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[Tye The Czar]

So, I was rewatching the Monolith Soft X trailers to keep up the hype, when I noticed a couple of peculiar names.

1st Trailer
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Any super diehard fan of Xenogears will find this delightfully familiar. Tanaka created the looks for Fei, Citan and company!

Another interesting name popped up:

So I looked the name up and found some of his works:

Blue Exorcist - Exorcist Concerto First Movement Me & Creed

Kill La Kill - Before My Body Is Dry/Don't Lose Your Way

Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin - The Reluctant Heroes

Well, GAF? Are there any people - game designers, composers, artists, voice actors, you-name-it - whose appearances in games made you spit out your meals?

 

[Byronic Hero]

The composer of Gravity Rush and Resonance of Fate also does the music for One Piece. I started loving them all a bit more because of that fact.

 

[Cels]

CDProjekt (witcher 2) was responsible for the horrific PC port of Saints Row 2

 

[Tye The Czar]

The composer of Gravity Rush and Resonance of Fate also does the music for One Piece. I started loving them all a bit more because of that fact.

No freaking way!

Also, does that art for the creepy-looking loli fishing game look familiar?

Take a look at the artists' other works:

Bakemonogatari:

Tanto Cuore:

Grisaia no Kajitsu:

 

[Jarmel]

Please don't remind me that Sawano is doing the OST. Depressing as fuck.

 

[GotchaForce]

I think Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia creator) works in writing film scripts. Same for Ken Levine (at least he's working on a Logan's Run script). David Hayter worked on the scripts for the first X-Men movie and the Watchmen movie.

 

[SwiftDeath]

CDProjekt (witcher 2) was responsible for the horrific PC port of Saints Row 2

That is....surprising to say the least

 

[DocSeuss]

CDProjekt (witcher 2) was responsible for the horrific PC port of Saints Row 2

WHAT? SAUCE. NOW.

 

[Thoraxes]

Shahid Ahmad did music for some SNES games. I asked him about it on twitter and he was really cool about it

 

[Heart of Black]

Rockstar North made...

 

[Reveirg]

Please don't remind me that Sawano is doing the OST. Depressing as fuck.

Whu---- what am I reading? O_O

 

[Zeyphersan]

CDProjekt (witcher 2) was responsible for the horrific PC port of Saints Row 2

Everyone's got shit in their past. Apparently even CDP

 

[NewGame]

Rockstar North made...

Always blows my mind when I look back on it. One of my favorite N64 titles.

 

[thequickandthedead]

The Boss's voice actor also voicing Pearl in Spongebob.

 

[GotchaForce]

I just recalled one: reading Hardcore Gameing101's giant article on the Mother series and how Earthbound was in development hell for like 4 years. It looked like it was never going to be released, until a programmer came in at the last minute to fix everything. That programmer was Sotaru Iwata.

 

[Zeyphersan]

I just recalled one: reading Hardcore Gameing101's giant article on the Mother series and how Earthbound was in development hell for like 4 years. It looked like it was never going to be released, until a programmer came in at the last minute to fix everything. That programmer was Sotaru Iwata.

I've heard nothing to contradict that he was a brilliant programmer

 

[EmptySpace]

gran turismo creator kazunori yamauchi first started at sony music japan.

on the same note, shuhei yoshida's first-produced game was gran turismo.

don mattrick made test drive, which later became the first game in the test drive series.

 

[Dark_castle]

Yoshinori Kitase.

From...

FFV
FFVI
Chrono Trigger
FFVII
FFVIII
FFX

to

FFXIII
FFXIII-2
LR

 

[striferser]

Gangstar 4 Main Character (mobile game) voice actor also voice Son Goku DBZ

 

[Krappadizzle]

CDProjekt (witcher 2) was responsible for the horrific PC port of Saints Row 2

Not quite the same. CDProjekt RED and CDProjekt are different developers. CDPR was stood up by CDP I believe. I could and probably am wrong though.

Edit: In doing very small research it seems as if CDProjekt RED was started as a development studio by CDProjekt. CDPR never touched Saint's Row 2.

 

[Dark_castle]

I just recalled one: reading Hardcore Gameing101's giant article on the Mother series and how Earthbound was in development hell for like 4 years. It looked like it was never going to be released, until a programmer came in at the last minute to fix everything. That programmer was Sotaru Iwata.

Who's Sotaru Iwata?

 

[Byronic Hero]

No freaking way!

Yep, and also, the composer for Bravely Default created the opening themes to Attack on Titan.

 

[Tye The Czar]

HELLO!

HEY!

LOOK!

HEY!

LISTEN!

WATCH OUT!

Objective Fact:

Spoiler

Above is her best role

 

[Jarmel]

Whu---- what am I reading? O_O

You're reading someone who thinks Sawano is a shit composer at worst and barely above mediocre at best. He's a poor man's Iwasaki.

 

[StalkerUKCG]

Kiki wolfkill popped up in the mass effect credits. Which was a nice surprise.

 

[ComputerMKII]

David Cage worked on Timecop

 

[Zeyphersan]

Not quite the same. CDProjekt RED and CDProjekt are different developers. CDPR was stood up by CDP I believe. I could and probably am wrong though.

Edit: In doing very small research it seems as if CDProjekt RED was started as a development studio by CDProjekt. CDPR never touched Saint's Row 2.

Cels correctly stated that CDP worked on the port, not CDPR, but misattributed The Witcher 2 to CDP instead of CDPR.

Still not something you want on your record over there...

 

[Zoggy]

volition (loved SR 3 and 4)

was blown away when i found out they also made the punisher and red faction 2, games i also loved

 

[PotionBleue]

Composer/arranger of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds and Super Mario Galaxy 2, Ryo Nagamatsu, started working at Nintendo on Wii Play music.

Remember the Cow racing and Tanks themes.

 

[Krappadizzle]

Cels correctly stated that CDP worked on the port, not CDPR, but misattributed The Witcher 2 to CDP instead of CDPR.

Still not something you want on your record over there...

True, but that'd be like me saying Bethesda(Morrowind, Oblvion, Skyrim, Fallout 3) made Brink. Either way, it's not important. I had just never heard that before and CDPR is one of my favorite developers and I was surprised to hear that.

 

[splattergnome]

John Romero programmed this superb piece of art back in the day (look, it includes a QTE!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxNVfa9IAFE

 

[Oblivion]

I'm sure most people already know this but my mind was sorta blown when I found out one of the lead designers at Naughty Dog directed the original Genesis Sonic games.

 

[Denzar]

Jacob Minkoff used to be lead designer for Blue Omega Entertainment. You know, the studio that made that giant turd, Damnation.

Blue Omega went belly up, though (I wonder why?) and Minkoff moved to Naughty Dog where he designed and developed the train level in Uncharted 2. He was also lead designer alsongside Richard Lemarchand on Uncharted 3.

 

[PaulExcellent]

Rare made "Anticipation", one of the worst NES board games I've ever played.
Everyone should try it.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

David Hayter worked on the scripts for the first X-Men movie and the Watchmen movie.

Hayter has a huge collection of B-movies from the 80s, as well as directed a werewolf film recently.

 

[Oblivion]

Composer/arranger of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds and Super Mario Galaxy 2, Ryo Nagamatsu, started working at Nintendo on Wii Play music.

Remember the Cow racing and Tanks themes.

Why is that surprising?

 

[Syril]

I just recalled one: reading Hardcore Gameing101's giant article on the Mother series and how Earthbound was in development hell for like 4 years. It looked like it was never going to be released, until a programmer came in at the last minute to fix everything. That programmer was Sotaru Iwata.

When Pokemon Gold/Silver was in development they ran out of space on the cartridge before they were done and Iwata compressed everything so well that there was enough space left over to include Kanto as a bonus.

volition (loved SR 3 and 4)

was blown away when i found out they also made the punisher and red faction 2, games i also loved

Also the Freespace and Summoner games.

 

[KJRS_1993]

I think I remember finding out that the voice of Ashley in Resident Evil 4 is also the voice of Sandy Cheeks in SpongeBob.

 

[STG]

The Creator of Earthbound, Shigesato Itoi, voiced the father character in "My neighbor Totoro". I was spitting out my coffee left and right.

 

[Shig]

Shinji Mikami's first big game directing gig was Goof Troop SNES.

Tetsuya Nomura designed a lot of iconic FF5+6 monsters, including that towering Kefka final boss everyone loves.

 

[Mikar]

Shinji Mikami's first big game directing gig was Goof Troop SNES.

Explains a lot I guess. Goof Troop never sounded like a good game, but it was absolutely wicked. Not even nostalgia killed this one.

 

[Hyperactivity]

When Pokemon Gold/Silver was in development they ran out of space on the cartridge before they were done and Iwata compressed everything so well that there was enough space left over to include Kanto as a bonus.
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I just recalled one: reading Hardcore Gameing101's giant article on the Mother series and how Earthbound was in development hell for like 4 years. It looked like it was never going to be released, until a programmer came in at the last minute to fix everything. That programmer was Sotaru Iwata.

Any and all sins forgiven. I knew he was previously a programmer, but getting Pokemon Gold/Silver and Earthbound into the world allows for these sorts of benefits

 

[Tye The Czar]

Nintendo Software Technology worked on the GBC remake of Crystalis.

The Chief Technical Officer there was Claude Comair.

A more well known role he has is being the dean and founder of the school I go to:

Digipen Institute of Technology

 

[Ashtar]

Interesting thread even though I don't know who 80% of these people before. I've been gaming for like 20 years and before the age of Xbox/PS2 how did you guys find out who made games to actually follow them?

 

[funkystudent]

The Rouge Legacy people made Dont Shit Your Pants.

 

[Pitmonkey]

A great deal of people who worked on the God of War series worked on this:

And it shows...

 

[SomeOneInaHat]

Rouge Legacy was the second game made by Cellar Door, the first being Don't Shit Your Pants. An interactive text adventure about not shitting your pants.

 

[joe2187]

=

 

[Mr Git]

Hayter has a huge collection of B-movies from the 80s, as well as directed a werewolf film recently.

Not to mention his role as Guyver and the original "EA Sports, it's in the game" voice.

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Whu---- what am I reading? O_O

Sawano is a godawful composer whose only real trick seems to be to make music as bombastic as possible. If Attack on Titan hadn't been killed by its terrible pacing and unfinished animation, it certainly would have been by Sawano's laughably awful music destroying every third or fourth scene.

I only hope that his advertized involvement in X is something less than being the full composer, and that maybe he'll only be contributing a handful of songs while some of the Xenoblade composers do most of the soundtrack. Because a full Sawano soundtrack would be a real downer.