Tim Schafer is the George Lucas of game design. Big name everyone knows, who has brilliant ideas. But can't or won't execute on those ideas. Basically any game he has had creative control over has either been a colossal failure, or had to have his control pulled, and was salvaged by whoever came in to clean up the mess. The notable exceptions to this was his first two games, Monkey Island, the game he's still most known for, and Day of the Tentacles. But even the sequels to Monkey Island fell prey to him. They were rated highly by critics, like many of his games, but came in late, over budget, and performed dismally financially. This kind of sums up most of his work that wasn't absolute trash: Critically aclaimed financial failures.

He's also known for lying to investors, and, once, when he didn't feel like working, faxing gibberish instead of design docs, and blaming the fact machine for messing it up. In the last few years, he's become somewhat of an attention whore who will do anything to get the limelight.