Re: CRAP Poll #( VE+F) : End-Credits

On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:42:48 -0000 (UTC), rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
(Ross Ridge) wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson  <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

This one is simple: do you ever watch a game's end credits to the end?

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Yes and no.  I'm the sort of person who does tend to watch movie and
TV credits.  I'm not too interested in who actually participated in
the making of the movie or TV show, but it interesting to see all the
jobs involved.  Mostly though I see it as part of the experience, and
chance to relect on what I just watched.
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But video game credits are just way too long.  They can last upwards
of an hour.  So what I tend to do is watch them for a bit, ALT-TAB away
and listen to the music in the background for a while, ALT-TAB back and
watch for bit, go back to listening and then ALT-TAB back at the end to
see if the game gave any reward or bonus for letting the credits play out.

That is definitely an issue too. Although movie credits are getting
obnoxiously long as well, and for much the same reason: all the
special effects are being farmed off to different CGI houses across
the world, each with their own subset of teams.

But video-game credits bulk out their credits even further, with

    a) credits for all the localization teams (although why they
       can't localize the credits I don't understand; if I'm
       playing the UK version of a game, do I _really_ need to see
       the credits for the Chinese version?)

    b) a lot of superfluous nonsense, like the aforementioned
       "production babies" (e.g., kids born during the development
        of the game) or "thank you" to favorite local restaurants or
funny quotes overheard during the development process

I mean, I get why the latter can be fun but if your credits are
already 10 minutes long, you REALLY don't need to make it longer with
that nonsense.

(Origin Systems, the developer of yore, always had a neat trick for
that. They had the official credits with all the usual expected stuff,
and -if you watched that to the end- it unlocked a 'silly credits'
scroll that had all the extra nonsense. Don't care about either? Just
hit ESC to bypass. Do care? You get a bonus. I wish more developers
stole that idea).