Anti-Soul

[Tangerine]

Mass Effect masked loading times with long elevator rides for console. People complained about it a lot.

I liked the elevator loading scenes. Found it more immersive than a still image with a loading bar and "tip of the day" text.

[J1M]

Mass Effect masked loading times with long elevator rides for console. People complained about it a lot.

I liked the elevator loading scenes. Found it more immersive than a still image with a loading bar and "tip of the day" text.

For some reason, the only loading screen that the mainstream audience will accept is watching a painfully slow animation of someone squeezing between some objects.

I have to assume this is because they can't understand that these are loading screens due to hardware limitations and think their console is powerful.

[rusty_shackleford]

I.hate those because better hardware doesn't speed it up.

[Tangerine]

I.hate those because better hardware doesn't speed it up.

Anti-soul.

[TKVNC]

Fast travel instead of diagetic travel.

Yeah, but on the other hand, fast travel is sort of necessary if you want a character to travel anywhere farther than he could get on his own two feet in about 5-10 minutes.

Maybe as a compromise, you get a fast travel map which works like the plane-map travel in an Indiana Jones movie, where you're obliged to sit through quietly because if you keep trying to mash buttons to skip it, you'll first receive a stern warning from a flight attendant to stop causing a disturbance, and if you keep mashing, TSA agents will cuff you and drag you off the plane?

Morrowind does diagetic travel perfectly.

You can teleport with mark and recall - or, you can use intervention scrolls. You can also use guild teleportation, or boats and silt striders.

This all avoids the immersion breaking teleport around without any explanation. A few games (including Bethesda) allow time to change during this, which is fair enough - but it lacks the immersion of using transport.

[rusty_shackleford]

Fast travel instead of diagetic travel.

Yeah, but on the other hand, fast travel is sort of necessary if you want a character to travel anywhere farther than he could get on his own two feet in about 5-10 minutes.

Maybe as a compromise, you get a fast travel map which works like the plane-map travel in an Indiana Jones movie, where you're obliged to sit through quietly because if you keep trying to mash buttons to skip it, you'll first receive a stern warning from a flight attendant to stop causing a disturbance, and if you keep mashing, TSA agents will cuff you and drag you off the plane?

Morrowind does diagetic travel perfectly.

You can teleport with mark and recall - or, you can use intervention scrolls. You can also use guild teleportation, or boats and silt striders.

This all avoids the immersion breaking teleport around without any explanation. A few games (including Bethesda) allow time to change during this, which is fair enough - but it lacks the immersion of using transport.

Morrowind's fast travel system is only like 5% better than Oblivion's. It shouldn't be instant, except for teleportation which should be appropriately expensive considering that it's ******* teleportation.

[Oyster Sauce]

Yeah, but on the other hand, fast travel is sort of necessary if you want a character to travel anywhere farther than he could get on his own two feet in about 5-10 minutes.

Maybe as a compromise, you get a fast travel map which works like the plane-map travel in an Indiana Jones movie, where you're obliged to sit through quietly because if you keep trying to mash buttons to skip it, you'll first receive a stern warning from a flight attendant to stop causing a disturbance, and if you keep mashing, TSA agents will cuff you and drag you off the plane?

Morrowind does diagetic travel perfectly.

You can teleport with mark and recall - or, you can use intervention scrolls. You can also use guild teleportation, or boats and silt striders.

This all avoids the immersion breaking teleport around without any explanation. A few games (including Bethesda) allow time to change during this, which is fair enough - but it lacks the immersion of using transport.

Morrowind's fast travel system is only like 5% better than Oblivion's. It shouldn't be instant, except for teleportation which should be appropriately expensive considering that it's ******* teleportation.

I unironically love riding gryphons for 20 minutes

[Norfleet]

I unironically love riding gryphons for 20 minutes

20 minutes, pssh. That's not even enough time to get ATC to clear you for takeoff. You're looking at maybe 15 minutes for the ground workers to remove the boarding ladder so you can push back from the gate and ATC to give you taxi clearance, 10 minutes to taxi to the runway, and 15 minutes to get clearance to actually take off, so MAYBE 40 minutes after boarding, you'll FINALLY get airborne.

And don't think taking the ox-train is any better. That just combines the convenience of flying with the speed of walking.

[Norfleet]

I liked the elevator loading scenes. Found it more immersive than a still image with a loading bar and "tip of the day" text.

Obviously, the solution is to give you some hot elf chick to talk to while riding said elevator.