Highest Quality Developers - List Your Picks

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#1 Gamesterpheonix
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Here are my picks - love em or hate em.

Blizzard (Absolutely loving SC2 right now)

Bioware

Bungie (Dont whine - they do a good job)

Valve

Relic

DICE

CD Projekt RED

Bethesda (Even if I dont really like any of their games I know their games are highly polished most of the time.)

Rockstar

Nintendo (solely for Mario and Zelda and whatever else they are known for - not for their milking machine)

Anyway, Im sure Im missing someone but those are my picks. Other than Bungie and Nintendo those developers are the reason and proof that PC Gaming isnt going anywhere and is of the best quality most times.

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#2 megatroneo
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Blizzard, Valve, and Nintendo are easily my favorites. Naughty Dog has put out some really impressive games too.

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Blizzard Bioware valve
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#5 UnknownElement4
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Valve and Blizzard.

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#6 with_teeth26
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Relic

Valve

Bioware

Volition

Bethesda

Codemasters (for racing games at any rate)

Dice

Cryktek

more or less in that order

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#7 Caladfwich
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Let's see:

-Relic

-THQ

-Valve

-Blizzard

And a couple of dead or smaller companies that no one seem to ever remember.

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#8 UCF_Knight
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Blizzard, Valve, and Nintendo are easily my favorites. Naughty Dog has put out some really impressive games too.

megatroneo
Exact same for me. :P Though I'd probably throw in Bethesda.
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#9 giant11
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Gamesterpheonix, you pretty much got all of them :)

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#10 DanielDust
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Blizzard Relic Rockstar Bioware Codemasters id Valve I also like CD Projekt but I can't put them on my list, one game doesn't mean much.
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#11 coreybg
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Valve

BioWare

Blizzard

Raven

Bethesda

Ubisoft(they got great games, too bad the DRM ****s em up)

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#12 deactivated-5bda06edf37ee
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Let's see:

-Relic

-THQ

Caladfwich

THQ owns Relic. THQ actually has a bigger role as a publisher, not as developer.

-Valve

-Blizzard

-iD

-Bioware

-Bethesda

and, ofcourse, MicroProse!

E: oh no! i forgot Epic Games! what a grand failure. they made the almighty Unreal Engine.

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#13 Daytona_178
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DICE

Valve

Blizzard

Bioware

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#14 deactivated-64ba3ebd35404
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Blizzard, Valve, Nintendo, Bioware and Capcom. Capcom have had a few not-so-great games this gen, but that is largely because they've been trying new things which haven't really worked out that well. Gotta respect them for trying though.
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#15 Resistance_Kid
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DICE

Valve

Blizzard

Bioware

Daytona_178

That list is amazingly beautiful.

Correct spelling, capitalization, everything.

And those are my favorite developers :)

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#16 Ravenchrome
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Storytelling-Bioware: Not as good as Black Isle back in the day but they are the only modern developers who seems to create magnetic characters.

Concept- Valve: They always come up with great ideas like the Gravity Gun, telling story without cut-scene, co-op zombie-killing game and who can forget Portal?

Quality-Blizzard: When it comes to presentation, attention to details and super polished game mechanics, it's a Blizzard territory.

Depending on your game preference, some might like one of the above better than others.

If you hate multiplayer games, you will probably don't like Blizzard or even Valve that much and go for Bioware.

If you just want to get down and have a fun, fluid gameplay experience it's either Blizzard or Valve. Bioware's game mechanics are mostly dull and cookie-cutter.

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#17 KalDurenik
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Blizzard Bioware Valve...

Sadly Bethesda have now done anything good for quiet a while.

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#18 kazakauskas
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Valve imo is the best out there.

Bioware come close

Even tho i like only Diablo series , Blizzard makes very high quality games .

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#19 VinnoT
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Blizzard and Valve are my picks. And as someone mentioned previously. MICROPROSE :)
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#20 Same_Jeans_On
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Valve, Relic and Blizzard.
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Valve Relic BioWare Blizzard
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#22 Nino_ze
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1. Blizzard (no need to explain why) 2. Bioware (thanks to them I became a real RPG fan) 3. Crytek (more for Far Cry, less for Crysis) 4. Westwood (C&C of course) 5. IW (their games have an awesome multiplayer segment)
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#23 Gamesterpheonix
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Gamesterpheonix, you pretty much got all of them :)

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#24 Daytona_178
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Gamecock?

Or is that the winner for best name? :P

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#25 NoAssKicker47
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I'm very much an action game player, so I don't have too much of an interest in Blizzard or BioWare, though I am looking to get into the whole RTS & light RPG thing.

As such my list would be:
Valve
Raven
Monolith
CryTek

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#26 yellosnolvr
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1. valve - good games. great PR. great supports. overall best developer. there are no cons whatsoever. 2. id - good games. good PR. capable of many things. 3. DICE - bf2/2142 are great. but are clearly bottlenecked by EA in the department of support. they need to get out of EA's grasps. 4. bethesda - DLC is ridiculous, but still a great developer that puts out AMAZING games with amazing support. 5. rockstar - gta series, bully, hell even table tennis are all very good games. i love their humor and most of all the effort they put into their games. 6. GSC - i should probably put this higher on the list, but im lazy. STALKER series is amazing. i love each one. their games are a bit buggy though. CoP being almost flawless though. no other developers interest me much. maybe crytek a little bit. i hate blizzard. great support, terrible games. im sure SC2 is great, but its going to turn into a milkfest of consumers.
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#27 Swedish_Chef
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I would list Blizzard, but they're getting extremely lazy with WoW, namely with their itemization and class balancing. All classes are essentially carbon copies of each other, and they only make a couple items per tier now and copy and paste different stats on them to pass them off as different items. That's just straight lazyness.

Bethesda makes solid games, and Bioware games are great too (even though they tend to look years behind the graphics curve). Oh and Valve for sure, these guys set the bar for post launch title support

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Valve, Codemasters, Blizzard and Bethesda.

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Blizz, Valve, Relic, Sid Meier
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Sid Meierpvtdonut54
Firaxis right?:P
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#31 Chiddaling
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Valve Blizzard Bioware Rockstar Epic Games DICE
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#32 harvard1932
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Crytec,valve, bizzard, jagex, IW, EA( some games)

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#33 Farkeman
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Valve, Relic , Blizzard , Bioware and Dice !
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#34 Silenthps
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Valve, Bioware and Crytek are my some of my favs. And Nintendo who are just leagues above all the devs.
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blizzard valve relic gas powered games
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Valve and Bioware.
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Blizzard rockstar
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#38 bazookajoe19
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DICE

Blizzard

Valve

Naughty Dog

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#39 -wildflower-
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None, sadly all the developers I once liked no longer exist (literally and symbolically).