I'd have to go for either EA or Atari/Infrogames. Both ruined excellent licenses (LOTR, UT, TOEE) and release tons of crap games, as well as destroy good companies.

I say volition (at least in the case of the Summoner 1&2 games)

Do not lay waste upon Volition! Summoner 1&2 are awesome, Freespace 1&2 are the best space combat sims to date and Red Faction 1&2(can you see a pattern here?) have revolutionarized the whole concept of cave levels(well, 2 wasn't really good, but what the hell...)!
I would like to nominate my dear Eidos for unleashing Lara Croft upon the face of Earth, with Deus Ex being their only redeeming quality.

Atari. Like all the good games they released were not their doing (NWN+expansions for example). It was atari that did ToEE release isn't it?

Actually Ion Storm did 95% of Deus Ex, but they also release Daikatana, so I guess it evens out. Yes Atari did release TOEE

What!?!?!?!? Have you never heard of Legacy of Kain?! It's only one of the best gaming series in existence!

<font size=1>Hooray for compelling storylines! :D </font>

Hmmm... about EA, I agree EA in recent years have released alot of VERY bad games but I just can't hate them, for one reason!

The Desert Strike series of games in the nineties!

THEY ROCKED!!! :D

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Can't agree more EA is the worst of the worst to destroy good companys and kill their good gameseries and then only pull out crap games i never would purchase!

Bluebyte, the maker of Setlers 3. That game was so buggy. And they have the nerve of blaming those nugs on some virus.

3do, for their horrible business decision making which bring to their own destrcution and ultimately close down NWC as well.

Didn't Ion Storm make the System Shock games and Thief 3 as well? I think it puts them on the plus side. ;)

Eidos did make Commandos series [img]smile.gif[/img] Those are great

Speaking of EA, you may find the following article of interest:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content...e=dev&aid=3579

Not happy news, though.

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I don't mind EA, they've done good things with Maxis. I don't actually hate any game company, really...

EA SPORTS is just too good... [img]smile.gif[/img] so EA is out. :D

I just don't like screwed up games... but oh well...

Blizzard certainly be one hella nice company too [img]smile.gif[/img]

Sorry, but if I were the head of Blizzard and someone did that I wouldn't go shut them down, I would go hurt them. Blizzard could have done a whole lot more, including Copyright violations, million-dollar fines and jail time. What did they do? They just ordered it shut down.
IMHO Blizzard rules!!

For what..? Encouraging people to buy your game? Making no money on ideas you stole first? Using the word "Craft"? And I'm sure you're right, they could'a done more, just as they should'a done less.

What idea did they steal? You mean orcs? [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img]


IMO, Blizzard is the best gaming company of them all. As much as I know, both Warcraft and Diablo affected gaming greatly, Warcraft giving pointers to RTS games that were released after it, Diablo more or less created its genre, Action RPG!

Didn't Ion Storm make the System Shock games and Thief 3 as well? I think it puts them on the plus side. ;) </font>[/QUOTE]Nope that was Looking Glass Inc. Ionstorm have only made Thief 3 of those games and they have hired former LG folks to do the job making Thief 3!

Didn't Ion Storm make the System Shock games and Thief 3 as well? I think it puts them on the plus side. ;) </font>[/QUOTE]Nope that was Looking Glass Inc. Ionstorm have only made Thief 3 of those games and they have hired former LG folks to do the job making Thief 3! </font>[/QUOTE]The Ion Storm team that made Deus Ex is some 80% of Looking Glass, and Romero was thankfully kicked off the project. Romero's team did Daikatana, and most of those guys made Deus Ex 2, which is why it sucked. Now the team that mae the first Deus got together with Spector again and started making Thief 3, with rumours of a Deus Ex 3 somewhere. ANd no, Romero is not in any way involved in that project [img]smile.gif[/img]

Good to know that Romero is gone lets hope for a System Shock 3 this time with TONS of interface from Shodan THAT would be the best ever game i think!! :D

EA rocks! Tomb Raider Games Rock (I heven't played any other Eidos games)! Activision Is pretty good. The worst gaming co is Nickelodeon, my brothers play the bleu's clues games, the stupid little rugrat, rocket power, and spongebob games all have no point and are all simple games to play. Squaresoft/SquareEnix is the Best.

oh, capcom is also pretty bad (other than their megaman/zero, and marvelvscapcom

Wow, Mooresville huh? Whereabouts?

I am not so familiar with the game companys, I was going to vote for EA-games, but then I figured, they made Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge.

So nope. :D

Capcom isn't that bad, they made Resident Evil 1,2 and three, the greastest survival horror series, better then Alone in the Dark

I have played one of those, and I think they suck

squareenix/squaresoft is one of my favorites.

Resident Evil 2 for PC is scary as hell. You never know what lurking behind the next corner. [img]redface.gif[/img]

Not really, after a couple times you expect that sort of thing in a game.

Regarding Capcom, Megaman X4 rocked! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

Yeah I know, how do you beat signa as zero.

Actually, Trokia ruined TOEE. don't blame a PUBLISHER for creation.

Also, Trokia has the worlds worst artists.. (IMO). I totally hate their weird pixely way of drawing..

ION Storm (Austin) is flakey though... (Save the Looking Glass team that joined--and now they left after Making Thief:DA). Actually, I heard ISA is outta business.

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I would like to nominate Rareware, mostly because I happen to like Nintendo, and it was an ugly thing losing them as a second party developer to Microshaft...

NOTE: RAREWARE IS AWESOME, except for their corporate decisions...

What about killer instinct? That game wipes away the honor of Goldeneye.

They also ruined the space-based game Earth & Beyond with little to no marketing effort. Screw EA

*cough cough* Can you say Hitman?!?!? Hitmen rock, and are alone enough to redeem almost any company...

3DO was the worst. They deserved to go bankrupt. Killing the Might & Magic franchise the way they did was a crime.

i vote for volition. for refusing to even consider making summoner 2 a pc game. :( as a pc gamer, that's just unforgiveable to me.

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JVC and some of the nwc crew are now working with lord british :D (richard garriot) on an unnamed project! keep yer ear to the ground.

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