So I just finished Splinter Cell Conviction around 2am this morning.  It was a fairly good game overall with a pretty sweet ending.  But the credits...I mean really?  When your 360 fades out 5 times because no one has been touching the controls for a while, that's a sign that your credits are too long.  So long in fact that the music ended.  So I sat there looking at rolling credits in total silence and thinking to myself, "You have got to be kidding me."  I'm sure they noticed that the music score ended when putting this together.  Is it too much to ask to play the same song over and over?  Just a little weekend rant. Going to knock out a few co-op missions and then get back to Red Dead Redemption.  Enjoy your weekend everyone!

So I just finished Splinter Cell Conviction around 2am this morning.  It was a fairly good game overall with a pretty sweet ending.  But the credits...I mean really?  When your 360 fades out 5 times because no one has been touching the controls for a while, that's a sign that your credits are too long.  So long in fact that the music ended.  So I sat there looking at rolling credits in total silence and thinking to myself, "You have got to be kidding me."  I'm sure they noticed that the music score ended when putting this together.  Is it too much to ask to play the same song over and over?  Just a little weekend rant. Going to knock out a few co-op missions and then get back to Red Dead Redemption.  Enjoy your weekend everyone!

A lot of people worked real hard on the project, this is with the project going through 2 major iterations over the years of the production cycle. The credits could have been longer, crediting the people that were kicked off the project when it changed directions. What would you feel like if you were on the project working your ass off every night doing unpaid overtime for years and not having your name in the credits, while someone who just came on the project in the last months gets his name in.  
 
If you think the credits take too much time thanking the hard work of hundreds of people, skip them.

" A lot of people worked real hard on the project, this is with the project going through 2 major iterations over the years of the production cycle. The credits could have been longer, crediting the people that were kicked off the project when it changed directions. What would you feel like if you were on the project working your ass off every night doing unpaid overtime for years and not having your name in the credits, while someone who just came on the project in the last months gets his name in.   If you think the credits take too much time thanking the hard work of hundreds of people, skip them. "  

" @PhilESkyline: Well the credits are there for you to give credit to people who made the game. Do you really pay attention to the credits if there is a video running along side it? I agree with you, that the splinter cell credits should have replayed the credit song, but credits doesn't really need a video or anything to make it entertaining. That is not at all the purpose of the credits. "

" @PhilESkyline: Well the credits are there for you to give credit to people who made the game. Do you really pay attention to the credits if there is a video running along side it? I agree with you, that the splinter cell credits should have replayed the credit song, but credits doesn't really need a video or anything to make it entertaining. That is not at all the purpose of the credits. "

" @MonkeyGekko said:

" @PhilESkyline: Well the credits are there for you to give credit to people who made the game. Do you really pay attention to the credits if there is a video running along side it? I agree with you, that the splinter cell credits should have replayed the credit song, but credits doesn't really need a video or anything to make it entertaining. That is not at all the purpose of the credits. "

that may not be the purpose but do people really want to sit and just watch text fly by? i remember gears of war did it well where they posted pics of the staff and a quote. GTA and a few other open world games will have a fly-by of the city. some games will post pics of great moments of the game or as of late will remix a nice song for the end. and i have seen everyone of the metal gear credits many time because when its all over i get a teaser line from ocelot and in-game rewards.  i think its far more effective to keep me entertianed in the credits because then i will watch it and catch some names, otherwise i will just skip it and will never see any of the people who made the game. "

The point of credits isn't to have every person that plays the game memorize everyone that worked on it. It's a history of who worked on the project should it need to be referenced, and a nice thing for the people that worked on the project to be able to say "look, that's me :)." Including bonus scenes alongside them doesn't defeat their purpose.
 
Even so, the credits for this game were unbearably long and lazily put together.

I haven't played the latest Splinter Cell, but I remember Killzone 2 had some incredibly long end credits.  Of course, all top tier games these days will have very large production staffs, so I understand why they turn out to be so huge.  Still, I think a lot could be done by speeding up the pace and losing all the stylized presentation.  What's wrong with just scrolling the names like in a movie?  The Lord of the Rings movies had a very large production team and the end credits did take quite some time, but not as long as Killzone 2.  In some cases, I've seen developer messages as the credits roll by.  Thank yous are the most common, but I've also seen lists of every baby born to a staff family during the production of the game.   Sometimes I watch them out of respect, but I have my limits.  After more than 4 minutes, I flip the TV source back to television and let them roll by in obscurity.  I do this because some studios used to give achievements if you watched their end credits.  This is the most effort I'll put into gaining a handful of points.

" I haven't played the latest Splinter Cell, but I remember Killzone 2 had some incredibly long end credits.  Of course, all top tier games these days will have very large production staffs, so I understand why they turn out to be so huge.  Still, I think a lot could be done by speeding up the pace and losing all the stylized presentation.  What's wrong with just scrolling the names like in a movie?  The Lord of the Rings movies had a very large production team and the end credits did take quite some time, but not as long as Killzone 2.  In some cases, I've seen developer messages as the credits roll by.  Thank yous are the most common, but I've also seen lists of every baby born to a staff family during the production of the game.   Sometimes I watch them out of respect, but I have my limits.  After more than 4 minutes, I flip the TV source back to television and let them roll by in obscurity.  I do this because some studios used to give achievements if you watched their end credits.  This is the most effort I'll put into gaining a handful of points. "