What do you guys do during loading times?

[kintaris]

If it's The Witcher, I slowly decay whilst desperately struggling to keep in my mind WHY I went into this random house. Because if I forget and leave, and then remember again, I probably wont make it through the next load.

Anything else, I just scoff Cadbury's eclairs from my Cadbury's eclairs drawer.

EDIT: Oh and during COD loading screens I massage my hands, let out a scream I didn't know I was holding in, philosophise about war and the futility of mankind's struggle against itself and then finally start shaking uncontrollably whispering 'It's the waiting I can't stand...'

 

[Jedamethis]

Masturbate.

I mean it's either that or get up and go outside, throw a barbecue, fall in love and get married and have kids before I start the next level.

But if one of them turns out brunette you have to start all over again...

OT: I wait. It's not that long.

 

[GrinningManiac]

HL2? I blink or breath in. That usually takes up my time

For other games, though, I'd grab a snack or summin'

 

[gl1koz3]

Load times have gone down significantly since recent hardware. But there were times of Celeron 266Mhz, 64MB RAM and Red Alert 2, which took somewhere around 15 minutes to load. When at school, we always played it. And during load screens we went to the toilet or just listened to the cool load screen music.

 

[Withall]

I sit there and wait for them to finish loading...

Same here. Or, I look to my right, and watch whatever I can make my old graphics card play at the same time as I run the game on my left monitor.

 

[Mcupobob]

Well I just normal sit there like a gob, inless its a long flight path in WoW. Then I read a book, finish it go to the bathroom find the cure for cancer go out for dinner date. Come back to check my progress to find out I got disconnected, reload it up and wait about another hour.

 

[Sampsa]

Read a book. Back in the junior high school when my computer was a piece of junk I managed to read to math test's while playing.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

I reach for a gun next to me, load it, cock it, and place it against the PS3. Then I count to ten. If it hasn't loaded by then, I shoot it, and walk away, because the game was a piece of shit.

In reality, I pet my cat if she's nearby, otherwise I'll drink some soda, stretch, etc.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Seriously Half Life 2's loading times feel like they take an eternity to complete. What do you guys do to pass the time?

Long?

Kids these days...7 minutes was the average time to play the game back in mah day.

Remember, if you touched the tape or turned it down in anyway, the game would crash out.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

Read in a book or get some coffee. But it's realivly fast now. My good old C64 should load a game before I went to bed.

 

[captaincabbage]

If you're talking about Modnation Racers, then I usually watch an episode of ZP.

 

[Billska]

I go off and finish the whole MW2 campaign. I still have to wait for it to load when I come back though.

 

[Harlemura]

Well it's not really loading, but when me and me pals are waiting to find a server or something, especially on games that take forever like Left 4 Dead, I'll grab a book and have a little read.
Can't think of any that I've played recently that take that long. Sometimes I just start pressing all the buttons, then don't noticed the game loaded and my guy starts freaking out.
Pretty funny, really.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

Play drums on my desk and whistle.

 

[NoseDigger]

I admire my shoes. Or scratch my balls. Or I go for a leak.

 

[CrashBang]

I post on here, it's when I do most of my posting, thanks to Dragon Age

 

[hurfdurp]

I dunno, press all the buttons thinking it will make it go faster. Or if it's DMC I shoot the loading screen.

 

[IamSofaKingRaw]

Just half life 2?

You're not going to make a thread about any loading time?

Anyways, you want to talk about long loading screens, check out Metal Gear Solid 4, as if the long cutscenes weren't enough....0o

It was 5 minutes. The installation incresed as fast as you could count. The Bioshock 2 install though..... I swear I read every game manual out of my 15 ps3 games twice before that finished.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Depends.
For the vast majority of games I either just wait or fiddle with blue-tac. If it's Halo 3 or Halo ODST, I go to the toilet, walk into town, check my bank account, hit the pub, go for a dental check up, watch a movie at the cinema, go to McDonalds then come back and play.

 

[emptyother]

What i did when i as a five year old was waiting 40 minutes for Turtles to load on my Commodore 64 from a casette? Played with lego or turtles or action man or all at once...

What i did while waiting 2 minutes for Morrowind to load on my old computer? I bought myself a guitar just because of loading times...

Today, if a game takes more than 20 seconds to load, it usually is too heavy for my computer to play anyway.