your favourite/ least favourite game publisher
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fave: activision or Rockstar North
least fave: lucas arts, they just milk star wars, which was shit after jedi knight II anyway what happened to creativity? grim fandango, full throttle anyone?
least fave: lucas arts, they just milk star wars, which was shit after jedi knight II anyway what happened to creativity? grim fandango, full throttle anyone?
Sometimes threads go off track, a discussion of favourite developers is more interesting anyway.slaygore said:
dont know about my favorite, i guess it would be ubisoft, but my least is definitely groove games.WORST. COMPANY. EVER.
Some companies straddle the line between Publisher and Developer.nilcypher said:
Stardock for instance both developed and published GalCiv II. For Sins they let Ironclad do most of the work, but they still had their own guys working very closely with them.
Favorite Developer: Ironclad Games
I think gameCOCK laughs at its self too.Sacman said:
Remake? like Half-life 2 episodes?But yes Madden 07 is no different than 08
Favorite: Valve
Team Fortress 2 brings me continuous joy. Nothing says "I love you!" like sneaking up behind a heavy and bone sawing them to death.
Least Favorite: Electronic Arts (Specifically the Tiburon studio in Florida)
May the Tiburon studio be leveled by a hurricane this summer. Unless something has changed, that studio is notorious for being slave drivers. Their entire focus is sports games, an evil I cannot pretend to comprehend. They also love to hire people on cheaply, work them to death (85+ hours per week) and then have massive layoffs after the product is out the door.
Team Fortress 2 brings me continuous joy. Nothing says "I love you!" like sneaking up behind a heavy and bone sawing them to death.
Least Favorite: Electronic Arts (Specifically the Tiburon studio in Florida)
May the Tiburon studio be leveled by a hurricane this summer. Unless something has changed, that studio is notorious for being slave drivers. Their entire focus is sports games, an evil I cannot pretend to comprehend. They also love to hire people on cheaply, work them to death (85+ hours per week) and then have massive layoffs after the product is out the door.
Favourite: Valve all the way (TF2, HL series, Portal), With Lionhead as runner up (The Movies, Black & White)
Least Fav: EA. Dammit they killed so much..
Least Fav: EA. Dammit they killed so much..
While it's been many years in the making I've become too much of a general hater to have a favorite. No company has been able to really earn my trust/fanboyism.
The reason being is that all of the companies seem to be concerned with pandering to the ESRB and such, making sure their games aren't offensive, and whetever else.
Some might consider it a lack of maturity on my part, but while I fear a game can get by without (Deviant) sex, and over the top gore and violence, I find it personally repugnant when a game is edited from the initial concept, or specifically designed to work around the existance of such things.
In a day and age when Rock Star edits "Manhunt 2", and actually cares about the whole "Hot Coffee" thing instead of just laughing off/ignoring the ESRB, companies like Troika go out of business due to (apparently) content related disputes in their RPGs, and even companies like Bethesda are freaking out and begging for mercy from the ESRB because of fan-made nudity patches, it's not like there are any REAL game developers who put the game and their vision before society.
I guess if we start seeing a company developing REAL RPGs and Horror-type games with an AO rating and the muscle to get it distributed, I'll become their fan. By this I don't mean stuff like those cruddy sex-sim games and stuff. I have little interest in that. But otherwise good games with some hugely over the top stuff here and there.
I mean heck, I was greatly amused when in Arcanum there was an option to have sex with a sheep in a brothel. It made me chuckle. But then look at what happend with "Temple Of Elemental Evil" (earlier build) over similar content. Not to mention changing the whorehose into a "dance hall" between Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2, not that anything really graphic ever happened there.
Not that I'm against being graphic with sex, depravity, or brutality. Just don't overdo it for the kind of game it is. Even if it's just for a couple of scenes, don't edit them.
Bottom line is, there are no game companies worthy of respect currently out there. At all.
The reason being is that all of the companies seem to be concerned with pandering to the ESRB and such, making sure their games aren't offensive, and whetever else.
Some might consider it a lack of maturity on my part, but while I fear a game can get by without (Deviant) sex, and over the top gore and violence, I find it personally repugnant when a game is edited from the initial concept, or specifically designed to work around the existance of such things.
In a day and age when Rock Star edits "Manhunt 2", and actually cares about the whole "Hot Coffee" thing instead of just laughing off/ignoring the ESRB, companies like Troika go out of business due to (apparently) content related disputes in their RPGs, and even companies like Bethesda are freaking out and begging for mercy from the ESRB because of fan-made nudity patches, it's not like there are any REAL game developers who put the game and their vision before society.
I guess if we start seeing a company developing REAL RPGs and Horror-type games with an AO rating and the muscle to get it distributed, I'll become their fan. By this I don't mean stuff like those cruddy sex-sim games and stuff. I have little interest in that. But otherwise good games with some hugely over the top stuff here and there.
I mean heck, I was greatly amused when in Arcanum there was an option to have sex with a sheep in a brothel. It made me chuckle. But then look at what happend with "Temple Of Elemental Evil" (earlier build) over similar content. Not to mention changing the whorehose into a "dance hall" between Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2, not that anything really graphic ever happened there.
Not that I'm against being graphic with sex, depravity, or brutality. Just don't overdo it for the kind of game it is. Even if it's just for a couple of scenes, don't edit them.
Bottom line is, there are no game companies worthy of respect currently out there. At all.
You mean when a company has enough muscle to make several major American retailers change their mind about stocking AO games? Having a vision that you stick to is great, but if no one will see your vision, what's the point?Therumancer said:
Favourite: Capcom probably. I do love me some zombies and killer 7,Gregory Horror Show and DMC.
Least Favourite: Dunno. Maybe Blizzrd for their supposed working practices, the fact that they have never had an original idea and their ability to kill innovation in the wider gaming market (especially MMO's) with the snore-fest that is WoW, because being just like it seems to be the only way to make money. Lets hope WAR is not as much as acopy-cat as it looks. Though i think it might well be.
Least Favourite: Dunno. Maybe Blizzrd for their supposed working practices, the fact that they have never had an original idea and their ability to kill innovation in the wider gaming market (especially MMO's) with the snore-fest that is WoW, because being just like it seems to be the only way to make money. Lets hope WAR is not as much as acopy-cat as it looks. Though i think it might well be.