I bought Madden ‘07 for my 360 over at Circuit City for $47 a few days ago. This is only a , “deal”, because $47 is lower than the ridiculously inflated $60 price most 360 games normally sell for. In reality what you end up paying is a normal full price for PS2/XBox games. I could go on about why $60 is a terrible price for games, however there is a more important story here that I remembered I should write about from discussing it with the curmudgeons (intelligent cube iso download warez).

So, at every interview I’ve ever done for the game industry (and even some outside of it) I’ve been asked about what games I’m playing; what my favorites are. On testing job interviews they’ve also always asked about what bugs I’ve seen in games. The most amusing interview I had was with Monolith, turned me down, but that is fine since I enjoyed the interview anyway.
I thought their style wasn’t so great, with a 10 interviewer to 1 candidate ratio. The questions were still funny though and I met some people that I’d read about, which is always interesting.

Getting back to my main point, knowing about as many games as possible so you can relate to your interviewer is a great thing. Obviously playing them isn’t unfun either. For a long time I was lacking in knowledge of MMORPGs. I’d played a few for a little bit, Anarchy Online in particular. People were routinely asking about them at interviews so before I went to go interview for Monolith to work with them on one of their MMORPGs I bought Star Wars Galaxies and played it on and off for about a week to make my knowledge current.

Yeah, I know why that was a bad choice now, but at the time I thought it might be the MMORPG for me since it is science-fiction-y. Later I would get into World of Warcraft for a few months. At the time though, SWG was terrible. Buggy as heck and I would go off to do a mission and end up fighting a well defended… Flag……

Yeah. Awesome. I’ll keep killing creatures and …flags. What fun.

Worst $50 ever.

So you might make some mistakes if you try to pick games without researching the current state of them in the case of MMORPGs. Unfortunately the 800 pound gorrilla hanging off of my back has always been Madden. For a long time this has been the easiest game to guess that an interviewee might own and then discuss. Which is one of the reasons why I bought it. Yeah it turned out to not be terrible like SWG, however, it is also fun to see the Eagles win games.

And finally that 800 pound gorilla can get off of my back during the next interview. I’ll tell them about Madden. I’ll tell them about how the framerate isn’t consistent in the 360 version, and that the players sometimes seem stuck in funny positions on the line waiting for the snap.

Most importantly, you have to know these games too, especially ones that the company is worked on that you’re interviewing for. Check out the reviews online first, though. They’re going to help you pick out which ones are worth it. I should have done it with Star Wars Galaxies.

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