Your favorite Game company and why??

[Snowalker]

Bethesda-The Elder Scrolls, Fallout 3

NCsoft(ArenaNet)-Guild Wars

possibly, Bungie-Halo Series

 

[almo]

Harmonix. Amplitude, Guitar Hero (1 + 2 only) and Rock Band. Amplitude is one of the finest single player experiences available on PS2 - or any platform for that matter.

 

[Cinder Block of Oppression]

Valve, because they're so damn fine. It's one of the only companies I've seen be nearly 100% consistently awesome.

 

[leirbag]

Blizzard, for every single damn game they've ever made.

Valve for the Half Life series.

Relic for their amazing strategy games.

Bethesda, for Oblivion and Fallout 3.

 

[lenneth]

Clover made really innovative and high quality games like Viewtiful Joe, God Hand and Okami

 

[KSI Hellboy]

Bungie for the Halo series and their great community involvement.

 

[Sir Broccoli]

I'm gonna have to say Bullfrog and Lionhead. Dungeon keeper 2 was one of the most awesome games i've ever played in my life and I also really like Black & white. Too bad they screwed up at part 2

 

[Jaythulhu]

Sierra for the Quest for Glory and King's Quest series
Black Isle for Baldur's Gate and Fallout 1 & 2
SSI for the old Forgotten Realms games like pools of radiance, ravenloft and darksun
Ubisoft for Might & Magic (that series only though)
Lucasarts for TIE Fighter, X-Wing and the follow ons
Westwood for Syndicate
and of course Nintendo for the NES and SNES mario games.

 

[AlphaOmega]

Valve, Blizzard, Rockstar Games

 

[AuntyEthel]

Lucasarts, before the whole 'Lets abandon point and click games because people are becoming too stupid' crap.

EDIT: Add Sierra to that.

 

[brabz]

Oddworld Inhabitants.

My avatar says is all.

 

[Baby Tea]

Bioware. Why?

Baldur's Gate (ALL of them!)
Planescape Torment
Icewind Dale (All of them)
Neverwinter Nights
Knights of the Old Republic
Mass effect
Jade Empire

AND Canadian. 'Nuff said.

 

[KrossZer0]

BioWare: For their storytelling and Depth
Grasshopper Studios: For their style.
Team ICO: For their artistry (may have to buy a PS3 whenever their next game shows up)

A couple years ago I would have said Squaresoft, but I've been less and less impressed with them since they became Square-Enix and starting pumping out spin-offs and sequels to sequels out the wazoo. Or maybe I just grew out of them, that's possible too.

 

[darkheath]

Welp... I found at least one other person who mentioned Paradox. Thanks, SimuLord. yes... any one interested in real strategy games needs to look them up. I'll also throw into the ring:

The Creative Assembly for the Total War series

I'm also totally onboard for Bethesda and BioWare. I buy pretty much anything they put out now and have since Balder's Gate.

 

[Plinglebob]

CD Projekt for The Witcher and Good Old Games (gog.com)

 

[k3v1n]

infinity ward(cods), valve(hl series), and Bungie(halo series) and naughty dog..they developed crash bandicoot¡¡¡

 

[guardian001]

my top three(in no particular order) would have to be

Valve: Half life, TF2, Portal, and most of their other games.

Retro Studios: the Metroid Prime games (and the other metroids, I guess...).

Ubisoft: Prince of persia's were pretty good, and they've released quite a few other good ones

 

[Mariena]

Stardock!

.. and Black Isle Studios when they still existed.

 

[EzraPound]

Nintendo. Can't argue with Nintendo.

SmileBit is good, too, as is BioWare and 'old' Rare.