Lost Odyssey

[DMKA]

My only beef was the ridiculous load times and how much it froze on me. And it's terrible packaging.

Terrible packaging, yes. Long load times and freezing problems?

Yes, when I played it would take forever to finish loading and sometimes wouldn't finish and would just freeze on whatever character's loading screen. I'm not the only one either. You can do a google search and find tons of postings about it from other people. And my 360 was brand new (it's the game I bought with the 360).

Though "brand new" doesn't necessarily mean anything when it comes to the 360 functioning properly (durr hurr).

I did as you said and read the first three or four results (search "lost odyssey load times"). The posts were from Kotaku, the Gamespot Message Board, an IGN Review, and a Game Plasma review. The first two supported the load times as being a tolerable 8-13 seconds. IGN made mention that it varies from a few seconds to a minute for battles and cut scenes. The Game Plasma review is the only one that comes outright and complains about horrid load times. The IGN review can be explained by the reviewer getting an advanced copy, which did have problems with load times. Game Plasma might also be explained by the same thing. In the final retail version of the game, the load times seemed to be fixed in almost every way (remaining at around 8-13 seconds which is standard).

The Gamespot Message Board post had several people agreeing with the original poster who stated he had no problems with the load times.

I have done this search two or three times before and the results remained about the same each time.

Thirteen seconds is an acceptable load time now?