Loading Screens? : V

» Sat May 21, 2011 5:19 am

I have had a search but have found no information regarding loading screens. Does anyone know if Skyrim will feature them when you, say, go into a cave, a city etc........ or will the new engine allow complete fluidity throughout the experience? I like to think we have progressed since Oblivion but there are hardware limitations to take into account here (Consoles). Any knowledge or thoughts on this?

» Fri May 20, 2011 10:27 pm

I'm fairly certain we will have loading screens... we can only hope cities atleast will be open

» Sat May 21, 2011 1:15 am

There will most likely be loading screens. As long as things are separated between cells there will be.

» Sat May 21, 2011 10:34 am

Cities will be open. That's all we know so far.

» Sat May 21, 2011 6:43 am

I'm fairly certain dungeons, buildings and such will still have loading screens, however, many seem to believe that cities will not. I'm not sure if this has been officially confirmed however or if it's just speculation based on what we've seen so far.

» Sat May 21, 2011 11:33 am

There will definitely be load screens.

All but the most high end PCs would be able to run it without transitions, and since the lead platform is a console, there are going to be load screens.

» Sat May 21, 2011 11:50 am

I have absolutely no problem with this, not in morrowind, not in oblivion and i am pretty certain, not in skyrim either.

» Sat May 21, 2011 5:38 am

In morrowind (maybe in Oblivion also), one of the ini options give you the option to adjacent cells being loaded in the background. It, didn't work very well though (stuttering and unstability) and only works with exterior cells, but they could have done this better this time. Must say that I am not expecting this and it's not a big deal for me either, but I think it's not entirelly immposible.

» Sat May 21, 2011 2:10 am

I have had a search but have found no information regarding loading screens. Does anyone know if Skyrim will feature them when you, say, go into a cave, a city etc........ or will the new engine allow complete fluidity throughout the experience? I like to think we have progressed since Oblivion but there are hardware limitations to take into account here (Consoles). Any knowledge or thoughts on this?

im sure it has its loading screens.

» Fri May 20, 2011 10:16 pm

I don't mind loading screens really. I hope most ,if not all, towns,villages and cities are open...but as for building's etc thats fine.....it helps keep the game smoother.
Some won't like it,but it didn't stop us playing oblivion thats for sure

......like i said, i believe it's needed.

» Sat May 21, 2011 12:40 pm

There is no game I know that doesn't have loading screens.

» Sat May 21, 2011 12:51 am

I'm thinking it will have loading screens, I just hope they are not as painfully long as I remember some of Morrowind's being. Sometimes the game would freeze while loading and I wouldn't even notice for about a minute. :brokencomputer:

» Fri May 20, 2011 10:43 pm

There is no game I know that doesn't have loading screens.

Duck Hunt.

» Sat May 21, 2011 1:07 am

Skyrim is GUARANTEED to have loading screens considering the 360's measily 512MB of shared RAM.

» Sat May 21, 2011 6:29 am

There is no game I know that doesn't have loading screens.

Yeah, even games that advertise no loading screens, have loading screens. I'm fairly sure cities won't but houses, castles, ruins, and dungeons will.

» Sat May 21, 2011 12:44 am

There is no game I know that doesn't have loading screens.

Does Pong have a loading screen?

» Sat May 21, 2011 11:04 am

16 bit games don't have load screens.

» Sat May 21, 2011 3:20 am

Does Pong have a loading screen?

haha,very funny. (sarcasm)

pong had to load to ram too.
it was just so few kb that the whole level would load in less than a second.
but we are talking about a modern game.
find me 1 game on xbox360 or ps3 that doesn't have a loading screen.

@Luke Skyrimmer.
Yeah but 16bit games where less than 500kb each.
Modern games are more than a hundred times bigger than that.

» Sat May 21, 2011 3:47 am

Let's just hope they make the loading screens as entertaining as possible. The more artworks and lore info they include the merrier (Oblivion's loading screens get reeaaally long and repetitive after 200 hours of gameplay^^).

» Sat May 21, 2011 1:29 am

There is no game I know that doesn't have loading screens.

Maybe nobody here has played it, but I'm pretty sure Gothic 4 - Arcania does not have load screens when you enter dungeons, not on the PC version anyways.

Also, just to put my tuppence worth in, load screens do NOT bother me. I was just enquiring. I would love Oblivion just as much if it didn't have them.

» Sat May 21, 2011 12:47 pm

I think someone from Bethesda said there would be loading screens (in an indirect way, mind you) in a reply to someone's question, perhaps in the GI podcast?

» Sat May 21, 2011 2:09 pm

There will be loading screens. How else will we get useful tidbits about the game when we are going in and out of buildings???