Your "loading screen game".

What game do you play when you're waiting for another game to load?

The one that's loading.

If I start reading when stuff is loading, I end up getting sucked into reading instead of playing.

I play "guess the loading time" by closing my eyes and trying to time opening them to the loading screen's disappearance.

edited 26th Sep '10 12:48:28 PM by mahel042

Nothing really, in-game loading times are never really long enough for me to go and do something. I guess I'm the patient type.

Installations however...

^

If I still had my Tetris TGM DS clone I would use that and just play a shitload of Death mode. I'm to the point where that mode is stress relief.

So instead, if it's gonna be a while, I play some Hotel Dusk.

edited 26th Sep '10 1:27:46 PM by TsundeRay

In the specific case of, say, Sonic The Hedgehog 2006, I would usually play Sonic The Hedgehog to remind myself of better times.

I sing the loading song. L-O-A-D-I-N-G LOADING!

edited 26th Sep '10 1:36:54 PM by CTM

Um...nothing?

If it's a PC game, I move the cursor in the shape of the infinity symbol.

I read the manual.

Wonder what the fuck just happened. Seriously the floor just tried to eat me. (Current game: Amnesia: The Dark Descent.)

^^That's what I do if I'm installing a game. Hell, I'm the only guy who reads the manual in my house, it seems.

^ It appear you and me are 2 of the 5 people in the world who likes to read manuals.

Seriously, I'm getting pissed at the short manuals these days; I used to love looking through the big 20-page-plus ones we used to have.

^ Guess I'm the third of those five people. I love reading the manuals, even those black-and-white ones.

Hell, it even gets me pumped up for the game!

And I'll form the head!

I play whatever game's piqued my interest on the iPhone. Right now I'm playing Solomon's Keep and Solomon's Boneyard.

um...Nothing, dude? Anyway, Count me in for another guy who likes to read manuals.

I'm number five! I even download images of old game manuals I've lost.

I also enjoy reading manuals. The state of today's manuals makes me really sad, especially when it looks nice and big but it turns out that's only because it's in 3 languages.

Reading the manual is required to understand what the hell you're doing, unless it's some pick up and play XBLA game or some such. For games like Metro 2033 that use every button on the game pad it's a requirement to survive.

The last game I've seen for which a manual is actually required is Europa Universalis.

The majority of recent games I've played either had simple controls or hammered them all in during the tutorial.

edited 26th Sep '10 5:20:46 PM by storyyeller

I'm a manual reader as well. I'll generally read the manual while I'm installing the game (for PC, obviously).

I'll either play an RPG handheld until the game resumes (as if i'm playing mail by mail chess) or I'll read the manual, or a FAQ/ Walkthrough

Manual, oh, yes. But I just do whatever during that time. Check something, whatever.