What's the biggest 'developer dream Team' game ever?

[tmc]

Was wondering what game, if any, could be considered to have been developed by the biggest 'Dream Team' of development talent in history?

I'm looking at graphics artists, story writers, coders, music makers anything.

Also wether the person in question was big at the time or still yet to make their name dosn't matter - simply if you were to list the development staff now which game would have the biggest 'globetrotter' rollcall of all?

[josekortez]

I'd say Mistwalker for Blue Dragon. Apparently, with Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy heading up the team, Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball Z providing art direction and composer Nobuo Uematsu on the score, it was an all-star team.

Sadly, the game didn't set the RPG world on fire...

[dao2]

I'd say Mistwalker for Blue Dragon. Apparently, with Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy heading up the team, Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball Z providing art direction and composer Nobuo Uematsu on the score, it was an all-star team.

Sadly, the game didn't set the RPG world on fire...

phoenix rye makes any team a dream team ;p

[Cloud121]

I'd say Mistwalker for Blue Dragon. Apparently, with Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy heading up the team, Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball Z providing art direction and composer Nobuo Uematsu on the score, it was an all-star team.

Sadly, the game didn't set the RPG world on fire...
No, but Lost Odyssey is easily the best traditional, turned based JRPG to come out in YEARS.

Oh and, as for Dream Teams, you can't forget Chrono Trigger. Hironobu Sakaguchi, Yuji Hori, Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda, and Akira Toriyama.

[Cryomancer]

I wish more modern RPGs were more like Blue Dragon, seriously.

Except the music tracks that are so painfully final fantasy. Otherwise the music (and game itself) is great.

[poloplayr]

chrono trigger

[MasterJSP]

I third the dream team who developed Chrono Trigger.

[Sudo]

Chrono Trigger, and it shows. Still one of the best games ever.

[Gapporin]

phoenix rye makes any team a dream team ;p

I don't know if this is what you were getting at, but I have to mention the original Phantasy Star. You had Yuji Naka for a lead programmer, Reiko Kodama as the lead designer, Kotaro Hayashida as the executive producer/writer (he also designed/created Alex Kidd) and Tokuhiko Uwabo for the music composer (somewhat unknown outside of Sega, but he also composed the music for Zillion and Choplifter! and other SMS titles. He also came back to do the music for the sequel, Phantasy Star II).

On a lesser note, you also have Naoto Ohshima as a designer and Akinori Nishiyama as a play tester, both of whom are now 20+ year industry veterans. Ohshima's last work was being an executive producer of Blue Dragon and Nishiyama's last credit was being the executive producer of Sonic And The Secret Rings.

[Amos]

How about the Hasbro NEMO project? (Night Trap, Sewer Shark, Citizen X)

- David Crane (Pitfall!; co-founder of Activision)
- Rob Fulop (Demon Attack; co-founder of Imagic)
- Charlie Kellner (Rescue on Fractalus, Koronis Rift)
- Mark Turmell (Smash T.V., NBA Jam, NFL Blitz)
- Mark Voorsanger (Toejam & Earl)
- Kenneth Melville (It Came from the Desert)
- Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari)
- John Dykstra (Star Wars)

Some of these guys had created million-selling games entirely by themselves. Definitely an all-star line-up. I don't think they all worked on all three games, though.

[j_factor]

Sonic 2 is a pretty obvious candidate. Yuji Naka, Hayao Nakayama, Shinobu Toyoda, Masaharu Yoshii, Peter Morawiec, Hirokazu Yasuhara, Steve Woita, Rieko Kodama, Craig Stitt, etc.

[Aussie2B]

You could throw Masato Kato on there with Chrono Trigger, since some people really adore his work. I think he's kinda arrogant from what I've read and I didn't like what he did to the plot in Chrono Cross, but I can't complain about his 12000 B.C. scenario in Chrono Trigger.

[Poofta!]

Fallout 1 & 2

[diskoboy]

Sega's AM2 (Yu Suzuki in his glory days) & AM6 teams rocked my world for a little over a decade.

After AM6 became Smilebit, they could never live up to the high standards they had set for themselves in Jet Grind Radio. IMO, even JSRF wasn't up to par....

And poor Suzuki-san... His recent work has basically gone unnoticed since Sega's dropout from the home market. While he may have the Virtua Fighter series to fall back on, Sega's basically taken him out of the creative pool, when he was their 'go to guy' for ages..