Worst and best developers?

[Ulkjen]

Pandemic has to be one of the ones I found to be great but thats probably just a bias since my favorite game to have ever been released has to be one of the two Battlezones.

Worst? Any developer who pushes a bug ridden piece of crap onto the store shelves and tricking consumers into buying something that /cant even be played/ till weeks after its release.

 

[MrGalactus]

I have to say, Splash Damage are very high up on my list. Both ET: Quake Wars and Wolfenstien: ET freaking ROCKED, and post release support was second to none. They're also developing Brink, which looks absolutely brilliant. I hope they keep their post-release support record up for that one.

Favourite, though? Not sure. Maybe Pandemic, maybe Rockstar, maybe Splash Damage, maybe Insomniac, maybe Ruffian, maybe Bullfrog, and there's so many more. No idea. I have to give reflections special mention for actually naming a game Awesome Which is the best name for a game I have ever heard.

On the other end of the spectrum, there's Nintendo, who I don't like because they are pretty much artistically bankrupt at this point. When was the last new IP made by Nintendo that they put any effort into? Their last semi-original game was Mario Galaxy, which was good, but I just know they'll milk that series dry too. In fact, they have already begun to.

 

[vxicepickxv]

Best
-Blizzard(When they get around to it)
-Valve(Also when they get around to it)
-Bioware
-Obsidian
-Rockstar

Worst
-Blizzard & Valve(When they're not getting around to it)
-Obsidian(Their invisible QA department at least)
-Nintendo
-SquareEnix(Mostly the excessive WTF from the Final Fantasy series)

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Best: Naughty Dog, Bungie, Valve

Worst: Obsidian

 

[Signa]

Worst:
Zynga (makes me wonder why anyone gives them money)

Best:
Valve (makes me feel good about giving them my money.)

Obviously there are a lot of good devs and bad devs out there, each with their own hits and misses, but if a dev makes me feel good for supporting it, or bad that some one else is supporting it, I say that is a good measure of their quality. Speaking purely on selfish instinct, I shouldn't like to give away my money to some one if I can help it. If a dev can override that instinct purely because it's them and not some one else, then they have done their job better than most.