This joke would’ve worked like 5 years ago but with SSD’s being so prevalent now load times are currently trivial for basically any game, even bulky AAA’s. Elden ring is like 8-10 seconds for me.
Those 5-10‰ of the time are absolutely excruciating when you’ve gotten used to SSD gaming, though. Especially when you have moderate to severe ADHD so any kind of waiting sets the Gears of Distraction in motion lol.
And it’s almost always an AAA game even though those are the ones with the LEAST excuse for not being optimized
Dunno sometimes it’s gotta be something with their asset loading methodology. I put Battletech on my NVME and it still had crazy like 3-5-minute loads. A mod fixes it really well though and made the otherwise-great game much more playable.
I am having a hard time envisioning a significant number of people with 1) current AAA games, 2) machines powerful enough to play them, but 3) without an SSD. That has to be a very small group.
SSD’s are not expensive at all to someone buying AAA games and playing on modern rigs. They cost as much as a single game now.
A 512gb external SSD is trivial to get. In the US they’re like $60. If you can afford a modern computer that can play AAA games at half decent settings there’s no way you don’t have an SSD. You can’t even buy computers with internal HDD’s anymore without looking for it specifically.
Yeah I built my pc two years ago. Didn’t bother with an ssd, wound up getting 4tb of ssd last year because it needed it (well I thought that’s what it needed, it did need it, but my problem was in addition to dragging over my old hdds I also just kept the same 8gb ram stick, turns out games actually run when you have 32gb ram)
I personally just compensate for my HDD array’s slowness with RAM. Cyberpunk 2077 runs at more than 30fps on an rx580 being loaded off a HDD with 20GB RAM on Linux.
it’s not just that though, AAA gameplay has largely evolved to waste time. pointless side quests, pointless collectibles, pointless giant maps, pointlessly going from one end of the map to the other back and forth just to complete some bullshit quest, pointless grinding…
well i say pointless, but there is actually a reason to make playing these games such a chore.
100% XP boost: would you like to pay us for the privilege to play our game half as much this week?
This joke would’ve worked like 5 years ago but with SSD’s being so prevalent now load times are currently trivial for basically any game, even bulky AAA’s. Elden ring is like 8-10 seconds for me.
That’s not true with me. Forza Horizon 5 takes 90 seconds to load on my 970 Evo Plus. Cities Skylines with some mods takes 3 minutes.
Forza has a known issue mainly due to cloud syncing
C:S is notorious for long load times especially if you have mods/DLC as it loads them all into your ram
Have you tried The First Descendant yet? It’s pretty rough with load times and beats the cap out a graphics card. Is that considered AAA?
There will always be examples but most of the time it’s poor optimization tbh
Almost every time. That’s what’s being made fun of…
Right but even poor optimization is dealt with by SSD’s. I’m talking very poor optimization. Even mediocre cases still load quickly.
SSD’s have made load times a non issue 90-95% of the time.
Those 5-10‰ of the time are absolutely excruciating when you’ve gotten used to SSD gaming, though. Especially when you have moderate to severe ADHD so any kind of waiting sets the Gears of Distraction in motion lol.
And it’s almost always an AAA game even though those are the ones with the LEAST excuse for not being optimized
Dunno sometimes it’s gotta be something with their asset loading methodology. I put Battletech on my NVME and it still had crazy like 3-5-minute loads. A mod fixes it really well though and made the otherwise-great game much more playable.
Not everyone has them though
I am having a hard time envisioning a significant number of people with 1) current AAA games, 2) machines powerful enough to play them, but 3) without an SSD. That has to be a very small group.
SSDs are expensive, HDDs are not and already exist for blu ray and Linux ISO storage.
SSD’s are not expensive at all to someone buying AAA games and playing on modern rigs. They cost as much as a single game now.
A 512gb external SSD is trivial to get. In the US they’re like $60. If you can afford a modern computer that can play AAA games at half decent settings there’s no way you don’t have an SSD. You can’t even buy computers with internal HDD’s anymore without looking for it specifically.
You were correct in 2020. It’s 2024.
Yeah I built my pc two years ago. Didn’t bother with an ssd, wound up getting 4tb of ssd last year because it needed it (well I thought that’s what it needed, it did need it, but my problem was in addition to dragging over my old hdds I also just kept the same 8gb ram stick, turns out games actually run when you have 32gb ram)
I personally just compensate for my HDD array’s slowness with RAM. Cyberpunk 2077 runs at more than 30fps on an rx580 being loaded off a HDD with 20GB RAM on Linux.
Dude SSD’s are cheap as hell. Less than your ram cost. Your load times will be by like 80% easily. Even crap ones
Wealth issue (not really shits cheap)
I think what you mean is that this joke will work fine again by the tail end of 2025 despite the prevalence of SSDs.
it’s not just that though, AAA gameplay has largely evolved to waste time. pointless side quests, pointless collectibles, pointless giant maps, pointlessly going from one end of the map to the other back and forth just to complete some bullshit quest, pointless grinding…
well i say pointless, but there is actually a reason to make playing these games such a chore.
100% XP boost: would you like to pay us for the privilege to play our game half as much this week?
Whenever people complain about AAA games I wonder what games they are playing compared to me.
The joke is about load times
i know? are we not allowed to add anything in the discussion? my apologies.
I was just explaining what the thrust was. It looked like you were missing it and talking about something else. Not a big deal, no need for hostility.
fine; i was pointing out that it was applicable to other things since it does require a button input.
I thought it was about the 3-4 different unskippable animations it plays before you get to the main menu
Huh maybe so lol I saw it as “load to wait to load to load again” basically
The real joke would have been
A free campaign with a multiplayer menu that allows you to spend $100 or play slot machines for hours to acquire a T-shirt for your character.