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#1 monco59
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Ok, this is pretty self explanatory. What do you consider (in your humble opinion of course) to be the best developer of all time? I'm only including PC developers since this is the PC forum after all. Also, keep in mind that Gamespot polls are spacially severely limited, so I could only include a handful of developers that are still going strong and have instant name recognition even with the younger crowd. Feel free to elaborate on your choice, and if you choose ''Other'', do tell what developer holds that special place near your heart. Anyways, the polls are open!
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#2 EyeNixon
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Valve is showing off like a bunch of pansies, Monolith has slipped into mediocrity, and id pretty much started sucking with the release of Doom 3, Blizzard is the only company that still makes quality games in my opinion.
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#3 Doom_HellKnight
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I'd say Valve, they haven't released a poor game as of yet, and I cant see them starting to do so any time soon... All of the developers on the poll are good in their own ways though, Monolith for AVP2 and F.E.A.R for example.
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#4 basersx
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Rockstar!  By far.  I know of no other games were every sequel is as good or better than the last!  Usually sequels are a let down compared to the original but we all know GTA is the extreme exception to this rule!

And yes I consider Half-Life 2 to be a let down to the original Half-Life, HL2 is a good game but no where near as good as the original.

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#5 ccgod
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Westwood
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#6 h1dd3n5had0w
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FASA *back in the good old Mechwarrior days.
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#7 Metakit5
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Developers of Fallout series; which I believe were Black Isle.
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#8 Darth_Kane
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Bioware
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#9 zayl99
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Monlith. God I love the FEAR franchise *drools*
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Relic.
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#11 mrbojangles25  Online
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Valve, because they gave us Halflife and Steam, the ideal model for downloading games, patching them, and getting all kinds of good stuff

Relic, because of Homeworld series and CoH

Westwood Studios, not only for C&C but also for Nox, Bladerunner, and the father of RTS games, Dune 2.

Obsidian, Bioware for their great RPGs.

Lucasarts, cuz Star Wars games are da bomb, plain and simple.

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#12 Josh9321
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Rare, best adventure games ever made
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#13 ProudLarry
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Relic, easily.

If Blizzard would just realase one or two new games, or even announce some, they could be the best.
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#14 thusaha
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Valve
Blizzard
Relic
Irrational
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#15 Pete5506
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Monlith. God I love the FEAR franchise *drools*zayl99
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#16 Quack_Attack
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Valve, Blizzard. and Introversion.
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#17 venomblack
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Relic.Johnny_Rock
ditto
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#18 accord100
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Relic, easily.

If Blizzard would just realase one or two new games, or even announce some, they could be the best.
ProudLarry


agreed w/ blizzard comment
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Bethesdasoft or Valve
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#20 Michael0o
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Blizzard  too.
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#21 blacknite804
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westwood!
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#22 kpsting
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blizz or Bioware would be the contenders for top spot. Crytek close behind them, but there is also that deal about them having only 1 game... so
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#23 tomdelonge0686
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Not alot of people know this but Id software are your better gaming company... They build all of your gaming engines still...john carmacks wins the Game developer awards cuz he builds them for other companies... These are the games I know he built Call of duty call of duty UO call of duty 2 Half Life = quake 2 engine= counter-strike,day of defeat, other hl mods.. Almost all of your current gen games like star wars jedi outkast,3...,madden- well EA sports and games- star wars dark forces 1/2. Prey Half life 2...yes he did the engine for his best friend that owns valve... they were best friends as kids when they did id together. So with the half life 2 engine you have counter strike source,day of defeat source,the ship, alot more hl2 mods! Duke Nukem series used the doom engine shadow warrior used the doom engine Unreal tournament quake 3 quake quake 2 doom -made fps popular- doom2 -still holds the worlds record of 22 million copies sold on opening day- final doom doom3 wolf3d - started fps- return to castle wolfenstein wolfenstein -a next gen game- quake wars -supposely amazing- halo- his engine on the quake 3- Then valve is second its id engine they used to build on to give to other companies. I just love id, they dont make crap and sell the name like other companies cough EA games. Who thinks EA is garbage?
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I like Bioware. Making solid RPGs for a long time.
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#25 tomdelonge0686
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dude wtf are u talking about? are u wanna those ppl that just cry and complain about everything? I dont understand what u meant by calling valve show off pansies, monolith slipped to mediocrity? how do u say doom3 sucks? or id sucking with the release of doom3? doom3 was the best game of 04 that was the biggest hype compared to halo2 and half life 2 for the quality of single player. I say this because halo 2 had garbage for single player but good online, half life 2 completely makes no sense on a story... then the game would load every 5 mins which kinda upset me. I hate when companies target poor people too, I agree with blizzard making quality games but what have they really made lately? they lied to alot of ppl about starcraft ghost! They milk WOW, they hold out on so many starcraft fans which is bs for them.. I do like blizzard tho :) but they need to focus on more games than just warcraft.
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#26 Jinroh_basic
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Relic, Relic, Relic, and.....have i mentioned Relic?
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#27 mrbojangles25  Online
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Not alot of people know this but Id software are your better gaming company... They build all of your gaming engines still...john carmacks wins the Game developer awards cuz he builds them for other companies... These are the games I know he built Call of duty call of duty UO call of duty 2 Half Life = quake 2 engine= counter-strike,day of defeat, other hl mods.. Almost all of your current gen games like star wars jedi outkast,3...,madden- well EA sports and games- star wars dark forces 1/2. Prey Half life 2...yes he did the engine for his best friend that owns valve... they were best friends as kids when they did id together. So with the half life 2 engine you have counter strike source,day of defeat source,the ship, alot more hl2 mods! Duke Nukem series used the doom engine shadow warrior used the doom engine Unreal tournament quake 3 quake quake 2 doom -made fps popular- doom2 -still holds the worlds record of 22 million copies sold on opening day- final doom doom3 wolf3d - started fps- return to castle wolfenstein wolfenstein -a next gen game- quake wars -supposely amazing- halo- his engine on the quake 3- Then valve is second its id engine they used to build on to give to other companies. I just love id, they dont make crap and sell the name like other companies cough EA games. Who thinks EA is garbage?tomdelonge0686

And now John Carmack has abandoned his fans and is making Wolfenstein 2, sequal to perhaps the father of FPSs, for console only.

Sorry, but that is just wrong in my opinion.

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#28 A-S_FM
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id for doom 1 and 2 (id is dead to me now, though - their games suck, they outsource everything, their engines are bested by valve and epic, and they are traitors!)

irrational for system shock 2 and, soon, bioshock

relic for dawn of war (aside from being the best rts ever, this game may have singlehandedly re-launched the wh40k license into the gaming world, so i would happily mother its babies should it choose to procreate)

blizzard for diablo 2

valve for half life 1 and 2

i couldn't pick one developer to single out, my gaming life would've been much less awesome if you take any one of these developers out of the picture
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#29 wurn
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Bethesda and Techland and i think Vivendi are one of my favs. Ubisoft also but they seem to becoming like EA a MMM.
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#30 EntwineX
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Used to be Lucasarts, even tho their best games were developed by others and only published by them. But looks like they've jumped on the console bandwagon and left us bite the dust, so I gotta say Valve out of the current ones.
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is THQ, Ubisoft and Sierra are game developers or publishers?

if those 3 companies are developers then those are my favorite

 

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#32 tomdelonge0686
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what are u talking about? wolfenstein 2 is coming for pc too...
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#33 tomdelonge0686
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how are they traitors? quake 4 was awesome! doom 3 amazing, classic in the making.... quake wars is gonna be amazing!
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#34 tomdelonge0686
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Game: Return to Castle Wolfenstein (working title) (PC) Release Date: TBA
id software is executive producing a next gen Wolfenstein game.

Yeah they have left us! They also had an interview saying they'll never leave us!
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#35 DrDoom007
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There are many quality developers, but my favorites are: Blizzard, Monlith and Valve
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#36 dunamistheou
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Epic
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#37 indzman
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1) Valve

2 ) Capcom

3 ) Ubisoft

Tops my list now .

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#38 LTZH
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lucasarts all da way
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#39 kingrich06
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Blizzard. Love them for the games , Hate them becuase they cost me so many hours in playing them.
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#40 edgeofforever
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Blizzard. Their only real failure was World of Warcraft. I played WoW for about a year simply because I had nothing better to do, but it was really, really boring after grinding MC and BWL for months.

I love Bioware and Black Isle too, love all their games.

My least favourite developer probably is Bethesda.

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#41 borris_1
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Valve
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#42 DaLegend
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Relic and Firaxis

Microprose back in the days
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#43 fluffbane
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Page three and no one has mentioned Crytek?

Interesting.

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#44 DaLegend
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Page three and no one has mentioned Crytek?

Interesting.

fluffbane

well as far as I know they only made 1 game thus far, FarCry. Even though it's a great game, it's too little to make them the best developer out there...
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#45 Hydras808
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Defniately Bioware. BG2 and KOTOR are on my top 10 list of games.