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What are your top game development studios?

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heidi2521 Original post #1
Jun 26, 2013 at 9:48 PM
For me they would be:

Paradox Development Studio
The Creative Assembly
Platinum Games/Capcom Clover
EAD
Monolith Soft

Game development studio not cinematic set piece with tacked on gameplay development studio. :p

Edit: Since there seems to be some confusion in the posts:

Video Game Developer: A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) which creates video games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game console (such as Nintendo's Wii U, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3), or may develop for a number of systems (including personal computers)

Video Game Publisher: A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer.

Game Engine: A game engine is a system designed for the creation and development of video games. The leading game engines provide a software framework that developers use to create games for video game consoles and personal computers. The core functionality typically provided by a game engine includes a rendering engine (“renderer”) for 2D or 3D graphics, a physics engine or collision detection (and collision response), sound, scripting, animation, artificial intelligence, networking, streaming, memory management, threading, localization support, and a scene graph. The process of game development is often economized, in large part, by reusing/adapting the same game engine to create different games, or to make it easier to "port" games to multiple platforms.
vickybat
Jun 26, 2013 at 10:08 PM
Kojima Productions ( MGS always No.1 for me)
Naughty Dog
Quantic Dream
Santa Monica
Bethesda Game Studios ( Skyrim is the best RPG i've ever played)
BioWare
DICE ( especially for Mirror's edge :)) )
Polyphony Digital
Namco ( Huge tekken fan and also an expert coz playing the game for more than a decade now, since the original PS1)
Crystal Dynamics ( Also core design for earlier tomb raider titles)

There's my top 10.

Honourable mention - Team ICO
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Jun 26, 2013 at 10:12 PM
Naughty Dog :grin:
Vigil

Too bad most of Vigil are now working at Crytek :(.

Konami ( MGS always No.1 for me)
Naughty Dog
Quantic Dream
Santa Monica
Bethesda Game Studios ( Skyrim is the best RPG i've ever played)
BioWare
DICE ( especially for Mirror's edge :)) )
Polyphony Digital
Namco ( Huge tekken fan and also an expert coz playing the game for more than a decade now, since the original PS1)
Crystal Dynamics ( Also core design for earlier tomb raider titles)

There's my top 10.

Uhh... Konami is not a game development studio.
vickybat
Jun 26, 2013 at 10:15 PM
Uhh... Konami is not a game development studio.

I specifically referred MGS ( i.e MGS1). There was no kojima productions then. Post edited as per recent times.
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Jun 26, 2013 at 10:19 PM
I specifically referred MGS ( i.e MGS1). There was no kojima productions then. Post edited as per recent times.

Konami wasn't a studio at that time either. Konami Computer Entertainment Japan was the studio, Konami the publisher. KojiPro is the spiritual successor to KCEJ, much like Platinum Games is to Capcom Clover
vickybat
Jun 26, 2013 at 10:27 PM
Konami wasn't a studio at that time either. Konami Computer Entertainment Japan was the studio, Konami the publisher. KojiPro is the spiritual successor to KCEJ, much like Platinum Games is to Capcom Clover

KCEJ was a subsidiary of Konami japan back then. Its now merged with its company.
Should have written Kojima productions in the first place. Thanks for pointing it out.
Chaitanya
Jun 26, 2013 at 10:28 PM
Crytek
Gearbox
IO Interactive
Rockstar
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Jun 26, 2013 at 10:38 PM
KCEJ was a subsidiary of Konami japan back then. Its now merged with its company.
Should have written Kojima productions in the first place. Thanks for pointing it out.

Yeah. But the merger was a stealth dissolution and they haven't developed any games since.

I'm pretty sure if EAD was "merged" into Nintendo after its employees had left and formed a new subsidiary known Miyamoto Productions that took over EAD franchises like Super Mario & The Legend of Zelda and no games were developed by Nintendo after that, Nintendo wouldn't be considered a development studio either ;)
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SunE #10
Jun 27, 2013 at 12:09 AM
Dice
Criterion
Rockstar
Bethesda
Volition
cyborg47
cyborg47 #11
Jun 27, 2013 at 12:58 AM
Sad nobody mentioned ID software yet, the GOD of 3D video gaming :)
Hrishi
Hrishi #12
Jun 27, 2013 at 1:51 AM
Crytek-,
Valve-,
Gearbox,
Criterion,
DICE,
Bioware.
anirbandd
anirbandd #13
Jun 27, 2013 at 9:01 AM
Rockstar [GTA, RDR, LA Noire]
Naughty Dog [UC, TLoU]
Valve [HL, Portal]
Crystal Dynamics [TR]
Bethesda [Fallout]
ID Tech [Doom, Quake, and their Engines]
Epic Games [Unreal + Engine]
darkv0id
darkv0id #14
Jun 27, 2013 at 3:16 PM
Looking Glass [Thief, System Shock]
CDProjekt RED [The Witcher, The Witcher 2]
Valve [HL, Portal, Left4Dead, TF2]
Bethesda Game Studios [Elder Scrolls, Fallout 3]
CommanderShawnzer
Jun 27, 2013 at 4:05 PM
Ok,I Remembered some more good game studios
Bethesda(F3,Skyrim)
Santa Monica Studio(God Of War)
Insomniac(resistance)
Rockstar.
avinandan012
Jun 27, 2013 at 4:45 PM
ID Soft.,Valve ,Bethesda,Rockstar
D
Jun 27, 2013 at 6:26 PM
Codemasters, Valve, mode7games, THQ
Extreme Gamer
Jun 27, 2013 at 7:20 PM
Okay people, id Tech is an engine, THQ is (was) a publisher.

Try not to mix up Pubs, Devs and engines please :)
D
Jun 27, 2013 at 7:36 PM
I think THQ was also a developer. :p
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heidi2521 #21
Jun 27, 2013 at 7:41 PM
THQ owned multiple gave development studio but they weren't a game development studio in themselves.
D
Jun 27, 2013 at 7:43 PM
Ok then. I mean I liked THQ games. So count whatever dev studios they owned. ;)
vickybat
vickybat #23
Jun 27, 2013 at 7:43 PM
Okay people, id Tech is an engine, THQ is (was) a publisher.

Try not to mix up Pubs, Devs and engines please :)

It sure is, but here people mentioned Id software and not id tech.
Id software is a development studio. Currently a subsidiary of Zenimax. :)
Extreme Gamer
Jun 27, 2013 at 8:13 PM
It sure is, but here people mentioned Id software and not id tech.
Id software is a development studio. Currently a subsidiary of Zenimax. :)

Please check what anirbandd wrote before commenting :)
anirbandd
anirbandd #26
Jun 27, 2013 at 9:20 PM
Rockstar [GTA, RDR, LA Noire]
Naughty Dog [UC, TLoU]
Valve [HL, Portal]
Crystal Dynamics [TR]
Bethesda [Fallout]
ID Tech [Doom, Quake, and their Engines]
Epic Games [Unreal + Engine]

Please check what anirbandd wrote before commenting :)

okay, im not so particular about who they are.. :p
skeletor
skeletor #27
Jun 27, 2013 at 10:55 PM
I like Valve. Not Steam.

CD Projekt Red. Good people.

id's old DOS era games were good.

Team Ico has made artistic games. So I like them.
gameranand
Jul 3, 2013 at 3:44 PM
Bethesda
ID Software
CD Project RED
Valve
Codemasters
Ubisoft (for POP, AC)
DICE
Crystal Dynamics
Remedy Studio

Bioware was once a very good development studio, DAO still my favorite but unfortunately thats not the case now.
Nerevarine
Jul 3, 2013 at 4:13 PM
Bethesda
Bioware
Blizzard
CD Projekt Red
Rockstar