The_A_Drain

Bioforge.

Yeah you're not wrong, I'm usually pretty good with re-visiting older games and not having too much of a problem with them being old, I can deal with awkward controls and cluttered interfaces etc, but sheeeeet, Wasteland barely even has enough resolution to display your equipment without abbreviations and endless scrolling. So it was incredibly difficult for me to play, I did try though and I did enjoy what I played but I only got like 4 hours in before just giving up. (Yeah I'd never played the original when I backed Wasteland 2)

I'd be all over a version that just expands the interface out a little so I can read it all properly. But beyond that I personally don't really need any remakes beyond that kind extreme basic usability stuff. But I do get that to other people that bar is a lot higher, I mean I know people who won't play FF7 because "the graphics are too old". So, to each their own.

Influential personally?

Well, I'm alive right now because of two of the people I was fortunate enough to have met and become friends with in my life, one of whom is very sadly no longer with us. I owe both of those people a great debt, not sure anyone else can be any more influential than that. So yeah.

Maybe the Fallout team, who together created the game that first showed me that games could be more than simple timewasters/devices for escapism (other games that would have done that existed way before Fallout, but I did not have a games-capable PC until Fallout was already quite old, and it happened to be the one I picked out of the bargain bin alongside Baldur's Gate) and shaped my life toward getting into making videogames. A career I've been relatively unsuccessful in thus far but whatever.

@stonyman65: He owns the IP but not the rights to Wasteland 1. EA still own those and he'd have to negotiate that with them. It's not impossible, but they'd have to be involved. They approved a GoG re-release though so...

Which might even qualify as a 'remaster' depending on what you want from a remaster, as it was modified to contain text that the original didn't have (a lot of text was originally printed in the games manual, and the player was given the number of a paragraph to read).

I have a few bits and pieces like big-box PC versions of Planescape Torment and Baldur's Gate 2, a ton of early Xbox 360 memorabilia (although none of those faceplates, I chucked them like everyone else which is why they are so valuable now) and tons of CE versions. I have an in-tact Bioshock big-daddy and the Bioshock 2 vinyl, a gold lancer, etc. Some sought-after retro stuff (but nothing really 'rare') like FF7 original, Shenmue 1 and 2, some Shin Megami Tensei stuff (including Devil Summoner 2 in box with Raihou plush)

I also have a ton of Kickstarter stuff, big box versions of all the RPGs that are coming/have come (Shadowrun Returns, Wasteland 2, Pillars of Eternity, Torment: Tides of Numanera) and all the extra gubbins I get with my $1000 version of Wasteland 2.

But probably the rarest thing overall would be (and I didn't know it was rare until I tried to source a replacement for my battered version) a Duke Nukem poster I got in an old magazine a long long time ago, afaik it came from CVG magazine, it features both the PS1 and N64 versions on the back, and a giant version of the boxart on front.

Agreed, however even then that rabbit hole just keeps getting deeper. Because even that depends on where an individuals viewpoint lands on the spectrum of 'consumer product review' versus 'art critique', and that in turn is going to be influenced by a persons political ideologies and numerous other things. No one manner of presentation is going to please even half of people, you just gotta go with whatever your style happens to be and as long as you're confident that you are communicating what's important to you, that's that imo. You've not responsibility to provide for a certain viewpoint as a writer, only a responsibility to say what's on your mind.

There's no right or wrong answer, you've just gotta go wherever the kind of information you want is, and stick to the reviewers who give you that info. For example personally I find not enough reviews talk at length about a games controls, they only mention them when they are bad and often don't describe why in detail, but that's something I want to know about. *shrug*

I'd like to think a well-reasoned person could absorb multiple reviews and work out whether or not they'd like a product regardless of whether or not they agree with the reviewers points of view. But the internet seems to be all-too lacking in well-reasoned people sometimes.

I don't need reboots, and remasters are patchy at best a lot of the time.

You know what I do want though? A reliable, hassle-free way to make a huge bundle of old-ass games play in a window, I'd be more than willing to pay a couple dollars per game for that, a nice resizable window that I can play the game in and not have it blank out my other 2 monitors. Or screw with my resolution.

I don't care for remasters, I'm more than capable of enjoying most of those old games as-is, but I would absolutely LOVE to be able to do it while having facebook or netflix on the other monitors at the same time. Without screwing about with buggy community efforts at least, I know there's a few dx hacks that'll let you do it, but in my experience none of them work reliably and none of them work across a wide enough variety of games.

I don't think hype trains are ever justified, it's just allowing yourself to get so excited for something that it can't ever live up to those expectations.

That said, I got so excited for Grand Theft Auto 5 that I remember thinking "Fuck, if this isn't literally one of the best games ever made I might be really disappointed, I've let myself get that caught up with excitement". But you know what? Fuck if that game didn't deliver and then some.

Otherwise I just try to keep a level head and see if I'm interested in a product, if I am then that's that and I'll just check in with it closer to release to see if anything's changed to make me no longer interested.

What's already been said is all good, but I'll add in another vote for 'be true to yourself' because, ok maybe this isn't AS important for a summer internship as it would be for a job you intend to be in for 10+ years or whatever, but it's still important. It's important not only that your potential boss/colleagues get an idea about whether or not you'll fit into the team, but that you get an idea for whether or not they are a good fit for you too.

Remember, while it's easy to get caught up in the feeling that you're staring down the barrel of a gun, you aren't the only one being interviewed during an interview. They are as well, you are interviewing them. You need to work out what you want to know about the company that you can't find out online, ask them to elaborate on things you found interesting or their opinions on things you think are important in the workplace (for me for example, in my most recent job I asked about whether or not my colleagues had a sense of humor, because I find it difficult to work with people who are 100% serious 100% of the time, it might seem like a dumb question but I wanted to know more about the general corporate culture and the specific people I'd be working with just as much as they wanted to know about whether I was qualified, turns out, that was important to them too and they also didn't want somebody who didn't know how to have a laugh during a coffee-break)

So just take some time to work out what you want to know about them as well as what they want to know about you.

I've never failed to at least progress to round 2 of an interview, and hilariously the only jobs I've not been offered were menial jobs I applied to as backup, for example my current job I applied to subway, mcdonalds, burger king, argos, tesco, asda, etc and not one of them got back to me. The two junior programming jobs I applied for ended up fighting over me within days of sending my CV off. Despite me feeling like I really wasn't qualified and feeling like both sets of interviews went poorly.

One last tip, never ever ever bullshit that you know something you don't. It's ok to say "I've used X, but I wouldn't claim to be competent with it" or "I don't know anything about Y but I'd be willing to learn". Provided of course you don't turn out to be totally unqualified, those will earn you so many more points than bullshitting that you do know, because at best they will see right through you and never call you back, at worst they'll fail to do so and you'll end up potentially in a work environment where potentially both you AND some of your colleagues are unable and unqualified to do the job properly, which won't be very fun for anybody.

Don't be afraid to say "I know nothing about that" for a lot of stuff, as an example, more than half the things they wanted at my current job I had never used before and was very upfront about that, and they were fine with it.

So just take a deep breath, be yourself, and knock it out of the park duder.

I'm utterly captivated to be honest. This is hilarious. If he wins a PS4, that's freakin' awesome, if he doesn't, oh wells, laughs were had and only a few dollars were wasted overall, none of which were mine so whether or not they were wasted is kinda none of my business. So it's win-win. And I get a lot of increasingly humorous ways of obtaining taco bell.

It's not like people haven't done much sillier things before, I remember some people once endeavored to buy doritos and mountain dew until they won an Xbox 360 or whatever it was. Only to end up spending like $700 to win a $250 Xbox 360. Now that's wasteful. This guy's just putting a novel spin on the everyday act of buying lunch.