Black & White from Lionhead Studios released originally back in 2001 went on to great reviews, and won various awards. Sadly, it's one game that has also been lost to time but the openblack project plans to revive it with open source.
You can accuse Peter Molyneaux for a lot of things, but he did manage to come up with some interesting wacky shit interspersed with all the exaggerations and scams.
They should give him 3 months max with a team and then put the developers in witness protection so he can't give them any more feedback and they can finish a great game in peace.
Scared the crap out of me when it happened too. Wouldn't work today though, as my wife named our user accounts and I doubt they have a recording of someone whispering "Mr Bitchtits".