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Oh, I get it. Its all so simple. Can't wait to get home and start making my own games......No seriously, I'm glad I'm just on the consumer end of the games industry, although if any devs out there need a playtester I'd be awesome. Thats what I'm good at, taking someone elses work and telling them what wrong with it. ;)
Yeah dude, once I took a programming class I suddenly got respect for even the crappy devs. =P
Yep its real easy for us to complain about every little thing but sometimes you need a different perspective to humble you a bit. We forget not only are these guys doing a technically difficult job, but they are artists as well and taste is subjective, as is when it comes to taste, there is no right or wrong, only opinion.
Me, I've never complained once about load times on a modern console because I had a Commodore 64 with a Tape deck. It took so long and and was so touchy, sometimes you had to actually leave the room to get a game to load I swear to God. If you poked your head in the door too early it would crash.
Load"*",8,1 AAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH !!!!!!
Ha, I used to write my own "Choose your own adventure" stories where you'd read the text and choose A, B or C or whatever. Pushing the corresponding key would go straight to the next story segment WITHOUT EVEN HAVING TO PUSH "ENTER". Man I though I was so clever. Ha.
Remeber, there's no school like the old school, and someone please bring back The Last Ninja, but only if you make it good. Otherwise just leave it alone.
The Amiga 500 was the real next gen after c64. I loved it to death, till my 2nd one stopped workign and i washed it with water to see if it was the dust which was the problem. But alas the unit was as dead as king tut