Best Game Design Company

[VLC]

an i don't mean 'publisher' as they usually just distribute games - not create.

for eg the following make games for others -

climax - diablo, warcraft, motoGP
bungie - halo, myth, marathon
rareware - perfect dark, goldeneye, battletoad
westwood - command & conquer, lands of lore, dune
valve - half life, counter-strike, team fortress
maxis - simcity, full-tilt, top ten

[Wojtek]

Electronic Arts - NFS2SE // NFS3 // NFS5

[phuckedup]

if anyone votes for valve, i will personally come to your house and hit you with my baseball bat... they have a new and improved problem every week with steam....

[Gregr]

Electronic Arts - all the 'need for speed' games and some of there other games

[bozley05]

Rockstar... only coz I don't know who makes Gran Turismo, is it Polyphony or something?


But yeh, the Grand Theft Auto series has been providing me entertainment for what must be like 7 years now, wow!

[tandoc]

you seem to have left out Raven - SOF(2), JK2, Quake 4 (coming soon)

[Wojtek]

Quake 4 (coming soon)
Sish.. another one?

[tandoc]

oh, you also forgot Square Enix - one of the other major groups behind the FF games (part of SquareSoft me thinks)

[Dean]

Lionhead - The Movies / Fable
Frontier - RCT3

[aki]

no UBI ? they did ravenshield, splinter cell

[Wojtek]

I dislike UbiSoft.
Their management is disgusting.

Let me tell you a story of a friend of mine.

After finishing his studies, he founded a lil game company with some of his friends, focusing on the audio aspect of games.

Then one day UbiSoft came in and told them. "We'd like to buy you. xxxxxx$"
So they transfered that company in a new department at UbiSoft Montreal.
My friend was the lead programmer for the that department.

Then his superior decided to quit and offered my friend his position.
He hapilly agreed and couldnt wait till the day he was nominated superior.

That day came. The Boss called him and told him that he got the superior position.
BUT, that he will still get his old salary. Basically he had to do twice the job for the same salary. Outrageous. Not even a tiny raise. It was either that or nothing at all.

So he quit too.

This was not too long ago. He's enjoying his unemployement now and looking for a good position at another company that will pay him right for his work.

[Daniel]

Valve didn't create Counter-Strike.

Anyways, on that list, either RockStar or Blizzard. For GTA and WoW.

[Ben]

id Software.........I can remember playing Doom II for hours on the Sega 32X many years ago.

[tandoc]

you have also forgotten BlueMoon - SKYROADS!

Capcom?
Splash Damage (not sure - RTCW:ET)?

there're countless others...

[Toefur]

Revolution, you bastards.

[tandoc]

if anyone votes for valve, i will personally come to your house and hit you with my baseball bat... they have a new and improved problem every week with steam....

yeah, obviously you've been abusing your system or something - steam works perfectly fine for me.

[Matt8]

if anyone votes for valve, i will personally come to your house and hit you with my baseball bat... they have a new and improved problem every week with steam....
And Steam still won't work right with my computer!

Tandoc's one of the rarest.....I envy you.

http://www.steamlessproject.nl/

[Archbob]

No one mentioned Blizzard?

By the ways EA owns westwood.

[tandoc]

http://www.steamlessproject.nl/

that's been around for AGES

cs.rin.ru - mite not be legal, but it works with Steam in Offline mode - played with it @ a lan party.

[stu]

toys for bob - they created my favorite game of all time: star control 2

[Techkid]

EA games

[Matt8]

that's been around for AGES

cs.rin.ru - mite not be legal, but it works with Steam in Offline mode - played with it @ a lan party.
I know, I was just pointing it out. Its the only way I can play CS.

[anhedonia]

Hm, might have to go with Capcom on this one. I also am a bit of a fan of Ubisoft, simply because of 'Beyond Good & Evil'. The only adventure game I have been obsessed with from beginning to end. Such an amazing game. I played it absolutely nonstop until I finished it. Ah, happy times. :P I look at that game sitting with all our other Cube games and it makes me happy. :classic2:

[VLC]

No one mentioned Blizzard?
By the ways EA owns westwood.
Thats coz Blizzard dont make games, they just distribute other peoples clever work, an the same goes for EA an others mentioned here.

ps- contary to a previous query, the 'final fantasy' games are polled here thru 'Square Co'. :)