Corporate Logos

[Gabriel]

My last thought for today.

 

As I'm putting my new Blade Runner discs up and preparing for bed, I think "I'll play a quick game on my 360." The idea is I'll play something speedy from my Live Arcade selection. Maybe Centipede or Missile Command.

 

Then I think... Nah. Why?

 

Well, it really boils down to not wanting to wait while the 360 powers up, then waiting while I sign in with my gamer profile (which takes forever since the last dashboard update), then waiting while my list of Live Arcade games populates (which is another thing which takes forever since the last update), then having to sit while the game initializes/loads up, and then having to wait through a minute or few of corporate logos. All to play 5 to 10 minutes of games.

 

So, I bitched in this thread instead.

 

Anyone else prevented from enjoying some quick gaming by all that nonsense?

[Atari5200]

just you. My system boots to the game in the drive, by the time the game is running, i'm already logged into my profile automatically, logged in to live, so all I have to do is go to the dashboard and i'm good, after the startup 360 logo, probably takes me 10-30 secs to get into arcade to start playing. You have to be doing something horribly wrong if it takes you that long.

[Gabriel]

just you. My system boots to the game in the drive, by the time the game is running, i'm already logged into my profile automatically, logged in to live, so all I have to do is go to the dashboard and i'm good, after the startup 360 logo, probably takes me 10-30 secs to get into arcade to start playing. You have to be doing something horribly wrong if it takes you that long.

 

Well, I wasn't specifically talking about the XBox 360 either. All that waiting is a problem on systems as old as the Colecovision.

[Vic George 2K3]

Definitely something wrong with the company producing and releasing the game if you have to wait sitting through a minute of corporate logos before you actually get to play the game. Talk about "too many cooks spoiling the broth".

[Atari5200]

i guess i've never noticed it before. but off the top of my head, I would say that NBA Jam for any given console would rank up there, it had what, 4 screens of logos and stuff before the main menu?

[+kisrael]

As I'm putting my new Blade Runner discs up and

Heh, when I read just this, my first guess is you were going to write about the curse of Blade Runner, how all these companies (like Atari) hit hard times after showing up in this vision of the future...

 

Yeah logos are a drag -- when they're flat images you can just press the button to zip past it's ok, but when there's a pause as some stupid animation loads up, annoying.

 

Almost as much fun as the DVD player conspiracy to make "unskippable" FBI warnings. "Gee thanks, corporation! I was going to pirate this movie, but JUST BECAUSE you made me sit through 8 seconds of legal smackdown warning that I've seen 5000 times before, now I won't! Guess I have to give up my legal 'but I just didn't know!' legal defense now!"

[Jess Ragan]

Yeah, it friggin' sucks. Game Center CX for the Nintendo DS is the same way... you've got your Namco logo, your Bandai-Namco logo, the Fuji Television logo, and finally a logo from a new company called Be Wild. Seriously, dudes, one should be more than enough.

[PressureCooker2600]

I've seen those damn VCR/DVD pirating warnings for longer than I can remember.....I can pratically recite the law.

 

i know it was in Stockholm, Sweden in 1977

[PressureCooker2600]

Found this curse while reading about the Blade Runner curse....

 

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=749091

[+kisrael]

I've seen those damn VCR/DVD pirating warnings for longer than I can remember.....I can pratically recite the law.

 

i know it was in Stockholm, Sweden in 1977

 

I really hate how DVD player makers have rolled over, between region locking and "CAN'T SKIP THIS!" respect, it's just consumer depowering bullshit.

 

Found this curse while reading about the Blade Runner curse....

 

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=749091

Haha --

be careful, everything2 can be addictive. Those "related links" at the bottom are really tempting.

Edited December 27, 2007 by kisrael

[rockman_x_2002]

I never understood why they couldn't just jam all the logos onto the same screen and hold 'em for about 5 seconds, then you're done. I mean, is it really that hard to fit three or four logos onto the same screen at once (six if you're using widescreen)?

[phaxda]

I hate this too, but there's one that I actually like...when that *ding* comes at the end of the Lucasfilm logo, I KNOW it's time for some Ballblazer!

[+HammR25]

i guess i've never noticed it before. but off the top of my head, I would say that NBA Jam for any given console would rank up there, it had what, 4 screens of logos and stuff before the main menu?

 

Yes NBA Jam and it's variants were horrible about this.

[Segataritensoftii]

While we're on the subject of corporate logos in video games, I would like to bring up the unskippable logos in most Game Boy Color games. They last 5 seconds per logo and always ticked me off at how long they stayed there, because I just wanted to start playing immediately. I didn't want to look at a bunch of logos. I wanted to start playing. This is especially annoying in Gex: Enter the Gecko, where the logos last about 10-30 seconds!

[JB]

just you. My system boots to the game in the drive, by the time the game is running, i'm already logged into my profile automatically, logged in to live, so all I have to do is go to the dashboard and i'm good, after the startup 360 logo, probably takes me 10-30 secs to get into arcade to start playing. You have to be doing something horribly wrong if it takes you that long.

 

Well, I wasn't specifically talking about the XBox 360 either. All that waiting is a problem on systems as old as the Colecovision.

Reminds me of my Vectrex. As I turned it on, my finger smacked reset, so I never saw the startup logo. I had it down to a science.

Became instinctive pretty fast, once I figured out it was skippable. If only there was a similar trick for the game title screen.

[Shannon]

Forsaken by Acklame was like this as well.

[Gabriel]

One really bad one was Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits for the Genesis.

 

The CD versions start quicker than this cartridge. Seriously.

 

I think there were at least two corporate logo screens and then a wall of text about copyright and trademark of the games in question. All of this was unskippable. And they hung on the screen for a nice, long time.