Ya, I put a lot of trust in valve, I don't know if I should or not. Same with Nintendo. Sony I know I cannot trust, not after the PS3 launch, and I use to have a lot of trust for them. I trust Naughty Dog on giving my good products. 

I don't trust any publishers, I have been burned too many times. I don't think I even trust any developers. I have a lot of respect for HAL Laboratory for the Super Smash Bros. series, EarthBound, Pokemon Stadium, and the Kirby series. Still, I don't think I can even trust them.

Trust? Its kinda hard to think about trust when you remember that the sole purpose of every single person in this industry is to take your money.

So i don't trust. I could tell you who i am most satisfied with tho, and thats Sony. For generation after generation they have given me exactly what i want from them. They have not done too kich of something that i couldn't swallow. And they have been extremely delicate with how they manage to deceive me.

I still don't trust them tho, i just have the most respect for them and they have disappointed me the least.

RIght now, these are who I trust:

Blizzard: Ever since I came across the first Warcraft at a friend's house I've just loved their games, and not once (outside of a terribly Diablo I expansion that they outsourced the development of and have erased all history of) have they delivered a bad product. To the contrary, pretty much every game they have put out has been top quality, ranging from great to borderline masterpiece.

I thought that trend might be about to end with Overwatch, but somehow it too has settled over the 90 point threshold.

Nintendo (games): I don't trust every game to be a success nor do I have any trust in what they say, but I do always trust that their Mario, Smash, Kart, and Zelda games will be superb, and I'm virtually never disappointed.

Retro Studios: I feel I can pretty much count on enjoying whatever they release

Bethesda: I've known for some time now that I can count on an awesome and unique experience (in my opinion the best world builders that feel truly fleshed out)... once they've released a few patches, of course. :)

Rockstar: These days they really only release GTA titles, but I enjoyed Smugglers Run and Red Dead Redemption and you can always count on GTA to be an amazing experience. They're a bit like Blizzard in that they (mostly) seem to take their time and only release quality games.

Naughty Dog: The funny thing is I'm picking them without having played the Uncharted series yet, but that's because I know they're reliable from Jak & Daxter/Last of US, and the only two Crash Bandicoot that I liked a lot (and were actually good) were made by them as well. I've ordered the recently released trilogy of the first three Uncharted games, so I'll soon have that franchise off my check list

Paradox Interactive: I find most of their titles to be unique and well-thought out. The Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, Victoria, and Hearts of Iron series are all a lot of fun, and a few years ago they became publishers of the unique game Mount & Blade and are funding a very cool looking proper sequel to it. I swear it seems like they track down whatever obscure game I like and start funding it... our interests align, it would appear.


Of course, there's one company that I find rather perplexing that I once liked but now question what they're even doing.

Activision: What actually became of these guys? I know they merged with Blizzard, but at this point it seems like all they've been doing for the past half decade + is CoD, Destiny, and Skylanders, having given up on Guitar Hero. For such a massive company it just seems rather limited compared to how hugely varied the number of games they developed in-house and published in the past.

I only mention them because there was a time when I really liked to see their name on a game. They were far and away the best of the second generation (I dare more than half of the top 10 Atari VCS games are theirs including the top 1-4), and whether it be through developing or publishing, they always seemed to be showing up in my favorite games and series for a while there (Quake, Battlezone, Star Wars Jedi Knight I & II, Gun, Rome: Total War etc).

Then, once I reached college, it pretty much defined dorm life for my friends and I for a year or so with Call of Duty 2/3/4 and Guitar Hero, right alongside Wii games like Wii Sports. It was an unusual time for video games, but a perfect time for video games that were intended as drinking games. We'd often have as many as 12 to 14 people stuffed into one tiny dorm room boxing on the Wii or passing the Guitar Hero guitars around, always involving alcohol somehow lol... I recall I used to just wipe the floor with these guys in CoD 2 & 4 so, feeling cocky one night, I offered to some guy's friend that I didn't know well that I'd drink half a beer every time he killed me, and he need only drink half a beer every 4 times I killed him... turns out he was actually pretty good, which meant I was forced to drink a lot of beer, which then meant I was increasingly worse... we used to play best of three, and I made the mistake of winning the first match. That was a rough half hour or so lol

So yeah, I can't hate on them as they provided so many great memories, but they're certainly not trustworthy anymore. If there's one thing I'd say Activision is as guilty of as anyone, it is milking any franchise that proves successful to death. You'll suddenly find that you are loathe to even look at a franchise you enjoyed or even loved lol; how many Guitar Hero's did they pump out in like a 3 year span? They literally killed the genre with the market glut they and EA (with Rock band) established lol

Otherwise, I will always trust Mulder's hunch, but if anyone else says it they're a friggen loon. Also, Scully is the longest crush I've had on any woman lol, watched her in their recent season 10 and it's still there. Sorry Seven of Nine, it's all Scully for me.

I trust results.

^ This. I also tend to trust smaller/indie devs, like Croteam, Ludosity, Double Fine, Running with Scissors, etc.

We are on the same page yet again! Nintendo, Retro, Bethesda, and Rockstar do great work. Naughty Dog did some awesome things with Jak and Daxter and The Last of Us - I'll be interested on your take on the Uncharted series. I'm not very familiar with Paradox so I can't comment.

And, yeah, Activision is definitely one of the more untrustworthy publishers out there. 

Finally, I also have a huge crush on Gillian Anderson! I had the chance to meet her at Comic Con and she was delightful :)

I trust no one. Not even myself.

In this industry, I only trust blindly some music composers: Yoko Shimomura, Motoi Sakuraba, David Wise, Tomohito Nishiura, Koji Kondo, Mahito Yokota, Yasunori Mitsuda...

I trust Microsoft although they chicken out on the one hour online check up. The company I least trust is gamestop and other retailers that sell used games. These developers/publishers deserve all the money and not gamestop. Screw used games.