JDR13 on 21/12/2006 at 23:21
Screw Harvey. Look what he did to the sequel.:eww:
Jashin on 21/12/2006 at 23:50
"The most responsible..."
There's no main guy cus you can't compare the different aspects of works that went into it. Story > Art < Design > Programming? It just doesn't work. Everything is needed.
But if you just want to know on an administrative level who's the highest, then it's just Eidos.
JDR13 on 22/12/2006 at 00:14
Point taken. I was more refering to who conceived the game though.
Example- Richard Garriot conceived Ultima and is regarded as the "creator".
Although of course he didn't do all the Artwork, design, and programing by himself.
Jashin on 22/12/2006 at 00:33
From what I know first-hand, a lot of the concepts come from company-wide brainstorming. Spector is sort of the figure head that people identify with ISA (like Dubya/USA), and he takes the heat from higher ups.
ISA should've done a standalone commercial game to space out DX and IW, and in the meantime they could've done some prototyping. Jumping headlong into the unknown and then spend years trying to patch up early mistakes, it's no wonder IW became IW.
Matthew on 22/12/2006 at 09:13
Quote Posted by JDR13
Example- Richard Garriot conceived Ultima and is regarded as the "creator".
Although of course he didn't do all the Artwork, design, and programing by himself.
Bad example ;), because he was one of only two people who worked on the first Ultima (and possibly the only one to work on Akalabeth), plus the world was based around his old pen-and-paper one, IIRC.
JDR13 on 22/12/2006 at 19:36
Quote Posted by Matthew
Bad example ;), because he was one of only two people who worked on the first Ultima (and possibly the only one to work on Akalabeth), plus the world was based around his old pen-and-paper one, IIRC.
That's because you could do that in 1980.:cool:
As far as the world being based on his own pnp game, that just further confirms his conception of the game.
