Blatant Loading Screens!
The advent of disc-based consoles in the ’90s gave developers the chance to cram in huge worlds and detailed textures, but they had to give in to loading times because of slow read speeds that plagues even new consoles. However, loading screens were invented and some developers even had novel ways to ease the process of loading levels. Still then, there have been unsightly loading screens and ones that are just so blatant that they are annoying. OMGlists takes a look at some of the most annoying ones, which includes Mass Effect. Here’s a bit:
You know what’s worse than suffering through a long elevator ride? Suffering through a long elevator ride knowing that the fate of the entire universe rests in your hands. And yet, that’s exactly what you have to do in the Mass Effect. Never mind that it’s set thousands of years in the future and that humans have mastered inter-stellar travel: they just can’t seem to get a firm grasp on elevator technology.
Yes, we’re aware that each area in Mass Effect is huge and the elevator rides are necessary to disguise the fact that they’re being loaded but couldn’t they have come up with something a bit more inventive? Heck, we would have even settled for a flight of stairs because at least we’d be actively moving around instead of just standing there, staring at the wall.