simple@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoMasahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logowww.videogameschronicle.comexternal-linkmessage-square141fedilinkarrow-up1967arrow-down19 cross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up1958arrow-down1external-linkMasahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logowww.videogameschronicle.comsimple@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square141fedilink cross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.works
minus-squaredeafboy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up60arrow-down1·1 month agoThe only thing worse than unskipable ads are the waiting screens (press a button to continue) in front of the loading screens. I mean, the machine is capable of billions of operations per second. Why is it waiting for ME to push a button?
minus-squaredev_null@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 month agoSo that if you leave the room to make yourself a tea or something while the game is loading, your won’t miss the cut scene / beginning of the action / lose the game because it started without you present.
minus-squarearin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoIt’s just an arcade feature that got brought over
minus-squareaksdb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoAt least some games parallelize this. The game then already loads assets, caches shaders etc while the intro rolls.
minus-squarerushaction@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoBut however will it determine the player one controller … on a desktop computer?
The only thing worse than unskipable ads are the waiting screens (press a button to continue) in front of the loading screens.
I mean, the machine is capable of billions of operations per second. Why is it waiting for ME to push a button?
So that if you leave the room to make yourself a tea or something while the game is loading, your won’t miss the cut scene / beginning of the action / lose the game because it started without you present.
It’s just an arcade feature that got brought over
At least some games parallelize this. The game then already loads assets, caches shaders etc while the intro rolls.
But however will it determine the player one controller … on a desktop computer?