Over the years when I have interviewed at game studios I almost always get asked a few questions that are used, I guess, to find out more about an applicants gaming history\/passion.\u00a0 For some reason these questions make me crazy, because they seem to me more like a question people would answer over coffee or drinks and not during a phone interview.<\/p>\n
Thus today I finally decided to sit down and answer some of them for myself, simply to finally have my answers down in one place.<\/p>\n
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Three favorite video games of all time?<\/strong><\/p>\n I hate this question with a passion and maybe for that reason Studio recruiters like to ask it.\u00a0 Most people that know me, know I don’t like “all time” or “best Ever” questions and statements.\u00a0 They are simply way too over reaching, and with all the games I have played over the last quarter century its super tough to answer.<\/p>\n But since they keep asking I will break down and answer.\u00a0 This is not a list of bests, or a list of “if all were released today which would be your favorite’, I know for sure those lists would be very different.<\/p>\n This is a non ranked list of which 3 game’s stand out over the course of my gaming history as favorites, based on how I enjoyed them when I first played them.<\/p>\n AutoDuel (orgin systems)<\/em>:<\/p>\n I thought this game had it all. I could level up my driver, buy and update my car, take jobs and undercover a (small) back story as I played.<\/p>\n Wasteland (interplay)<\/em><\/p>\n Post apocalyptic setting, controlling a party of characters, trying to save humanity, color graphics all rolled into one game. I had played many CRPGS before it and many more after, but something about this game simply stuck with me.<\/p>\n Everquest (soe)<\/em><\/p>\n Yes, I have played more of World of Warcraft (and other mmos) than I played EQ. And yes, if I tried to play it today I would probably cry.\u00a0 But both of those don’t matter to me, because for me EQ changed everything about my gaming life.\u00c2 I had played and seen other virtual worlds \/ online games, but EQ was different.<\/p>\n I remember like it was last night, the first time sat and played EQ. I created a Dark Elf, and got completely lost in Neriak,\u00a0 when I stumbled into someone else.\u00a0 When I attempted to communicate and get directions, I almost fell out of my seat when they replied directly to my question. This was not an NPC but another player character.\u00a0 They guided me out and I could not believe my eyes as few dozen or more players were also out battling monsters.\u00a0 I was in a live D&D game being played with people all over the world.<\/p>\n Honorable Mentions<\/em><\/p>\n There are so many that I have played that left specific memories on me or that impacted me in some way and I can not list them all.\u00c2 But I do I feel I should mention several of the ones that stand out.<\/p>\n Ultima 3, Starflight,\u00a0 Fallout (series), Mechwarrior 2, Baldurs Gate (series), Interstate 76,\u00a0 Outlaws, Thief (1\/2), System Shock 2, Deus Ex, Diablo 2, Jedi Knight 2,\u00a0 World of Warcraft,\u00a0 City of Heroes, Civilization 4<\/p>\n What is your favorite genre of game?<\/strong><\/p>\n Role Playing Games. <\/strong>I enjoy games from pretty much all genre’s but I do enjoy RPGs and MMORPGs more then others.<\/p>\n When did you first get into gaming?<\/strong><\/p>\n The first time my brother and I went head to head in a game of “Combat” on our Atari 2600. I could ramble on for a long time about my journey through computer\/video gaming, but I will save that for another time.<\/p>\n What consoles do you own?<\/strong><\/p>\n Currently in my possesion: SNES, Sega Genesis, Playstation 1, Playstation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, Game Cube,\u00a0 Nintendo 64, and 2 computers.<\/p>\n What MMOs have you played?<\/strong><\/p>\n I know I have played more than this but I am going to limit this list to ones I played for more than a week or two and for longer than just trial period.<\/p>\n Of those MMOs which is your least favorite? Why? Horizons. There were a few good concepts in there, but the execution was bad. Lots of performance, graphical, and mechanical issues along with lackluster UI all added up to me looking for an alternatives.<\/p>\n Which of those MMOs is your favorite? Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n Everquest, see above. Followed right up with World of Warcraft because it does most things ‘right’.<\/p>\n What are you playing right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n I could answer this for the time of this posting, but since what I play changes often I am not going to answer this for real.\u00a0 I should make sure I always have a small list ready.<\/p>\n What upcomming games are you excited about?<\/strong><\/p>\n As with the question above, this answer is constantly in flux.\u00a0 I should make sure I have a three upcoming games ready to list off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the years when I have interviewed at game studios I almost always get asked a few questions that are used, I guess, to find out more about an applicants gaming history\/passion.\u00a0 For some reason these questions make me crazy, because they seem to me more like a question people would answer over coffee or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,55],"tags":[112,111,54,113],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-job-search","category-musings","tag-design","tag-games","tag-jobhunt","tag-mmo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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