Who are your favorite developers this gen?

I'm a fan of Platinum Games. I like that they continue to reinvent themselves and do games for different publishers. I also like Capcom for making Resident Evil great again. Also looking forward to Devil May Cry 5 and Mega Man 11 as well. Would like to try Monster Hunter World, but since it's such a time sink I don't know if I will get to it. What about you, SW? Who are your favorite developers this gen?

Don't have one. But my favorite publisher is SEGA.

Still Naughty Dog.

Ubisoft is second with the AC series and For Honor.

Id Software

• They Never made a bad game. even Doom 3 was excellent and Rage 1 was ok i guess.
• They have been in business since 1993 and invented FPS genre thus they are master of FPS gunplay and no one can make better than them.
• Revolutionized MP gaming with Quake.
• Reboot Doom which become easily best game of this generation and also best game/FPS of decade.
• Helping Avalanche on Making RAGE 2 which now looks Excellent and borderlands wish its shooting feel as good as this game.
• Now Coming DOOM Eternal which is based on Hell on Earth and it will become there best project to date.

No other developers have accomplish what these guys did. Even Valve abondon hardcore fanbase in a favor of becoming digital distributor.

Other Best Developer is 4A games which made 2 of best story driven atmospheric FPS ever and now making third one to conclude it as one of the greatest gaming trilogy on earth.

FromSoft still kicks ass.

I also really dig what Ubi did with its engine in Rayman, Valiant Hearts, and Child of Light.

Ubisoft for my favourite game last year AC Origins. Can't wait for Odyssey.

Fromsoft and team cherry. But I still hate how fromsoft treats their customers.

I want to say platinum but they have develop turds like Korra and TMNT.

ATLUS. Persona 5 alone is worth my mention.

I want to nominate sony studios as whole but that is cheating.

Never got the hype for platinum never enjoyed one of their games. Overrated in my opinion.

Spike Chunsoft (Danganronpa)

Gust (Blue Reflection and Nights of Azure 1 & 2)

Tamsoft (Senran Kagura)

MachineGames (Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein II)

Crystal Dynamics (Tomb Raider)

There can be only one Rockstar.

The rest are no match.

Arkane (Dishonored, Prey)

Relic (Company of Heroes 2, Age of Empires IV)

Machine Games (Wolfenstein)

-Nintendo

-Bethesda

-iD Software (Doom is too good)

-Platinum Games (Bayonetta 2)

TT Games (LEGO games)

Arcane Studios is where it’s at hands down. Strong level design, gameplay focus and excellent game developers.

SEGA x Atlus, Capcom, CD Projekt Red, Inti Creates, WayForward, Galaxy Trail, From Soft, Team Ninja, Id Software, etc.

CD Projekt Red

Capcom

Monolith Soft

PlatinumGames

Completely different list from my favorite developers from last gen.

In no order:

• From Software
• CD Project Red
• Naughty Dog
• Playground Games (Why are they getting no love in here)
• Bethesda
• ID
• Creative Assembly
• Relic

Definitely 1Games. No other developer even comes close to their level of talent. Truly revolutionary and inspirational work. Life of Black Tiger will be remembered as an all time classic that defined this gen.

I would say that my top three would be Capcom, Nintendo, and Platinum Games as they probably have the most number of games that I have enjoyed.

Obsidian, Larian, From, Team Ninja, Firaxis

ND and Santa Monica

CDProjekt Red
Atlus
FromSoft
Nintendo

Best: Naughty God, Rockstar, Kojima, CD Projekt Red

WORST: Nintendo, Valve, ID, Blizzard

@SolidGame_basic:

Idea Factory

Marvelous AQL

SpikeChunesoft

NIS

Atlus

Crystal Dynamics

Naughty Dog

Bethesda

RockSteady

To name a few.

arkane (prey and dishonored 2 + dlc)

Not really in order:

• CD Projekt Red
• Moon Studios
• Crystal Dynamics
• Machine Games
• Arkane Studios
• Turn 10 Studios
• Playground Games
• Ninja Theory

A person with taste. :)

Outside of the obvious, some not mentioned here yet:

D-Pad Studio (Owlboy), ConcernedApe (Stardew Valley), Mega Crit Games (Slay The Spire), Ska Studios (Salt and Sanctuary)

I bought Monster Hunter at launch and still haven't sunk much time into it LOL I know it will be a big sink so I haven't.

My favorites this gen would be CDPR. They have made my favorite game of the gen and great DLC and are some of the most game consumer friendly from what I read and experience.

Hmmm probably Arkane is at the top of the list. Prey was pretty damn innovative, and the last couple Dishonored games were great fun. I love the game engine they developed, too, looks incredible and really lends itself well to artistic and creative level design, things look like oil paintings.

Colossal Order only made one game, but my god what a game. Cities: Skylines has consumed so much of my time. Not a lot of games earn a permanent spot on my hard drive, but this game has. It's there when I need it, when I don't want to play some intense shooter, or invest of effort into an RPG, and so forth.

It's nice to see Obsidian kicking ass again, bringing back the RPG mechanics and aesthetics of yesteryear with games like Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny. Them getting access to the South Park license was also pretty great, as those games are not only hilarious, but pretty damn fun, too.

Oh and almost forgot to mention Creative Assembly. Warhammer Total War 1/2 is INCREDIBLE! As are pretty much every single Total War game.

Also:

Machine Games for Wolfenstein
Ninja Theory for Hellblade
Id for DOOM and just being around for so long and being consistent
Bethesda for publishing some excellent games in general (honorable publisher mention, not a developer).

Nintendo still puts out the most consistent quality imo.

NINTENDO

Toss up between Nintendo and Bethesda

Monolith Soft.

Creative Assembly and CD Projekt Red, their games are pretty much instant buys for me.

I really need to pick Witcher 3 heard great things all round. I really enjoyed dying light so thrilled there's a sequel.

Guerrilla Games, Tango Gameworks.

If Capcom and get RE2R right, which is looking good, then they will join my list.

If Sekiro ends up being as good as it looks then FromSoftware it is. Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3 and Sekiro in the same gen is an amazing lineup albeit too similar to one another

• Bethesda Game Studios
• Techland
• Arkane Studios
• CD Projekt Red

Naughty Dog, Guerrila Games, Studio Santa Monica, Rockstar

Turn 10 / Playground Games.

343

Rare....

of course. "P

Sega/Atlus

Potentially Capcom depending on how DMC5 and Mega Man turn out

Arcsys/French Bread

id Software

Inti Creates

PlatinumGames

• Arkane Studios - Dishonored and Prey are both top-notch
• From Software - All things SoulsBorne
• Larian Studios - Divinity Original Sins

CD Projekt Red with games like the witcher series and the anticipated Cyperpunk 2077

Bethesda with games like elder scrolls series and fallout series

• CD Projekt Red (leading the way with pro-consumer integrity!!)
• Digital Extremes (showing how F2P can be done right, without player exploitation)
• Grinding Gear Games (Path of Exile, another amazing example of F2P)
• Rocksteady (not only the greatest Batman game, greatest superhero GOAT)
• Naughty Dog
• Larian Studios
• Crystal Dynamics
• Turn 10
• Epic Games
• Ubisoft

I'm also gonna mention Bioware and Bungie, but more in retrospect to past accomplishments, games I have great memories from, and with hope they return to form.

** my list does place CDPR at the top, the rest is more loosely ordered.

Moon Studios

Studio MDHR

From Software

and of course Nintendo

I like most of them AAA devs but I recently played GoW so maybe SM.

Larian Studios does a admirable job of turning their fortunes around. Middling RPG, now arguably the best in the genre, setting a benchmark of how Kickstarter is done, revising the first games flaws with post-release support, free. Followed by a sequel that expanded and improved upon the formula.

Great developer.