Developer Commentaries

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I have never listened to other game developer commentary except Valve games. As for in game direct commentary, i only know of Valve game products.

The rest is mostly from behind the scenes stuffs on Youtube.

If you are looking for good and insightful commentaries regard game industry, game developers and mechanism: Search for (PATV - Extra Credits show)[http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/show/extra-credits]. Although they are small in game industry, their words got weight when it comes to developer philosophy and concept.

All the main Valve games have probably the best and most consistent commentary, i.e. Half-Life 2 and the Episode sequels, also Portal 1 and Portal 2. The Portal games in particular are very good, there's one where they talk about how they the developers were amazed over the ingenuity of some of the game testers, how they overcame some of the puzzles they set in completely unexpected ways. They actually left in a few of the more "cheat" methods because of how amazing the work around to the puzzle was.

One of my favourites is The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, similar to Valve games, they did direct commentary, whereby you must play the game to hear each comment. The dev team, Starbreeze, seemed like fun guys and the thought process behind everything as well what they could and couldn't include in the game was interesting. One segment I remember was when they told Xzibit (who voices a character in the game) to scream in pain as if he'd been stabbed and he asked them whether or not to act like what it really sounds like in real life, or to do a Hollywood type scream.

Other than that, the recent Elder Scrolls games such as Oblivion and Skyrim (I think) have video commentaries outside of the game, likewise with Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Augmented Edition and Dishonored, these were all memorable to me or maybe I just watch the dev commentaries of games I enjoyed playing.

This post turned out longer than I expected. Oh well.