Most overrated developer

Kojima Productions is very overrated in my opinion

PurpleHaze89

As much as I love Final Fantasy, Im gunna say Square-Enix.

There are just too many other great RPG's that get no attention because they are not made by SE.

Im going with Rare, goldeneye was good but most of their games arent AS great as people make them out to be.

By a country mile... it has to be Rare. Don't get me wrong, Diddy Kong Racing was a classic and Battletoads is good old masochistic NES era fun, but they have so many overrated games/franchises...

• Goldeneye
• Banjo
• Donkey Kong 64
• Conker's Bad Fur Day *readies the flame shield*
• Starfox Adventures
• Donkey Konga... ugh
• Perfect Dark
• Killer Instinct

I'm genuinely convinced that the only reason they are so widely praised to this day is due to pure nostalgia. Perfect Dark may well work better with the 360 pad when it comes out on Live Arcade, but having had a bash at with with a couple of friends recently, I felt the controls were absolutely horrific.

Square come in at a distant second, if only for the amount of unwarranted praise heaped on the World Ends With You. Fine I get it, the game and its battle system are uniquem but the obnoxiously bad story and dialogue killed it for me.

Menalque2

I don't think anyone who knows anything about Rare overrates them. Most people know they are not the same Rare that made those classics, most of which weren't genre changing but were just good games in general. 007 is genre changing, it is one of the most important FPS games and THE most important for console FPS games.

Again, Rare is not the same, sure I'm sure they still have some of the talent that they used to have in terms of developers but in general most of them left and moved on. Anyone who hypes Rare now days is either, 1. media, 2. stupid... aka a xbox fanboy...

MS to me, pretty much only brought the copyright of Rare rather then a full company full of their past talent.

i'll go with valve, except portal i couldn't find the strenght to finish the other games on the orange box and team forteress was just horrible

For me, it's Team Ninja and Rare (this gen).

Bungie

Although I liked the Final Fantasy games, I still think Sqaure Enix is overrated.

Bungie

Andrewlee

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Kojima Productions is very overrated in my opinion

-Pred-Alien-

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Bungie

walkingdream

Bungie and Rockstar. They only have one good franchise to their names, and both are over-rated.beekayjay

[QUOTE="beekayjay"]Bungie and Rockstar. They only have one good franchise to their names, and both are over-rated.walkingdream

SE is highly overhyped, same with kojima. BoloTheGreat

[QUOTE="walkingdream"][QUOTE="Andrewlee"]

Bungie

princeofshapeir

Bethesda.

Also, this thread is about a year old.

I think Id Software have been dead since Quake III. Dont know how much recognition they get nowadays but relative to their former glory I'd think they're overrated now in '09. People are still humping legs after Doom 4 right? I dont give a rat's after 3.

I think Id Software have been dead since Quake III. Dont know how much recognition they get nowadays but relative to their former glory I'd think they're overrated now in '09. People are still humping legs after Doom 4 right? I dont give a rat's after 3.

mr-krinkles

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Back when I was like 10 or 12, I remember playing the first Unreal.

Man that game was fun, the new stuff, not so much.

SwiftDragon616

Actually ut2k4 was awesome. I think that was epics last major unreal game, ut3 sucks so hard in comparison.

For me, it's Team Ninja and Rare (this gen).

nintendoboy16

[QUOTE="BoloTheGreat"]SE is highly overhyped, same with kojima. princeofshapeir

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]

For me, it's Team Ninja and Rare (this gen).

bingbaocao

[QUOTE="bingbaocao"][QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]

For me, it's Team Ninja and Rare (this gen).

princeofshapeir

By a country mile... it has to be Rare. Don't get me wrong, Diddy Kong Racing was a classic and Battletoads is good old masochistic NES era fun, but they have so many overrated games/franchises...

• Goldeneye
• Banjo
• Donkey Kong 64
• Conker's Bad Fur Day *readies the flame shield*
• Starfox Adventures
• Donkey Konga... ugh
• Perfect Dark
• Killer Instinct

I'm genuinely convinced that the only reason they are so widely praised to this day is due to pure nostalgia. Perfect Dark may well work better with the 360 pad when it comes out on Live Arcade, but having had a bash at with with a couple of friends recently, I felt the controls were absolutely horrific.

Square come in at a distant second, if only for the amount of unwarranted praise heaped on the World Ends With You. Fine I get it, the game and its battle system are uniquem but the obnoxiously bad story and dialogue killed it for me.

Menalque2

Valve

Yes they made Half life but they are also one of the laziest developers i have ever seen.

[QUOTE="Menalque2"]

By a country mile... it has to be Rare. Don't get me wrong, Diddy Kong Racing was a classic and Battletoads is good old masochistic NES era fun, but they have so many overrated games/franchises...

• Goldeneye
• Banjo
• Donkey Kong 64
• Conker's Bad Fur Day *readies the flame shield*
• Starfox Adventures
• Donkey Konga... ugh
• Perfect Dark
• Killer Instinct

I'm genuinely convinced that the only reason they are so widely praised to this day is due to pure nostalgia. Perfect Dark may well work better with the 360 pad when it comes out on Live Arcade, but having had a bash at with with a couple of friends recently, I felt the controls were absolutely horrific.

Square come in at a distant second, if only for the amount of unwarranted praise heaped on the World Ends With You. Fine I get it, the game and its battle system are uniquem but the obnoxiously bad story and dialogue killed it for me.

beast667

Yeah, I agree. That post is one of the most mind boggaling things ive ever seen.

ValveSolid_Tango

Insomniac, no doubt.

Valve, my honest opinion.

[QUOTE="Solid_Tango"]ValveBoloTheGreat

Valve.

Activision-Tim FREAKING Shafer

[QUOTE="BoloTheGreat"][QUOTE="Solid_Tango"]ValveSolid_Tango

Gee, it sure is Valve hate around here!

I'll go with Bioware and Square Enix.

i know some people might be upset about this one but blizzard just because if every dev had the ammount of time and money they had they could do a lot more. but still a good game is good even if it takes 10 years:P

Pandemic.

Bioshock make great games, but they're absolutely terrible at optimization.hiphops_savior

Don't you mean Bioware?>_>

kojima