Games are massive - massive in scope, in cost to produce and massive in terms of graphic and sonic assets. High definition bitmaps that craft the visual world you're about to throw yourself into comes in at gigabytes and that kind of data takes some time to get loaded into memory. Wait a minute... Yes it does take time and simply put I don't care. It's not my problem and I won't take it any more. Deliver the game on a cheap flash drive, a custom made SSD or via magic but I won't put up with "Loading, don't turn off your console". We didn't have that with the SNES or Mega Drive - you popped in the cart and three seconds after the famous "Say Ga" logo you were happily drowning Sonic the Hedgehog to upset your younger brother. Watch Dogs comes on two discs on the Xbox 360 and if you use the Xbox dashboard to install the game it will then laugh at you and install itself again from the game's menu, thus installing itself twice. This process takes around twenty to thirty minutes and that's just installing it. The game then poohs on you from a great height by taking forever to load every time you want to play it. Should you die or fail a mission then enjoy that lengthy loading screen as you'll be seeing it a lot. There's no excuse for installations that take half an hour or loading screens that stay on screen for longer than a few seconds. As games get bigger and more complex this problem is only going to get worse and I have yet to see a single new technology or proposed system that addresses the issue.
A Welsh semi-retired television producer and actor known for low end work that astonishingly people actually watched and even garnered some awards. Originally residing in the electrically-challenged Amish areas of Pennsylvania he has written a few books (Hollywood Pants and Hollywood Horrible Hints and Terribly Fake Tips vols 1 & 2) which you can buy on amazon and all great book stores.
After a brief stint in Australia he now finds himself back in the Welsh valleys of his home country noting that it hasn't changed a bit!
