N64/Gamecube era: I'm going to hype you up with a cinamatic intro and also I'm going to render a whole interactive 3D space with a catchy theme song for my title screen and save select screens.
Modern era games: Lol heres a .png of our promotional art and a piano tinkling. No intro.
I'm getting old.
I get it, but in the defense of PNGs, if you've ever set video setting too high and had to navigate menus at .1 FPS or had it start crashing on launch because it can't render the menu scene, fixing it can be painful.
This! The worst is when you install a new PC game and they have decided, for some reason, to make the default video settings:
And when you start this game it begins playing a dramatic cinematic intro.
800x600, full screen, 4:3, all minimum settings, and when you apply new settings the game hangs for at least three seconds with the button click noise repeating like a skipping record.
and the AUDIO IS SO FUCKING LOUDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD