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pezus said:
Crash, Uncharted, TLoU. Even Jak is Godly today.

Valve seem incapable of making less than stellar games, too.

I would have considered Bioware once, but they're a shadow of their former self now.

Nintendo EAD, sure, even though I have not bought any of their games I can still see that they are quality.

I'm sad to say that I once considered Insomniac as candidates, but now they're nothing like they were in the past.

If Bungie pull Destiny off well I can see them being considered.


Sometimes I feel as if I like Sucker Punch much more than Sony fans do.



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Naughty Dog
LucasArts back in the day...



pezus said:
F0X said:
pezus said:
Crash, Uncharted, TLoU. Even Jak is Godly today.

Valve seem incapable of making less than stellar games, too.

I would have considered Bioware once, but they're a shadow of their former self now.

Nintendo EAD, sure, even though I have not bought any of their games I can still see that they are quality.

I'm sad to say that I once considered Insomniac as candidates, but now they're nothing like they were in the past.

If Bungie pull Destiny off well I can see them being considered.


Sometimes I feel as if I like Sucker Punch much more than Sony fans do.

Yeah. I think Wright is the same. He says infamous 2 is his game of the generation.

I didn't play the Sly games, but the infamous games are great indeed.


Sly is a good series, but I have a thing for well-made superhero games. Batman: Arkham Asylum is the only PS3/360 game ever to crack my top 15 favorite games list.



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Wagram said:

Current best developers: Naughty Dog.
All time Favorite: Square / Square-Enix.
Rising Star: FROM SOFTWARE.


They definitely deserve an honorable mention! Best developer ever though? Maybe Blizzard and then Naughty Dog.



           

Naughty Dog -> Crash, Jak and Daxter, Uncharted, The Last of Us. All critically Acclaimed.
Rockstar Games (All Rockstar sub teams) -> GTA, Bully, Red Dead series, Max Payne, Manhunt, Midnight Club, The Warriors.



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It's hard to come up with any objective criteria that does not put Nintendo EAD at the top of the list. Sales, critic scores, influence, or w/e. Four of the top 10 rated games of all time (according to gamerankings) including 1,2, and 3. 10 of the 20 best selling games of all time. Games that defined and redefined their genres.



Nintendo EAD Tokyo

Honorable Mentions:
GameFreak
Naughty *Gods*
Rockstar
Square Enix
Atlus (I respect their localization work)



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Naughty Dog, Squaresoft.



If you go by best as " important for the industy as a whole" or by the number of sheer quality games, you can´t go with any other developer than Nintendo EAD (it is pretty unfair to count a 7 Studio Team that existed for almost 30 years as a single developer though)

Naughty Dog pales in comparison. They aren´t even close.



Number one is Nintendo EAD, by a wide margin. If that division is too big, I'll go with Nintendo R&D4 -> Kyoto Software Development No. 3.

Other great studios:

Team Ico/JAPAN Studio
Bungie Studios
Rare
Ubisoft Montpellier
Konami/Kojima Productions