Let us now praise famous men ......

[lord of the mark]

We've had lots of threads about games. And a few about game companies. This thread is to name the INDIVIDUAL person involved in gaming who has done the most to merit praise, fame, etc. While Im thinking primarily of game designers, lets not forget coders, artists, etc, or for that matter visionary individuals at publishing houses, hard ware makers, retailers, etc. Even members of the fan community, such as prominent modders, etc (er, lets NOT discuss proprietors of famous Civ websites, please).

Who deserves fame, and why?

[Alex]

Sid Meier, for obvious reasons (duh).

Brian Reynolds, for obvious reasons too (he made SMAC, the best TBS of all time).

[vovan]

Will Wright - for appealing to the widest audience (think Sims)
Peter Molyneux - for his crazy ideas that nobody likes of late, but hey, at least he's innovative

John Carmack and John Romero - for being the craziest coders like ever

[DaveV]

Steve Barcia: Master of Orion 1 & 2, Master of Magic. I've found his games to be accessible, yet extremely deep (but also somewhat buggy ).

[ZargonX]

Lord British, even if some of his more recent efforts have been less-than-stellar.

[vovan]

Oh, also, of course, lest we forget:

Shigeru Miyamoto - for making Mario, Donkey Kong and Legend of Zelda.

[General Ludd]

Lord British for being an uber geek.

[General Ludd]

Oh, and the dudes that made D&D.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by DaveV
Steve Barcia: Master of Orion 1 & 2, Master of Magic. I've found his games to be accessible, yet extremely deep (but also somewhat buggy ).

Has he done any games since MoO2?

[Jamski]

Gary Gygax, that would be then.

Feargus Urquhart for Baldur's Gate etc.

-Jam

[vovan]

Originally posted by Jamski
Feargus Urquhart for Baldur's Gate etc.

And for Fallout!

[DaveV]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
Has he done any games since MoO2?

See this link. Short answer if you don't want to follow the link: maybe Metroid Prime.

Which reminds me that Alan Emrich and Tom Hughes deserve mention for publishing several strategy guides that were actually worthy of the name.

[Kuciwalker]

Anyone at Bungie

What's the name of the guys who did Myst?

[dunk]

Originally posted by ZargonX
Lord British

Agreed. Whole-heartedly I might add.

And of course, Sid Meier.

[Adagio]

Defently Will Wright