Who's your favorite developer?

[Dari]

For me, it would have to be Treasure:http://www.treasure-inc.co.jp/index01.html

Their obscure, cultish games are almost always undersold when they're available but become must-buys when they go out of print. By far, my favorite games from this company are:

Guardian Heroes
Radiant Silvergun
Gunstar Heroes

 

[MikeyLSU]

Blizzard, they take their time but hit gold on every game.

 

[RedRooster]

Not knowing a lot of those obscure tiny devs, I'll say Visual Concepts currently under 2K. Their sports games(NFL 2K and NBA 2K) are amazing year after year. They've just nailed it.

 

[RandomFool]

Blizzard and Valve always seem to release great games. Nintendo isn't too bad but they've had thier fair share of stinkers.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

On the PC side, Valve is doing an excellent job, as well as Blizzard. On the console, I haven't been let down by Criterion yet.

 

[CKDragon]

I :heart: Bioware.

 

[oznerol]

EA Tiburon

 

[mugs]

I don't really have one, but I guess I'd have to pick Blizzard.

I was a big fan of Ambrosia back when I had a Mac.

 

[randay]

squaresoft before square-enix.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: ducci
EA Tiburon

:Q Oh, you're one of those...

 

[leingod86]

Bioware, Blizzard, Bethesda...

lots of B's

 

[AstroManLuca]

Valve for me.

When I was listening to the developer commentary included in so much of the Orange Box (HL2: E1 and E2, Portal, and Lost Coast), it struck me how much time and effort they put into making their games really fun and not confusing. So often, when playing through a game, I lose where I'm supposed to be and have no idea what to do next. The commentary from Valve developers all talked so much about how a particular segment played out before they made a bunch of tweaks inspired by play testers.

Now, whenever I'm playing a game and I get horribly stuck (and it happens fairly often), I think, "Well, I guess these guys didn't use play testers like Valve does."

 

[digiram]

Nintendo, Valve, and Blizzard.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Black Isle Studios

 

[Sadaiyappan]

EA..

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: MikeyLSU
Blizzard, they take their time but hit gold on every game.

QFMFT

 

[J]

Rockstar,i just love their style of open ended games like the warriors,GTA and many others.

 

[Dumac]

Valve for PC games, and I suppose Tri-Ace for console games.

 

[Capitalizt]

Nintendo

 

[eelw]

Nintendo hands down is the best developer.

And OP, how can you leave out Ikaruga on your list?????

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: digiram
Nintendo, Valve, and Blizzard.

Same.

 

[Dari]

Originally posted by: eelw
Nintendo hands down is the best developer.

And OP, how can you leave out Ikaruga on your list?????

I never played it. I only played Radiant Silvergun, the predecessor to Ikaruga. I will try to find the GCN version or get it from Live when it becomes available (and when I get a 360).

 

[Piuc2020]

I gotta say Blizzard, I've never played a bad Blizzard game, what's more, I've never played a Blizzard game that wasn't an outstanding excellence in it's particular genre, Starcraft, Warcraft, Diablo, they are all great games, even their SNES games from when they had a different name (can't remember) like Rock n Roll Racing and Lost Vikings were pretty awesome games in their own right.

Blizzard never releases stinkers, that comes with a price, namely LONG development cycles and limited releases but I think it's well worth it.

 

[Thraxen]

Like most other people, I agree with Valve and Blizzard. I also really like Insomniac, Incognito, and Naughty Dog.

 

[BladeVenom]

In addition to Black Isle and Bioware which have already been mentioned, I also really like Creative Assembly, Relic, Massive Entertainment, Infinity Ward, Monolith Productions, and Irrational Games.