Tell GR: Who Is The Michael Jordan Of Game Development?

Bobby Kotick

Who's the MJ? That's a bit of a tough question. I'd say that Kojima is the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Sid Meier is the Larry Bird, Gabe Newell is the Shaq, Will Wright is the Magic Johnson, Mikami is Lebron, Suda 51 is Kobe, and so on. Todd Howard is the kid from the movie Like Mike.
Really, it's hard to compare them to basketball players, because one basketball player does more than one football, baseball, or soccer player. In fact, baseball is a better analogy.
And of course that brings up the question of who you'd have play what positions if you made them into a baseball team.

Fuck that, Todd Howard would be the coach of the team that won the championship: most people don't know his name or his face, but from behind the scenes he orchestrates VICTORY

I have to admit I'm one of those gamers who has no clue about who made what, except for the high profilers such as Miyamoto or the (in)famous Peter Molyneaux for example. I usually focus on the publishing companies and that's it.

I think a better question would be: "Who is the Michael Jackson of game development?"

Lol, that's what I originally read when I saw the headline. I was thinking: Geez, what happened to Daniel at E3!? Did he get cornered in a dark hallway by one of those Japanese developers in a cowboy hat?

I've never liked or understood this individual developer worship, especially since it's probably an anonymous nobody at the developer company that's doing all the real work and making the games we love while their "famous" boss is on a stage somewhere making an ass of himself & taking all the credit.

Hideo Kojima!! =)

There really is no debate. It's miyamoto and i personally can't get into Nintendo franchises.

I'd have to go with Jeff Bridges.

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