Who's your #1 in games?

    valve, with sony santa monica coming close second; although the designer behind god of war has moved onto his own company called eat sleep play. it shall be interesting if those games come anywhere close to the standard of god of war.

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    Old looking glass / irrational for the thief's and system shocks and valve for everything since.

    Actually I have to agree there, LGS were brilliant for delivering such profound and enjoyable, yet unique experiences. Its a shame the cocked up.

    Blizzard. Be it RTS, Hack&Slash or MMORPG they have simply always delivered extremely well made, polished and first of all addictive games.

    Been thinking about it a little bit more, here are some of the reasons I say Valve:

    • - Forward thinking. They believe in PC games, and they didn't like having to rely on publishers to distribute their games, so they create Steam.

      - Utopian development environment. By all accounts, the design and development process on Valve games using small cabals is very creative and liberating, and sounds closest to the way games should be developed ideally.

      - Thinking outside the box. Instead of just following the commercial trends of other successful games, Valve finds a vision of a game they want to go after, and find the brains from outside or inside the industry to get it done.

      - They are champions of indie developers. Valve has taken the best indie/amature/student developers all throughout it's history. Team Fortress, CS, DoD, Portal, and many more less publicized cases.

      - They don't give a fuck. They do whatever they think is right regardless of what anybody not inside their circle thinks. Their number one priority seems to be to make the cool shit they want, and to do whatever it takes to ensure that they can.

    Blizzard; SC2, WC3, DIABLO, WOW... all top hits and lovely. Black Isle as someone said is also nice and so is Valve (but not as good as Blizzard imo)

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    Black Isle as someone said is also nice

    I would think it would be pretty hard to be #1 in games when you don't even exist!

    I'm not sure about this, but for giving me THE most fun in games and replay value, along with excellent bugged games, I have to say Interplay\Black Isle (Fallout and Fallout2 mainly), or maybe Sir Tech for their Jagged Alliance series. Red Storm (pre UBI) is also high on my list for great tactical FPS games.

    (ps sue me since most of them aren't around anymore, they are still my nr 1s (even though I don't cry like frenchie until I see F3)

    Other than that, Valve have always made great games, but I play their SP games rarely more than once.

    edit: CSG (or GSC? stalker dev atleast) for making stalker, I was scared that it wouldn't make it, but god damn, that's some quality russian stuff. Might be a bit dogdy at times, but hell, it works, and it works in a nice way, just like their AKs.

    Hopefully, they will pump out more stalker like or sequals.

    This is going to be hard, since I'm such a sucker, really.

    But I'll split it up.

    Person assosciated with games:

    Ragnar Tornquist (.com), for "The Longest Journey" and "Dreamfall". Hopefully the episodic chapters following soon as well.

    Developer:

    I could also be a bitch and say Bethesda, but I don't think I'm gonna do just that.

    Instead, I'll opt for BioWare, having released a bunch of quality games that have brought me tons of addiction and hours on end of fun and immersion in their own or licensed(Star Wars) universes - Ranging from Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire and Kotor to recently released Mass Effect.

    Publisher:

    Would probably be a split between (new) Atari and THQ, each for backing a bunch of fantastic titles, and hopefully more to come.

    THQ for the Dawn of War series (which has now unfortunately been outsourced to a company other than Relic for the coming expansion. Hope it turns out good. Don't turn Obsidian on me D: ), and Atari worthy to mention in my eyes for Fahrenheit and The Witcher alone(To try and avoid mentioning the aforementioned Neverwinter Nights series. Hoshit..).

    They seem to want to publish those titles noone else cares about, but are really awesome anyway.

    Blizzactivision deserves an honorable mention, not only for the stuff Blizzard has made, but also for all the things Activision has put their name on that just rock. There's Call of Duty, Quake, and the Jedi Knight series just made my pants tingle, and well... Can anyone say Guitar Hero?

    And then, well.. Kudos on the merger.

    Ion Storm died...

    As a final note, I love Epic. I really, really do. Awesome, everything they've put their hands on. But I'm a real sucker for Adventure/RPG, so I guess it means they won't get on top. They're up there though.

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