threevue

Starting a game should be like having sex with Tyler: so quick and easy, the guy could sleep right through it and never know it happened. It should be as simple and as streamlined as possible, because I didn’t buy your game for the title screen. So, when I have to go through additional, unnecessary steps just to commence maximum pwnage, I tend to get very irritated. What I’m talking about here is how some games ask demand that you select a storage device before starting. It then brings up the Xbox storage device blade, and you have to select the only storage device that there is!  And I have to do it every freaking time!

Some guilty games include Rock Band, The Simpson’s Game, and Hitman: Blood Money. I like those games, and this is a very small thing, but it’s my gripe and I can complain about whatever I want.

I understand the need for this in the following two cases: 1) If you do in fact have more than one storage device connected to you system, which I never do, and have only seen done when transferring profiles via memory card. Or 2) When it’s the first time you are playing the game and you are creating a save file. Both of these cases account for less than 1-1000th of a percent of the times I start games. They should get rid of this by including some sort of check to see if there actually is more than one storage device. If it sees that there is only one, it should use it by default. I can’t see someone complaining, “Ah, crap, I meant to save my Sneak King file on the other one! Now I have to start all over! Why didn’t it ask me to pick one?” That’s your own damned fault.