The many many loading screens in TS4 have always bugged me and it's the reason why I don't leave my lot that often, lol. It's not that they're slow, because the speed is... acceptable. I just hate my game getting interrupted by them all the time. The argument that the one in TS3 was longer... well, that really was only one loading screen to go through, versus a ton if you want to go somewhere all the time in TS4. I could live with it. xD Both games were just as fast for me, but TS3 felt faster, because it didn't have the loading screens. I wouldn't go back to TS3, because there are things I do like about TS4 (mainly the overall stability of the game, and I also very much like the pets), but the loading screens will always be my one pet peeve.