Consoles are dramatically improving all the time, but any time a game can achieve the smoothness that GTA V has must mark a certain level of accomplishment. I’m aware of the first-world-problemness of shrieking “it takes too long to load!!!” any time your gaming console requires a second or two before it gives you hours of gameplay to enjoy, but here we are. Maybe this entire generation of games are doing this, but going from gameplay to ten seconds of black to cut scene to ten seconds of black back to gameplay has to be the bane of every gamer’s existence.
For the amount of leisure (or work) time you have to invest in these games, you want to make the most of every minute, and delays are undesirable. In Grand Theft Auto V, every scene seems to end with the camera (or whatever game people call the equivalent of a film camera perspective) circling around behind your character, announcing your moment to take over control again. It’s a design aspect that makes the experience immersive and makes the story flow much more continually and engagingly.
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