Why does Quake 4 have so many elevators?

[ThunderBoy]

Yeah, no joke

I'm playing the campaign of Quake 4 for the first time and... oh my god.
I spend more time going up and down with lifts than shooting enemies.

 

[moonbits]

to load the level

 

[Stookymalarkey]

to load the level

Yup, it's a common way in game dev to hide the loading of the next map. It's an alternative to users staring at a "Loading..." screen for the same amount of time.

 

[Sorion]

maybe it's a well hidden loading screen? kinda like those long hallways in god of war 1 and 2

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Mass Effect syndrome.


Or Metroid Prime if you wanted to be more technical.

Spoiler

Or the John Woo's Hard Boiled Hospital Sequence hahaha!