Developers you simply don't trust to make good games

[migo]

After completely giving up on Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts and Viva Piñata Trouble in Paradise I started looking through EB's bargain section to see what I could trade them in for. Kameo looked promising, but the moment I saw a review that mentioned Rare worked on it I just didn't want to risk it. N&B and TiP both got pretty decent reviews across the board, like Kameo, but I didn't like two of them so I don't think I'd like the third, and I'm not bothering to find out.

So who is it for you, and why don't you trust them?

Edit since some people are confused: DEVELOPER, NOT PUBLISHER

Second edit since people still don't get it: EA and ACTIVISION are PUBLISHERS

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

Kameo was freaking awesome...

Basically Infinity ward.

They have too many problems to make a good game anymore.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I don't trust Rockstar Leeds (Liberty City Stories, Vice City Stories).

I trust San Diego (Midnight Club, Red Dead Redemption), and North (Main GTA games).

 

[Thedayrecker]

Kameo was freaking awesome...

Basically Infinity ward.

They have too many problems to make a good game anymore.

This. You, my friend, have ninja'd quite a few people.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[teqrevisited]

EA LA. After what they did to C&C's Tiberium timeline I just don't trust them anymore.

 

[Durxom]

I dont think its trust or anything, but I dunno if I can stay with Bioware after what they did with Mass Effect 2. I loved the first game, but the 2nd feels more like a spinoff or something, they really dropped the ball for me.

And while I really love Capcom, their lack of supporting their PC ports(the games are amazing, but they don't include the DLC -RE5-, or they wont release the next game -SF4-) really makes me feel kind of meh about it all =/

 

[gonzo20]

my favorite developer within EA has to be dice, these guys certainly know how to make awesome multiplayer but there storys could do with some work (looking at you BC2) and the people i dont trust are... hmm, probably the guys that made mercanarys 2, that game sucked

 

[jomala]

Codemasters (except their driving games). They just seem 5 years behind the other big studios, and less interesting than the smaller ones.

 

[sephiroth1991]

I don't trust Capcom to make a good Redsident Evil game anymore

Valve i have some trust in.

 

[Axolotl]

I don't trust Bioware to make a good RPG anymore.

 

[Neverhoodian]

My faith in Rareware ended after playing the disappointment that was Donkey Kong 64. I have steered clear of them ever since, and I must say I haven't regretted my decision.

It's not the Rare I knew anymore. The Rare I knew made timeless classics like Donkey Kong Country and Goldeneye. It's a crying shame.

 

[SimuLord]

I don't trust Obsidian's track record...and I'm PRAYING they don't fuck up New Vegas. Everything looks beyond awesome, like it might really just be that they've never had a publisher let them do a game right---if that's the case, MASSIVE props to ZeniMax/Bethesda if the game is good.

Edit: And I know this sounds like blasphemy to anyone that knows me, but I've lost my faith in Paradox Interactive since they went 3D. Their games are just too much of a crapshoot and too unrefined when compared against those old 2D games. I hope Victoria 2 turns out to be good. I'll be buying it because Vic1 (with Revolutions) was one of my all-time favorites.

 

[Liberaliter]

Obsidian, they have a really bad record of screwing up existing IP's and creating terrible new ones.

 

[Brazilianpeanutwar]

I don't trust EA,they really are a soulless greedy corporation almost like a cliched movie,they've ruined more franchises than i can count and always push out half assed games that you won't play more than once.
EA is everything that's wrong with modern games and coproprations haha.

 

[RowdyRodimus]

Whatever the hell Sonic Team is calling themselves this week, Prope (Yuji Naka's studio) and Retro Studios.

I hate anything made by people who had anything to do with Sonic the Hedgehog console games and Retro just made an average FPS with a Metroid skin and had all the fanboys worked into a frenzy for the Call of Samus trilogy even though it changed the entire series. (Yeah, I'm a Sonic hater and still bitter that it's taking Team Ninja to do a proper Metroid game)

 

[Proteus214]

Lionhead Studios.

Because Fable.
It sucks.

I second that. Peter Molyneux really needs to pull his head out of his own ass and get over himself and realize that video games are not going to get gamers to engage in philosophical thought experiments with their games.

 

[MercurySteam]

Any developer that repeatedly try to make movie games. And I think it's safe to say that after Fable II, no one expects Lionhead to make any more decent games. Fable III looks like more of the same crap.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

I don't trust EA,they really are a soulless greedy corporation almost like a cliched movie,they've ruined more franchises than i can count and always push out half assed games that you won't play more than once.
EA is everything that's wrong with modern games and coproprations haha.

To be fair to EA, they are starting to fix things up. Your discription fits the current Activision more than EA.



OT: I don't really trust SouthPeak with games, and also partially Ubisoft.