like it!!!

[@LB6banger]

That means you have terrible internet lol

[@davidkennedy1077]

@@LB6banger even without updates it takes too long. I preferred the 360 times of just slinging the disc in and playing.

[@mayowankenobi]

THIS!!!

[@amyhoard1222]

I miss the days that you could buy a game and start playing it as soon as the game was put in whether console you were using :(

[@butter_scotch]

Arkham Knight though. Had no loading screens whatsoever, other than loading a checkpoint. And drastic changes in the city environment (like the fear gas part) were rendered in during cutscenes

[@syukrir.robert8994]

Sidhartha Deka yep, Arkham knight is prob the best looking game till today and only have loading screen when you start to play the game

[@JaelinBezel]

Don't forget about the Precursor Legacy!

[@ddsjgvk]

The loss of elevators in Mass Effect was such a downgrade IMO. Would you rather have... Squad conversations and news reports talking about the actions you picked, Both what is normally si considered a good thing in games. Or would you rather have a boring loading screens?

[@dumvi3176]

Hero of Kush would you like to hear the conversations for 10 minutes

[@ddsjgvk]

@@dumvi3176 It was 10 minutes.

[@joshuaridgway3230]

Yes, think of how much Gilbert an Sullivan from Mordin we missed because there were no shuttle conversations.

[@UnboundChris]

I always enjoyed the ones in the DMC games, where you could just spam the attack buttons and watch the logo take an invisible beating. Weirdly cathartic.

[@Bigd2k]

Same thing with Disgaea where you can blow up Prinnys

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

Similar for Bayonetta 1. Just doing all of her combos over and over again while waiting for the next chapter to load was kind of nice after all the stress of the chapter.

[@johncarldelossantos7345]

sadly you can't do that on the remasters :l

[@maxvel0city906]

Andy is scary when he's angry, guess he didn't like Mike cutting in on his GENIUS monologue during the spoiler list.

[@scoundrell]

Max Vel0city angry, ranting Andy is the best Andy

[@maxvel0city906]

@@scoundrell Yes, only person that could put Andy in his place is Ellen in full OVERCOOKED RAGE MODE! 😂

[@ratty3985]

@@maxvel0city906 wait which video is that

[@maxvel0city906]

@@ratty3985 This one, I maybe didn't phrase it correctly, previously Andy has talked over the spoiler lists, Mike jumped in first on this one and tried to argue that the spoiler list was irrelevant, Andy was not pleased about that. If there's no spoiler lists then Andy can't do his genius monologues.

[@IkeFanBoy64]

Though not a disguise, Sims 3 added minigames into it's loading screens which are essentially iSpy themed around the game's DLCs. Though is was a bit buggy at times, it was pretty fun and it allowed you to earn a bit of Lifetime Happiness points for your household. I feel this was one of the best loading screens for a game considering how incredibly slow Sims 3's load times are

[@piercedsiren]

It was a good idea but for odd reasons, our old computer loaded it even slower when we had the game loading screen on. Now instead i have the song theme stuck in my head forever while looking at a flashy blue screen.

[@IkeFanBoy64]

@@piercedsiren It's was buggy as hell, but it's still a good way to pass time whilst the game loads.

[@bruhsoundeffect3029]

What about Battlefront's initial loading screen where you slaughter endless waves of rebels as an invincible Darth vader?

[@dylang1138]

is that a thing? If so... I need to get Battlefront right now.

[@dylang1138]

@Marc that's really awesome

[@The_Viktor_Reznov]

Damn, that's actually pretty nice.

[@ferox3334]

That's sick! In just cause 3 you can drive around a little island while it downloads the game

[@HeroLink98]

00:00 'Considering how long games used to load, everything under 5 min is a blessing' Someone hasn't played the N64.

[@5kulld]

HeroLink98 especially zelda games

[@MLennholm]

Or any of the old EPROM cartridge based systems, really.

[@DHTGK]

thats why the nintendo switch went back to the cartidge it loads much faster than discs

[@Ozzymandias0]

@@DHTGK Yeah. I have switch and ps4 both. With switch inserting cartridge and opening game tooks less than half second and with ps4 it tooks around 10

[@mmarocker]

@@DHTGK PS Vita loading times are almost non-existent as well

[@jonathangould189]

0:41 Dang it, you spoiled Fifa 19 for me.

[@WalrusWinking]

Yeah, I heard the story to that was good too. 🙃

[@p0tat024]

And the ending 🙂

[@scorpix96]

"lack of beard oil in ancient Norway" "Angry Kratos scream" That's the spot on editing that made me fall in love with oxbox

[@AngelBeatYunara]

That ME relay jump still gives me the goosebumps.

[@lifeincolour09]

It's loud as all hell, lol.

[@BeFunnyButKind]

Definitely, Never gets old! Load away game!

[@maxvel0city906]

Mass effect had such an epic soundtrack, I still boot it up every now and again just to listen to the menu music.

[@Exponaut_R-01]

I miss that sound so much

[@Gamer3427]

Not going to lie, just seeing that relay jump made me want to replay the series again, and I've already done that way too many times over the years.....

[@teslagasoline5629]

Shoutout to Budokai Tenkaichi 3 for those minigames, and when the loading times didn’t work and i got 500 bowls!!!

[@Daalington]

MIKE, I'M NOT F*ING KIDDING

[@thegreatpineapple4425]

In shadow of the tomb raider, Lara sometimes slowly moves/crawls through thick mud, crevices, foliage only to find herself in a tomb, a crypt or an enemy encounter!

[@C64_Mat]

Just finished this, and my GOD it's a pain in the arse. Swim ten metres, squeeze through gap. Walk ten metres, trudge through sludge. Squeeze through gap. Climb through horizontal gap. Squeeze. Trudge. Climb. Squeeze. All the while hitting the left stick in so as not to miss a collectible.

[@thegreatpineapple4425]

@@C64_Mat I try my best to ignore some of the collectables for my own convenience. But my inner hoarder strongly disagrees. 😂

[@WH250398]

The mud isn't the only thick thing about Lara...

[@thegreatpineapple4425]

@@WH250398 Yeah, her skin should be thick as a rhino's. How can someone take so many bullets like that otherwise?

[@farukss3836]

@@thegreatpineapple4425 well she using "plot armour

[@guitarwahy]

Tony hawks American wasteland also had “no loading screens” advertised on it lol

[@zoe-janesutherland4359]

Personally, I love the terrible dialogue and voice acting in Resident Evil 1, it really does add to the B-movie horror atmosphere, while adding a bit of levity once in a while, which in itself makes the game scary as the acting and dialogue make you forget that the game can be pants-shitting scary at times so the dialogue scenes lull you into a false sense of security and safety. Basically, when you are chuckling at the "master of unlocking" cutscene, you walk blissfully into an L-shaped hallway with very few cares until a dog bursts through window and gives you a heart attack.

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

Possible story explanation: Nervously fumbling to lighten the mood in an attempt to hold on to their cool.

[@noahdavis7406]

I don't know...the voice acting threw me off so hard I couldn't find the game at all scary. Just mildly annoying sometimes.

[@Williham]

"This is a terrible place to treat people for mental health issues." I feel like that sentence goes on for about 7 words too many, Andy.

[@DragoSonicMile]

... I get it!

[@steelewalker1527]

“People for mental health issues.”

[@CptWindwalker82]

Fun fact: Mass Effect 2's loading screens are an animation that *needs* to finish, even if loading is already done. I quickly replaced those animations when I found this out when I installed it on an SSD...

[@maywasp]

What did you replace them with

[@p0tat024]

@@maywasp something

[@poisonshift78]

Should've talked about how we ended up having to suffer through said loading screens. That certain company that put a patent on a specific type of loading screen... It's a very interesting story

[@markusstern8059]

Oh? And which company is this? And what's the loading screen?

[@markusstern8059]

You have me intrigued good sir.

[@robbyb3296]

@@markusstern8059 The company Namco Bandai had a patent on mini-games during loading screens, and the only way around it was to pay them a fee to make use of the feature. Such as EA did for their FIFA line of games. Granted now-days, even with the patent having expired in 2015 you won't fine the feature implemented really anywhere. Modern systems typically load to quickly to justify it or the development time to implement it.

[@Dingle.Donger]

Yeah mashing one button was oddly satisfying back in DBZ Budokai 3 and similar games. IIRC Tekken has their combo training system patented.

[@bunnynohoogle]

I thought for sure they’d bring it up. Though I’m also fairly certain they talked about it in depth in an older video on loading screens

[@zaxbard7158]

Dont forget the Mass Effect 3 door scans you did in the game, more specifically the annoying girls on the Normandy

[@robertagu5533]

Yeah... those 2 scamming bitches.. spent all of the Reaper War guarding the safest place in ME universe. Skatest job ever

[@johnshade5066]

@@robertagu5533 well, in regards to safest the first Normandy did kinda blow up

[@robertagu5533]

@@johnshade5066 yeah but course that was also before the war too though. Sure after that initial time at ME2s start no one again seemed to ever be able to even graze it if they shot at her.

[@petrusion2827]

@@robertagu5533 Well, Normandy did get attacked in Citadel DLC

[@robertagu5533]

@@petrusion2827 was that game 1? Knew from ME2 if you wanted the best outcomes you had to download a bit of content an missions from ME 2 an 3 but wasnt sure about 1

[@SarcasticGayLawyer]

Random thing to think about: if an elevator is taking you down, would you still call it an elevator? Its technically not elevating you.

[@Anto-xh5vn]

Delavator

[@hanhong2267]

If you think about it in the sense that it's changing your elevation, then yeah, it still works.

[@TheOmegaXicor]

It's elevating the counter-weight instead of you, or you instead of the counter-weight when going up

[@ilovetweek000]

descenter sounds cooler

[@blackT1E]

What happened to Jane? You guys didn't have enough resource to have her rendered?

[@silasbeck3585]

No one likes her

[@yikes4946]

@@silasbeck3585 you take that back damn scoundrel

[@blackT1E]

@@silasbeck3585 actually lots of people like her. She's funny in a weird way

[@saintvalentine4040]

Spiffy Waffles Jane is my Waifu 😤😤

[@l4p4k1]

Women take more polygons 😉

[@zlatkovnik]

Beware of spoilers for Fifa!

[@amyhoard1222]

How much game you actually spoil in any of EA's sports games, there's such minor changes between the yrs unless you change console ganerations that make it possible to change things a noticable amount : /

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

Deliberate hand-to-ball contact is illegal. :

[@kurtcometa4818]

I remember in RE3 in the clock tower stage where you were chased by nemesis and opening the doors takes 10 seconds. Jill be like "wait! im gonna open the door"

[@beholdnonsense5100]

If I remember correctly the first Portal game did the same Mass Effect thing of hiding its loading screens behind rubbish elevators

[@dylang1138]

replayed the Portal games a few months ago, that's probably the case. At least the elevators make more sense than in Mass Effect.

[@randomcatdude]

Not the case. The elevators actually just trigger a loading screen after a few test chambers. Portal's engine can't do such smooth transitions without code modification.

[@greenhowie]

There was a dragonball game a while ago where you could rotate the sticks and loads of these green dudes would dig out of the ground.

[@comical_prince_856]

Those were saibamen

[@mikesantini65]

That was buidikai 3 and in 2 master roshie would spin and in 1 it was a dragon radar u could control

[@sosakun3474]

mike santini i loved the spinning roshi as a kid, its like practice tbh

[@four-twenty4205]

And Gohan pulling the Z sword.

[@mission9music]

Goku's eating and vegeta's pushups

[@alex73217]

I liked the old pokemon fight loading scenes. They never felt like sth to give the game time. They seemed so purposeful. The game wouldn't be the same w/o it

[@JM1993951]

Fallout New Vegas hid the loading screens by freezing whenever you tried to enter a building or area, causing you to say "fuck it" and give up. I only play on console, I'm sure PC is much better. FNV has to be the best, yet simultaneously unplayable game of all time.

[@BoMwarriorVlog]

Yeah, no problems with it on PC for me. 👍🙂

[@darrellkiely91]

PC is only better because modders release their own patches to fix bathesda games.

[@illusions500]

@@darrellkiely91 no fnv is completely fine on its own

[@doriannv]

@@illusions500 well nah it's fucked up for me on steam several times

[@doriannv]

Had to restart my entire pc because I tried to leave Gomorrah

[@shamuriwarrior]

You put the Tony Hawk’s Underground logo in the beginning but then talked about Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland

[@IAtoms]

To buy more time

[@CRaZ3SK8t3rz212]

Gotem

[@triborg7919]

Disguised loading screen

[@Max-gy5rp]

I remember American Wasteland..fucking L O V E D O V E D that Tony hawk game. As well as both Underground's. Before Tony Hawk games went to shit

[@IROQUOISxPLISKEN]

Conspiracy

[@kamichikora6035]

"I don't know what happened... Silence... ... Barry, where is Barry?!" 😂🤣😂🤣

[@lifeincolour09]

00:45 - Mass Effect (Mike) 02:57 - Resident Evil (Andy) 05:04 - God of War (Luke) 07:12 - Tony Hawk's American wasteland (Mike) 09:00 - Batman: Arkham Asylum (Andy) 10:34 - Final Fantasy VII (Luke) 12:32 - Fifa Series (Mike) 14:26 Outro (Andy)

[@maxvel0city906]

Thanks👍👊

[@lifeincolour09]

@@maxvel0city906 NP.

[@KiomonDuck]

Put a spoiler warning! Lol

[@HazeEmry]

Where's Jane though?

[@Chaos89P]

@@lifeincolour09 Do you have any idea what that computer is? EDIT: Never mind. Found out. ZX Spectrum.

[@CaitlinRC]

Skyrim tries that by having you zoom aggressively in on an item or an enemy, whilst reading text and learning about the world. LEARNING? IN A GAME???

[@maxvel0city906]

Do you have to zoom in AGGRESSIVELY, or is that just how you roll Caitlin?

[@ashleycoonfield9051]

I’m pretty sure it has to be aggressively.

[@maxvel0city906]

@@ashleycoonfield9051Thanks for clarifying, been a while since I played Skyrim.

[@CaitlinRC]

@@maxvel0city906 I live the aggressive life

[@maxvel0city906]

@@CaitlinRC I assumed as much, have you passed your driving test yet? If you have, I'll remember to steer clear of you on the roads! 😋 Was rewatching a SOTWE the other day and you mentioned in the comments that you had SURVIVED your first driving lesson.

[@iemojigfx-nextblend5585]

I remember Dragon Ball Z had something like Goku doing pushups everytime u press "X" and I think that was the best way

[@magus3597]

And eat noodles!

[@frodobaggins7710]

The Metroid Prime games spring to mind. You shoot the shield guarding a door, and then have to wait a few seconds before it opens while the game is loading the next room

[@kadosho02]

Also there was a bug in the first print release. If you ran through a corridor too soon, and a door opens, the area may not load correctly. Later if you go to an elevator, and a horrendous long beep sound goes off. The game will lock. Only option is to restart, and keep in mind not to rush. This bug was later fixed in the Players Choice re-release

[@JoshTigerheart]

Also notice the game went from big room to small room to big room in almost every area. So while you were going down those narrow corridors, fighting enemies, solving morph ball puzzles, and grabbing power-ups, it was loading the next large room into memory.

[@quackerjack0118]

Frodo Baggins yeah and the second one has the portals that switch you from Aether to Dark Aether

[@Chaos89P]

@@quackerjack0118 The third one had Samus's ship go in and out of hyperspace.

[@JaelinBezel]

I like the airlocks in Jak 2.

[@senhowler]

I'm vaguely surprised it didn't cut back to the FF summon still going on at the end of the video.

[@jacobrobinson2729]

The elevators in Metroid Prime 1 had me and my brother thoroughly blown away before we knew they were loading sequences. Sometimes they were wonderfully cinematic and (in that day) unnoticeable.

[@ETHPrivate]

Katamari Damacy, when loading the king of all cosmos will say: Sending things to earth. But what gets even better, is that when reaching a certain size, he will interrupt you and say something about your Katamari, while the game is putting objects you can't see anymore away to ensure smoothness.

[@Wulff20ko]

5:30 you are fools to assume the mythical version of Norway did not invent beard oil, just look at literally any man you meet there

[@marhawkman303]

IIRC in the old days they used a hair product that was a mix of tallow and lye for beard oil.

[@starwalkingsage7489]

Viking berserkers like spartan warriors oiled their beards with the blood of their enemies.

[@marlonoswald551]

title: "how game designer hide loading screens." GTA 5: "We don't do that here."

[@wds2436]

Rockstar actually

[@Lost20048]

@@wds2436 nah LA Noire didnt have that bad loading screens

[@VeraTheTabbynx]

You mentioned Mass Effect's elevators, but what about the same system in Fallout 4? The elevators in that game take AGES. As "Game in 60 seconds" so aptly put it, "HOWTALLISTHISBUILDING!?"

[@diredinosaus]

Are the entries being written *during* the spoiler warnings?

[@diredinosaus]

That explains how Ellen put KoA in so many lists...

[@hannahmonteiro9229]

There *were* these "Hold on, I'm loading" doors in Arkham Asylum - you know, the doors that were "scanning" you before opening? I hated those, they were a poor effort to hide that the game was loading.

[@masons3251]

Ooohhhhh. How about the opposite? Times a game embraced the loading screen.

[@mr.raslyon6626]

Rival Schools on PS1...lovely anime art in between screens.

[@BroccOpp]

GTA

[@greencat3513]

Bloodborne?

[@A-G-F-]

Skyrim has to be the number 1

[@fatalequinox6553]

Assassins creed

[@MrMp33420]

The fog from Silent Hill was amazing and creepy

[@Kal-El207]

The world tree in GOW is probably the most clever way to load you in. It's so entertaining every time.

[@scorpix96]

My computer hides loading screens by catching fire. ... Maybe I should change some bits...

[@haimkomemi3978]

You should watch the first video andy suggests. This one is about loading with you "not knowing" its loading...

[@Abdega]

That’s just a feature they added in Windows 10

[@SlewedBoot25934]

My comment sections hide loading screens by spamming unoriginal comments

[@Sasuke83]

My favourite was Okami where you get the valuable Demon fangs by playing a rhythm mini game, or the more fun button mashing mini game.

[@lloydrawling1878]

"You can mash the triangle button to freak out which is a 2019 mood" Me in 2020- "oh boy you dont have a clue"

[@PoisonedAl]

Really? No frame shift drive from Elite: Dangerous? That not only made a loading screen epic sounding, but made you pay attention unless you wanted to face plant into a sun. Or two suns. Or a black hole.

[@kadosho02]

Lots of insane stuff happened

[@erinhaury5773]

Zero your throttle as soon as your FSD engages. I haven't hit a single solar exclusion zone since I got into the habit. Do still be prepared for neutron stars and black holes though. >.>

[@starwalkingsage7489]

Elite is the single coolest loading screen innovation. They literally used the loading screen to add to player immersion. Props to frontier for such a unique idea.

[@PeanutButterfly92]

Having grown up with using AOL and now being someone who now gets annoyed when a computer takes more then a minute to boot up, I think that I must have been a much more patience person when I was a little kid then I am now.

[@sunbrosolaire2635]

When he said "Mike I'm not fucking kidding write some entry's" I broke down in laughter

[@greasermex]

Now I’m curious, I wonder what’s loading while the Show of the Week/ Weekend intro is playing?

[@TheOneEV2]

The glorious couch, but of course. 😏

[@HazeEmry]

The script maybe?

[@seatbelttruck]

I've never played God of War because the premise didn't really appeal to me, so... HOLY CRAP! THAT'S CHRISTOPHER JUDGE! TEAL'C FTW!

[@Wubbeyman]

Indeed

[@BFedie518]

I didn't even notice that because i was too distracted by Kratos' kid sounding exactly like Aang from the original ATLA.

[@REACTIONGAMING100]

The new God of war game doesnt feel like a god of war game in my opinion. I enjoyed the original style fixed camera hack and slash gameplay also the ability to jump when ever you want to is nice but the newer game is great don't get me wrong it just didn't feel like the God of war game I was expecting it would be... You also can't jump lol

[@gokou00716]

@@REACTIONGAMING100 which one is it? First you say the new gow feels like gow game, and then you say the new gow game doesn't feel like a gow game.

[@Malus1531]

Teal'c is a perfect choice, so manly. And the episode where he joins up with Ronon (Jason Momoa)? Double badass.

[@josephmcguigan9681]

I enjoy the loading screens in Devil May Cry, where you could attack the "now loading" in the bottom corner

[@MaxMalevich]

Hitman: Absolution played cutscenes while loading. If the cutscene is finished but didn't load though, then there will appear the loading screen. If the level loaded before cutscene ends, then you can skip the cutscene

[@gamezonfirea-zgamedictiona7388]

Call of duty

[@superdrinkingpepsi]

Max Payne 3 did the same thing too.

[@zesock5280]

I love FFX's loading screen, the screen cracking like glass and the way the enemies( especially the bosses) loaded was gorgeous. Although I guess this is basically what they mentioned for FFVII

[@hfric]

you forgot DEAD SPACE , that did a brilliant job on hiding map loads as Doors ... and its slow opening was tied into its game , and gave this game atmosphere ... even mixed it up with few enemies that would chase you ... another one would be ALIEN ISOLATION that hid its map loads with a DOOR QTE , when every time you had to do a silly QTE to open a door

[@peakingmantis5331]

I actually like loading screens. Gives you a minute to disconnect from whats happening on the screen and refresh your thoughts.

[@lionocyborg6030]

I know the Mass Effect elevator method from Mirror's Edge. Those ones usually also come with digital newspapers built into the walls, making you _crave_ slow loading times just to get enough time to read them all. Tomb Raider 0 (2013) and possibly the other prequel reboot trilogy games hid map loads in cutscenes in certain areas. You also walk really slowly when entering Assassin... I mean challenge tombs and certain other passages. Earlier Tomb Raider games (1-5) couldn't draw most of the level at once so they have black fog that hides the landscape popping in. They are also designed in some areas to hide even that, by breaking up long hallways with columns in the way, as they teach in the level editor manual. Metroid 1 & 2 at least have doors and transition areas where you slide from place to place as new parts of the same map load. Metroid 2 even has tiles glitch out when it loads a new tile set, so you know when you are entering a new area. AM2R does something similar without the tile glitching and it loads just as fast as it's on the gamemaker engine which as is basic as they come by but can still make good stuff if used right, the 2D version of Unity. Earlier 3D GTA games (except San Andreas) had bridges between major landmasses of the cities, though they still threw in a quick "Tomb Raider 3 on PC splash loading screen" on those bridges anyway, in the form of a welcome sign. Assassins' Creed disguised it's loading screens...as loading screens. Most of the time you are in the animus so the meat of the game's maps loading for us is the same for Desmond. You can even wander around the void as you wait. A fun thing to do in AC1's animus loading screens is to try and outrun the glitch effects of said screen and keep going until you hit an invisible wall. The Prince of Persia Sands of Time trilogy are usually a straight shot all the way through like Half Life, except cutscenes so they probably hide the loading in those like Tomb Raider 0 does, especially FMV sequences, where the map changes are more blatant. Warrior Within's Sonic CD crossed with Tomb Raider Legend style time portals also have FMVs that play every time you use one, in order to load the opposite time period.

[@fatimapalacios2292]

Mass effect elevator was cool if you took Wrex and Garrus. the bickering was very funny

[@justuslm]

Don't forget The Crew 2, which has you go through a tunnel or between fences at walking speed in order to load the event (which takes time because of the server connection). Sometimes it doesn't finish in time, but in general it is a bit more emmersive than simply getting a loading screen. The game then buys some more time by having a 6 second long 3... 2... 1... timer at the start of each event. After an event is finished or aborted, you don't get put through a specific section or slowed down, you just keep going, which I find very cool. There are some races where it loads and you see a generic timelapse clip of the sun and clouds, but this is only done when the race is set at specific time and weather conditions, which somewhat makes sense. I would think that you could make that change while driving through a tunnel, though, but with the fences it it would look very weird (although it could work if it was actually done as a timelapse while you are driving at walking speed, but you'd have to load that in somehow so it really isn't easy).

[@marcohaullussy3389]

If batman wore airpods, he wouldn't be able to hear us

[@Eli-akad]

Marco Haullussy Batpods

[@Max-gy5rp]

They don't come in black so he won't wear them

[@suelviana1982]

Batpods name is already used to store his suit according to arkhan asylum

[@MIXANDMTCH]

@@Max-gy5rp he'd probably pay someone to custom make a pair in black

[@PhirePhlame]

The Citadel's same trick is something of a mainstay in the Metroid series, even as far back as the first game. This may seem odd considering the sheer relative speed of cartridges back in the day, but Metroid 1 was originally released on a _floppy!_

[@sgwcyingko]

"Why are you loading?" *me in my fake Ugandan accent*

[@bilalthefighter829]

lol

[@haroldradido]

😂😂😂 Nigerian you mean

[@DistortedMemories555]

"WHY ARE YOU LOADING?!"

[@billypitts2334]

i really did enjoy the banter between folks in elevators

[@CarbonKnights]

There is at least one of these in Tomb Raider 2013, we were playing the other day for our channel and we just finished fighting on this structure that was hoisted between some mountains, and once we passed it, we got onto a cable car and passed through some cloud, so that the game could just have a white background all around while Lara chatted on the radio

[@dannyrodz]

Batman and GoW best loading screens, they feel par of the game, even learn the lore with the dialogues during this "loading screens".

[@shakenfaun_8126]

They were more like cutscenes than loading screens

[@rickim.clarke8894]

I feel Fifa loading screens are zway underated...literal minigames and challenges before games. Its genius actually but ppl dont give it its props

[@WitheredFreddo]

Now what about those loading screens in the stanley parable. Or in the normal elevator When each elevator room needs to load. so you get real-time elevator music and time.