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Zarr 09-23-2005 10:16 AM

I don't remember this being done before. List any developer you want, even if they don't make games any more. I'll start!

3rd: Nippon Ichi
2nd: Nintendo
1st: Bioware

Jaradu 09-23-2005 11:52 AM

1) Valve
2) Ubisoft (Technically they're a producer, but I love every single game they've been involved in)
3) Infinity Ward

Kakero 09-23-2005 12:03 PM

1. Symbiosis
2. New World Computing (NWC)
3. Capcom

SecretMaster 09-23-2005 06:09 PM

1. Bethesda
2. Sir-Tech
3. Interplay

Bozos of Bones 09-23-2005 07:20 PM

Hmm...
Arenanet, Bethesda, Valve. And if anyone mentions Electronic Arts I'll just go and organise lynching for whoever does it.

Hivetyrant 09-23-2005 07:25 PM

1)Electronic arts, I dont care what people think of them, they make good games and allways have ;)

2)Microsoft Games, Once again, almost every single title (well PC title) to come from these guys has been awesome.

3)Westwood, I know I said EA, but im gonna put Westwood in here anyways ;)

Sir Goulum 09-23-2005 07:32 PM

1. Bioware
2. EA(well... only the Maxis part of EA)
3. Microsoft *shudder*

Sir Degrader 09-23-2005 08:30 PM

1) Bioware
2) Relic
3) Creative Assembly

SecretMaster 09-23-2005 10:43 PM

I'm sorry but I just don't see how anyone can put EA up on that list. They are just.... ugh. Its sad to think that electronic gaming has come to that.

Sir Goulum 09-23-2005 11:23 PM

Only the Maxis part of it! SimCity and The Sims are pretty decent games still.

Zarr 09-24-2005 12:28 PM

I don't like what EA has become, but, to be fair they have made their fair share of decent games in the past. I liked the Desert Strike series that was definetly EA's highlight for me. Just don't mention Goldeneye:Rogue agent :D

vesselle 09-24-2005 12:42 PM

bethsoft
bioware
lucas arts

honorable mention: black isle

V***V

bakrus 10-24-2005 06:47 AM

1: ******black isle******

2:Lucas arts

3:bullfrog

Krowlars 10-24-2005 08:16 AM

1. Black Isle / Bioware (Undeniable!).
2. Blizzard (Warcraft 3 is one of my best games!).
3. Microsoft (Great strategy games!).

TheGrandSlayer 10-24-2005 04:26 PM

1.Relic (Dawn of War RULES)
2.Bethesda (Elder Scrolls)
3.Infinity Ward (Call of Duty)

The Sexiness 10-24-2005 04:44 PM

The three B's

1. Bethesda
2. Bungie
3. Blizzard

The Sexiness 10-24-2005 04:49 PM

Forgot to give honoarable mention to Quest (/strokes his old copy of Ogre Battle 64)

Lucern 10-24-2005 09:35 PM

1. Black Isle
2. Sir-Tech (Jagged Alliance series)
3. Triumph (love Age of Wonders)

Honorable mention to the long dead Dynamix and the living strong Relic, because The Grand Slayer's #1 is quite right!

Hmm...kinda depressing how so many of these are defunct.

CerebroDragon 10-24-2005 10:52 PM

Interplay (R.I.P) "Games for Gamers"
Black Isle/Bioware (Long live the infinity engine)
Origin (Before the fat EA conglomerate ate them)

Nanobyte 10-26-2005 04:47 PM

Bioware, Team Ico of SCEI, and Crystal Dynamics.

RoSs_bg2_rox 10-26-2005 07:03 PM

Blizzard.


Interplay.
Black Isle / Bioware.

Honorable mention goes to Valve, purely for CSS. And Eidos for Commandos (and of course Tomb Raider).

Edit: Oh, and EA do have some good games. Give me MoH or C&C Generals and I'l happily play it any day of the week.

[ 10-26-2005, 07:08 PM: Message edited by: RoSs_bg2_rox ]

Timber Loftis 10-27-2005 03:46 PM

Bioware is great. I do hope their next bit can top Jade Empire, though, it lacked... something. I miss the infinity engine.

Blizzard goes quickly to the top of my list, but I'm recently enamored with WoW, so it may be the endorphins talking.

Rockstar North

(Honorable Mention) Rare was awesome for a brief moment -- Goldeneye 64 and KI2.

[ 10-27-2005, 03:47 PM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]

Ziroc 10-27-2005 04:21 PM

(I have 8) [img]smile.gif[/img]

1. Bio Ware
2. Blizzard Entertainment
3. Infogrames
4. Looking Glass Technologies (Dead now)
5. Arkane Studios/
6. Bethesda Software
7. Floodgate Studios (where looking glass people are now)
8. CDProjekt

Here are mine.

PS: Interplay and Black Isle nolonger exist. :(

[ 10-27-2005, 04:22 PM: Message edited by: Ziroc ]

Thoran 10-28-2005 01:05 PM

Valve
Bethesda
Microsoft Games

the mighty stamar 10-28-2005 09:22 PM

a lot of people confuse a publisher with a developer.

especially because of bg 1 2 and nwn.

Bioware is a developer. they made a little known game called infinity wars. Interplay is a publisher, when they got the d &d license, they paid bioware to make bg and they used their in house developer black isle to make icewind dale and planescape torment with the infinity engine.
so black isle and bioware are developers, and interplay is the publisher. You associate bioware with dungeons and dragons, but they just happen to be developing a d and d game when the license changed and they dont actually have anything to do with d and d.

interplay also got bioware to develop nwn using their mdk engine, with plans for nwn just like bg to make their own expansions to it. But they lost the d and d license to infogrames( atari) and atari published it, and paid different companies to make expansions for it.

Ok so atari is a publisher, ubisoft and vivendi are also publishers all from france. EA is a publisher, and maxis would be its in house developer

anyhow, I would say

1Black isle studios for fallout and planescape torment
2sir tech just for wizardry 8 thats all they needed to do theyre in the hall of fame
2new world computing for heroes of mm 3, although triumph studios for age of wonder was even better in a way in the same genre.

vesselle 11-07-2005 10:38 AM

ooooh, i didn't realize they didn't haveta still be making games...

please put my favorite design team at the top of my previous list:

Looking Glass Studios

*sighs* i <3 my thiefsie/system shocksie games, i do. [img]smile.gif[/img]

V***V

Ilythiiri 12-04-2005 09:11 PM

1)SquareSoft
2)LucasArts
3)Blizzard

Hayashi 12-04-2005 10:46 PM

For me, they are (in no particular order):

Black Isle/Bioware - for the fantastic RPGs they made & I've played (BG1 & 2 incl expansions TOSC & TOB; Planescape: Torment, IWD 1 & 2) - all consistently good, relatively bug-free & mot importantly fun tp play!

Sid Meier, during his MicroProse days and now in Firaxis. He knows how to make games fun!!

Jane's - made some excellent flight sims which stayed a long time in my hard drive, F-15 & Longbow amongst them. Also had fun playing Fighter Anthology (incl expansion packs).

Iron Greasel 12-05-2005 02:07 AM

Sid Meier

Bioware

Rare


Or something like that.

Zaleukos 01-11-2006 08:32 AM

Of the still active ones I'd go with:
Paradox (Europa Universalis and other grand strategy games)
Ascaron (fun trading games in Patrician and Port Royale series, but they all tend to play the same way)
Piranha Bytes (Gothic Series)
Bethesda (Elder Scrolls: Morrowind and Daggerfall were both great, even if the latter hasnt aged well)

Historically I'd say Microprose Labs back around 1990 with Civ, Railroad Tycoon, Darklands, Sword of the Samurai, Pirates, Colonization and countless flightsims. The sheer number of quality titles over a long period was unparallelled in history, though many of these were due to a few truly great minds (Sid Meier is the most well known).

Magnetic Fields who developed light car games (Supercars and Lotus series) for the Amiga were also great.

Some of those may be publishers rather than dev teams (MPS labs?) but they are nonetheless the labels I associate with games of a consistently high quality.

Talin 03-04-2006 07:02 PM

mine 3 would be:

1. New World Computing
2. Origin
3. SSI (AD&D Golden boxes series, ravenlofts etc)

i hope Ubisoft can take care of the Might and Magic franchise... Dark Messiah looks great, but i want a partyRPG M&M.

Oh Hiya btw, im the newest in the litter! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
and (Warning! shameless linking!) if anyone wants to build up their MM collection ive got the perfect link right here!

http://www.tradera.com/search/imp.as...y=0&catid=3011

A friend of mine is selling his collection, so im shamelessly promoting for him, hope ya can forgive me. [img]smile.gif[/img]

True_Moose 03-05-2006 02:26 AM

1) Black Isle (diehard BG fanboy, plus they were Albertan! Wrong city though... [img]tongue.gif[/img] )

2) Westwood. I was a huge fan of the C&C Series. If only EA hadn't got ahold of the thing - I would love to see an Obelisk of NOD in full 3-D.

3) Bethesda. While they don't release many games, Daggerfall was the beginning of me and my RPGs. Morrowind was great - it was so big I could never get around to finishing the main quest! And Oblivion looks spectacular.

Lucern 03-05-2006 01:21 PM

*Looks at Talin's top 3*

Yep, you'll fit in fine here. Welcome! :D

I love SSI too. I'm a fan of Gold-Box games and I also liked Steel Panthers by them.

From my ancient post here, I'd add that I really like Battlefront of the Combat Mission series.

Talin 03-05-2006 06:56 PM

Why thank you [img]smile.gif[/img] *bowes*
never tried Steel Panthers though, im more of a RPG guy myself.

Nightwing 03-07-2006 01:55 PM

The reason I play games and got hooked was
Sid Meier
SSI, Kamphgrouppe and the like
Anything Microprose touched.

These three were very reliable in the 80s and 90s. And made some very addictive games.

[ 03-07-2006, 01:55 PM: Message edited by: Nightwing ]


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