Poll: Who is your favorite developer, did you grow up with them, are you a loyal fan and why?

[FolkLikePanda]

Top 10 (not in order but Naughty Dog are first):

1) Naughty Dog (Crash, my favourite games when I was younger)
2) Nintendo (Always been there)
3) Konami (MGS, CastleVania and fun arcade games)
4) Sega (Early Sonic games on MegaDrive when I was younger)
5) Rockstar (GTA, Played 1 & 2 on PS1 and was a fan ever since)
6) Capcom (Resident Evil, Street Fighter though I am annoyed when they realse the same game over and over again making me feel I missed on something)
7) UbiSoft (First Rayman, Splinter Cell and Assassin's Creed)
8) Valve (Left 4 Dead and Portal)
9) Epic (Gears wowed me when I first played it)
10) Suda 51 (Mad bastard!)

Would have said Bungie but I feel the Halo games could have been much better.

 

[lord.jeff]

Favorite developer? That never makes a difference to my choices in games. I don't get why someone would be loyal to a company like that.

Because most developer have a unique style, like Shin Megami always make adult catered, story orientated RPGs, or Bioware for much the same thing. People follow developers for the same reason people follow authors, they cater to a certain group.

On topic, if I had to pick just one developer it'd be Nintendo, Zelda is one of my favorite series, plus over the course of there existence they've probably have had the most influence on the medium.

 

[Grivahri]

Used to be Bioware. All my top 4 favorite games have been made by them. Kotor 1, mass effect, mass effect 3, mass effect 2. Then I completely lost respect for them. I love the games that they have made. I just don't feel that they have anything more that I want. They will never make Kotor 3 which is quite painful, and I don't want a mass effect MMO. Enough with the fucking MMOs.

 

[SajuukKhar]

Valve, because they have never made a shitty game, they brought PC gaming back into a high-profit business, and they made Steam.

Also I did grow up with them

 

[Snotnarok]

Favorite developer? That never makes a difference to my choices in games. I don't get why someone would be loyal to a company like that.

Because most developer have a unique style, like Shin Megami always make adult catered, story orientated RPGs, or Bioware for much the same thing. People follow developers for the same reason people follow authors, they cater to a certain group.

On topic, if I had to pick just one developer it'd be Nintendo, Zelda is one of my favorite series, plus over the course of there existence they've probably have had the most influence on the medium.

They're still companies and they have one overall goal, to get your money. I can understand liking games made by the company but I've never thought of a company in recent years I liked. I did that with Square when I was a kid thinking they could do no wrong especially after Final Fantasy Tactics then they put out Final Fantasy 8, 9, 10, etc, Tactics Advanced, then Tactics Advanced 2 then their extremely shitty port of the original Tactics and I quickly learned how shitty a company could get and how good they can get at destroying your favorite game with lazy porting.

 

[lRookiel]

Top 5:

1: Black Isle, for bringing me Baldurs gate, my favourite game of all time, I'm also enjoying Icewind Dale and Planescape torment. (I'm actually just playing BG now )

2: Valve, because of Steam and Half Life, mainly Steam. :3

3: Bethesda, because they made Skyrim, nuff said. :3

4: Blizzard, for Diablo 2, Starcraft and soon Diablo 3! IT WILL BE MINE >:3

5: Relic, for bringing me Company of Heroes and especially Dawn of War!

 

[ZehMadScientist]

Game Freak. Pokemon was a big part of my childhood, hell, Pokemon WAS my childhood. I have played every Pokemon game to date, and will continue to do so for all future installments. (The normal ones, not the Ranger games or any of that jazz)

And then there is BioWare. As much hate as they are receiving right now, I still think they are one of the best, if not the best developer around.

 

[Lunar Templar]

one i grew up with?
try 3, my holy trinity growing up was Nintendo, Capcom and Konami.
now? Konami seems to just not want to any more, Capcom hates its fans now, and Nintendo, >.> is being rather experimental, which i don't see as inherently bad, but dose kinda make getting what i liked them for to begin with difficult

and more recent example would be

I love them as a developer, and even more as a PUBLISHER.

Atlus

them i have most they're PS2 library, and they have only failed me once, Atlus, i love,

Relic to actually, they don't make 'the best games evar' but they are consistently good, that's really the more important thing far as I'm concerned

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

Most definitely Blizzard. Just too many good memories.

 

[Terminate421]

Bungie because while the Halo games are my second favorite games of all time, Bungie are the first people to make developing games look more like a party than an actual job.

 

[Candidus]

Black Isle.

More mordern, I'd say CD Projekt Red comes second.

 

[Oinodaemon]

VAAAAALLLVVEE!!!! Sorry, I got a little overexcited...

 

[Realitycrash]

Eh, I grew up with Bungie, and even though they have been stuck at remaking Halo for the past years, I still keep them in my heart.

 

[Chanel Tompkins]

Probably Square Enix or whatever one does Pokemon. I grew up with them, and I love them both. Because, come on, Square Enix and Pokemon man.

 

[z121231211]

Probably Square Enix or whatever one does Pokemon. I grew up with them, and I love them both. Because, come on, Square Enix and Pokemon man.

Squaresoft is where it's at. Don't know what happened but every game I've been disappointed by them was Square-Enix, but the Squaresoft games helped define my childhood.

I'd have to go with Grasshopper Manufacture, though they seem a little too focused on NMH.