Anyone work for a game company? Activision, EA, Epic, Riot...c, etc.

[KCalhoun]

Indeed, I know this game very well. Spent many many many hours (and quarters) on it in the arcade. I used to own the actual LaserDisc for it back then, and had managed to hook up a LD player with a Daphne emulator to play the darn thing. If you are a true connoisseur of it, you will like these deleted scenes from the making of the game. (Not all of them are deleted scenes, many of the bits are in the final product.) Even has a room or two not included on the final cut of the LaderDisc.

Great to see, thx! I was a Dragons Lair huge fan, used to draw crowds of other students watching me play in college arcade,, rescuing daphne.

There were hidden elevator codes, left right patterns you could use to replay/skip levels in arcade version, discovered that

 

[Specterx]

I would some day like to own my games again instead of leasing them from steam. Steam is successful because in one fell swoop Valve can take back all the games you bought. It's only a matter of time the debugging tools I use for work and pleasure flag me as a hacker and I get VAC banned. I'll lose $1500 dollars in games I've bought over the years in a single completely automatic decision by a robot. This is yet another reason I don't buy games anymore. I have sitting next to me the original disks for half life GOTY and Half life 2. Gone are the days you owned anything. In my life this extends beyond games though. I go out of my way to acquire paper copies of books I read. PDFs are a form of control as well.

I miss the days when you could trade games with friends. I used to drive to my friends house and we'd trade games all the time. I got Starcraft Brood War and Diablo 2 this way.

The game industry is corrupt. Generalizations aside 1985-2006 was probably the greatest generation for computer games. I pity the people growing up today. There is no such comparison. I would sink HOURS into doom and quake. I remember meeting friends I still have today on tribes. Battlefield 2 was mind blowing. The original World of Warcraft was a work of art. Halo was incredible. Beating Halo on legendary was something that earned you respect in my group. We'd spend weekends together trying to optimize runs on Assault on the Control Room. There is no comparison today. Everything today is vacuous. Pointless.

You probably just outgrew it. When I was 12 or 13 years old I could spend 12-14 hours a day playing computer games. If I tried to do that now (assuming I could even find such a huge block of free time!) after an hour or two I'd get bored, or my eyes would bother me, or I'd just start to feel like shit for wasting my time so unproductively when there's a huge list of other things to do.

 

[2rosy]

I think it's a safe bet that they enjoy the regular paycheck more than anything.

terrible way to look at things if you're a worker. great way if you're the employer

 

[kmiklas]

terrible way to look at things if you're a worker. great way if you're the employer

"I think it's a safe bet that they enjoy the regular paycheck more than anything."

--> I said this in response to the following quote--why else would someone want to be a cog in a machine?

If you enjoy being a cog in a massive machine, working at a large game company might be right up your alley.