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#1 rmerri52
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I Got To Say Insomniac. Big Fan of The R&C Series and Resistance Series. They just don't seem to get enough praise.
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#2 RyanShazam
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Nintendo. They don't get enough praise.:P

I love the Ratchet and Clank series but insomniac went wrong with Resistance.

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#3 -Jiggles-
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Bungie. They make great games and are very caring of their fans, yet nobody seems to take notice.

I can't wait to see what their next project is (outside of Halo).

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#4 verbtex  Moderator
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Sucker Punch. :)
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Bungie. They make great games and are very caring of their fans, yet nobody seems to take notice.

I can't wait to see what their next project is (outside of Halo).

-Jiggles-
I laughed at "nobody seems to take notice." Yup. No one even noticed a game called "Halo 3" existed. Shame.
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#6 Lionheart08
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Sucker Punch. :)verbtex
I go with this. Sly Cooper was an underrated franchise and Infamous is going to rock.
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#7 cloudff7tm
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Namco Bandai. They make some awesome games.
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#8 -Jiggles-
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[QUOTE="-Jiggles-"]

Bungie. They make great games and are very caring of their fans, yet nobody seems to take notice.

I can't wait to see what their next project is (outside of Halo).

pyromaniac223

I laughed at "nobody seems to take notice." Yup. No one even noticed a game called "Halo 3" existed. Shame.

This is about the actual developers, not the games they create. Ask any of the 10+ million people who have bought Halo 3, "Who developed this game?" I bet my life that more than half of them don't even know who Bungie is, let alone that they developed the series from the ground up.

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Overall: Criterion On System Wars: Nintendo
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#10 Stevo_the_gamer  Moderator
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Stardock and I want to say Bungie, considering how much hate that company receives.
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#11 Wikipedian
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2D Boy and Jonathan Blow... I love the indies.
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#12 habkeinbock
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here nintendo is underrated and bungie is overrated if i look at the halo wars threads :roll:

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#13 Toriko42
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I don't think Rockstar get enough notice to be frank
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[QUOTE="verbtex"]Sucker Punch. :)Lionheart08
I go with this. Sly Cooper was an underrated franchise and Infamous is going to rock.

Yeah, Sly is underrated.

I mean, 7.8 for the first game? Are they series? It was at least an 8.5. It was short, but it had to be on of the best PS2 games of all time, still easily in my top 5 games of all time.

The other ones are still a little undeserving. 8.4 is alright, but they weren't even close to the phenomonal first game.

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#15 aflakian
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Troika.
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Looking Glass.

All now defunct.
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#16 foxhound_fox
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One that no one on this board would have heard of. I particularly don't know of any though.
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#17 pyromaniac223
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here nintendo is underrated and bungie is overrated if i look at the halo wars threads :roll:

habkeinbock
Bungie isn't doing Halo Wars.
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[QUOTE="pyromaniac223"][QUOTE="-Jiggles-"]

Bungie. They make great games and are very caring of their fans, yet nobody seems to take notice.

I can't wait to see what their next project is (outside of Halo).

-Jiggles-

I laughed at "nobody seems to take notice." Yup. No one even noticed a game called "Halo 3" existed. Shame.

This is about the actual developers, not the games they create. Ask any of the 10+ million people who have bought Halo 3, "Who developed this game?" I bet my life that more than half of them don't even know who Bungie is, let alone that they developed the series from the ground up.

It is more of how they treat their community, Bungie is one of the few companies that gets really involved in their community and actually listens to them. I could really care less about the Halo series, but I know a good developer when I see one.

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#19 weenus-shotz
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Infinity Ward and activision (COD 4 was great)

EA Sports as well (NHL 09 is the best sports game ever created)

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#20 mdisen2
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I don't know about underrated, but underappreciated = Intelligent Systems.
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#21 Dick_Derringer
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Crytek
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#22 Aku101
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Team Ico

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#23 fend_oblivion
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Camelot - the minds behind the Golden Sun games.
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#24 tOtalPWNaAe
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Nintendo. They don't get enough praise.:P

I love the Ratchet and Clank series but insomniac went wrong with Resistance.

RyanShazam
my thoughts exactly they should have made an action/adventure game instead of R/R2
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#25 JLF1
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Paradox Interactive
Ready at Dawn
Cing
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#26 skingus
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[QUOTE="tOtalPWNaAe"][QUOTE="RyanShazam"]

Nintendo. They don't get enough praise.:P

I love the Ratchet and Clank series but insomniac went wrong with Resistance.

my thoughts exactly they should have made an action/adventure game instead of R/R2

Nintendo is probably the best developer all round that's ever existed...but here youd think they had made 2 games. I can't honestly say which developer is truly underrated. It's kind of relative. I've never liked capcom that much, or ea, but recently they are bumping up their game.
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#27 JLF1
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Camelot - the minds behind the Golden Sun games. fend_oblivion

And the Superb Shining Force Mega Drive games.

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#28 g0ddyX
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Nintendo is overrated these days.

The team behind shenmue, making one of the worlds expensive game before half life 2, they should come back and make a third.
I know some of them are part of making the yakuza games.
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#29 PrinceBoethiah
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Arika for its Street Fighter EX games.
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#30 ActicEdge
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Treasure is definitely under rated and under appreciated.
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#31 kozzy1234
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The group who made Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity imo.

Two great games, while Divine DIvinity is the better of the two and a classic rpg imo.

For Diablo and Ultima fans, this game is a real gem!

*Larian Studios i think the name is?*

Crytek is also very underrated. Crysis is a modern classic and the only TRUE next gen game imo.

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#32 D1gitalDiv1de
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Silicon Knights before Too Human FLOPPED.
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#34 kozzy1234
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Silicon Knights before Too Human FLOPPED.D1gitalDiv1de

I agree with SIlicon Knights, although i dissagree with Too HUman. I wasnt anticipating the game at all, but i actually really enjoyed its coop online gameplay with a friend. IT really reminded me of a faster versino of diablo with all the item hunting and coop fun. The game isnt as bad as reviews said imo. Also another game that i hated the demo but enjoyed the full game.

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#35 GTR_FX
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thats easy, team ico
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#36 clembo1990
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Free Radical
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#37 horgen  Moderator
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Free Radical or Camelot...
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#38 Lionheart08
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thats easy, team icoGTR_FX
Team Ico gets too much praise to be considered underrated.
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Stardock and I want to say Bungie, considering how much hate that company receives. Stevo_the_gamer
I second stardock. When someone mentions RTS they usually meean blizzard, relic, Creative assembly or ensemble and while this companies made some of the best rts games my favorites and Imo the best Rts games were made by stardock. Sins of solar empires and galactic civilizations
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#40 Andrew_Xavier
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Atlus is easily the most underrated developer, anything they develop in house is extraordinary.
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#41 Lionheart08
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Atlus is easily the most underrated developer, anything they develop in house is extraordinary.Andrew_Xavier
Can't believe I forgot about Atlus. I do think they currently put out better JRPGS than both Square Enix and Level 5.
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#42 AlexSays
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Namco Bandai. They make some awesome games.cloudff7tm
On System Wars: NintendoCherokee_Jack
I like these two answers. I'll go with them.
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#43 GTR_FX
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Atlus is easily the most underrated developer, anything they develop in house is extraordinary.Andrew_Xavier
agreed, but atlus has a bad habit of only producing a very limited number of copies of their game, alot of times people looking for their games can only find them on ebay for like $100
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[QUOTE="Stevo_the_gamer"]Stardock and I want to say Bungie, considering how much hate that company receives. adamosmaki
I second stardock. When someone mentions RTS they usually meean blizzard, relic, Creative assembly or ensemble and while this companies made some of the best rts games my favorites and Imo the best Rts games were made by stardock. Sins of solar empires and galactic civilizations

gal civs games are not rts and sins was not developed by stardock, :P well that said I would also agree with Stradock being most underrated

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#45 deactivated-5f6dd6241fdcc
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Ironlore (these guys did a great job with Titan Quest... deserved much more attention) and Bungie.
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#46 Mr_Alexander
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......Why are people saying bungie :/

Anyway: Insomniac

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#47 Cybiotik
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One word: Rare. No other company has made as many games as they have this generation...and with 4 more exclusives coming out for XBox 360...they make me smile. Think about the games they made this generation...and all are AAE or AAAE.

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#48 Juggernaut140
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......Why are people saying bungie :/

Anyway: Insomniac

Mr_Alexander
because they actually care about their fans :|
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#49 jeffwulf
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Easily Paradox interactive. One of the best devs making games, and barely anyone's heard of them.
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[QUOTE="Mr_Alexander"]

......Why are people saying bungie :/

Anyway: Insomniac

Juggernaut140

because they actually care about their fans :|

The question is most underrated game developer, and bungie is not underrated. I go with Naughty Dog, they make amazing games, but no one seems to notice this gen, and uncharted is so different from their previous style.