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Ghost ship games
Sensible Software. Sensible soccer and Cannon Fodder. Epyx for their summer and winter games.
Psygnosis
For Wipeout2097(on PSX), and the 90s Amiga releases.
Troika.
Since this is retro gaming, I’ve got to go with Microprose (Civilization, Colonization, X-Com games and more). But my love also goes to other developers that EA destroyed, in particular Maxis, Westwood Studios and Origin. Special shout-out to three more studios I had amazing memories with: New World Computing (Might and Magic), Sir-Tech (Wizardry) and Blue Byte (Settlers, Battle Isle, Albion).
Gen6/7 Bioware. Supergiant, Larian, Valve.
Supergiant consistently releases bangers.
I still want a Transistor 2.
Absolutely. Stoked that Darren Korb has been with them all this time, his soundtrack on Transistor is his best work IMO.
I don’t think we’ll get it though. Hades 2 is an exception to their NO SEQUELS rule only due to how damn successful Hades was.
Arkane and Remedy are the two that stand out at the moment.
Redfall was a pretty bad indicator coming from Arkane. But if they get their act together and go back to games like Dishonored, they’ll be back on the good list. Keeping them up here out of hope. They make fantastic games when they’re allowed to.
Remedy just always puts out bangers. Control is how I found them, and I love their style as well as the obvious amount of love and work put into their universe. Still need to play AW2, but I’ve only heard good things about it. They’re not everyone’s cup of tea, but they are mine.
Someone already mentioned them but I want to reiterate: Westwood Studios
I miss them.
ConcernedApe! Can’t wait for his next game.
West Wood studios and Bullfrog.
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Supergiant
Under the constraint that I’m only picking from developers who already have multiple games under their belt, it’d be hard to choose between Zachtronics and Supergiant for me. Both of them have a perfect track record in my book. The only difference being that there most likely won’t be any new releases from Zachtronics anymore, whereas Supergiant is only becoming stronger with each release.
Supergiant (on par with Trese Brothers)
Today One (aka Tarn Adams) who is making Dwarf Fortress and formerly worked on Liberal Crime Squad is way up there.
Redigit (of Super Mario Brothers X and Terraria) is another from the current era.
But if we can go oldschool, Sid Meier is a legend. Civilization and Pirates! are two absolute favorites, especially the remake of Pirates and Civs 2 & 4.
But the real OG, the man who showed me I wanted to make videogames, is Tim Sweeney. Sure, now he’s rich and famous, but back in the day, even before UnReal, he ran Epic Megagames out of his parents’ basement and sold floppies by mail. His first game, ZZT, came with the tools included to not just edit levels, but to make a whole new game of your own using the ZZT engine. By the time I discovered it there were already hundreds of user-made games being traded on BBS.
I fell in love. I joined the IRC channels and bulletin boards, I made the games I wanted, I shared them with my friends and over the Internet. It sparked a love in me that still burns today. Sweeney moved on, I moved on, but I will always owe him my regard for releasing ZZT into the world. It changed my life.
Sid Meier and Firaxis in general are probably the only ones that have been consistently great for me over the years. I still think about Alpha Centauri a lot, and I’ve played so much Civ over the years. His studio’s XCOM games and Midnight Suns are all great, too.
Pretty much all the others I could name closed up shop or have declined in recent years.
Larian Studios
And Naughty Dog during the PS3 era.
You’ve got excellent taste, my friend
And Naughty Dog during the PS3 era
Not the PS2 era? Jak and daxter was the GOAT.
Not the PS1 era? Crash Bandicoot was one of the best games on the system when it came out.
I tend to agree here. Their PS2 games were genuinely incredible. The PS3 ones are culturally iconic, but a lot of them are just… a cinema camera on wheels
Great games as well, but I was mostly playing on PC during the PS2 era. Loved their original Crash Bandicoot games as well. But Uncharted and also The Last of Us was pretty special to me.
