your favourite/ least favourite game publisher
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Fave: Interplay, for Descent. Not to mention Planescape: Torment. It's a really big shame that these guys are all but dead these days... *sigh*
Hated: EA, for... well, I'll just say the utter destruction of Westwood studios and the complete fuck up of the Command & Conquer series, but we all hate them for that, so I'd have to go with endless sport games.
And really bad customer support, like AOL-grade customer support.
This would have been a hell of a lot easier if I could pick more than one each and choose games companies as opposed to just publishers.
Hated: EA, for... well, I'll just say the utter destruction of Westwood studios and the complete fuck up of the Command & Conquer series, but we all hate them for that, so I'd have to go with endless sport games.
And really bad customer support, like AOL-grade customer support.
This would have been a hell of a lot easier if I could pick more than one each and choose games companies as opposed to just publishers.
The soon to be Actavision-blizzard, since they deal with most of my favorite games.
Nothing hated.
Nothing hated.
Favorite:Bungie I wonder why???
Least favorite:Who ever is making metal gear solid and is censoring reviews
Least favorite:Who ever is making metal gear solid and is censoring reviews
love(d!):
Rareware for producing welldesigned and fun games! with a spice of black humor, and not taking themselves too seriously (concer's bad fur day, and/or donkeykong series)
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what i forgot to mention: i dont like rareware after they got bought by microsoft.. its not because its a new platform (xbox is a lovely console) but it just lost its flair (come on, viva piñata?)
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dislike: ... well i dont know! every game dev. got some black sheeps in form of flops in their history but i dont feel like i hate one specificly.
Rareware for producing welldesigned and fun games! with a spice of black humor, and not taking themselves too seriously (concer's bad fur day, and/or donkeykong series)
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what i forgot to mention: i dont like rareware after they got bought by microsoft.. its not because its a new platform (xbox is a lovely console) but it just lost its flair (come on, viva piñata?)
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dislike: ... well i dont know! every game dev. got some black sheeps in form of flops in their history but i dont feel like i hate one specificly.
As if you mentioned Rareware without mentioning the standard setting console FPS Goldeneye, and to a lesser yet still important extent Perfect Dark and Jet Force Gemini.
So yeah Rare are also a favourite of mine, in the know of how a good shooter is made.
In the vein of excellent shooters I concede Free Radical as well, big soft spot for them with regards to the Timesplitter series, took a leaf out of Rare's innovative shooter book (Notice how the health systems from TS and Goldeneye are rather similar?)
Additionally I'm a slight Halo fanboy so Bungie is my guilty pleasure xP.
So yeah Rare are also a favourite of mine, in the know of how a good shooter is made.
In the vein of excellent shooters I concede Free Radical as well, big soft spot for them with regards to the Timesplitter series, took a leaf out of Rare's innovative shooter book (Notice how the health systems from TS and Goldeneye are rather similar?)
Additionally I'm a slight Halo fanboy so Bungie is my guilty pleasure xP.
Thats a tough one, My top favorites are Insomniac games, Because they made one of my favorite series ever, the Ratchet and Clank games, and Bioware, for KotOR and Mass Effect.
hated...........EA for all the crappy wii ports and lame rythym games
hated...........EA for all the crappy wii ports and lame rythym games
I have to say, number one on my publisher hate list is Titus Software (http://games.ign.com/objects/025/025073.html ). If you haven't heard of them, you've never played one of their games, and you can pat yourself on the back for your foresight. These are the guys who released that god-awful Superman 64 and three separate (terrible) Blues Brothers games, as well as the more recent garbage heap RoboCop.
Edit: Wikipedia says they're dead. Good riddance.
Edit: Wikipedia says they're dead. Good riddance.
Please tell me why Bungie is your favourite game publisher... BTW Bungie does not PUBLISH they make there own games.shatnershaman said:
P.S This topic is favourite game publisher. Not favourite game developer.
ggotta be ubisoft. they have an incredible stable of game franchises that i love. assasins creed, rayman, splinter cell, ghost recon, prince of persia. it just seems like everything they do is attractive to me as a game concept. and they break the mold so often. take endwar for example. thats an rts completely voice controlled. can you imagine how cool that could be if done well? and they do have a history of doing quality jobs with theyre products. cant forget games like beyond good and evil and no more heroes. it just seems like they are the publishers behind 90% of the games that im interested in
I think some people are forgetting that this thread is about publishers, not developers.
Favourite: Stardock (they publish too!) for Gal Civs 1 and 2, Sins of a Solar Empire and being totally DRM free.
Most Reviled: EA, for all the obvious reasons and more.
Favourite: Stardock (they publish too!) for Gal Civs 1 and 2, Sins of a Solar Empire and being totally DRM free.
Most Reviled: EA, for all the obvious reasons and more.