What are Your Top 3 Favorite & Least Favorite Video Game Companies?

[roberttitus]

Telltale is excluded simply because I know how you people work.... One person says it being serious & that the whole flock comes in & agrees simply because this Telltale's website. On second thought, I want to keep this as honest as possible... so I guess that I have to allow it... just don't say them unless you are being 100% honest.

Active-Inactive, Developer-Publisher ... all is legal

For me

Favorites-
1. Namco
2. Sega
3. Capcom

Least Favorites-
1. Acclaim
2. LJN
3. EA

[taumel]

I would choose Valve, id Software, TTG and one place for all the indie developers (Amanita Design, Critical Thought Games, Pixel Jam, Runic Games, Terry Cavanagh, InXile, 2D Boys, and many many more) out there who are doing great games.

Worst three would go to companies who are doing those horrible MMOS, war-, music- racing- and socialgames.

[Hassat Hunter]

Favorite (in no particular order)

1) TTG
2) Obsidian
3) BioWare

Least favorite (in an equally unparticular order)

1) Valve
2) Blizzard
3) Bethesda

[corruptbiggins]

favourites:

1) Telltale
2) Revolution
3) Sports Interactive

least favourites:

1) Blizzard
2) Square Enix
3) Treyarch

[Rather Dashing]

Favorites:

1) Telltale Games
2) Obisidian
3) ...

...

Um.

Huh.

There are dozens of small, indie developers that I love, don't get me wrong, but those two are about it for "companies that are a cut above everything else". Maybe Atlas?

Least Favorite? I don't think I actively dislike any game companies. Maybe Square Enix for pushing the whole bishie giant belt thing on JRPGs and bowing to the idol crowd and the fashion fangirl crowd, while filling their "stories" with teen angst and...blegh. And I guess Blizzard too?

[Strong Max]

I'm going to exclude any companies based in San Raphael, CA for fairness.

1.Nintendo
2. Rareware (not Rare, the pre-xbox version)
3. .... everything else is pretty equal except for the following

worst:
1. Ubisoft
2. EA
3. Activision

[patters]

Favourite
1-TTG
2-Bungie
3-Capcom

Least liked
1-Activision-Blizzard
2-Quantic Dream
3-Zynga

The 3rd of each is just that which comes to mind, subject to change easily.

[BadStrong]

Love-fest.
1. Nintendo
2. Nicalis
3. rotates

Hatred.
1. Ubisoft (excluding Red Steel 2)
2. Ubisoft
3. Ubisoft/David Jaffe(I know he's not a company).

[Secret Fawful]

I'll exclude Telltale Games as well to be fair.

1. Nintendo
2. Lucasarts
3. Rareware

Special mentions to Valve, Capcom, Square Enix, Bethesda, Intelligent Systems, Alphadream Corporation, Konjak, Infogrames, Headfirst, Adventuresoft, and Sierra.

Least-

1. Cactus
2. Bit Blot
3. Ubisoft

[Dead Man]

Favorites :
1 -TTG
2 - Infinity Ward
3 - Media Molecule

and

4 - Insomniac
5 - LucasArts

Worst :

1 - Sega
2 - Nintendo
3 - Capcom

[GTALostHeaven]

Ubisoft Sucks sooo hard !! Really Buggy games and Cr*p customer service. (as in patches fixing said bugs)

[LowMoralFiber]

Best
1. Nintendo
2. Telltale Games
3. Rareware (At least in the old days... )

Worst
1. Valve
2. EA
3. Acclaim

[Rather Dashing]

Huh. LucasArts only RECENTLY got off the Hate list. They're not quite yet into the Like list in my book, or even the Favorite list.

Are we talking about companies NOW or in the past? Because if we can talk about dead companies, for example, Sierra and Infocom get a strong showing in my favorites list.

[Secret Fawful]

I was counting Lucasarts for what they had done in the past. I was counting companies then and now, so uh, as far as I know anything goes.

[Irishmile]

TTG, Lucasarts (yeah yeah I know) and Nintendo.... its really hard to pick...

worst I dunno..... im sure I have forgotten about them.

[roberttitus]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

Huh. LucasArts only RECENTLY got off the Hate list. They're not quite yet into the Like list in my book, or even the Favorite list.

Are we talking about companies NOW or in the past? Because if we can talk about dead companies, for example, Sierra and Infocom get a strong showing in my favorites list.

As I mentioned in my first post, Active or Inactive.... It doesn't really matter.

On a side note, I really feel like reaching the screen & Pimp smacking a couple of you for your choices.... not mentioning any name simply for the sake of keeping this, at the very least, moderately civil.

[Giant Tope]

Well, I love ttg and double fine, I know that, but I'm not really sure what else to put on this list.

As for hate, I'm not all too sure. There's a lot of people who seem to hate ubisoft here. Considering Beyond Good and Evil is the only ubisoft game I've played, I can't really hate them, though I can't say much about them either.

A lot of people are gonna hate me for this, but I'm sorta getting sick of Nintendo. I definitely like many of their games, but I'm getting tired of how recycled and unintuitive they are. I mean, yeah, the Wii, but I've lost a lot of interest in the lack of quality I have seen with their products as of late and just simply haven't held any interest in me. It just seems like they've been riding their same set of franchises over and over again into the ground. That said, I don't HATE Nintendo. I just... I don't know. Their products are starting to feel soulless to me and I'm just not really a fan anymore.

[GuruGuru214]

Favorite:
1. Telltale Games
2. Nintendo (at least at times when they're actually putting out games)
3. Square Enix

Least Favorite:
1. Bungie
2. Blizzard
3. Uhh...I dunno...

[tredlow]

Like:
Telltale
Double Fine
Valve

Dislike:
Not sure yet.

[patters]

I'm quite curious as to why some of you consider Valve and Blizzard to be worst. Yes, I know I have Activision-Blizzard on mine, though this is entirely due to their business practices and apparent lack of ethics.