Developers you both love and hate

[SoranMBane]

Visceral. One one hand there's Dead Space 2, but on the other there's Dante's Inferno, Dante's Inferno's ad campaign, and Dead Space 2's ad campaign...

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Love
Obsidian. As anyone can tell from my avatar, I enjoyed Neverwinter Nights 2 a great deal. Sure, their games are buggy, but there is a great satisfaction of ?breaking? their games. Making a Paladin that can breathe fire is dang awesome.

Spoiler

Getting to kill a God, and then becoming the thing that most games would have you fight against is very fun. Needs work on their endings though. Rocks fall, everyone dies.

Game Freak. I put a LOT of time into pokemon, about 475 hours or so from Gen I to V. Fun games.
Bioware: Good stories, fun gameplay. Not much to be said that already wasn?t.
Lionhead: I really like Fable II and Fable III. They were solid games, if a bit tedious at times.



Dislike
Square: I feel cheated on FFXIII. I am not a fan of the series, I will admit, but the game was just so boring. I couldn?t play through it any more.

 

[cgentero]

Ubisoft and Capcom make some of my favorite series and then they both manage find a way to fuck them up.

 

[binvjoh]

Obsidian.

Alpha Protocol and New Vegas are great games, if only they could understand the importance of quality control.

 

[BRex21]

Valve, love the half life serise, hate the time they are taking with episode 3.
Like the acessability of Steam, hate its rediculous internet connection demands, and mandatory-ness.
All in all they force me to chose between playing their excellent library with the hassles of the DRM or ignoring it in favor of something less troublesome.

 

[Saelune]

Bioware. I love their games, but I dont like how they are making tensions worse between console and PC gamers (its just stupid).

 

[Lord Beautiful]

I used to love Capcom. They gave me Devil May Cry and Street Fighter, among others. Then they started to drop the ball on their product quality, and place greater emphasis on westernizing their franchises, even the ones that were western enough to start with. Argh.

 

[natster43]

Valve: Love Left 4 Dead. Hate that most of the work for there games come from modders.

EA: Love their game developers. Hate there retarded ass Online Pass for dicking me over once ever.

Capcom: Love there games. Hate that it cost five+ dollars for costumes.

Nintendo: Love their games, systems, and portables. Hate that they can't make a good Mario Sports game anymore, also that I can't think of an actual thing I hate about them.

Ubisoft: Love Ass Creed. Hate Tomb Raider.

That is all I can think of.

 

[WorldCritic]

Immediately I think Sega. I hate that they haven't made a good Sonic game in year (I didn't have much fun with Sonic Colors) but they've made so many games that I love to death that I can't stay mad at them. Sega gets the honor of being my fifth favorite game company who would be higher on the list if it hadn't been for some truly stupid moves they've made.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I loved Bioware until recently. They have turned into prima donnas who cherry pick the parts of the community that they listen to. And that whole JRPG comment.

Did you see what happened to the social Bioware forum the week that DA2 was released? It was the reason I started posting on the Escapist. All it was were people who hadn't even bought the game complaining about non-existent issues, people talking about how they wouldn't buy the game because they didn't like how the world map design looked, misinformation, etc. Eventually they just made a forum section where only people with registered games could post. Then, someone started a thread based on constructive criticism for DA2, and that's reached 56 pages of people discussing the game, and making comments on what should be improved. That thread is also a sticky.

And even before that, Bioware wouldn't close down threads unless it dissolved into mere name-calling and insults.

OT: It's got to be squeenix for me, for reasons already listed.

I've been lurking recently. Those people want to lynch EA. 10% trolling DA2, 20% white knighting for Bioware, 20% like DA2, 30% don' like it, 10% hate DA2, 10% love DA2, and 100% curse EA for the short development time given to DA2. From what I've gathered. It is a mess and yet Mike Laidlaw is still trying to pass everything off as okay.

"It's always valid. You have to take a read of what the fans are saying, what reviews are saying, and what the non-fans are saying. Are there people out there who are saying, "I could not play Origins, but love Dragon Age II" or "I couldn't play Origins and this is more of the same." You have to keep your ear to the ground. Look at forums. Take a look at what comments are coming up. What are the common concerns? What are the common perceptions? I think the big key is to not adjust 180 degrees again, because we've done this. I think, as a team, we're quite happy with what we've done with Dragon Age II, and this is establishing a solid foundation that keeps a lot, in fact almost everything I want to keep about Origins, but still has tons of room to grow and, frankly, a more viable future for the franchise. It's one that's more sustainable because we brought the world to a place that's inherently more interesting than "Yay, we beat the Blight. Good for us!"

The man is digging his own grave.

 

[Ravnican]

I have to say EA. They publish some of my favorite games: Mass Effect 1 & 2, Dragon Age: Origins & II, The Sims 1 to 3, the Fight Night Series and more. But they're also the closest thing we have to OsCorp, which knocks quite a few points off.

 

[CleverCover]

Obsidian.

I would say why, but it would be repetitious.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

snip

I am to an extent. I think they have become quite arrogant. [http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/8006/bioware-you-can-put-a-j-in-front-of-it-but-final-fantasy-13-isnt-an-rpg] When one head honcho acts like a douchebag, I'll dismiss it. When multiple do it? I call foul.

 

[mireko]

I've been lurking recently. Those people want to lynch EA. 10% trolling DA2, 20% white knighting for Bioware, 20% like DA2, 30% don' like it, 10% hate DA2, 10% love DA2, and 100% curse EA for the short development time given to DA2. From what I've gathered. It is a mess and yet Mike Laidlaw is still trying to pass everything off as okay.

"It's always valid. You have to take a read of what the fans are saying, what reviews are saying, and what the non-fans are saying. Are there people out there who are saying, "I could not play Origins, but love Dragon Age II" or "I couldn't play Origins and this is more of the same." You have to keep your ear to the ground. Look at forums. Take a look at what comments are coming up. What are the common concerns? What are the common perceptions? I think the big key is to not adjust 180 degrees again, because we've done this. I think, as a team, we're quite happy with what we've done with Dragon Age II, and this is establishing a solid foundation that keeps a lot, in fact almost everything I want to keep about Origins, but still has tons of room to grow and, frankly, a more viable future for the franchise. It's one that's more sustainable because we brought the world to a place that's inherently more interesting than "Yay, we beat the Blight. Good for us!"

The man is digging his own grave.

In all of that, it doesn't really look like he actually said anything. You'll notice that he doesn't offer any objective comments, just "we're quite happy with [DA2]", "[DA2] keeps almost everything I want to keep about Origins". He never openly states.. well, anything. Just that they're happy with the game, which is really neither here nor there.

Summarized, it's "We're listening to the community, and we're also not listening to the community. We're not changing more things, and we're also not not changing more things." The only thing he seems to say is that the setting became more interesting. If there are other posts that make his opinion more clear, then sure, but this is just PR waffling.


But what's the JRPG comment? I've never read anything in the BioWare forum, so I must have missed it.

EDIT: I am way too slow.

[sub]I was going to compare him to a Dabus, but that was a Black Isle game..[/sub]

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I've been lurking recently. Those people want to lynch EA. 10% trolling DA2, 20% white knighting for Bioware, 20% like DA2, 30% don' like it, 10% hate DA2, 10% love DA2, and 100% curse EA for the short development time given to DA2. From what I've gathered. It is a mess and yet Mike Laidlaw is still trying to pass everything off as okay.

"It's always valid. You have to take a read of what the fans are saying, what reviews are saying, and what the non-fans are saying. Are there people out there who are saying, "I could not play Origins, but love Dragon Age II" or "I couldn't play Origins and this is more of the same." You have to keep your ear to the ground. Look at forums. Take a look at what comments are coming up. What are the common concerns? What are the common perceptions? I think the big key is to not adjust 180 degrees again, because we've done this. I think, as a team, we're quite happy with what we've done with Dragon Age II, and this is establishing a solid foundation that keeps a lot, in fact almost everything I want to keep about Origins, but still has tons of room to grow and, frankly, a more viable future for the franchise. It's one that's more sustainable because we brought the world to a place that's inherently more interesting than "Yay, we beat the Blight. Good for us!"

The man is digging his own grave.

In all of that, it doesn't really look like he actually said anything. You'll notice that he doesn't offer any objective comments, just "we're quite happy with [DA2]", "[DA2] keeps almost everything I want to keep about Origins". He never openly states.. well, anything. Just that they're happy with the game, which is really neither here nor there.

Summarized, it's "We're listening to the community, and we're also not listening to the community. We're not changing more things, and we're also not not changing more things." The only thing he seems to say is that the setting became more interesting. If there are other posts that make his opinion more clear, then sure, but this is just PR waffling.


But what's the JRPG comment? I've never read anything in the BioWare forum, so I must have missed it.

EDIT: I am way too slow.

[sub]I was going to compare him to a Dabus, but that was a Black Isle game..[/sub]

The whole interview. [http://www.gamespot.com/features/6305575/index.html]
And the reaction on the forum. [http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/141/index/6752788/1]
EDIT: Just want to clear something up. I am not trolling. I don't hate Bioware. I know I've been coming off as super negative recently. I loved DA:O. I've beaten it 5 times. I'm just extremely disappointed in the sequel.