What is the Best Gaming Company of All Time? Is it Blizzard?

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laserit

Microprose

rodarin

Sir-Tech

Jermzy

Hasbro

Kane72

MB Games

laserit

rodarin said:

Sir-Tech

MICROPROSE !!!

Pulls knives out and gets shot in head by rodarin

rodarin "silly boy... don't bring a knife to a gunfight"

Sevala

laserit said:

Microprose

This^^^^ or Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI?)

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Daikuru

Blizzard made some awesome games, but not in the last years imo.

I love Nintendo since NES times, still a great company.

Westwood also made some great games.

Mikeha

If I had to pick one it would be Sony hands down.

Caffynated

Sierra

They published the majority of the games that didn't suck in the 90s, plus legends like Half-Life and Homeworld.

I don't know why people love Blizzard so much. No company has innovated less and regurgitated more than them. Their only game that didn't feel like a complete ripoff of another gaming system and/or license material was Diablo.

That isn't to say they make bad games, but they don't deserve the worship they get. Especially not with their recent titles. Diablo 3 was crap, SC2 was just SC1's second expansion, WoW hasn't released a decent expansion since WoTLK, and their sad attempt at ripping off DOTA was cringe worthy.

I forgot Hearthstone, AKA MTG for mentally disabled people.

Lobotomist

I would say Bioware , before it was purchased by EA (before MMO)

SEANMCAD

personally I think focusing on the developer is somewhat akin to brand loyalty.
I know that might sound like I am being evasive or difficult but I am not I am just trying to suggest that it often reminds me of brand labeling of shirts etc. thus I prefer to just look at the game more than the developer

Hejirado

Blizzard, Rockstar

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Rusque

SSI - They may have had a short heyday, but they pumped like 30 AD&D gold box games!!!

Sierra was also huge in the gaming world, but I'd say their record is a bit more spotty even if some really great titles were their blessing to us.

Blizzard had 24 years of great games. Blackthorne, Rock and Roll Racing, Warcraft I, II, II, StarCraft 1, BW, 2 + xpacs, Diablo I, II, LoD, Lost Vikings, Wow, BC, WotLK, Hearthstone, D3 RoS?

Nintendo probably has a place on the list too.

filmoret

with baldur's gate, neverwinter nights, knights of the old republic, mass effect series, dragon age series  Bioware is looking really good.  Blizzard did a good job and had a good run but they just don't interest me lately.  But they do interest a lot of people.  But the king belongs to Ubisoft hands down.  With well over 200 titles honorable mention to assassin's creed, farcry, heroes of might and magic, prince of persia, rayman, tom clancy's , morrowind, 

Panther2103

I don't know if I have a developer I think is the best. Because it could be narrowed down by different things for each person. I feel like IMO Blizzard is probably one of the best, they consistently put out extremely high quality games, over and over. I don't think they have made a bad game in my opinion, and each game is extremely fun for me. 

On the same note I really enjoy Nintendo quite a bit. Every era of Nintendo. I don't think they have any first party titles that have been bad and developed by them. Zelda the entire series as a whole has been extremely fun, every single game I've played (which is all of them) was just super fun. Same with Mario and that even includes the weird offshoot games like Mario Party and even the Soccer game was fun when they released that. Nintendo just puts out super high quality games and might be the best developer to me. 

SEANMCAD

blueturtle13 said:

SEANMCAD said:

personally I think focusing on the developer is somewhat akin to brand loyalty.
I know that might sound like I am being evasive or difficult but I am not I am just trying to suggest that it often reminds me of brand labeling of shirts etc. thus I prefer to just look at the game more than the developer

I see your point. Though it is more a question of the body of work as a whole.

kind of like Nike...being my point

anyway,sorry i dont have answer and sorry to get off topic a bit

Amathe

If I pick the game I liked the best:   Verant Interactive/SOE (Everquest)

If I pick the game I played the longest:  Blizzard and Arenanet (tie) (WoW and Guild Wars 2)

If I pick the game I am most anticipating currently:  Visionary Realms (Pantheon)

If I pick the game where I had my best character: Bioware (SWTOR) 

If I pick the game I miss the most:  Verant Interactive/SOE (Everquest)

waynejr2

The best game companies in history in no particular order:

TSR
Avalon Hill
SPI
FGU
Steve Jackson Games
Yaquinto Publications

Kyleran

Westwood Studios

gervaise1

waynejr2 said:

The best game companies in history in no particular order:

TSR
Avalon Hill
SPI
FGU
Steve Jackson Games
Yaquinto Publications

SPI in particular produced some awesome games, board games although some can now be played on computer; a copy of S&T (Strategy & Tactics) and new game every month - happy memories. Avalon Hill board games as well - although they also published other company's e.g. Gibson Games Kingmaker.

When it comes to computer games .... a lot of companies have, obviously, produced memorable classics but have then been taken over or produced further classics. At what point, for example, did Westwood stop being Westwood? Or Sierra. Or ...

Paradox Interactive? Firaxis? Tempting but one eye on longevity - a history of good, sometimes stelar games, I will also say UbiSoft. (Current owner of what was SSI, also a great company ofc.) 

unfilteredJW

CD Project Red has gotten A LOT of good will. Newer but they deserve mention.

Scorchien

many will disagree , and i personally am not a huge fan of theres but all the succesful IPs speak for themselves .... EA

cheyane

It would be SOE for me. When I played Everquest I had many occasions in which I was forced to use their customer support and each time I was met with very nice and polite and helpful people. The first time was because I was being harassed and this GM was invisible and watched this player crash me. I think they used some script and managed to get me kicked each time because I had them on ignore. After that they created numerous level one toons and would send me tells .Each time the Gm helped me. 

Then I wanted to change my name and they came and did it in a dungeon and made a small ceremony out of it.

Then I accidentally deleted a character and they restored it after two weeks. So for me they were the best.