Sick and tired of intro screens.

Post by **kinn** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:43 am

Anyone else here sick and tired of all those intro splash screens when you first load up a game?

I'm ok with the developer and publisher splash screen but often you get other screens which show copyright info or which technology was used i.e. like renderware, rad tools, CRI etc. which you have to sit through everytime you boot the game up.

The worst thing of all is that often you cannot even push a button to skip them! Ok so some maybe loading some data or something while showing these screens but what?

Is it just me being grumpy or does anyone else have issue with this?

Post by **Ender** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:47 am

I feel your pain.
Hate most of them as well.
But...There's some worth your time.

Check Shadow of The Colossus (PS2) intro for instance.
Pretty impressive.

Post by **racketboy** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 12:53 pm

I feel your pain...
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2007/05/ ... ppear.html

Post by **Yackom** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:43 pm

It might not be the game developers fault, they may have contractual reasons like "you must display this logo during start up of this game" like the 100s of games that have the soft-mpeg logo.

But in my opinion I hate the fact companies are ramping up for in game ads. That is far worse than those splash screens.

Post by **Mozgus** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:34 pm

Thats what I love about PC games. Quite a few of them just instantly get to the main menus, like most of Valve and Epic's stuff. For the games that don't, you can usually replace those business logos with null files and the game will just instantly shoot to the main menu from then on.

Post by **kinn** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:32 pm

Yackom wrote:It might not be the game developers fault, they may have contractual reasons like "you must display this logo during start up of this game" like the 100s of games that have the soft-mpeg logo.

But in my opinion I hate the fact companies are ramping up for in game ads. That is far worse than those splash screens.

Fair enough if its a contractual thing but surely they dont imply how long they stay onscreen? I mean why can't we skip them when you hit the start button?

Post by **Pullmyfinger** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:54 pm

some companies have a policy of having their logo x time on screen at startup

Post by **kinn** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:27 pm

Pullmyfinger wrote:some companies have a policy of having their logo x time on screen at startup

Thats just the Publishers/Developers right?

I think Nintendo has this policy right?

Post by **metaleggman** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:19 pm

I hate that on Crackdown since you can't skip it. This is a pretty big problem...I mean on the older consoles, usually they just had a skipable intro and then the main menu. Tis a shame. But what I hate the most is when you have to load to get to a menu, like on the Saturn and stuff. So STUPID!

Very annoying.

Post by **marurun** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:24 pm

I hate on older (and even newer) console and PC games where you have to wait forever for the game to load so that you can then watch the intro screens and movies. And then the game has to load AGAIN to get you to the menu, because it wasted all the initial memory space loading logos! Bastards...