Dream Videogame Roundtable

Burning Eclipse

The fantasy dinner party pops up in after hours quite a bit, and after thinking about it, while most people have famous actors or sports stars, I would have a few people from the games industry.

That got me thinking about a specific videogame roundtable.

So, if you could chair a roundtable, pick the brains of industry-types, even just have a chat/few drinks with them... Who would your 6-12 people be?

Tim Shafer
Cliff Blezinski
Gabe Newell
Peter Moore
Peter Molyneux
David Jaffe
Shigeru Miyamoto (not sure how anyone could omit this guy?)
Hideo Kojima
Yu Suzuki
Shinji Mikami
Hironobu Sakaguchi
Jonathan Blow (Purely for Braid)
Ken Levine (Ditto, but for Bioshock)

No particular order there, and I know Moore is a marketing-head as opposed to producer, but so am I, hence the interest.

Anybody care to share...? Or mock my inclusion of CliffyB

Retr0gamer

Can't slag off your inclusion of Cliffy B. I'd say he would be well up pints afterwards, then cigars and lapdancing clubs

Mine wouls be:

Suda 51
Shigeru Miyamoto
Cliffy B
Shinji Mikami
Hitoshi Sakimoto
Ken Levine (for system shock 2)
Yasumi Matsuno
Yukio Futatsugi (please do another panzer game!)
Stuart Campbell

L31mr0d

Don't forget John Romero, just so he can sit there in an awkward silence, and feel what it's like now that everyone in the room is making him their b!tch... oh the irony.

Retr0gamer

Can't we not forgive him, he did help with Doom, Doom 2 and Quake?

It's a shame that he is now stuck in the mobile phone game industry.

ciano1

Jade Raymond

That is all.

Retr0gamer

Good choice

me-skywalker

Mario
Vincent Valentine
Duke Nukem
Lara Croft
Ryu
Solid Snake
Thrall

L31mr0d

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Can't we not forgive him, he did help with Doom, Doom 2 and Quake?

I think people give him too much cred. Carmack was the brains of that outfit. You only have to look at what both of them went on to accomplish since they split.

This from Romeros wiki page really adds insult to injury:

"In September of 2008 John Romero told That Gaming Site that Severity was canceled, but Tom Mustaine contacted the site to inform them the project was not canceled but in "stealth mode" citing John Romero was "let out of the loop"."

ouch

Retr0gamer

Well Carmack was the genius behind the game engines, there's no way anyone can refure that. However Romero did do a lot of the best levels for those games. I think the problem with Romero is that he doesn't understand that when he is making a videogame he needs to work with in the limitations of what can be realistically achieved. In other words he was fine at Id when he had other people making the design and financial decisions and he was just there as a level designer.

Jazzy

there is no arguement.
carmack wins

edit - oh and id just get carmack and whoever made serious sam. im sure they could make something brilliant

SeantheMan

me-skywalker wrote: »

Mario
Vincent Valentine
Duke Nukem
Lara Croft
Ryu
Solid Snake
Thrall

Duke Nukem is a failure now
Add in Kratos and Dante

And for those interested in the 2 Johns story, PlayValue did a great short on it. Well worth a watch !!

http://www.onnetworks.com/videos/play-value/the-two-johns---from-doom-to-dust#

Potential-Monke

Raziel
Kain (from LoK series, not the wrestler)
Lara
Nathan Drake
Conker
Nico Bellic
Tommy Vercetti
A few Sims characters i created

Retr0gamer

Jazzy wrote: »

edit - oh and id just get carmack and whoever made serious sam. im sure they could make something brilliant

Serious Sam is a poor mans doom. A really poor mans doom.

Kiith

Is this real people or ingame characters? I'd have a similar list as Retr0's, with Jade Raymon and Nobuo Uematsu thrown in there.

Ingame people, i'd have...

Alyx Vance (Half Life)
Barney Calhoun (Half Life)
Nozomi Harasaki (shenmue)
Paulie (Mafia)
Jeanette Voerman (Vampire: Bloodlines)
Nathan Drake (Uncharted)
Darunia (Dancing Goron on Zelda OoT)
Sylvester "Sly Boots" Bucelli (Anachronox)
PAL-18 (Anachronox)
Minsc (Baldur's Gate)
GLaDOS (Portal)
Earthworm Jim


That's make an interesting party :pac:

Jazzy

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Serious Sam is a poor mans doom. A really poor mans doom.

exactly, it would make carmack realise what made doom great and go back to that ultra shooty style of game (ss2 wasnt bad, especially in co-op)

for characters in game:
Eddie Honda
Barret from FF7
Samus

more of a triangle then a table but i reckon they could get stuff done

Burning Eclipse

Burning Eclipse wrote: »

So, if you could chair a roundtable, pick the brains of industry-types, even just have a chat/few drinks with them... Who would your 6-12 people be?

Kiith wrote: »

Is this real people or ingame characters? I'd have a similar list as Retr0's, with Jade Raymon and Nobuo Uematsu thrown in there.

Real people, in game characters would be something altogether different...

Sabre0001

Interesting thread...must ponder my choices while at work

me-skywalker wrote: »

Mario
Vincent Valentine
Duke Nukem
Lara Croft
Ryu
Solid Snake
Thrall

Bad idea, you'll only be left disappointed. He'll say he'll be there at 8.....but twelve years later you'll still be waiting!

me-skywalker

haha well i like the idea of a fantasy dinner with incharacters be some hell of a party or even a mafia style to try take over a city... i reckon u'ld need a good stealhy man a good blow'em man, a sexy adventours woman, a leader of a separte small men pack, and a personal bodyguard to kick ass!

SeantheMan

me-skywalker wrote: »

i reckon u'ld need a good stealhy man

Solid Snake - He is stealth ! :cool:

me-skywalker wrote: »

a good blow'em man

Raiden - I'm sure he gives some blows here and there, gimp:eek:

me-skywalker wrote: »

a sexy adventours woman

Sniper wolf - mmmmmm :rolleyes:

me-skywalker wrote: »

, a leader of a separte small men pack

Foxhound - Liquid Snake

me-skywalker wrote: »

and a personal bodyguard to kick ass!

Grex Fox /Ninja :pac:

Metal Gear Solid did it for ye, all in one !

silvine

Gordon Freeman but i'd say he's a nerd.
Max Payne but he'd probably be messy.
Lara Croft, I hope she puts out.
The guy from Deadspace but he's not much of a talker.

giggsy664

Lara Croft
Alyx Vance
Barney Calhoun
Gordon Freeman
Heavy Weapons Guy
Spy
Scouts Ma (:P)
GLaDOS
Mario
Peach
Old Snake
Otacon
Meryl