Favorite game companies

[Boxpopper]

FAVORITES
Bethesda Softworks (Elder Scrolls!)
Valve Corporation (No need to explain!)

LEAST FAVORITES
Electronic Arts (They're just interested in making money.)
Sony (BluRay sucks for games.)

 

[Boxpopper]

Worst
Bethesda - Unfortunately, not defunct.

[hr]

Are you serious? Please elaborate.

 

[Auric]

Bethesda, Bioware, Valve, thats about it.

I hate EA/Dice, and Obsidian, they seem to screw up games they come in contact with.

 

[Enderrr]

Bioware
Bethesda
Blizzard
Obsidian
Square-Enix
Nintendo
Valve
Ion Storm (RIP)
Id
Rare (some classics back in the day)
Revolution Software
Lucasarts (Purely for the Monkey Island series and other classic point and click adventures)
Kojima Productions

 

[traceur_]

Favourites:

Square Enix, definitely my favourite for the astounding amount of work they put into Final Fantasy, ensuring truly epic stories, soundtracks and characters are featured in each one.

Sony for making my favourite console.

Ubisoft and EA also get honorable mentions.

Death List:

Valve. They're on the same level as the mud on my boot.

 

[Commander Jack Rankin]

Konami
Capcom
Nintendo
Bethesda
2K
Insomniac

 

[Daedalus1942]

So what game devs and publishers give you the most of what you want? Which ones usually turn out crap?

FAVORITES
Capcom (RIP Capcom Digital Studio 8)
Bethesda Softworks
Team Ico (Technically part of SCEA)
Team Ninja (Technically part of Tecmo)
2K Games
Enix

NON-FAVS
BioWare
Lionhead Studios
Square-Enix

Hahaha, you like Bethesda.. that's quite funny.

I like Bioware, EA (yeah, fuck you too), Squaresoft (not enix), Atlus, Media Molecule, Valve, and I also have a soft spot in my heart for Sucker Punch (can't wait for their next game, whatever it may be).
-edit- Also, Konami (probably my favourite, not just for Metal Gear, but for suikoden, Boktai and a whole mess of other games no-one's ever heard of)

 

[Daedalus1942]

[HEADING=1] VAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLVVEEEE [/HEADING]

Then maybe Bethesda or Bioware. Or the guys that made Timesplitters I dunno.

Free Radical are defunct now mate. Because you guys didn't like Haze.

 

[Cerrax]

So what game devs and publishers give you the most of what you want? Which ones usually turn out crap?

FAVORITES
Capcom (RIP Capcom Digital Studio 8)
Bethesda Softworks
Team Ico (Technically part of SCEA)
Team Ninja (Technically part of Tecmo)
2K Games
Enix

NON-FAVS
BioWare
Lionhead Studios
Square-Enix

Hahaha, you like Bethesda.. that's quite funny.

I like Bioware, EA (yeah, fuck you too), Squaresoft (not enix), Atlus, Media Molecule, Valve, and I also have a soft spot in my heart for Sucker Punch (can't wait for their next game, whatever it may be).
-edit- Also, Konami (probably my favourite, not just for Metal Gear, but for suikoden, Boktai and a whole mess of other games no-one's ever heard of)

Hahaha, you like BioWare... that's quite funny.

?

 

[Cerrax]

The little deviation they do have from the formula (Drakenguard, Nier, Dissidia) sucks horribly.

Hm, Nier hasn't even been released yet, so how do you know it "sucks"?

Also, have you even played Dissidia, because anyone who has would disagree with you a million fold (Best PSP game ever. Would be among my top 10 on a console if it were on a console.)

Never played Drakenguard, so I can't speak to it.

But honestly, the money and care that Square puts into its games far surpasses almost any other company. But it's your right to not like them. Just try to refrain from using unreleased games as examples, cause it really makes you look like your talking out of the wrong hole.

Drakenguard is horribly slow for an action game (as Square stressed so goddamn much that it was an action game when it came out).

Dissidia's "fighting" aspect is contrived at best. Put next to Soul Calibur, Street Fighter, or even Smash Bros, the lack of depth in laughable. The only depth the game has is in traditional RPG elements like equipping and such (which frankly removes a lot of competition, which is what fighting games are for) I liken it more to the multiplayer deathmatches from Zone of the Enders than an actual fighting game.

Nier from all aspects so far, looks horribly generic. A twisted Final Fantasy meets God of War meets Devil May Cry scenario. And judging by their record with action games, it doesn't have a lot to build from. Hopefully I will be surprised, but I'm sure I will be disappointed.

Don't even get me started on Kingdom Hearts. What a mess that game was. Alas we are reducing to flames and arguments better served in another thread.

Enix had a great handle on action-RPGs. Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, Terranigma, etc. And then Square came in and ruined it. Not to mention I haven't touch a JRPG in years because they are all exactly the same.

 

[GreyWolf257]

Out of that list, I personally favor Bethesda.

 

[Daedalus1942]

So what game devs and publishers give you the most of what you want? Which ones usually turn out crap?

FAVORITES
Capcom (RIP Capcom Digital Studio 8)
Bethesda Softworks
Team Ico (Technically part of SCEA)
Team Ninja (Technically part of Tecmo)
2K Games
Enix

NON-FAVS
BioWare
Lionhead Studios
Square-Enix

Hahaha, you like Bethesda.. that's quite funny.

I like Bioware, EA (yeah, fuck you too), Squaresoft (not enix), Atlus, Media Molecule, Valve, and I also have a soft spot in my heart for Sucker Punch (can't wait for their next game, whatever it may be).
-edit- Also, Konami (probably my favourite, not just for Metal Gear, but for suikoden, Boktai and a whole mess of other games no-one's ever heard of)

Hahaha, you like BioWare... that's quite funny.

?

Why's that funny? I can name more than 5 bioware games I like. Bethesda have maybe 3 decent games.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Lionhead, Bethesda, Valve and Triumph Studios.

 

[Daedalus1942]

NON-FAVS
BioWare
Lionhead Studios
Square-Enix

Why not Square Enix??? Final Fantasy's are class. even the 'bad ones'(ff12 etc) are still brilliant? gotta saw square would b probably my fav ^^

REASONS
BioWare- Honestly I just don't like the combat system they have used in any of their games. I would probably love their games but their combat controls always feel so broken.

Lionhead- Hype-pushing Dbags. Fable sucked. Fable 2 sucked harder. Black and White series are Civ with a rigid, completely flawed "moral" system. Peter Molyneaux needs to take a very long walk off a very short pier.

Square-Enix- Tried to cash in on crappy games based on Enix's polished record of great action-RPGs while still pushing their frankly obviously aging Final Fantasy franchise as hard as possible. The little deviation they do have from the formula (Drakenguard, Nier, Dissidia) sucks horribly.

you've played Nier? wow... what's it like having a hermaphrodite in your party?

 

[Cerrax]

So what game devs and publishers give you the most of what you want? Which ones usually turn out crap?

FAVORITES
Capcom (RIP Capcom Digital Studio 8)
Bethesda Softworks
Team Ico (Technically part of SCEA)
Team Ninja (Technically part of Tecmo)
2K Games
Enix

NON-FAVS
BioWare
Lionhead Studios
Square-Enix

Hahaha, you like Bethesda.. that's quite funny.

I like Bioware, EA (yeah, fuck you too), Squaresoft (not enix), Atlus, Media Molecule, Valve, and I also have a soft spot in my heart for Sucker Punch (can't wait for their next game, whatever it may be).
-edit- Also, Konami (probably my favourite, not just for Metal Gear, but for suikoden, Boktai and a whole mess of other games no-one's ever heard of)

Hahaha, you like BioWare... that's quite funny.

?

Why's that funny? I can name more than 5 bioware games I like. Bethesda have maybe 3 decent games.

It's funny because I can name 3 Bethesda games that I love and no BioWare games that I even really liked. It all comes down to opinion. But to laugh at me because I enjoy Bethesda is just stupid, same as me laughing at you about BioWare is stupid.

 

[ThisWasAWaste]

[HEADING=1] VAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLVVEEEE [/HEADING]

QFT

 

[Daedalus1942]

So what game devs and publishers give you the most of what you want? Which ones usually turn out crap?

FAVORITES
Capcom (RIP Capcom Digital Studio 8)
Bethesda Softworks
Team Ico (Technically part of SCEA)
Team Ninja (Technically part of Tecmo)
2K Games
Enix

NON-FAVS
BioWare
Lionhead Studios
Square-Enix

Hahaha, you like Bethesda.. that's quite funny.

I like Bioware, EA (yeah, fuck you too), Squaresoft (not enix), Atlus, Media Molecule, Valve, and I also have a soft spot in my heart for Sucker Punch (can't wait for their next game, whatever it may be).
-edit- Also, Konami (probably my favourite, not just for Metal Gear, but for suikoden, Boktai and a whole mess of other games no-one's ever heard of)

Hahaha, you like BioWare... that's quite funny.

?

Why's that funny? I can name more than 5 bioware games I like. Bethesda have maybe 3 decent games.

It's funny because I can name 3 Bethesda games that I love and no BioWare games that I even really liked. It all comes down to opinion. But to laugh at me because I enjoy Bethesda is just stupid, same as me laughing at you about BioWare is stupid.

But, Bioware have actually made some decent games. I can name only 3 Bethesda ones that didn't suck.

 

[KidGalaxy]

Favorites:

2K Boston
Valve
Interplay
Troika Games
Bioware
Bethesda

Yeah I got Interplay and Bethesda on the same list. So sue me. No pun intended.

Dislikes:

NCSoft
Sucker Punch (I loved Sly Cooper games for PS2, why will they not develop for X360?!)
Ubisoft
EA
SquareEnix

 

[MR T3D]

DICE
treyarch for spidey games on ps2
only one i specifically won't buy a game from is IW.