Whose Your Favorite Developer? (1 Viewer)

[Keith Frederick]

I can only assume that you LOVE Quake?

 

[Tony-B]

id is a really good developer, too. Doom and Quake are both great games!

 

[Keith Frederick]

How about 3drealms! If only they ever released the games they worked on, maybe they'd be on my list

 

[Jeff Kleist]

I honestly don't remember all of the ones on Taris. One guy would be headless if I had on a neural band, where he was I don't remember. Mostly they were lockups from hitting start and changing things quickly

 

[Travis Olson]

You mean Rockstar North, just to be clear... Rockstar's much more than one team.

No I actually mean Rockstar in general. I'm also a fan of the Midnight Club series.

 

[Kelley_B]

I can only assume that you LOVE Quake?

Yes I do love Quake, but I really love DOOM. I play it almost everyday still.

 

[Dean Cooper]

Hey Commander Keen kicked ass too!...Oh my I just dated myself didn't I.

If I had to pick out one out simply based on released games it would be Capcom, hands down for me. I'd give the runner up to Bioware seeing that they are local and I know a lot of them

 

[Kevin-M]

My all time fave is probably Lucasarts. Despite the fact that they do release their fare share of crap these days, they still manage to pump out some great stuff now and then. Combine that with their past glory and they've got a place in my heart.

Can't wait for Bioware's/Lucasarts' KOTOR on the computer, which will have all the current bugs ironed out for the PC release. Thanks for beta-testing X-Boxers!

 

[David Lee]

Treasure, for creating Gunstar Heroes, Guardian Heroes, Yu Yu Hakusho[fighting game], Alien Soldier, and more recently Ikaruga. Tons of great shooters. Also SNK is another favorite.

 

[paul h]

In recent times Bungie as Halo just blew me away and im hoping the same happens with Halo2.. also Valve for Half Life. Going back a bit i have fond memories of Psygnosis especially for the Wipeout games and G-Police. Going way way back i remember Hewson for Uridium, Paradroid and others.. then there's Sensible Software for the hours i spent playing Sensible Soccer, Wizball, Megalomania and Cannon Fodder. Though i think my all time fave developer is the Bitmap Brothers for classics like Chaos Engine, Xenon2, Speedball2 and Gods.

 

[BrianB]

Going back a bit i have fond memories of Psygnosis especially for the Wipeout games and G-Police.

Perfect example of what I was hinting at with my Rockstar North remark... Two games from two completely different development studios, labelled together by the publisher Wasn't the original question about developer, not publisher? Fav developer to me means "team"/studio rather than large global publisher. Sure, it's not always cut & dried, but still, give the team guys some recognition

It's the difference between Rockstar North/Rockstar, AM2/Sega etc.

 

[Tim Markley]

Though i think my all time fave developer is the Bitmap Brothers for classics like Chaos Engine, Xenon2, Speedball2 and Gods.

Have you played Deathrow on the Xbox? It really reminds me of the old Speedball games but even better.

 

[Dome Vongvises]

I can only think of Squaresoft off the bat, but I'm pretty sure there's more.

 

[Derrik Draven]

I miss the old Bullfrog days. :frowning:

Molyneux and Co. used to really crank out some killer stuff! Nothing like Populous, Power Monger, Dungeon Keeper, Populous II, Dungeon Keeper II, ect.

Then...EA happened, then Pete got tired of being a corporate "tie", then he bailed...

Lion Head's, Black-n-White, while cool...never really captured me like his older stuff.

Old Psynosis is another one. Shadow of the Beast, Infestation, Hired Guns...man, that stuff really takes me back to the heyday of the Amiga!!!!

 

[BrianB]

Hired Guns...

Which was done by a little team of guys called DMA Design...

 

[DaveGTP]

Back in the days of NES I would have said Enix. In the days of SNES I would have said SQUARE SQUARE SQUARE! Since the current batch of ridiculously easy RPGs from Squaresoft *cough FFX cough*, I would have to say Bioware, for not dumbing down content, and knowing how to make great RPGs.

Koei does deserve a lot of credit for translating games on very iffy sales (Romance of the Three Kingdoms in particular), although, I haven't really played one since ROTTK4. KOEI definitely used to be the king of hardcore strategy games

 

[Keith Frederick]

Ah, the golden age of console RPGs... For me, first there was Dragon Warrior...then Final Fantasy, then Dragon Warrior IV, then Final Fantasy III(a.k.a. VI)... and then I was dissappointed by the likes Phantasy Star IV, Sword of Vermillian, 7th Saga, and Final Fantasy VII. My latest RPGs have been Baldur's Gate, Deux Ex, and now KOTOR. Very different experience.

 

[Tony-B]

Why does everyone like Square so much? They make one game that becomes a huge success and re-hash it over and over again. Final Fantasy is probably the most overrated game franchise of all time. Square's best games are probably Chocoboco Racing, the Bushido Blade series, and Driving Emotion Type-S. Square should just give up Final Fantasy and RPGs in general. Try something different, for a change.

Sorry if I make any of you mad, but that is just what I think.

 

[Romier S]

Sorry if I make any of you mad, but that is just what I think.

Well I would guess Tony that people like Square so much because that is what "they think". You know? Different tastes and all that other jazz

 

[Tony-B]

Yeah, but why do they think that way? That's all I want to know.