Underated Developers

[marcooos]

Recently having finally got round to playing the Darkness I realised that I've liked all of Starbreeze's games and that as a studio there really not given enough credit.

So my question is Escapists what is your favourite underated developer?

 

[random_bars]

Double Fine, by far. Psychonauts has gained popularity over the years, but Brutal Legend's complete misadvertising led to many people dismissing it before they actually learned how to play it properly, and lots of people have never even heard of the downloadable games they've released over the past year.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

Terry Cavanagh. Seriously, he's made some pretty awesome games. Like this one on Steam.

Actually, pretty much any indie developer who doesn't make a relative bestseller. So basically every indie developer other than Team Meat, Jonathan Blow, Mojang AB, Team Shanghai Alice and The Behemoth (which is most of the indie devs I've heard of.) Not saying any of them are bad, just that they're well-known enough to not be 'underrated'.

(edited slightly)

 

[AlternatePFG]

Sucker Punch. While I wasn't the biggest fan of the first inFamous but the second game was probably one of my favorite games of this year. I mostly like them for the Sly Cooper games, which still are some of my favorite games.

 

[windlenot]

I don't know how people give Harmonix credit, but I love em. Feels like they get lumped in with the Guitar Hero scene, but I thoroughly enjoyed all their games I've played.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

We don't hear nearly enough about Sucker Punch.

I mean come on, the inFamous series are the best super hero games this gen.

 

[rockhard556]

neversoft they made the old tony hawk games (the best ones) and the old spiderman games on the PS1(the best ones)

 

[Daystar Clarion]

FROM Software.

I know, I know, they're the guys who made Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, and for that they've recieved unanimous acclaim. But they've actually been slogging away for years and years now, and nearly all their games prior to Demon's Souls were incredibly underrated. Metal Wolf Chaos, in particular, is possibly the craziest, most awesome mech game ever concieved by man, and the Otogi series is still the best hack and slash series I've ever played (next to Ninja Gaiden). As awesome as Demon's/Dark Souls are, there's a lot more to FROM than those two games.

They're getting that acclaim now though, so it's all good.

Hopefully, we should start hearing a lot more about what these guys are working on.