...why do the devs think that seeing the credits is so great and considered a prize? Like 'Yep, you finished the game so here you are, look at our names!' And you can't even skip it lol.

Never understood that

We don't. We just want to make sure that the recruiters get a good long look at our credentials...

Pride mainly... "I helped make this"

Exactly. Any specialist likes to be recognized for their work, and that includes game developers. Once upon a time, developers weren't allowed to take credit for their games, and the modern video game easter egg was born.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Robinett

Personally, I have no problem with it- making the games we play takes a lot of time, effort, late nights, money, and collaboration, and again, credit should be given where it's due in my opinion.

I always make it a point to watch the credits, simply because I know these people spent a LOT of time making these games. I feel I should appreciate that, and at least watch the credits.

Plus when I get my name in the credits some day, I would like to think someone would care enough to see it.

Lots of people work late nights, long hours, weekends, under stressful conditions or just plain WORK and don't need their name flashed in front of the people who benefit from part of their work. No offense to those in gaming, movies, tv, etc. but whoever decided we need to know who catered, gaffed, did hair or whatever was a narcissist. People work hard and usually don't even get credit in the workplace, much less from the public. That's life. If you get to work in that industry, and probably did work hard to get there, the job is the reward. You don't have to watch the credits for every gallon of gas you pump for the guys on the oil rig, refinement plant, truck drivers and inspectors.

I miss the old movies that told you the name of the movie, maybe the director and a couple of main actors...and that's it. At the end..."The End". We've got IMDB now, let that cover it.

I always sit through the end credits just in case there's a secret cutscene!

Better than ending with a full frontal of Rosie O Donnell I guess.

I don't. Usually a game that you "Beat" and has credits means that there was an end sequence so regodamdiculously hard that there's too many cracks in the monitor to read 'em.

End Game Credits:

Because MS Studios, your parent publisher and the various Q&A entities require it;

Because if you don't use it here, concept art is otherwise pretty useless once the game gets deep into development;

Because this way the composer gets to write something *decent* rather than the crap in-game music we had him write;

Because... credits make such better filler than actual plot exposition and epilogue;

Because in the credits, you get to pay Special Thanks to Felix the Cat, the only thing that kept you sane in the last sprint;

Because you want it stated somewhere that you spent 2 years, your second marriage, house and kids working 70 hour weeks for *something*.

LOL! Me too!

I rather enjoyed the credits for Portal and Portal 2.

Unless the credits are just names on a black background I'll usually sit through them.

+1

The only credits I've ever sat through were Strike Fighters: Project One, and Wings Over Vietnam...because I'm in there as a beta tester...lol.

Well, like Panzer I have sat through some looking for hidden scenes or Easter eggs, but not too often.

i liked the credits for assassin's creed 2, you get to fight your way out of the building while they are playing.

The earliest game I remember having a cutscene after the end credits is "No One Lives Forever".