Who are the Best, and Worst Developers? (IYO)

In my Opinion, I think that my favourite, and the best developers are:

• Valve - They are very loyal to their fans, and handled that Left 4 Dead 2 boycott situation magnificently.
• Bungie - Loyal to fans, and read the Weekly Update dated 8/11/09.
• Naughty Dog - Very Classy to Refer, and Thank other devs in the credits of Uncharted 2.

By the Way, this list is in No Order.

Best:

Harmonix

Valve

Naughty Dog

I cant think of any worst ones cept from the team who made big rigs xD.

also the worst are:

Ubisoft

Treyarch

Ubisoft

Infinity Ward

Ubisoft

Epic

Ubisoft

Spark Unlimited and

Ubisoft

Best

#1 Blizzard Entertainment

They listen to their fans and make changes constantly to what the fanbase wants though many would argue that it takes them a long time to do so however they do listen and respond to there fans everyday.

#2 Epic Games

Even though i don't exactly like what they are doing to gears of war 2 multiplayer they have added many changes a lot for the good and they make really awesome games.

#3 Bungie

I hate halo but the are very active towards their fanbase and i like what they put in their games.

Worst

# 1 EA

Anything with the name EA

...can't think of anything else right now

Blizzard

BioWare

Naughty Dog

Bungie

Epic Games

(no order)

Dragon Age has made me question Bioware's ability, or lack there of.

Best:

Blizzard
Valve
BioWare
Rockstar
Creative Assembly
Relic Entertainment
Crytek
CD Projekt RED

Worst:

Ubisoft
LucasArts (lately)
Epic (completely abandoned the PC)

the PSN games from ThatGameCompany are always visually stunning and off the wall i love playing the games these guys make

Dragon Age has made me question Bioware's ability, or lack there of.

-RPGamer-

Bioware

CD Projekt

Obsidian

Naughty Dog

Kojima Productions

Bethesda (only for fallout 3)

Blizzard

[QUOTE="-RPGamer-"]

Dragon Age has made me question Bioware's ability, or lack there of.

shadow_hosi

No I'm being serious. The role playing and story telling arefine/great, but just look at the 360 version of the game. The 360 can and does do way better than what DA even attempts to do in terms of graphics (and developing a game includes being able to maximize the hardware usage).

The best devs are all the ones that release polished games at their own pace that don't require endless DLC or patches. They just release solid, complete games. But if I had to name a particular favorite; EAD Tokyo. They've only made two games and those two games are peerless. Some of the worst devs. Quantic Dream: Try and sell tehir games based on the story, failing to realise that the story is often the worst part of their game. Polyphony Digital: After more than ten years get away with shipping the same **** they always have with only improved visuals. Gamefreak: See Polyphony Digital. Rare: Exposed as talentless the moment they didn't have Nintendo's endless resources and ideas to steal. Tilted Mill Studios: Filthy hacks. Destroyed SimCity. Intelligent Systems: All their games are just pretty people beating up ugly ones. Artoon: Given teh job of making a sequel to Yoshi's Island. **** it up.RABicle

The best devs are all the ones that release polished games at their own pace that don't require endless DLC or patches. They just release solid, complete games. But if I had to name a particular favorite; EAD Tokyo. They've only made two games and those two games are peerless. Some of the worst devs. Quantic Dream: Try and sell tehir games based on the story, failing to realise that the story is often the worst part of their game. Polyphony Digital: After more than ten years get away with shipping the same **** they always have with only improved visuals. Gamefreak: See Polyphony Digital. Rare: Exposed as talentless the moment they didn't have Nintendo's endless resources and ideas to steal. Tilted Mill Studios: Filthy hacks. Destroyed SimCity. Intelligent Systems: All their games are just pretty people beating up ugly ones. Artoon: Given teh job of making a sequel to Yoshi's Island. **** it up.RABicle

Intelligent Systems: All their games are just pretty people beating up ugly onesRABicle

W...T...F

wtf

Best:

• Rockstar Games
• Nintendo
• Relic Entertainment

Worst/Disappointing:

• Ubisoft Montreal
• Monolith
• Lucasarts

Best:Valve Bioware

Worst: IW lol

Best:

Blizzard

Relic

Ubisoft Montreal

Rockstar North

Worst:

Eidos

City Interactive

Electronic Arts

1. Valve
2. id
3. soon to be Offset software ;)

worst
.... most companies create atleast one good game.

Best:

DICE

Infinity Ward

Relic

Turn 10

Best:

nintendo EAD Tokyo

Blizzard

nintendo EAD

Inteligent Systems

Capcom

Retro Studios

Valve

Team Ico

Rockstar Vancouver

SCE Studios Santa Monica

Square-Enix

HAL laboratory

CiNG/Town Factory

2K Boston

Grasshopper Manufacture

CD Projekt

Visceral Games...so far

Worst:

Phenix games

DATA design

etc...

Imo Ubisoft are awful. All of their flagship titles follow the same patterns: create a cool idea/concept, create 2 or 3 gameplay aspects and then design the game so that the player has to do these different gameplay aspects over and over again until the said game has sufficient length. Also, the story must be bad.

Whether it is collect a diamond and then kill some guys over and over for 40+ hours with a broken weapon system, or it's pick pockets, interrogate and stab guys in alleyways, eavesdrop and assassinate for 9+ hours with a broken health/combat system it's all the same **** either way.

Ubisoft games seem to be filled with... Well, fillers I suppose. There is very little actual substance in pretty much every one of their flagship games and I would bet that their latest Splinter Cell game (probably their most competent franchise) wont be that much better either.

Best: Eighting, Blizzard, Game Freak, Dimps, Retro Studios

Dissapointing: Nintendo EAD (might change if I play Galaxy, NSMB Wii, and Spirit Tracks)

Worst: Sonic Team

Best:
-Relic
-Bestedha
-Black Isle
-DICE

Worst:
-EA (seriusly, leave the designing to other people, you suck baaad...)
-Tilted Mill (ok wtf is with you people... i hope you eat **** and die)
-3D Realms (i... hate... you.... incompitent... quacks...)

Best Developers:

Team Ninja - Always deliver.

Square Enix - ^

Worst Developers:

Sonic Team and Sega - Used to make great games... then...

Koei - Make the same game over and over and over and over, etc.

[QUOTE="shadow_hosi"][QUOTE="-RPGamer-"]

Dragon Age has made me question Bioware's ability, or lack there of.

-RPGamer-

No I'm being serious. The role playing and story telling arefine/great, but just look at the 360 version of the game. The 360 can and does do way better than what DA even attempts to do in terms of graphics (and developing a game includes being able to maximize the hardware usage).

Best:

Bioware
Bungie
Valve
Rocksteady
Turn10
Ubisoft

Can't think of the worst.

Best:
-Relic
-Bestedha
-Black Isle
-DICE

Worst:
-EA (seriusly, leave the designing to other people, you suck baaad...)
-Tilted Mill (ok wtf is with you people... i hope you eat **** and die)
-3D Realms (i... hate... you.... incompitent... quacks...)

chaplainDMK

EA is a publisher not a developer. They get an assortment of developers (some aquired under their roof) to make all their games.

Westwood Studios - Created Dune II - the original modern day RTS, whose engine was used in the original Warcraft and Command and Conquer.

I agree with whoever said Koei. They're so awful it's not even funny. Dyansty Warriors at this point is a scam.

[QUOTE="-RPGamer-"]

[QUOTE="shadow_hosi"] BLASPHEMY!!! purge the heretic!gamer620

No I'm being serious. The role playing and story telling arefine/great, but just look at the 360 version of the game. The 360 can and does do way better than what DA even attempts to do in terms of graphics (and developing a game includes being able to maximize the hardware usage).

Are you defending there position as one of the best or putting in more doubt?

[QUOTE="gamer620"][QUOTE="-RPGamer-"]

No I'm being serious. The role playing and story telling arefine/great, but just look at the 360 version of the game. The 360 can and does do way better than what DA even attempts to do in terms of graphics (and developing a game includes being able to maximize the hardware usage).

-RPGamer-

Are you defending there position as one of the best or putting in more doubt?

Bioware developed the game for PC and it was ported to consoles, and I'm assuming because they will never admit to it, at the behest of EA their parent company. I know this doesn't bode well for Bioware because they are ultimately responsible, but the game is meant to be played on the PC. If you play it on consoles, you know that it is a port and therefore should expect to have to compromise something. In this case, graphics and UI took a hit. Oh well.

Best:

BioWare- Dragon Age is the best game I've played since Mass Effect (hell it could very well be the best game I've played, full stop). And Mass Effect 2 comes out in less than 3 months? Sweet Jebus.

Turn 10- Talk about consistency. How many other developers turn (pun!) out a genre-defining game every 2 years like clockwork?

Relic- One of the few developers really trying to push the RTS genre forward. With Company of Heroes they removed the drudgery of resource gathering, and with Dawn of War 2 they added a more personal element to the gameplay.

Worst:

Polyphony Digital- They haven't released a quality game since GT4, and despite the long list of features Yamauchi has "confirmed" for GT5 they've practically gone out of their way to not show off anything new or meaningful. And it comes out in less than 6 months? Yikes.

Infinity Ward- They've made their living off of releasing a dumbed-down MoH:AA mod every 2 years and charging $60 for it. Add in all the other bull**** surrounding MW2, and it's hard to believe people still praise them.

Kojima- Someone get this guy an editor. Or twelve.

The best:

1.) Blizzard - IMO has never released a game that was not good.

2.) Valve - Fathers of one of the strongest gaming communities to this day.

3.) Crytek - Pushing performance to edge, they are the tech innovaters of the current gaming era.

4.) Bioware - When releasing a game, they don't let down.

5.) Bungie - Constantly feed their fans more and more Halo

6.) Naughty Dog - A real class act. When they do it, they do it well and they give credit.

7.) Dice - They are loyal to their fans, they have consistently been very responsive to them and delivered the content Battlefield players want to play.

8.) Nintendo - Only Nintendo can have an adult playing a game thatbelongs on the Disney channel.

9.) Ubisoft - Constantly looking for new experiences to provide to gamers.

10.) Gearbox - Games made by and for gamers. They may not always hit it out of the park but they do not release bad games either.

The Worst

1.) Electronic Arts - They buy good games and make them worse.

2.) Rare - Have consistently disappointed this generation.

3.) Infinity Ward - Did not support their PC fanbase. Do not release new gameplay experiences.

I am sure there are more bad developers, but its too annoying everytime I think of someone new.

Best: BioWare, Bungie, Rockstar North, Valve

Worst: Infinity Ward, Neversoft, the people who keep developing Smackdown vs Raw..oh ya Epic.

Let's not betray our fans once (PC)...lets do it a second time! (Gears 1 360 fanbase who played their flawed game so much because they could put up with it. However, they tried to make Gears 2 towards to COD crowd when they forgot if the game isn't ridiculously simple, they dont wanna play it)

People mentioning rare as worst are way off.

If you're mentioning a dev whose games rate in the 8-9 range they are clearly not the worst of anything. Quit being fanboys ppl. I swear you use these lists as just an excuse to throw around such nonsense without having to back up your claims.

Absolute worst:

Uwe Boll productions

look up tunnel rats, im not kidding. And no I haven't played the game, feel free to shoot down my credibility. 8)

Best: Bungie, Nintendo, Valve, R* and High Voltage

Worst: Crapcom, KoEi, Sonic Team, Epic, and also Rare.

Syakunage Soft

Wheel

KEY

Studio Ryokucha

Circus

Cave

Sting

Nippon Ichi Software

LEAF

Sky Fish

Nitro+

Over Drive

Eufonie

Flight-Plan

0verflow

5pb.

Etc, I decided not to put any Dōjin developers up this time..

And for ones I don't like:

Square Enix

Bethesda Softworks

Infinity Ward

Treyarch

DDI

Sucker Punch Productions

Maxis

Insomniac Games

Namco

id Software

Ubisoft Montreal

2K

Best:

BioWare- Dragon Age is the best game I've played since Mass Effect (hell it could very well be the best game I've played, full stop). And Mass Effect 2 comes out in less than 3 months? Sweet Jebus.

Turn 10- Talk about consistency. How many other developers turn (pun!) out a genre-defining game every 2 years like clockwork?

Relic- One of the few developers really trying to push the RTS genre forward. With Company of Heroes they removed the drudgery of resource gathering, and with Dawn of War 2 they added a more personal element to the gameplay.

Worst:

Polyphony Digital- They haven't released a quality game since GT4, and despite the long list of features Yamauchi has "confirmed" for GT5 they've practically gone out of their way to not show off anything new or meaningful. And it comes out in less than 6 months? Yikes.

Infinity Ward- They've made their living off of releasing a dumbed-down MoH:AA mod every 2 years and charging $60 for it. Add in all the other bull**** surrounding MW2, and it's hard to believe people still praise them.

Kojima- Someone get this guy an editor. Or twelve.

PBSnipes

Oh.. I cannot wait to see the responses to this one 8) *popcorn time*