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Tim Schafer is awesome. I'd hire him in a second. Except we'd be paying a lot less than $27k, it's not the 1980s and he doesn't speak Chinese. No dental benefit

Tim Schafer is awesome. I'd hire him in a second. Except we'd be paying a lot less than $27k, it's not the 1980s and he doesn't speak Chinese. No dental benefits either. It's pretty cool that he kept the letters. I hope I can build my own company into the sort of place that will have people keeping random HR stuff like this and reposting them to the net years on to reminisce about the days we weren't a soul crushing corporation. In the meantime, anyone who hasn't yet should buy Psychonauts and help keep these guys in business. Best game I've ever played.

bmalicoat 17y ago
I've actually been on the fence about buying Psychonauts for a while, after reading his post and seeing how he's just a normal guy with ups and downs who's trying to put out great stuff I'm going to! What a great run-on sentence that was.
- quizzical 17y ago
  I got it for PS2. Not exactly the best looking game of its time. But some unforgettably great concepts. You play the game inside someone's psyche. Early on you come across a suitcase that is crying and it needs your help to find a missing tag. I really laughed out loud when I realized it was emotional baggage. :) Later in the game you have to solve some puzzles by looking through other people's eyes and realize that they see things differently than you. Wonderful stuff!
bendotc 17y ago
Or buy Brutal Legend, his company's new game. Or better yet, both (Psychonauts is available on the XBox360's back catalog of original XBox games, and I would hope Double Fine still gets a good cut of any sales of it).
- Legion 17y ago
  Psychonauts is also $10 on Steam. I originally played it on the Xbox, but today, I would definitely plug a 360 controller into my PC and download from Steam instead. High res and native widescreen, baby.
  - jcromartie 17y ago
    Steam also cuts out the retail portion of the picture, which gets more money directly to the publisher/developer.

bmalicoat 17y ago

I've actually been on the fence about buying Psychonauts for a while, after reading his post and seeing how he's just a normal guy with ups and downs who's trying to put out great stuff I'm going to! What a great run-on sentence that was.

quizzical 17y ago
I got it for PS2. Not exactly the best looking game of its time. But some unforgettably great concepts. You play the game inside someone's psyche. Early on you come across a suitcase that is crying and it needs your help to find a missing tag. I really laughed out loud when I realized it was emotional baggage. :) Later in the game you have to solve some puzzles by looking through other people's eyes and realize that they see things differently than you. Wonderful stuff!

bendotc 17y ago

Or buy Brutal Legend, his company's new game. Or better yet, both (Psychonauts is available on the XBox360's back catalog of original XBox games, and I would hope Double Fine still gets a good cut of any sales of it).

Legion 17y ago
Psychonauts is also $10 on Steam. I originally played it on the Xbox, but today, I would definitely plug a 360 controller into my PC and download from Steam instead. High res and native widescreen, baby.
- jcromartie 17y ago
  Steam also cuts out the retail portion of the picture, which gets more money directly to the publisher/developer.