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[Ristamar]

BioWare - Baldur's Gate 2

You've got to be joking.

 

[Black_Mamba]

You've got to be joking.

Well, it went downhill from there. A lot of people may like KotOR (mostly, those who've never played BG2) but JE is enough proof that the talent isn't there anymore.

 

[Robobandit]

I still don't understand the hate for Jade Empire..Bioware finally creates an original property and people hate it and tell them to go back to licensed shovelware.

I think it was a great game (not 9.9 great, of course) but good. I had wanted the soundtrack to that game for a long time.. but I lost interest by the time they released it.

games based on starwars need to fucking die, games based on d&d should suffer a little longer and then die.

If I never see another piece of forgtten realms and dungeons and dragons shit it will be too soon. (Dungeons and Dragons Online is all the proof I need that death of a franchise is required)

 

[jett]

alright maybe you dont like DOA4 and well DOAX did suck...but didnt he make quite a few good nes games?

Like what, exactly? He was a nobody before DOA.

Monolith Soft. They made Chrono trigger (Awesome,) Xenogears (Mediocre,) and Chrono Cross (All graphics and music) then branched out on their own and made the 3 Xenosagas (Awful,) and Baten Kaitos 1&2 (OK, at least the first one.)

That post is just so fucking wrong. What on earth makes you think Monolith Software made CT, XG and CC? Only a few Squaresoft members made the move to Monolith.

 

[Ristamar]

Well, it went downhill from there. A lot of people may like KotOR (mostly, those who've never played BG2) but JE is enough proof that the talent isn't there anymore.

Regardless if the talent is still there or not anymore, what about the original Baldur's Gate, Knights of the Old Republic (as you pointed out), and Neverwinter Knights? Hardly a one hit wonder.

 

[DMczaf]

Visual Concepts - NFL2K

 

[Bizarro Sun Yat-sen]

I think Shimomura is actually one of the more consistent musicians in the game industry. All her work has a similar essence even when it's superficially in very different genres, and there's not much she's done I find dramatically better or worse than the rest, certainly not PE.

Most of the XG/CC team went on to work on FFXI. Monolithsoft actually had more people from the Front Mission team (including the lead scenario writer of FM3 who is the current lead scenario writer of Xenosaga) than from the Xenogears team.

 

[Bizarro Sun Yat-sen]

As for one-hit wonders, given the opinions I often see here I'm surprised nobody's brought up Kouichi Ishii and Seiken Densetsu. Many people love Secret of Mana, are lukewarm on SD1 and 3 and hate Legend of Mana and the SD1 GBA remake. A lot of them aren't crazy about the FF and SaGa games Ishii worked on either. Personally I think Secret of Mana is greatly overrated and most of his other games are underrated, but I'm in the minority.

 

[PhoenixDark]

*Awaits Drinky* :lol


Hmmm, I'd say:

-Tetris creater
-Space Invaders creater
-Romero

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

*Awaits Drinky* :lol


Hmmm, I'd say:

-Tetris creater
-Space Invaders creater
-Romero

Add Iwatani Toru, creator of Pac Man, to your list and it'll be near-complete.

 

[PhoenixDark]

Add Iwatani Toru, creator of Pac Man, to your list and it'll be near-complete.

What about Ms. Pac Man? That's the reason I didn't name him.

 

[AniHawk]

What about Ms. Pac Man? That's the reason I didn't name him.

I thought that was done by college students.

 

[PhoenixDark]

I thought that was done by college students.

If so, add them to the list. :lol

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

The creator of Bubsy.

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

Yeah, Ms. Pac Man was the Counter-Strike of its time. A few young guys hack the original Pac Man. Then, impressed with the final product, they show it to Midway (or Namco, I can't remember), and it ends up getting distributed in the US by Midway.