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[SAB CA]

Wow, Iwata sounds like a fantastic programing genius, lol. Props to him!

The artist behind Chrono Cross' characters is Nobuteru Yuki.


His other credentials:

• Solatorobo
• Record of Lodoss War
• The Vision of Escaflowne
• Heat Guy J
• Battle Angel Alita
• Space Battleship Yamato 2199

Hmmm, I never put much of this together. That's pretty awesome, and explains why I love CC work so much...

Takayoshi Sato of Silent Hill 1 and 2 fame wound up at EA for a spell and then worked on games in the serious games genre for a company in North Carolina.

As one living in NC, that's pretty cool.

Hardly mind-blowing or obscure, but I booted up a fresh save file on my Shining Force II cart and I thought to myself "why does this feel so familiar?" (setting aside, of course, the fact that I've played it before).

After a quick Wiki search, apparently Hiroyuki Takahashi created both the Shining series and Golden Sun, another one of my favs.

The first time I saw the icons, battle screens, and overall look of Golden Sun, I knew there has to be some SHINING involvement! I just wish we'd see even more games with the signature style... including more Shinings, Golden Suns, and any offshoots they'd like to make (that aren't on phones / tablets...)

 

[Kysen]

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

What? hes a great composer, loved the Unicorn, AoT and Kill la Kill OSTs.

 

[Joseph Merrick]

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

cdprojekt isn't cdprojekt red.

 

[ShinMaruku]

Mark Cerny was intrumental behind making Sonic 2-3 if I recall corretly.

 

[Hedge]

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.

What.. I can't.. w..

 

[jay]

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

And like Naka, he is now bad at his job.

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

 

[Syril]

Mark Cerny was intrumental behind making Sonic 2-3 if I recall corretly.

From what I read he was the one who arranged the whole collaboration between Sega Japan and Sega America for Sonic 2 but I think Sonic 3 was all in Japan again.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Sleeping Dogs is done by the same guys as Bully when they left Rockstar, and it shows.

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.

He also compressed so well Pokemon Gold/Silver he could add Red/Blue's island, and they actaully did that.
EDIT Beaten!

 

[GameAddict411]

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

their games on PC still run terribly, so nothing has changed lol.

 

[Tye The Czar]

I actually didn't knew about it. I only knew him from the H works...

Such a shame his talent is wasted on C-List JRPGs when he could be working on more high-profile games and anime.

Look at this(NSFW)

 

[Daedardus]

their games on PC still run terribly, so nothing has changed lol.

They target high end machines and deliver high end graphics, what do you expect?

 

[The12thGripper]

Yoko Shimomura started her career doing parts of the soundtracks for Street Fighter II and Mega Man 5.

To clarify further, she only did one song for Mega Man 5 along with the amazing Ryu and Guile themes (I know she did more than those, but I only remember those two on the top of my head).

 

[Boy Wander]

Tim Moss, who is technical director at Sony Santa Monica and was lead programmer in the first God of War, was an Atar ST demo coder in a group called 'The Lost Boys' and coded this ST game called Prehistoric Tale...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9E40Ei6D6UE&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D9E40Ei6D6UE

 

[Regiruler]

It always somewhat surprises me that Roger C Smith worked in such different genres.

Sonic's Creed.

 

[Raysoul]

I'm glad Sawano is doing the music for X. The soundtrack for Gundam Unicorn is very good.

As for the topic, Marty Friedman (former Megadeth) helped with the guitar tracks on Bravely Default. You can watch him playing it here.

 

[Lijik]

Mark Cerny was intrumental behind making Sonic 2-3 if I recall corretly.

I recently learned he was fairly involved in the level designs for the first Ratchet and Clank as well. On top of being the creator of the vertical slice.

 

[Madflunky]

Rockstar North made...

Totally forgot they did that one. Not a terrible game but one the first one to have Leslie Benzies as a producer I think.

 

[sixteen-bit]

A Mark Cerny joint

 

[Crimsonsky]

The composer from Skyrim got his start on Secret of Evermore.

Yea, Jeremy Soule and he has been pumping out hits from start to finish. Like the Baldur's Gate series. The man has serious talent. He was actually an employee of Square. He left them, like so many, when the Gooch got ousted and Wada began his dark reign.

 

[qualitydisc]

I guess my mind was temporarily blown when I found out Mizuguchi (REZ, Lumines, Q? Entertainment) was also behind Genki Rockets, even though it immediately made sense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL2od1AF_Cs

I got into Genki Rockets because of Tetsuya Mizuguchi. Though I don't think they're very well known? Not sure. I bought their whole discography when I was living in Japan.