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[Oblivion]

Aonuma was the man behind OoT, and most of Mario 64 as well IIRC. Miyamoto just wanders around the EAD offices exclaiming "this feels weird!" or "put some more wacky in this!" before going home at 3PM, intravenously connecting his hooka pipe, and passing out on a pile of Goomba plushies.

He's been a corporate mascot post-YI. He's a booth girl with a big office; his real job as a "producer" is legitimizing a game to the fanboy press and dressing up like a smirking fruit at tradeshows. He's old and busted, and will stay that way until he makes the 3D equivalent of Yoshi's Island.

Actually, Miyamoto was responsible for directing OoT, and Aonuma hasn't worked on any Mario games at all.

Of course, after OoT, Miyamoto hasn't really gotten his hands dirty (well, maybe Pikmin and Nintendogs, but I'm not sure) so you have a point I think.

 

[Timen]

Aonuma + Kojima

FTW

 

[boutrosinit]

Lorne Lanning and Tim Schafer
Kojima and Mikami
Okamoto and Mizuguchi
Warren Spector and Will Wright
Miyamoto and Nagoshi

If any of these hapen, I will get my arse hair and balls waxed.

 

[Shikamaru Ninja]

Shigeru Miyamoto did not direct The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time.

Here is the last 10 years of Nintendo's EAD group. Each game has a list of the director/assistant director assigned to the game. Order of contribution has been applied.

Nintendo EAD - 10 Years of software development

*1995

Mario's Tennis
Masao Yamamoto
Hitoshi Yamagami

TeleroBoxer
Yoshio Sakamoto
Masani Ueda

Virtual Boy: Wario Land
Hiroji Kiyotake
Hirofumi Matsuoka

Yoshi's Island
Takashi Tezuka
Toshihiko Nakago
Shigefumi Hino
Hideki Konno

*1996

Marvelous: Treasure Island
Eiji Aonuma
Mitsuhiro Takano

Super Mario 64
Shigeru Miyamoto
Yoshiaki Koizumi
Takashi Tezuka

Wave Race 64
Katsuya Eguchi
Shinya Takahashi

*1997

Excitebike: Mario Stadium Battle
Kyoko Kimura
Yoshinori Tsuchiyama

Star Fox 64
Takao Shimizu
Takaya Imamura

Yoshi's Story
Hideki Konno
Katsuya Eguchi

*1998

Detective Club 2: A Sudden Disappearance(1998 Edition)
Yoshio Sakamoto
Tomoyoshi Yamane

1080* Snowboarding
Masamichi Abe
Mitsuhiro Takano

F-Zero X
Tadashi Sugiyama
Yasuyuki Oyagi
Takaya Imamura

The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time
Yoichi Yamada
Eiji Aonuma
Yoshiaki Koizumi
Toru Osawa

Pokemon Stadium
Takao Shimizu
Kensuke Tanabe
Tatsuya Hishida

Wario Land 2
Takehiko Hosokawa
Masani Ueda

*1999

Super Mario Bros. Deluxe
Toshiaki Suzuki
Gou Endou

Pokemon Stadium 2
Takao Shimizu
Makoto Wada
Yasuyuki Oyagi

*2000

Mario Artist: Talent Maker
Hiroyuki Kimura
Hirofumi Matsuoka

Mario Artist: Communication Kit
Kazunobu Eri

Mario Artist: Polygon Maker
Hirofumi Matsuoka

Kirby Tilt N' Tumble
Toshiaki Suzuki
Hiroaki Sakagami

Wario Land 3
Takehiko Hosokowa

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Eiji Aonuma
Yoshiaki Koizumi

Pokemon Stadium 3
Takao Shimizu
Tatsuya Hishida
Yasuyuki Oyagi

*2001

Super Mario Advance
Toshiaki Suzuki
Hiroaki Sakagami

Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World
Hiroyuki Kimura
Yasuhisa Yamamura

Wario Land 4
Hirofumi Matsuoka

Luigi's Mansion
Hideki Konno
Tadashi Sugiyama

Pikmin
Masamichi Abe
Shigefumi Hino

Animal Crossing
Katsuya Eguchi

*2002

Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island
Hiroyuki Kimura
Yasuhisa Yamamura

Super Mario Sunshine
Yoshiaki Koizumi
Kenta Usui
Makoto Miyanaga

The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past DX
Yoichi Yamada
Kensuke Tanabe

Metroid Fusion
Yoshio Sakamoto
Takehiko Hosokawa

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Eiji Aonuma

*2003

Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3
Hiroyuki Kimura
Yasuhisa Yamamura
Shigeyuki Asuke

Wario Ware: Mega Micro Game$
Hirofumi Matsuoka
Kouichi Kawamoto

Pokemon Box: Ruby & Sapphire
Tatsuya Hishida
Kenta Usui

Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Kiyoshi Mizuki
Yasuyuki Oyagi

The Legend of Zelda: Navi Trackers
Yoshinori Tsuchiyama
Hideaki Fukutome

*2004

Metroid: Zero Mission
Yoshio Sakamoto
Masani Ueda

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
Toshiaki Suzuki
Kouichi Kawamoto

Pikmin 2
Masamichi Abe
Shigefumi Hino

Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat
Yoshiaki Koizumi
Koichi Hayashida

Super Mario 64 DS
Shinichi Ikematsu
Hiroshi Matsunaga
Makoto Miyanaga

Jam With The Band
Masaru Nishida
Noriko Kitamura
Nobuo Matsumiya

*2005

Yoshi's Touch N' Go
Hiroyuki Kimura
Shigeyuki Asuke

Nintendogs
Kiyoshi Mizuki
Takayuki Shimamura

Brain Training For Adults
Koichi Kawamoto
Noriko Kitamura
Masaru Nishida

Gentle Brain Exercise
Tomoaki Yoshinobu
Yoshikazu Yamashita


Shigeru Miyamoto does not direct games anymore. Hell, Takashi Tezuka who was directing many of the late NES/SNES games while Miyamoto produced, has not directed a game in over a decade. Truth be told, Miyamoto and Tezuka are now General Producers for the company, not even direct producers, and by no means game directors anymore. There is a new generation directing the games, and all the SNES-N64 directors are now producing the games.

!!!!

 

[Kon Tiki]

Sid Meier and Will Wright

 

[∀ Narayan]

Tetsuya Mizuguchi + Fumito Ueda

I wonder what these two would create together.

 

[Scrow]

Shigeru Miyamoto does not direct games anymore. Hell, Takashi Tezuka who was directing many of the late NES/SNES games while Miyamoto produced, has not directed a game in over a decade. Truth be told, Miyamoto and Tezuka are now General Producers for the company, not even direct producers, and by no means game directors anymore. There is a new generation directing the games, and all the SNES-N64 directors are now producing the games.

heh, imagine that. people having ambitions to get promoted and paid more the longer they work at a particular company.

 

[Oblivion]

Shigeru Miyamoto did not direct The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time.

Here is the last 10 years of Nintendo's EAD group. Each game has a list of the director/assistant director assigned to the game. Order of contribution has been applied.

Sorry, but he DID direct OoT. I even played it the other week and saw his damn name under the director's credit.

Don't know where you got those credits, but they're wrong. There were several interviews which said Eiji was a level Designer on OoT before Shiggy let him be the director for MM and WW.

Edit: Oh, by the way. Shiggy said he's currently directing Mario 128, but that may change when he finds somebody willing to take the role.

 

[DCX]

Which two designers would make a great game together, and why?

What would it be like?

Forget about the economics or business reality of things, this is purely hypothetical. I'm interested in hearing your ideas. Bonus points if you don't overuse Miyamoto =)

Here are my picks:

Tetsuya Mizuguchi / Alexey Pajitnov - a rhythmic puzzle game, both deep and addictive

Yuji Naka / Shigeru Miyamoto - a fusion of the platforming, action and adventure genres, with an interesting control scheme.

Shinji Mikami / Hideo Kojima - an intense 3rd person action game with a deep storyline and cinematic appeal

End of discussion.

DCX

 

[Raiden]

The only thing I can tell you now is Resident Evil 4 will definitely release only on GameCube, not on another console, if it happens, I will cut my head off. - Shinji Mikami

:lol

If so:

Shinji Mekami - 11 August 1965-2005 R.I.P

 

[BenT]

Will Wright + Paul Steed

Plus optionally Tommy Tallarico.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Sid Meier and Will Wright

See "Sid Meier's Sim Golf"

 

[sirris]

Chocolate and Peanut Butter. Someone told me they'd work great together.

 

[Oblivion]

Oh, and Shiggy and Naka could make the greatest platformer ever.

And Shiggy and the director for Shadow of the Colossus, (Fueda?) could make an awesome adventure game.

 

[Kon Tiki]

See "Sid Meier's Sim Golf"

Maybe I should have suggested a genre. :lol

 

[psycho_snake]

If depends on what game I want. If Im looking for one with guns, action, great gameplay and a gripping story I would have to go for Kojima and Mikami. If the two men behind MGS and RE4 made a game together it would be the best action game imaginable.

If i wanted a platformer, I would have to go with Naka and Miyamoto. Those two basically made platformers what they are now and if those two made a game together they could come up with something as good and original as mario or Sonic were.

These combinations are probably never going to happen, although if the rumours about Capcom and Konami are true, then we could very well see the Kojima and Mikami combination become a reality and there could be nothing greater than that.