Personally, most menus just get in the way once you have the settings you require for your game. If you do need to have them though then at least let the player skip through them as fast as possible. Call of Duty 4 being a great example. From booting the game to getting into a lobby in multiplayer takes no time at all.
Chris Dahlen meets the director of interactive fiction documentary Get Lamp and remembers how rich a world that only costs the time it takes to write it can be.
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Personally, most menus just get in the way once you have the settings you require for your game. If you do need to have them though then at least let the player skip through them as fast as possible. Call of Duty 4 being a great example. From booting the game to getting into a lobby in multiplayer takes no time at all.
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