I'll go with Atlus.
I love some Namco, SE(though really not particularly recent) and Nippon Ichi stuff (and others too), but Atlus on my tastes' most objective.

Planescape Torment is spoken with a passion by it's own fans, not by the general public, i'm one of them, it's the greatest WRPG ever created.

You can do a round list of both those companies and find at least one game spoken by it's fans with the same amount of passion.

Bioware = Baldur's Gate
Square = FFVI/DQV
Bethesda = Elder Scrolls: Morrowind 

Just the basic gunplay is bad.  Aiming always feels off and melee isn't that fun either.  It's been a while since I played Fallout 3 or Oblivion, but in both games the gameplay just can't support the length of the game.

They somehow fuck up something that is incredibly basic.

With Fallout 3 and Oblivion, they both get to the point where the game just gets boring.  It took Fallout 3 longer to get to this point thankfully, but they both just get to a point where the game is so easy it just becomes boring.  You find your one little niche weapon and slaughter everything.  The horrible gun/melee play goes from bad to just boring.

Also, you have little motivation to just continue with the stories.  Again, Fallout 3 did a much better just at motivating you to continue on, but in an open world game like that it's hard to make the player stay interested in the main story and they just do a badjob at that.  I know only a handful of people that finished the main quest on Oblivion, most people don't get past Kvatch.  They spend so much time giving you an insane amount of sidequests that you just forget about the point of the game.

I honestly do not see why Bethesda gets the love that they do.  Again, fantastic interesting worlds, bad gameplay.

The usual complaints then. I thought u meant only core gameplay mechanics, mostly technical aspects, but u also included story-telling, fun-factor and everything. Okay, then I understand.

But if the player thinks the worlds truly are fantastic and interesting they won't stop playing until they cleared out every dungeon and mine lol.

You too quit at Kvatch lol?

if you think JRPG's are dead, you'll be in for a nasty shock when a JRPG on 9th march & then another one on 26th march outsells just about every WRPG released this gen.

What do u mean 9th and 14th? FF is the only big JRPG.

Sorry I meant 26th March

Take a guess, the JRPG releasing on the 26th is BIGGER than FF as a JRPG franchise.

come on its not hard at all.

As with any of these threads, they ultimately turn into a battle of stereotypes.  And in this case, its the perception that all WRPGs are unique, good and 'pure' while all JRPGs are old, evil and 'full of the same old junk'.  And as with most people who use stereotypes, they are grouping all games of each company under the generalization of one or two major successful games (BioWare with Mass Effect and/or Dragon Age, Bethesda with Fallout 3 and/or Morrowind and SquareEnix With Final Fantasy and/or Kingdom Hearts). 

I will wager that the majority of the people here haven't even played a Dragon Quest game, but will still claim that SquareEnix is 'ruining the RPG market and focuses too much on CGI cutscenes'.  Frankly, I can't fault them too much because in America, they have pretty much focused 99% on only on Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts while not even trying to advertise the Dragon Quest titles.  But as for their statements being truthful that 'all SquareEnix games are the same' or 'all JRPGs are generic trash and inferior to WRPGs', yes, this is pure opinion and mostly just built on the stereotypes of them only playing Final Fantasy games.

The fact that Fallout 3 and Oblivion both have interesting and fantastic worlds and it's so easy to quit the game because of the gameplay should be a testament to just how bad the gameplay is (and yes, I managed to get past Kvatch once but then I went back to the Dark Botherhood quests and quit again).

Ok, must be Pokemon. That game doesn't exist in my world though. At least not as a RPG.