19-12-2002 09:05									#1
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Take your pick!

	19-12-2002 09:14									#2
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Hard to decide, Blizzard and Paradox are both excellent. EUII has probably been my favorite game ever.

	19-12-2002 09:15									#3
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What is the criteria?

Best currently? If so, then Wolf and Doom should not have been used for ID, since most of the team from those games have left.

I don't really care though, I just voted Firaxis.

	19-12-2002 09:16									#4
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Bioware?

I have to stick with bioware despite bugs with Neverwinter Nights. So I voted banana.

	19-12-2002 09:17									#5
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No specific criteria, just whoever you think makes the best games.

	19-12-2002 09:18									#6
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Bioware? Oh yeah, they make some of those PC RPGs don't they?




Honestly, I was struggling to think of someone who made PC RPGs, they just slipped my mind I suppose.

	19-12-2002 09:19									#7
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident Bioware? I have to stick with bioware despite bugs with Neverwinter Nights. So I voted banana.

You have Fallout Boy as your avatar and you are supporting Bioware, one of the reasons why there isn't a Fallout 3 yet?

	19-12-2002 09:20									#8
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dp

	19-12-2002 09:20									#9
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Bioware also put out the Baldur's Gate series along with Neverwinter Nights.

Interplay put out Fallout 1 and 2. I like them as well.

Microprose was the granddaddy of them all, but they no longer exist as they once were.

	19-12-2002 09:20									#10
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How about Bethsoft?


ACK!

	19-12-2002 09:25									#11
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blizzard. flat out.

warcraft 2 set the standard for RTS. starcraft took it to another level.

wc3 meshed a little RPG into a RTS, and did a fairly good job of it.

don't forget diablo

	19-12-2002 09:25									#12
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quote: How about Bethsoft? ACK!

You mean Bugsoftware? The creators of Buggerfall and Morrowind?
Why not Microsoft then?

ACK!
(what the hell this "ack" means? )

	19-12-2002 09:28									#13
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Ack!
It seems I have left out a few developers, judging by all the banana votes. Oh well, start your own poll!

	19-12-2002 09:34									#14
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What the hell this "ack" means?
Please educate stupid foreigner

	19-12-2002 09:35									#15
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Blizzard is good. But I never liked RTS games. Diablo2 was the main reason I was big on Blizzard. But 2 games cannot comapre to Biowares 3 games I like. Interplay only had 2 I can think of right now, but I live those two more than Blizzard's two.

Microprose had the most games I liked but they no longer put out games.

	19-12-2002 09:36									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Serb What the hell this "ack" means? Please educate stupid foreigner

You see Tuberski's avatar? That cartoon thing on it makes that sound.

	19-12-2002 09:37									#17
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Rebellion.

The programmers there are the most informative and very easy to get along with. They even helped me personaly when I had a prob with a block of AI code that was in the released AvPGE source code.

Cavedog

It's a shame these guys didn't last. They were a great company and listen to new ideas.



Companies that I loathe to no end

Raven
These guys think that nothing is their fault. Whenever someone has a prob with a game of theirs, they flam you then say you need more RAM (yeah, like 2GB of RAM is not enough).

LucasArts
For letting companies like Raven screw up thier games.

Bethesda
Though not as evil as Raven, they do have a MAJOR ego thing. Some of programmers will bite back and even get the mods of their site to perma-ban you.

Monolith/Sierra
Similar to Bethesda, and I did get perma-ban from avpnews.com for not liking AvP2. I guess my reasons were too good.


So as you can see, I came across lots of jerks. It's making me think twice about being a programmer myself. Do I really want to be a total jerk like these guys? I think I would take a course in PR before I go any further, or at least anger managment. I am Irish so that might be a problem.

	19-12-2002 09:39									#18
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what about old game developers like Electronic Arts. They put out the Bard's tale series.

edit: not to mention EA is still around and puts out EA sports games like Madden NFL football.

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	19-12-2002 09:45									#19
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Firaxis shameless fanboy here

	19-12-2002 09:53									#20
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I thought Tropico was developed by PopTop (or was it GoD?) and AoW was by Triumph Studios.

	19-12-2002 09:55									#21
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BTW, didn't ION Storm close its doors?

	19-12-2002 10:33									#22
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i voted blizzard, they make games that just feel epic with all of the cut scenes, story, and gameplay completely interwoven

i loved diablo2 and used to play it on hardcore all of the time till i felt like i was getting carpal tunnel and had to stop

	19-12-2002 11:15									#23
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Bungie, no contest!

	19-12-2002 11:33									#24
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No sigames ??

I do kind of like Firaxis..

	19-12-2002 12:14									#25
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T-Pop (Tropico, Age of Wonders)

Triumph made AOW and AOW2, while PopTop made RT2 and Tropico. All PopTop did for AOW2 was some of the movie work, they didn't actually make the game.

I voted for these guys more because Phil Steinmeyer, who founded PopTop, was the desinger for HOMM2... and AOW1&2 helps too, of course.

	19-12-2002 14:15									#26
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I vote for Enlight Software, just because they are a local outfit.

	19-12-2002 14:17									#27
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quote: Originally posted by alva No sigames ??

Sigames are great, they only make one game, but who cares about that when it's the best game ever?

	19-12-2002 14:27									#28
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Does the company have to make games right now? I'd vote for Microprose UK myself... Mostly because of UFO: Enemy Unknown, actually, but also a lot of other classics...

	19-12-2002 14:40									#29
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I'd vote for Stella Polaris Development Team, but as it's not a company and not listed, I have to abstain. Well, I agree with Ari about MicroProse and I'd be delighted to vote at them, but as they're not included and Big Huge Games is out too, I have to vote Firaxis. But good choice too.

	19-12-2002 14:44									#30
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I notice SSI and SSG are missing from the list