Fucking, man I can't wait for duke nukem forever, shit's going to be SO POLISHED when it comes out.

I've noticed this happens in games with large open spaces where the draw distance is limited; it's infamous for happening in Grand Theft Auto if you go too fast, and it's also obvious in Oblivion when riding a horse.

But in many games with big draw distances, this isn't a problem, ala Assassin's Creed- in both the original and the sequel you could climb up a few hundred feet and look out at a city well over a mile or so in diameter with no texture problems.

Anywho, I haven't noticed this problem on any games except GTA IV and Oblivion :V I don't think it's system limitations, if one game can do it, so can all the others. I'm looking at you, Metal Gear Solid, with your orgasmic hi-definition textures. Yeah. If you can do that without lagging and without pop-up textures so can everything else.

EDIT: And yes I have a completely fair way of comparing things go away and let me resume eating a lampshade.

Assassin's Creed can do it because it has long load times.

But the good game mmore than makes up for the loading.

i heard valve bought the rights

Eh, the load times didn't really bother me, maybe 30 seconds at most. IMO it's more than worth it. Same with the fact that you have to install Metal Gear Solid 5 times, which is quicker than it sounds, all 5 cumulatively take about 10 minutes to do, and it offers you a nice little break between major sections.

As long as I'm not sitting there waiting a minute or more for the game to come up and as long as it doesn't have to load every two minutes (Postal 2, grrr) I'm fine with load screens.