Best developers in the industry...

I would have to say the honor goes to Nintendo. In terms of quality games over and over it has to be them. Along with that, they are very innovative and take chances. There are the occasional casual titles, and rehashes (Nintendogs, and mario party), but when it comes to major games Nintendo always brings the best.

There are no other companies as large as Nintendo that brings the number of great games each year as Nintendo. But developers like Epic are also doing a very good job. Hopefully they can make Unreal Tournament as good as Gears. Too bad they dont develope for the Wii.

I also have to add Bliizzard just because Starcraft 2 looks amazing. As well as Capcom for showing support to the Western market. And Finally Bethesda. They get overlooked but they are definately one of the best RPG makers. In terms of both Western and japanese RPGs.

I would say Lucasarts has some of the best consistancy when it comes to games. Almost all of the games they made are at least playable and most are pretty fun.

I'm having high hopes for Crytek though :)

Stellar Stone, for their amazing work on Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. A game of truly unbelievable quality.

Being serious now, I have to say Irrational Games (Now 2K Boston/2K Australia, I guess), and Valve. Irrational for System Shock 2, Tribes: Vengeance, and of course BioShock (and hopefully System Shock 3). Valve for, of course, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Counter Strike, Team Fortress 2, and Portal.

Nintendo: for The Legend of Zelda : OoT & Super Mario serias

Rare: for Banjo & Perfect Dark

Konami/Kojema: for MGS games.

Bungie: Halo series

Capcom: DMC series

Konami: MGS series

Black Isle Studios
Irrational Games
Capcom

Bioware

Valve

Monolith

iD Software

meh Ninty was good when they were actually keeping pace with industry standards. They haven't made a game in the last decade that's even slightly interested me. I'm just sick of their candy-coated bubble gum flavored crap. I wish they could have matured with me as a developer, but they insist on catering to that part of the market which is comprised mainly of children and grown people with developmental issues.THETRUEDOZAH

I disagree with the part of "grown people with developemental issues". If the only way you feel like an adult is by shooting someone in a videogame than you have a lot of self esteem issues.

As far as nintendo goes, why would they want to alienate their core audience by making violent titles. Just look at Rare. They made a pretty descent game in Viva Pinata, but it did not sell well b/c they do not have the proper demographics for the type of game they make.

And nintendo can continue to make as many "candyy-coated bubble gum flavored crap" as they want. Especially because they are all million+ sellers, that are often AAA's.

Bungie: Halo series

Capcom: DMC series

Konami: MGS series

Dante2710

who mentions capcom for dmc when they also create resident evil, their best franchise

ninetndo easilly

id have said rare anytime beetween 1997-2001 but

(thank god knowone has said EA)

Nintendo over the years have gone downhill drastically. Games are becoming shorter and easier. It depends what kind of genre you like, if you're into shooters, Ubisoft are fantastic. If you're into platformers... Nintendo are still the king... although Rareware's Banjo game could surprise....but they really butchered Perfect Dark.... If you like racing... I suppose the teams behind Forza and Gran Turismo are some of the best... it depends what genre you're talking about.EnigmaticBeauty

nvm, i guess you mean the tom clancy series.

Valve, Bioware, and Blizzard

Imo nintendo is beside EA

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Bungie: Halo series

Capcom: DMC series

Konami: MGS series

blues3531

who mentions capcom for dmc when they also create resident evil, their best franchise

Hard too pick one. So I will state some of my favorits..

Blizzard (Always high quality games)

Valve (Omg, Half Life> god.)

Nintendo (What would we do without the plumber and the boy in green?)

Konami (How could I live without Snake?)

Well these are thebest 4 I can coe up with at the moment. But there are plenty great onesout there.

Nintendo

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[QUOTE="THETRUEDOZAH"]meh Ninty was good when they were actually keeping pace with industry standards. They haven't made a game in the last decade that's even slightly interested me. I'm just sick of their candy-coated bubble gum flavored crap. I wish they could have matured with me as a developer, but they insist on catering to that part of the market which is comprised mainly of children and grown people with developmental issues.THETRUEDOZAH

I disagree with the part of "grown people with developemental issues". If the only way you feel like an adult is by shooting someone in a videogame than you have a lot of self esteem issues.

As far as nintendo goes, why would they want to alienate their core audience by making violent titles. Just look at Rare. They made a pretty descent game in Viva Pinata, but it did not sell well b/c they do not have the proper demographics for the type of game they make.

And nintendo can continue to make as many "candyy-coated bubble gum flavored crap" as they want. Especially because they are all million+ sellers, that are often AAA's.

IMO Rare's 360 gameshave donepoorly because they aren't quality. You can't say PD0 didn't appeal try to appeal to the shooter-centric fanbase, it just wasn't a good enough game. Viva Pinata or Kameo probably should have been released on a Nintendo system, where it would have stood out as an exceptional example of what lame derivitave garbage primarily constitutes a Nintendo system's library. games that caters to the person that could best be described as having 'bad taste'.

And what was the last AAA Nintendo game? Wario Ware, Wiitard edition? Yeah, i'll pass on that. Itis a matter of aesthetics, and I've found Nintendo's games to be seriously underwhelmingsince the SNES days.As for me, the only Wii game i'm remotely interested in could probably be done just as well on aGBA (fire emblem).

I agree that a bunch of stuff released by Nintendo is garbage, but Wario Ware was a title that allowed people to use the wii remote in new ways. And as far as "bad taste", yea it would look like that if you only mention wii sports, and pokemon. But you are conviently forgetting, Zelda, Mario, Metroid, and Smash...

Insomniac and level 5joker730

Oh Yea, I forgot about Level 5.

Double Fine Productions for Psychonauts. That game was awesome.

Nintendo

Blizzard

Valve

Bioware

Nintendo over the years have gone downhill drastically. Games are becoming shorter and easier.EnigmaticBeauty

Blizzard. No other developer even comes close.mjarantilla

QFT

Bungie,Epic, Nintendo(back then),Bioware,Ubisoft and Capcom

also gamecock

Nintendo over the years have gone downhill drastically. Games are becoming shorter and easier.EnigmaticBeauty

Halo 3 = 8 hours. Gears of War = 10 hours. GRAW = 6 hours. COD4 = 5-6 hours.

Twilight Princess = 50-60 hours. Metroid Prime 3 = 15-20 hours.

Yeah, NINTENDO games are getting shorter and easier.

Kojima productions.

Square-Enix.

[QUOTE="EnigmaticBeauty"]Nintendo over the years have gone downhill drastically. Games are becoming shorter and easier.mjarantilla

Halo 3 = 8 hours. Gears of War = 10 hours. GRAW = 6 hours. COD4 = 5-6 hours.

Twilight Princess = 50-60 hours. Metroid Prime 3 = 15-20 hours.

Yeah, NINTENDO games are getting shorter and easier.

ok MP3 is not 15-20 hours long more like 25-30hrs. My friend been playing that games for like 3 weeks now.

[QUOTE="EnigmaticBeauty"]Nintendo over the years have gone downhill drastically. Games are becoming shorter and easier.mjarantilla

Halo 3 = 8 hours. Gears of War = 10 hours. GRAW = 6 hours. COD4 = 5-6 hours.

Twilight Princess = 50-60 hours. Metroid Prime 3 = 15-20 hours.

Yeah, NINTENDO games are getting shorter and easier.

thats because their using last gen graphics which have less file space. more file space= longer games

IMO

• Nintendo (Including all the companies they own)
• Valve
• Irrational Games
• Rare

Sega for the OLD 2D Sonic games and Virtual Fighter series.

Team Ninja for the Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive series.

EDIT: I love arguments! I would like to say respect Nintendo but their games are overrated. And could anyone get mixed up called Zelda a RPG? And I think Blizzard is overrated too. But is it true that their RTS games are direct rip offs of Warhammer/40K? :P

[QUOTE="EnigmaticBeauty"]Nintendo over the years have gone downhill drastically. Games are becoming shorter and easier.mjarantilla

Halo 3 = 8 hours. Gears of War = 10 hours. GRAW = 6 hours. COD4 = 5-6 hours.

Twilight Princess = 50-60 hours. Metroid Prime 3 = 15-20 hours.

Yeah, NINTENDO games are getting shorter and easier.

Not to mention GRAW is a lot longer than 6 hours (GRAW2 is what your talking about) and COD4 isn't even out yet. Gears of War is in no means 10 hours (6) and Halo 3is about 10.

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[QUOTE="EnigmaticBeauty"]Nintendo over the years have gone downhill drastically. Games are becoming shorter and easier.II-FBIsniper-II

Halo 3 = 8 hours. Gears of War = 10 hours. GRAW = 6 hours. COD4 = 5-6 hours.

Twilight Princess = 50-60 hours. Metroid Prime 3 = 15-20 hours.

Yeah, NINTENDO games are getting shorter and easier.

Not to mention GRAW is a lot longer than 6 hours (GRAW2 is what your talking about) and COD4 isn't even out yet. Gears of War is in no means 10 hours (6) and Halo 3is about 10.

Ok, then how about Tomb Raider Legend? 6-7 hours? How about Kameo? Less than 10 hours. Splinter Cell? Same.

As for shooters, Half-Life 2 is 15-20 hours, and Far Cry (the original PC version) was 20 hours. BioShock is the only console FPS of the past few years that I can think of that has a reasonably long campaign, and that's because it was primarily PC-developed. The others have no excuse for dipping below two digits in campaign length (except one major reason, which I will not mention here, because it opens up another side of "next-gen" gaming that lemmings and cows alike don't want to face).