As we speak, I have waited patiently for the mission, "Gates to El Presidio" to load. I've restarted my Xbox once, and now I'm just seeing if patience will do it but as the 5 minute mark flies on by I am tempted to restart my Xbox yet again.
However, while staring intensely at Red Dead Redemption's load screen I noticed how much I hate it. It consists of flashing images in black and red while a revolver gets reloaded, yet when the revolver gets fully reloaded that does not mean the end of the load time, instead it just begins anew. What is the point? Is it to distract gamers like me for a full 5 seconds hoping that when it gets fully reloaded the loading will be done and I can go on and play the game only to find bitter dissapointment?
 
So this lead me to think about what I would like in a load time, and of course ideally it would be no load time and if there is one as short as possible. Some games load missions while you're watching a cut-scene and others load while you are playing, as I just woke up, I can't really think up of examples at this moment but Splinter Cell: Conviction comes to mind even though the load scenes were incredibly long at some points you only got a few. Although, if there has to be a load screen I don't want to see a cycle of flashing images, I really don't care about that, all I need is something that symbols the amount of loading the game has done, let it be numbers, or an animation like Red Dead Redemption's reloading only if when all the bullets are put into the revolver that would mean the end of the load and the beginning of me having fun.
 
So what do you think? What are games that have done loading really well? What would be your ideal load screen other than there being none?
 
After looking up to the television screen and the load screen being the only thing visible, I guess it's time to restart my Xbox again...