The Best Developers in Gaming

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#1 deactivated-5f956b96dc672
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With GDC coming up, i was wondering. Who are your favorite developers system wars? who do you consider the best now and the best all time?

My choices

Now:

  • Bungie
  • Insomniac
  • Valve
  • Nintendo
  • Bioware

All time:

  • Valve (having the same game take up 3 spots in GR's top 10 says something)
  • Nintendo
  • Blizzard
  • Rockstar
  • Bioware
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#2 Sliverwarrior
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To me its Square and Konami along with nintendo.

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#3 Asim90
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Insomniac, Konami and Naughty Dog.
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#4 jg4xchamp
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Nintend-its freakin nintendo
Bungie- Halo 1,2,3, Marathon, and myth series.
Bioware- Baldurs Gate 1,2, Kotor, and Mass Effect
Blizzard- Starcraft, Warcraft, and ofcourse Diablo
Valve- Counterstrike, Half Life, Portal, and Team Fortress
2kboston- System Shock 1, System Shock 2, and Bioshock
Capcom- RE, DMC, Street Fighter, Dead Rising, etc

That would be my top devs right now and probably all time as well(well all time would also have RARE)

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#5 prodiqy32
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capcom, insomniac, naughty dog, infinity ward, and namco right now. nintendo, squar, blizzard, epic, sega, valve, ion storm and ID all time.

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#6 Sgt_Crow
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Nintendo, Blizzard, Valve, Rare, Rockstar and Square Enix.
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#7 frankeyser
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capcom, blizzard, nintendo, valve and konami are my favs.
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#8 shadow_hosi
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Fav:
Blizzard (they are the god-kings of dev)

Valve

Nintendo

Crytech

Croteam (they maked serious sam :D)

3DRealms

Bethesd

fireaxis

this list is getting to long im stopping now

former favorates but sold out:

Epic

Ubi

Lucas arts

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#9 deactivated-5e0e425ee91d8
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capcom, ninendo EAD, bungie, bioware and blizzard all turn whatever they touch into gold IMHO
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#10 PBSnipes
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Bioware, Silicon Knights, Relic and Valve. There are other great developers out there, but IMO those 4 do the most to further gaming and their respective genres on a consistent basis.
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#11 deactivated-59603ff9b9423
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Capcom's RE and DMC studios, Polyphony Digital, Blizzard, Bioware, Ready at Dawn, Isomniac, Naughty Dog, Sony's Santa Monica Studios, Crytech, Kojima Productions, Nintendo's Mario\Zelda\Brawl studios, Valve, Square Enix's FF and KH teams. and Ubisoft Montreal.

Yup, I know that's alot.

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#12 Gh0st_Of_0nyx
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MY fav:

Nintendo

Bungie

Red storm

BIoware

The developers of Timeplitters (So bad that I forgot there names) :( :(

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I apprecaite Bungie and Blizzard the most, I believe. Bungie has used a forumula that's worked since Pathways, and Blizzard loves their PC/Mac simultaneous release- and so do I.
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#14 xxxWigginsxxx
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I would have to say Capcom. They have been around for ever, and they havent disapointed this gen. Lost planet, Dead Rising, DMC4 were all awesome. Bionic Comando looks sweet, SF4 looks like it will be good. Capcom hasn't put out a terrible game this gen. In fact they havnent put out a terrible game in a while IMO.
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#15 Shadow2k6
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Nintendo, ID Software, Blizzard, Valve, and Naughty Dog.
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#16 kodai
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I'd like to add introversion to the list of best devs. Their games may be fairly simple, but they are very well designed and offer great value for the money spent.
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#17 web966
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Nintendo Capcom and Valve.
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#18 DisPimpin
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Rockstar is #1 imo.
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#19 HarlockJC
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My favs: Nintendo, Square and Capcom
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#20 mjarantilla
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Nintendo, Valve, and Blizzard are far, far, far ahead of the pack.
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#21 Jaysonguy
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Nintendo

Everyone else is a tier lower

They can sell a console with only their titles

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#22 jazreal
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right now its def Bioware. And they have they have the paycheck to prove it(ask EA)

and as far as ALL TIME: Sega, and ill tell you why. Dont take my word for it..do some reaserch and you will find out that Sega is responsible for EVERY first in gaming, wether it be the "first 3d game or the first to have a character get out of vehicle and jack another"..it WAS NOT Take Two's GTA. Sega has pioneered the gaming idustry and has even had criticle success as a console developer, something that MOST devs cannot claim on thier resume. Peace and Godspeed

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#23 RK-Mara
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Nintendo, Square, Capcom, Valve, Bioware and Black Isle.
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#24 killab2oo5
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Team Ninja-Never disspoints me.
Blizzard-O_O Every game is nearly perfect.
Sony-I heart SOTC and Ico.
BioWare-GREAT and deep RPG's.
Nintendo-Have some of the best franchises in gaming history.

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#25 haze_blaze
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Now:

Insomniac

Konami

Infinity Ward

Naughty Dawg

Ubisoft

Epic

Incognito

Nintendo

All Time:

Square Enix

Konami

Insomniac

Naughty Dawg

Sony Studios

Capcom

Nintendo

Bioware

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#26 d_40
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With GDC coming up, i was wondering. Who are your favorite developers system wars? who do you consider the best now and the best all time?

Awinagainov

when is gdc

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#27 Erkidu
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Hard to say... -Capcom- -Bungie- -Insomniac- -Konami- -Retro- -Nintendo EAD- -Bioware- -Activision- -Atlus- -LucasArts- -Square Enix- -Blizzard- -Valve- -Intelligent Systems-
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#28 Nintendo_Ownes7
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  • Retro Studios
  • Nintendo EAD
  • Atlus
  • Squaresoft
  • Enix
  • Blizzard
  • Valve
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Treasure
  • SEGA
  • Rareware
  • Raven Software
  • Hal Labratories
  • Clover
  • 2K Boston/ Irrational Games
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#29 crucifine
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Free Radical
Rare
Valve
Bioware
Nintendo
Firaxis (I may be working there next year)

In no particular order.
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#30 Axel_rocks14
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Nintendo, Blizzard, Valve, Rare (old rare), Bungie, Retro, Bioware, Square-Enix
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#31 Swift_Boss_A
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I'm gonna go with Sony (Team Ico specifically) & Konami as well as Bandai Namco
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Nintendo, 2015/Infinity Ward, Kojima Productions, Microsoft Game Studios, Ensemble Studios, Blizzard, and SCEA/SCEE.
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#33 stephant_6
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Valve - Half-Life,best SP shooter of all time. TF2,best MP shooter of all time.

Blizzard - Best RTS's of all time. And Diablo.

Bioware - Best RPG's of all time.

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#34 jalexbrown
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I'll go with...

Square Enix - Final Fantasy plus all the old SNES/PS1 RPGs that are practically begging to have new installments made

Capcom: Resident Evil, Dino Crisis (we need a new good Dino Crisis game), Street Fighter, Devil May Cry, Onimusha

Konami: Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid

Bioware: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Mass Effect

Bethesda: Elder Scrolls games

2K Australia: Bioshock

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Blizzard (everyone should know that by now)
Valve (everyone should know this by now)
Nintendo
Old Sega
Firaxis

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#36 t3hTwinky
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The correct answer is Blizzard, of course.

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#37 Wanderer5
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Nintendo, Intelligent Systems, and Blizzard are some of the best developers.
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#38 FancyKetchup25
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Blizzard

Valve

Nintendo

Rare

Epic

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#39 --ProtoMan--
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Call me a fanboy, but I'm going to say Nintendo (in-house development) and Rare.
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#40 Ragashahs
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konami goes in their but i have to disagree with bioware. now don't tear my head off but one thing of notice about the past couple bioware games they're all the same seriously kotor, jade empire, and mass effect are basically the same type of gameplay with a different type of theme/story. now i know they've done great with baldur's game but again they've stayed the same. i'd like to really change up the gameplay not go with same formula and just slightly tweak from game to game