Now you can expect Mass Effect '07, '08, '09 and '10!!!!

[WhatsHisFace]

Gears of War had loading screens man. I even remember a Halo 2-style texture "pop" during that cut scene after you escape from prison and it cuts to you and that dude on the chopper.

Gears of War had loading screens if you skipped the cutscenes... which you're basically a jerk if you do. Thief will of course have cutscenes you won't want to skip.

But even so, the point is that Thief 3 was broken down into levels that were often broken down again into several loading sections. If it's one load per level, I consider that a steal. However, Gears of War and Halo 2 didn't have loading screens if you watched the cutscenes, so you could expect a really seamless Thief experience in the future if Bethesda grabs the IP.

 

[GFreeman]

Gears had loading screens even if you didn't skip anything. I had a harddrive and everything.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

Gears had loading screens even if you didn't skip anything. I had a harddrive and everything.

Are you sure it wasn't the random and occasional, confuse-it-as-a-framerate-glitch "loading" section in an arbitrary spot in the level?

 

[GFreeman]

Yes.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

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You skipped a cutscene you insolent swine!!

 

[GFreeman]

No, I didn't. After spending $70 or so on that collectors edition, I kept waiting for a cutscene that would make the story not suck so much, so as to redeem the rest of the ****ty game. Sadly, after watching every last one of them, I discovered that this cutscene would never come

 

[WhatsHisFace]

Your 360 was minutes away from an RROD... probably had something to do with it. My functioning 360 loads it on time. :whf: