Favorite Developers!

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BenKenobi88 said:
Nintendo, Valve, Capcom

Woooooo go Valve! I feel instant kinship with anyone who holds affection for this company. It's particularly uncommon in a forum like this, dedicated to console gaming :p

A few fun facts about Valve: whenever a game is finished, the company pays for a vacation to Europe for every team member. The management structure is very relaxed, and the "leaders" aren't really supposed to be seen as higher-ups compared to lower end developers. For example, the two founding members' official descriptions are "game tester" and "Mister Awesome."

In general, I have enormous respect for any company that won't release games until they're absolutely satisfied with them. Blizzard, for example, scrapped an entire million dollar game in the Warcraft series that was 6 months away from release, because the management agreed it wasn't up to Blizzard standards. Nintendo is famous for this, and Shiggy is quoted as saying (translation): "A game postponed until later can be good later. A game released now is bad forever." Valve operates under the same mentality. This is precisely why I pick these three as my favorites: while their games are all in my top ten, it's their particular design philosophy that separates them for me.