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on: February 25, 2006, 01:42:33 PM

Almost put this in useless videos, but it's videogame related.

Watch someone try to play Smackdown vs. Raw 2006 on the PSP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH3dc7IZVPc&search=psp%20load%20time

Note: I own a PSP, this game has to have some amazingly shoddy programming or simply make the PSP do too much. None of the titles I own are anywhere near this bad.

And I thought Stuntman was horrible.
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Reply #1 on: February 27, 2006, 06:10:01 AM

Feh, serves anyone that would shell out that kinda cash for anything WWE related right.

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Reply #2 on: February 28, 2006, 03:32:42 AM

It's a console, only, you know, smaller.

You can't expect much else from a platform with insufficient ram. I assume the link shows it even worse than usual (link is down atm), but this is pretty much how I feel when I am subjected to anything at all on a console. /shrug


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Reply #3 on: February 28, 2006, 04:33:12 AM

Load times are definately a UMD read issue more than a RAM issue. Playing a game off the memory stick (we're talking UMD ISOs here) is about 700% faster. UMD drives suck. But then, I'm getting load screens everywhere it seems lately. I've been playing Riviera, Sigma Star Saga and something a rather else, and they all have well hidden load screens (well, 2 of them are blended into the game well). And those are GBA cartridges.
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Reply #4 on: February 28, 2006, 02:57:54 PM


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Reply #5 on: February 28, 2006, 07:35:08 PM

The only thing funnier than someone staring at all this loading so they can play a game, is me staring at it and not even getting to play the game.

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Reply #6 on: February 28, 2006, 07:36:55 PM

The only thing funnier than someone staring at all this loading so they can play a game, is me staring at it and not even getting to play the game.
I don't get how anyone could put up with that. By the time the match loaded I'd be chucking the UMD in the trash and putting Lumines back in.

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Reply #7 on: February 28, 2006, 07:52:46 PM

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Reply #8 on: February 28, 2006, 10:27:26 PM

Wow, that's really awful. I remember getting pissed off at Kotor's constant loading screens for every damn room in the game, but that PSP thing makes it look tame.

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Reply #9 on: March 01, 2006, 02:00:42 AM

That game makes Deus Ex 2 look riveting.
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Reply #10 on: March 01, 2006, 06:44:46 AM

That just seems very broken. That should get a ZERO from any site that reviews it...but it won't.

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Reply #11 on: March 01, 2006, 07:57:38 AM

So is Stacy Keibler in it?

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Reply #12 on: March 01, 2006, 08:20:45 AM

So is Stacy Keibler in it?

Looks like she was one of the loading screens. I don't get why it kept switching to loading screens for shit that was like a two second moving bitmap.

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Reply #13 on: March 02, 2006, 06:35:05 AM

It had loading screens for loading screens. Incredible.

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Reply #14 on: March 07, 2006, 04:47:27 PM

Those loading times make my old Commodore 64 with 1541 floppy drive look FAST.
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Reply #15 on: March 08, 2006, 06:37:36 AM

In the same vein...

Some guy plays 4 tracks (including one he creates) and a minigame in Gripshift in the time it takes Smackdown vs. Raw to put up a match.

WTF mate.

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Reply #16 on: March 10, 2006, 06:09:46 AM

Damn, the first one is removed

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Reply #17 on: March 10, 2006, 06:11:02 AM

You can actually watch the first one in the corner of the second video. It's there for comparison.

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Reply #18 on: March 11, 2006, 05:08:42 AM

Yeah, but I wanted to read the smart-assy comments on it. Can't see 'em properly in the mini-one.


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