Sonic load times are slow ... very slow

Assault Heroes has some criminally long load times. Fortunately the game is worth the wait.

The far too frequent loading screens on Smackdown VS Raw are a bit much as well.

now to ask the question, what exactly is it loading? There's only 1 or 2 lines of text with no voiceover after each load. Someone needs to teach Sega how to cache parts of the game, no matter how bad it is coded. There must be a ton of redundency.

I had a go of the demo for Sonic a few weeks back. Not impressed at all.

Sega should do a classic Sonic side-scrolling platformer for XBLA. Sonic just doesn't work in 3D.

It's like it's loading the whole level all over again... that's retarted

This is clearly an issue of the 360 using a previous generation optical drive. Now that Blu-ray has arrived, how can anyone put up with this? ;)

That Blu-Ray comment confuses me? I hope you don't think the BR drive is faster, because its the complete opposite.

5. This is clearly an issue of the 360 using a previous generation optical drive. Now that Blu-ray has arrived, how can anyone put up with this? ;)

Oh quit being a jackass PS3 fagboy just get out of here and go cry that you sold your soul for your blue-ray PS3 because I don't really have a problem with loding screens thats the time I get to sip my drink before I kick some ass!

I was kidding about the Blu-Ray comment for those who ignored the wink. The new Sonic simply sucks and it's sure to be even worse on the slower Blu-Ray format. Happy New Year!

Yeah sorry about my comment I thought you were just being an ass hole and after I saw the video well... that is a long time to load lol, so sorry for my comment and Happy New Year everyone!

well if the game installs on the ps3 then the load times shouldn't be too bad. But hey load times or no load times this game still sucks.

Nearly every game I have has perfectly acceptable loading times.

Why did they have to let Sonic go this way? The demo didn't have loading times like this... you can tell there just wasn't enough work from the developers.

How many bad games can you fit on a PS3 hard drive though? If every game that they can't be assed to optimize involves installing on the hard drive, you won't get very far.

God dammit. You just prompted me to count the number of 360 games on my shelf. It's pushing 30 now, and that doesn't count the XBLA games (of which I own them ALL! Like freakin' Pokemon...damn bastards) and the BK games, or the Xbox games that I've purchased after they hit the BC list this year (I owned a number of Xbox games before, so I won't hold my counting them against you).

this game sucks, just ignore it completely to avoid the horrendous amount of wait of loading time to play a crappy game.

Oblivion takes FOR-FUCKING-EVER to load.

GoW has very short load times because it keeps loading once the game is in session. They're hidden in the background.

You can tell because textures get more detailed and sharper in the seconds following loading.

Slow like how quickly you kids learned about this huh? :)

I'm the poor sap who reviewed it for Xboxic (link's in my name, plug) and yes, they were absolutely horrible. Assault Heroes' load times are acceptable because it loads an entire zone, and Oblivion's are acceptable because unless you warp they don't interrupt gameplay. (Also, the game is huge.) In addition, these are actually good games.

What Sonic does, is you talk to the townsperson, then it loads forever, then he talks to you again, then it loads again, then you play the mission, then it loads again, and gives you your ranking, and one more load screen before you get back into town.

Needless to say this game was sold.

I own this game, it's bad. REALLY BAD. The story is poor and makes little sense. The load times are very long, as you can see...
So now the only reason I'm playing it is for some achievements.

Burnout Revenge loading times suck. They're not that long, but every time you restart a race it has to load it all again. This gets veeeeery annoying in hard races or so where you need to drive perfect from the start & keep restarting till u get it right.

I have this game, the load times are long cause it reloads the whole level, I know cause mine glitched once and the person didnt auto talk like he was supposd to, I walked through the whole level, and he was the only person there.

And it's a good game, it's fun with a great story, just long load times.

uh, sonic? yeah buh-bye

OMG I´m posting this from my PS3 browser (oh sorry, your 360 cant do this)and im planning after this to play Gran Turismo HD that actually beats PGR 3 graphically. About the loading times, the PS3 Sonic game will be as fast as Sonic. Happy New Year 360 Fanboys.
PS3 Fanboys.
P.D. About the guy who asked how many crap could fit in a PS3 Hard drive?? This is the answer: 40 MORE GIGS THAN THE CRAP THAT WOULD FIT IN YOUR 360 : )

"Why did they have to let Sonic go this way? The demo didn't have loading times like this... you can tell there just wasn't enough work from the developers." - Ciaran Gallagher

No worries about that, the real stages load the same as in the demo. And I hated that particular town mission too - because it's got the WORST LOADING PROBLEM IN THE GAME. There are only a couple other town missions in the game that have more than just the beginning and ending loading screens, and even those aren't as bad as this one. Still, I wish Sega had realized that it's stupid to make people wait through a long loading screen to see a short comment and then another long loading screen for the level. But keep in mind, TOWN MISSIONS ARE SIDE QUESTS. The real, required missions are much better with loading.

"The story is poor and makes little sense." - Andrew GO

Only if you don't know much Sonic history at all. The story has its problems, but it makes a lot more sense than you think.

Oh, on another topic: Metalcore, have you no shame? If you're gonna brag and be obnoxious about the PS3, do so at PS3 Fanboy, PLEASE. Every console has its advantages and disadvantages; I can think of more than a few problems with the PS3 as well. Please, either shape up or shut up.

Sonic the Hedgehog is not a good game, regardless of what system it is released for. I think that the main problem is that Sega is trying to release the game for both the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3, and they actually are different.

You see, the transfer rate of information is actually faster with DVD than it is Blu-ray, which means that the Xbox 360 version should have fast load times. The reason why Sega probably delayed Sonic the Hedgehog on the Playstation 3 is probably because of these awful load times.

The really bad thing is that if Sega would have wanted to, they easily could have improved the load times on the Xbox 360 version. Sega was just too interesting in making the game the same on both systems, even if it meant not optimizing the game for the Xbox 360 and its faster data transfer rate.

The last Sonic game I played that was fun was on the Dreamcast. Sega should just stick to keeping Sonic a 2D game. There is no shame in keeping the gameplay 2D, but using 3D polygons rather than 2D sprites.

Gears has short loading times? HAHAHAHA!!!

Seriously, if you die then you have to sit through some long-ish loading times...