Who is your favorite individual game developer/director?

I'm looking for names of people not names of companies. (Konami isn't a person. Hideo Kojima is).

Some of my favorites are: David Jaffe, Shinji Mikami, and Shigeru Miyamoto.

Miyamoto, of course.

In no particular order:

Ken Levine (BioShock series, System Shock 2)

Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo mastermind)

Neil Druckmann/Bruce Straley (The Last of Us)

Hironobu Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy)

Tetsuya Takahashi (Xenogears)

Casey Hudson (Mass Effect)

Warren Spector (Deus Ex)

Todd Howard (Elder Scrolls, Fallout)

Hidetaka Miyazaki (Demon's/Dark Souls, Bloodborne)

Richard Garriott (Ultima series, Ultima Online)

Neil Druckmann & Bruce Straley (The Last of Us, Uncharted 2, Uncharted 4)

Hideo Kojima (MGS series)

Hmm,

Kojima, Gavin, Lord British, Al Lowe, Tim Schafer, Roberta Williams, Jane Jensen, The old Sierra gang, Sid Meier and the Paradox and overkill crew.

And a few more,

Some favourites of mine, in no particular order are:

• Cliff Bleszinski - Gears of War
• Tomonobu Itagaki - Ninja Gaiden
• Koji Igarashi - Castlevania
• Shigeru Miyamoto - Mario, Zelda, etc.
• Hideo Kojima - Metal Gear Solid
• Casey Hudson - Mass Effect trilogy
• Todd Howard - Elder Scrolls and Fallout
• Ken Levine - Bioshock games
• Hironobu Sakaguchi - Final Fantasy games
• Shinji Mikami - Resident Evil games
• Keiji Inafune - Mega Man, Dead Rising, Onimusha, Lost Planet
• Yoshinori Ono - Street Fighter IV

The main ones are/were Ken Levine & Casey Hudson.

howz it goin bud

probably Sid Meier for me. Although i didn't like Beyond Earth much. And the starships game or whatever it was called was very low budget looking. But Civilization series no doubt is one i put the most hours into and had the most fun since the very original.

I'm not sure why they are making an Expansion to Beyond earth to be honest. They have a gem in Civilization 5, if they even added some free updates and fixes to the game even more people would buy it. I didn't find Beyond Earth enough fun to play more than once.

I'll mention Richard Garriott also. Great games up to Ultima 7, but after that downhill. (UO was a classic though also). Ultima 8 was complete crap and so was Ultima 9.

And since im talking about hasbeens, maybe peter molyneux. Great games like Syndicate, Magic carpet 1-2, Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital, Populous. But since 2000 and beyond complete garbage from him.

Probably Taro Yoko. Genius at storytelling and delving into the questions of "what makes us sad?" and "why do people kill?".

Kojima, easily. I have a huge respect for Miyamoto, but I think he is way past his prime and is, along with a big part of Nintendo, completely out of touch with gaming.

Shinji Mikami, he created and developed my fav video game series, also making few other series I enjoy (Dino Crisis), I'm not sure but I think that on his insisting and authority Capcom agreed to release DMC when it was only a concept for Resident Evil. And many more games...

Chris Avellone (Planescape, Pillars of Eternity)

Amy Henning (Soul Reaver, Uncharted)

The whole gang at Clover Studio/Platinum Games

I hate hidetaka miyazaki for make great games then making them so difficult that it kills my desire to play them.

Nihon Falcom is everything I like to see in a JRPG studio, and right now they are the only studio in the industry who can sell me games just based on who they are.

Hideo Kojima

@psx2514: Hideo Kojima, Shigeru Miyamoto, Adrian Chmielrarz .

Hideo Kojima

• Warren Spector... Deus Ex, Thief
• Mike Morhaime... Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft
• Chris Roberts... Freelancer, Wing Commander, Star Citizen
• Gabe Newell... Half Life series

Gabe Newell

Hideo Kojima

Miyamoto (Mario, Zelda)

Warren Spector (Deus Ex, Thief)

John Romero (Wolfenstein, Doom)

Hideki Kamiya (DMC, Bayonetta)

Patrice Désilets (Prince of Persia, Assassin's Creed)

CDPro (The Witcher, Cyberpunk 2077)

@Cloud_imperium: Gabe Newell isn't actually a developer

"Developer/Director".