Worst gaming company ever

[thedelightfulme]

Ok, so i find certain game companies are worse than others, EA for example can spew out some fairly awesome games (like battlefield 2142), but then you have to follow it with a load of updates, bug fixes server downtime, and general errors (i brought the expansion, northern strike, a while ago, and now EA refuses to acknowledge its installation and the online servers stop me doing certain things).

So whats your worst experience...and who was it with...?

 

[Deleric]

I took this information of a friend's blog.

I'll give you 3 reasons why Active, by my friend quote, is "the most retardedly arrogant video game company that ever existed".

1.Their only game was called Action 52 on the NES. It had 52 games in it, which they thought was a good reason to charge it for 200 effing bucks. All 52 games were complete suckage. The hilarious part is that the manual actually claimed that the games sucked because the cartridge was too badass to be held in one console.

2.One of the games on the 52 was Cheetaman or something like that, and it was considered the main highlight of the turd. They were even stupid enough to make merchandise for this thing, believing (on a coke dream, most likely) that it was going to be a big hit.

3. They released this thing called the GameMaster that played NES, SNES and Genesis games, breaking almost every fucking rule about copyright during that time. They also had a few of their own CD games on that piece of shit, which I never played, but can presume sucked.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Turbine

OH CONTROVERSY

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

Treyarch.

 

[Gaskell]

Valve

*Addendum* 1 - 5 - 2009
I said this as a joke, please stop quoting me and asking me why
I did explain this later on in the thread

 

[Pandalisk]

All these answers, NONSENCE! the worst gaming companies are the ones that arnt successful and have gone bankrupted or making money /Thread

that and treyarch

 

[Thunderhorse31]

lol @ Treyarch, I didn't even think of them but they deserve an honorable mention for sure.

I'll steal the TC's mention of EA - no developer as massive as EA should put out mediocre game after mediocre game, after rehash, after rehash, and so on. Sure they have their name on some gems (Rock Band, etc.), but usually they have VERY little to do with the games that are good.

I mean, they make their money off of morons who pay $60 a year for roster updates.

 

[Lovelocke]

EA? Too modern... too many million-sellers to suck.

Color Dreams is a pretty lousy company... they weren't even *allowed* to make games for the NES, but they did... and when they couldn't convince consumers to buy their games? They renamed themselves "Wisdom Tree" and repainted *all* of their old crappy, unsellable games as Bible games which *ALSO* didn't sell!

Hi-Tech Expressions was pretty garbage... for some unfathomable reason, they got their hands on several big movie/tv licenses and pretty much set the bar for lousy "movie-to-game" translations: Beethoven's 2nd, Hunt for Red October, Tom and Jerry, We're Back (remember that shit?), Win Lose or Draw and tons of others.

Curiously? Hi-Tech Expressions ALSO got licenses to publish big name games like Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden, and Street Fighter 2 on the PC. I have no clue how they stayed in business or got such hot properties to sign up for a game.

Interplay was the first game developer I ever had direct issue with. Way back, I owned the DOS version of Descent... asked for it for Christmas. Fresh out of the box, 1 floppy didn't work, so I called up the number, went through this big conversation, paid to mail my disk out, got a replacement (on a yellow floppy with Descent Disk 2 written on it with pencil)... only to discover that Disk 4 also didn't work and had to go through it all again. Took me 4 weeks to get the game installed. Otherwise, they're okay.

That's all that come to mind right away.

 

[Lovelocke]

I'll steal the TC's mention of EA - no developer as massive as EA should put out mediocre game after mediocre game, after rehash, after rehash, and so on. Sure they have their name on some gems (Rock Band, etc.), but usually they have VERY little to do with the games that are good.

EA *publishes* a lot of titles, internally they produce far fewer. Rock Band, for example, is made by Harmonix... Spore developed by Maxis, published by EA... etc etc. Also, when it comes to rehashes I'm surprised people don't look more at a company like Capcom. How many Resident Evils are there? How many Legend of Zelda games are there? (Shit like Four Swords don't count... it's Gauntlet with Puzzles).

 

[edinflames]

Some chump above thought they should suggest that Valve are the worst company ever.

In light of this blatant attempt to make me and other Valve-lovers rise to his bait I will suggest a controversial target of my own: BETHESDA

Yes! Bethesda are the worst company ever! Here's why:

-Firstly, and what really hurt me personally, Bethesda ruined the Fallout franchise. Killed it. Yes I know its commercially successful with a legion of fans but those are only the people too young and too gfx-worshiping to play the original games.

-Bethesda lack good ideas. Every idea/character/faction/plot element in Fallout:3 is a rehash of an idea from the original Fallout games. Can't even come up with their own bad guys. THEY EVEN COPIED MINOR ELEMENTS LIKE THE RANGERS FFS.

-The sheer sense of disappointment I feel after playing their games. Every game looks so good until you have played it for a few hours and the illusion is broken. Looking back I wish I had never bought Oblivion or Fallout3, I certainly regret wasting all that time getting to the end.

-Bethesda's writers are a bunch of talentless hacks.

-The end of Fallout 3. What a crock of sh!t.

-No amount of high-budget actors can save a poor plot.

-Oblivion is so shallow (in terms of plot and world design) it could be asserted that I have pissed deeper puddles around my own feet whilst drunk in town.

-Now they are going to make Fallout3:Las Vegas so that they can rip off the one thing they hadn't already stolen from Fallout2, namely the city of New Reno. This time around I won't be giving them my money.

This is me sticking my middle fingers up to the company that ripped me off twice - boy do I feel stupid. FU BETHESDA, FU!!!!

 

[AceDefective]

can you say north peak

 

[Delicious]

Some chump above thought they should suggest that Valve are the worst company ever.

In light of this blatant attempt to make me and other Valve-lovers rise to his bait I will suggest a controversial target of my own: BETHESDA

Yes! Bethesda are the worst company ever! Here's why:

-Firstly, and what really hurt me personally, Bethesda ruined the Fallout franchise. Killed it. Yes I know its commercially successful with a legion of fans but those are only the people too young and too gfx-worshiping to play the original games.

-Bethesda lack good ideas. Every idea/character/faction/plot element in Fallout:3 is a rehash of an idea from the original Fallout games. Can't even come up with their own bad guys. THEY EVEN COPIED MINOR ELEMENTS LIKE THE RANGERS FFS.

So, first they change too much, and then they don't change enough?

Ok..., sounds like you just got tired of playing their games to me. Doesn't make them a bad developer, just makes you tired of the same old same old.

I suggest getting a beefy PC and modding the crap out of those games. (Especially Oblivion, Vanilla is unbearable after playing its modded counterpart).

 

[toapat]

/summons an adamantium battle suit and hops in it

Bio-ware. when you get a game that the Hype is Hyped by Hype, you spent too much on making a shitty games advertizing. Mass errect is a game that you can tell from youtube is a bad game by Microsoft's low standards of the Halo trillogy

 

[Thegoodfriar]

Phoenix Gaming... they are some really small developer their games are awful.

That or the people who developed E.T. for the Atari 2600.

 

[Chicago Ted]

/descends into bombshelter

Am I the only one sensing a flame war in the brewing here? Or is everyone going to just spurt out their least favourite devs with no one argueing.

My personal hatred is NCSoft. Urgh. Guildwars was just boring for me and when I got my City of Heroes, I had to install it twice do to an error and when I pulled my card for play time out, found the covering of the number had turned into a sticky grey sludge that literally peeled the ink off of the card leaving me with a smear of numbers, letters and a 4.

 

[soren7550]

I find that anything made by The History Channel is a truly horrible pos. (don't know if they count as a company though.)

 

[Andey]

Yeah besides battlefield EA really just kinda kills things the orange box was brutally murdered by EA and they never patched or fixed it dead it stays. Activision blizzard isnt bad so much as money grubbing whores. and treyarch makes it there for me because quite frankly CoD 4 was just CoD4 reskinned and SEGA gets an honorable mention for riding the rollercoaster to hell and dragging sonic the hedgehog with it

 

[tenlong]

Active Enterprises the s.o.bs. who made action 52. that game should used as punishment in prisons.

 

[The_Echo]

I personally have a huge beef with Sierra. They absolutely screwed up Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon, which, before being given to Sierra, were amazing games. Now... I just can't stand hearing about new installments to those series.

But, they probably aren't the worst. For me, the worst company is Ubisoft. Why? Two words. Raving Rabbids.

 

[edinflames]

So, first they change too much, and then they don't change enough?

Ok..., sounds like you just got tired of playing their games to me. Doesn't make them a bad developer, just makes you tired of the same old same old.

I suggest getting a beefy PC and modding the crap out of those games. (Especially Oblivion, Vanilla is unbearable after playing its modded counterpart).

I don't know man, no amount of mods can save Oblivion for me...maybe I'll forgive FO3 eventually, we will see. Just to clarify though I am firmly on the 'didn't change enough' camp.

If Interplay had finished Van Buren then I would have been much happier, but since FO3 was going to be first-person-rpg and set in Washington I wanted and expected there to be a lot of new elements. Things like the Enclave and Brotherhood of Steel were very poorly explained if you are familiar with Fallout 1&2, same with the Master's Super-Mutants. Oh and the President being a computer is totally out of line with the Enclave of Fallout2 vintage (whom I distinctly remember killing in a blaze of glory)...not to mention being a serious rip-off of the Shi Emperor from Fallout 2, also very poorly justified.

To me it just felt like they took whatever they thought was 'cool' from the original games and shoe-horned it into what little plot they came up with for themselves (the father-son dynamic) rather than make an effort to invent their own material to fit the setting. Even the water purification element felt like a rip-off of the Fallout1 search for the Water-Chip.

Credit where credit is due though, I thought Bethesda had a really nifty idea with the black&white 50's suburbia section.

Perhaps I just set my hopes too high, based on the excellence of the original games.

I'll admit that Bethesda are not the worst dev ever though, purely by virtue of there being so many other developers who have made so many terrible games.