Arc System Works, for making
awesome soundtracks as always, and making the best 2d games out there
I don't know if they count, but Nitroplus for making such depressing and thought provoking masterpieces such as Fullmetal Daemon Muramasa, and i haven't played any of their other recent games, but the anime adaption of Steins;Gate was pretty good
Whoever makes the Tales Series(i think its the Tales studio, it might be Bamco) for releasing quality games with decent length, good combat systems, and excellent characters
Konami, for making every 2d Castlevania since DoS, seriously, i love that shit
Cavia, for making games that break the mold and are so thoroughly fucked up, Drakengard 3 hasn't even come out and it is looking more fucked up than most things that come out nowadays
Koei, for making such gems as Warriors Orochi 3 and Dynasty Warriors 7 Empires, they may be greedy bastards, but they make damn fine games
Platinum, for making Metal Gear Rising, which was awesome, Vanquish, which was awesome, Madworld, which had very good and unique graphics despite being a Wii game, and Bayonetta's combat system(the only thing i liked about that game)
Even if i haven't played any of their games, Cd Projekt Red, for actually being decent guys
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And, of course Gearbox!, for being such honest folks, and mastering the art of balancing games, it is said that there is true balance when everyone is complaining alike, enemies don't count
And fucking everyone is complaining about the drop rates and Playtrough 2 difficulty in Borderlands 2, so it must be a masterpiece of balance
And, of course for listening to their fans, they listened to our complaints about the difficulty, and released an even harder Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode, now enemies have 4x their health, because clearly the problem was that you were killing things too quickly
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Even if they are [insert offensive word of choice here], Gearbox brought us the very solid Borderlands, and the very well written sequel, which sadly isn't as fun as the first one on later playtroughs