# Who is your favorite game developing company? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2002, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526 "2002-06-17T14:17:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Phlip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Phlip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlip)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/1 "2002-06-17T14:17:01Z")
I just got my hands on a copy of Warcraft 3 and I started thinking. Who do I like better? Black Isles or Blizzard? Hmm… I guess I would have to say Blizzard because they consistently make outstanding (if ever delayed) games. I dont think they have released a dud yet. Black Isles is close though because they have made some awsome games too ( Namely Fallout 2, the best game ever made in the history of the world). Who is your favorite? I was going to make this PC only but figured consoles could get in here too. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/2 "2002-06-17T14:24:14Z")
Domark / Eidos, for the _Championship Manager_ series. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/3 "2002-06-17T14:51:13Z")
Is Fallout really that good? They have a dual pack of Fallout and Fallout 2 selling for 9.99. Should I get them? How much of my life will be swallowed whole? ---
**Author:** ![EraserRazr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@EraserRazr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EraserRazr)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/4 "2002-06-17T16:05:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Munch \* > \*\*Is Fallout really that good? They have a dual pack of Fallout and Fallout 2 selling for 9.99. Should I get them? How much of my life will be swallowed whole? \*\* Fallout 2 is great. Neither Fallouts can compare with Planescape:Torment, which is by the same company and is the best game I’ve ever played. I suggest you get that one, which also comes in a duel-disc pack(with some Soulbringer game). Best game company? Squaresoft or Black Isle. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/5 "2002-06-17T16:26:09Z")
Right now I’m a huge fan of Rockstar. ---
**Author:** ![Phlip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Phlip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlip)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/6 "2002-06-17T22:16:14Z")
Fallout 2 will own you. I didnt care for Torment though. Too much dialouge for my tastes, but everyone else in the world loves that game. Be forewarned though, its an aging game so if you want mindblowing graphics you will be disappointed. The story is very adult and very funny alot of times. Definetly get it. Best story of any game ever made. You can be a porn star, drug dealer, mobster, and ANYONE can be killed in the game. You can even kill people you need to finish the game so be careful. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/7 "2002-06-17T22:36:51Z")
The only games I play are console RPGs. So far, i’ve never been disappointed in Square Soft. Their games consistently kick ass. Every non-Sqaure RPG I’ve played has been very poor by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![ummm.yeahh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ummm.yeahh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ummm.yeahh)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/8 "2002-06-17T23:01:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pepperlandgirl \* > \*\*The only games I play are console RPGs. So far, i’ve never been disappointed in Square Soft. Their games consistently kick ass. Every non-Sqaure RPG I’ve played has been very poor by comparison. \*\* Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/9 "2002-06-17T23:12:47Z")
I like Black Isle and Blizzard for PC, and Rockstar and whoever did Metal Gear 1&2 for console. Also the “new” Resident Evil for Gamecube is incredible but I don’t know who did it. ---
**Author:** ![funkynige](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@funkynige](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funkynige)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/10 "2002-06-17T23:20:20Z")
My favourite has to be Egosoft, OK they’ve only ever made one (remotley succesful) game - [X-Beyond the Frontier](http://www.egosoft.com/x/) - but for that they released an add-on for free if you were quick enough, and cost about £5 afterwards. Then they released a patch that would’ve been an entire new game for some companies, and that was FREE. The developers of the company actually ask opinions and respond to messages on the game’s messageboard (which used to be about as busy as GD when it first came out). Apart from them, it’s got to be ID Software for releasing huge parts of Doom and Quake as shareware and now releasing the code for the Quake 3 engine for free, it seems as though they not in the business just to make money. ---
**Author:** ![Swede\_Hollow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Swede\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swede_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/11 "2002-06-17T23:37:38Z")
id Software: Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Classics. Wolf3d started the whole first-person shoot 'em up genre. ([DOOM III](http://www.idsoftware.com/business/home/press/index.php?date=20020503083127) is coming soon!) Honorable mention: Microsoft/Ensemble Studios for the Age of Empires series.([Age of Mythology](http://www.ensemblestudios.com/aom/index.shtml) and [Rise of Nations](http://www.microsoft.com/games/PC/riseofnations.asp) are coming soon) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/12 "2002-06-18T00:00:33Z")
Interplay has owned my ass for a while, though they are in a bad way now. Black Isle can probably still produce at least Icewind Dale II and Lionheart before they fold, but at least BioWare is still going strong, and is about to have a major release which for some fiendish reason they’e not going to let me get my hands on until wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![HoldenCaulfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@HoldenCaulfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoldenCaulfield)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/13 "2002-06-18T00:47:04Z")
Ritual Entertainment, followed by 2015, Inc., then id Software. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/14 "2002-06-18T05:53:02Z")
The late, lamented Looking Glass Studios produced the Thief games, which were beyond all previous measures of first-person coolness. I observe a moment of silence in their honor every time I pick a lock. (Actually, several moments of silence–I can’t pick them _that_ fast.) ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/15 "2002-06-18T16:45:32Z")
Boy, I _wish_ I could answer, “The one I work for!”. I can’t, though- I really don’t like this company, or more specifically, the way it’s run. Bioware’s probably my fave. They seem to consistently have high quality products. Blizzard’s a close second, though. ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/16 "2002-06-18T17:38:17Z")
Favorites: **id Software**. Even though I haven’t bought Quake III, Doom and Quake II were enough to land them high on the list. **Blizzard** , even though I thought _Diablo_ was incredibly boring after the first few hours. **Westwood Studios**. I lost many an hour to _Command and Conquer_ and _Red Alert_. **Balance** picked a winner with [b/Looking Glass Studios\*\*. The _Thief_ series is set to continue, by the way, brought to us by **Eidos**. I think Warren Spector is even the designer for _Thief III_, and they have most of the **Looking Glass** folks on the project. **Eidos** also produced _Deus Ex_, which is my current time-sink. It got GameSpot’s “Game of the Year,” and deserved it. Then there is **Firaxis** , makers of _Civilization III_ and _Alpha Centauri_, two very addictive strategy games. Good times. RR ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/17 "2002-06-18T17:47:19Z")
When it comes to adventure type games, no one tops **LucasArts**. Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, Sam & Max, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Maniac Mansion…all classics that are actually worth playing more than once. Not many adventure games you can say that about. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/18 "2002-06-18T18:12:49Z")
**Squaresoft** , hands down. I can’t even describe the level of anticipation that consumes me when I consider _Kingdom Hearts_. **Blizzard** is another all time fave. And I suppose I could mention **Maxis** , since the Sim games of all sorts have consumed many of my hours. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/19 "2002-06-18T18:41:49Z")
**Free Fall Associates,** just for _Archon!_😃 And a tip of the hat to the late, lamented **Bungie,** before they were assimilated by Borg Gates. _Oni_ could have been so much better if it wasn’t rushed out the door, but even as a half-baked game, it still rocks. ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526/20 "2002-06-18T19:22:45Z")
**Id** and **LucasArts** could release nothing but Britany’s Dance Beat sequels from now on and I would still hold them in high esteem. Such is the greatness of Doom, Q3A, X-Wing, and Sam and Max. but recently, **Smilebit** has been doing some really impressive work. Jet Set Radio Future, Gun Valkyrie, and soon enough, Panzer Dragoon Orta. Even if you would like to see bill gates roasting on a spit, do yourself a favor and find a way to play Jet Set Radio Future for even a few minutes - its the most fun you can have without altering your brain chemistry. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-game-developing-company/114526.md?page=2)