Least Favorite Game Developer

Square-Enix: They are completely destroying their flagship series. Final Fantasy X is really the only FF game I like. I personally hate the ATB system but all the games before X were very well received and people seemed to love them. I never played XI so I can't really have input on that. XII and XIII  were just huge disappointments. XII's battle system was just frustrating and tedious and I couldn't care less for the characters (except for Balthier; he was pretty cool). XIII killed it for me; I gave up after that. It was completely linear. I know everyone was saying it opens up around 30 hours in, but why would I suffer so through 30 hours of the game for it to get good? My choices in battle felt as if there was absolutely no weight to them. No matter what I did, we would win, or get destroyed completely. You even have the option of letting the game play for you! Come on... Plus, I don't even need to talk about XIV.
 
Neversoft: For milking the ever-loving hell out of their franchises. Tony Hawk was awesome up through American Wasteland, then they tried to change up the controls to be like Skate. Bad move. Also, RIDE AND SHRED. Ugh.
I don't really need to say much about Guitar Hero. It's all just too much of the same.

" @President_Barackbar: I totally respect that opinion, but I've always wondered:  What Nintendo franchises need online play?  Zelda?  Mario?  Nintendogs?  Pokemon, Mario Kart, and Smash Bros. already have (albeit gimped) online support.And is the illusion of a new intellectual property really that valuable?  If not, can't we beat up BioWare for making Dragon Age, or Square Enix for making Final Fantasy XIII, or Blizzard for making StarCraft II/Diablo III, or Bungie for Halo: Reach, or Firaxis for yet another Civilization game?    "

Treyarch because they are riding on the backs of another company's success. 
 
Who even heard of treyarch before they re skinned CoD4? Nobody because they were making shitty ass spider man games

" @Siphillis said:

" @President_Barackbar: I totally respect that opinion, but I've always wondered:  What Nintendo franchises need online play?  Zelda?  Mario?  Nintendogs?  Pokemon, Mario Kart, and Smash Bros. already have (albeit gimped) online support.And is the illusion of a new intellectual property really that valuable?  If not, can't we beat up BioWare for making Dragon Age, or Square Enix for making Final Fantasy XIII, or Blizzard for making StarCraft II/Diablo III, or Bungie for Halo: Reach, or Firaxis for yet another Civilization game?    "

"Gimped" online play is no good. And as far as the re-iterations go, I think Square Enix SHOULD be beat up for making FFXIII. Blizzard waited like 12 years between SC and SC2 (not that Im a fan), every Halo game has had some dramatically different features from its predecessor (with Halo2-->Halo 3 being the one exception), BioWare hasn't been making DA games forever, and Firaxis at least tries to drastically improve their game each outing. "

" @President_Barackbar said:

" @Siphillis said:

" @President_Barackbar: I totally respect that opinion, but I've always wondered:  What Nintendo franchises need online play?  Zelda?  Mario?  Nintendogs?  Pokemon, Mario Kart, and Smash Bros. already have (albeit gimped) online support.And is the illusion of a new intellectual property really that valuable?  If not, can't we beat up BioWare for making Dragon Age, or Square Enix for making Final Fantasy XIII, or Blizzard for making StarCraft II/Diablo III, or Bungie for Halo: Reach, or Firaxis for yet another Civilization game?    "

"Gimped" online play is no good. And as far as the re-iterations go, I think Square Enix SHOULD be beat up for making FFXIII. Blizzard waited like 12 years between SC and SC2 (not that Im a fan), every Halo game has had some dramatically different features from its predecessor (with Halo2-->Halo 3 being the one exception), BioWare hasn't been making DA games forever, and Firaxis at least tries to drastically improve their game each outing. "

Dragon Age is essentially a modern Boulder's Gate, if I'm not mistaken.  As for Firaxis and Bungie, I'm willing to bet that each iteration of Halo and Civilization has more in common than Super Mario World has with Super Mario 64, or Sunshine with Galaxy.  Mind you, I am quite fond of each of these studios.  I just don't understand why Nintendo is held to such a high standard. "

" @el_tajij said:

" ........or to put it another way, liking video games and not liking Mass Effect 2 is like saying Pizza parlours are your favorite place to eat; but you don't like pizza. It just doesn't make sense. It just doesn't compute. "

Mass Effect 2 was alright, but definitely not that great. Your analogy would work with like, super mario 64 or something but not with ME2. "

 Ninja theory
I would say ninja theory because i know they could break into the big leagues but they always fall short by not polishing their games more. I wish a company will let them do their thing and not rush them to market. Now i feel this DMC will be the nail in the coffin. 
 
Square Enix 
They have just flat out let me down too many times 12 and 13 i did not fall in love with or even liked all that much mainly 13 but  they seems to have lost their way. watching the train wreck that was ff14 and seeing crap shooters being made (mindjack) i really hope they can turn things around with versus and Deus Ex.

Team Ninja's been on a losing streak lately, one that I don't think will end due to the loss of Itagaki and the members of the team that went with him.  Ninja Gaiden 2 was sloppy, by their standards, the DOA Xtreme games are a total joke, Paradise being no exception, and they completely fucked up Metroid: Other M. 
 
I'm playing through Fallout: New Vegas right now, and it has done nothing to change my opinion that Obsidian has no idea how to make a good game.  I'm wandering around the Mojave and it is EMPTY.  I've run into my fair share of glitches, and frankly I'm just BORED playing it.  I loved Fallout 3, but something's just off about this game.  As soon as they're given the rights to develop a game in a franchise that I like, I just know they're going to do a sloppy job with it.

Treyarch and Sonic Team.

 Neversoft: For milking the ever-loving hell out of their franchises. Tony Hawk was awesome up through American Wasteland, then they tried to change up the controls to be like Skate. Bad move. Also, RIDE AND SHRED. Ugh. I don't really need to say much about Guitar Hero. It's all just too much of the same. "

1c company....they are to weak for me!

This is a stupid tread and provides no usefull discussion. People who enjoy complaining about bad videogame developers more than playing awesome games have weird priorities in life :s

Koei, because they had me locked in a Dynasty Warriors time paradox!

Gameloft. 

" This is a stupid tread and provides no usefull discussion. People who enjoy complaining about bad videogame developers more than playing awesome games have weird priorities in life :s "

" Bethesda. Not a fan of their style of games."  

Time to get my Twisted Pixel Troll on.  
 
Their games are repetitive and unoriginal. The only thing they have going for them is a slightly unique sense of humour, and it only comes off some of the time.  
 
That felt goood.

Favourite would have to be Atlus lately. I think they've taken Square's RPG crown, though both companies are toe to toe in the portable market imo. 
 
But LEAST favourite? Darn.. that's tough.. honestly can't think of a developer I don't like... hmm, well I remember reading that Namco holds some sort of copyright on placing mini games during loading screens? If that's true, that is one of the biggest dick moves I can think of. 

LJN

Bioware.  Making dull games since 1671.

" This is a stupid tread and provides no usefull discussion. People who enjoy complaining about bad videogame developers more than playing awesome games have weird priorities in life :s "

Capcom, Square Enix, and Bethesda.

Of the people that call themselves game developers, Zynga takes the cake. Why? Because I have a soul.
 
Of actual game developers? Lionhead Studios, because everyone loves Fable games and I think they're bad. The fact that people are so in love with it fills me with a thick molasses rage.

" Bioware.  Making dull games since 1671. "

Sonic Team... :/

Least Favorite? I dunno, do I have any specific game developers with whom I have an axe to grind? I guess I could care less about 99% of what square has put out in the last 10 years but I don't actively dislike them.

" Bioware. "

Bethesda for making me want to play their games but filling them with varying amounts of tedium(i.e., tons of shiny objects to pick up but now you are encumbered and can't move,  spend half of most quests just trying to find the hot spot).  Also their games are full of load times, glitches, and general wonky behavior.  I could tolerate their game flaws for most of Oblivion but not so much for Fallout.

" @Akeldama said:

" Bioware. "

Retarded - they've made only good things.  IMO it's treyarch. "

The paradox in your statement is completely ridiculous. Every one of Treyarch's games have been good, and Black Ops was great, even if CoD isn't your cup of tea.

Dark Energy Digital 
 
They made Hydrophobia and then tried to sway critic's opinions.

" @Little_Socrates said:

The paradox in your statement is completely ridiculous. Every one of Treyarch's games have been good, and Black Ops was great, even if CoD isn't your cup of tea.

I don't think there was anything objectively good about Black Ops. While my disdain for Call of Duty started a few months after MW2 was released, Black Ops really carried it home. They had an opportunity to make it really different and cool but decided to make it, despite minor changes, the same boring game. It's one of the first in a series of shitty FPS games all trying to capture CoD 4's lighting in a bottle.And every game of theirs has been great? Like Call of Duty 3, World at War,  the Spiderman Movie games, and Kelly Slater's Pro Surfing?  Btw, that was a loaded question. All those games are awful. CoD 2: Big Red One was good though. "

NIS for perpetuating every terrible JRPG stereotype in existence.
 
MDickie for being, well...MDickie.

"Oh, Sonic Team for sure. They have single handedly ruined what was once a highly respect property, while at the same time dismantling an entire fan-base.
Sonic as a property is phenomenal, something other developers would kill for a chance to make something out of it. The amateurish quality, and complete lack of any imagination regarding Sonic is amazing.
 
From a P.R. standpoint, Square wins the cake regarding most asinine public statements made...For some reason, Bioware recently seems to be trying to compete for this "prize". Which is confusing as hell, because they've been pretty level-headed for years regarding explaining their products. "

Gust.
 
Only played one of their games (and it was all right, to be fair) but any time I see screens of their recent releases it really bums me out. It's like everything I hate about the Japanese game industry summed up in one image.

  @MordeaniisChaos: I you mean that it should not have been the sequel to mass effect 2, i think I know what you mean, the first one felt more fantastical, rooted in geeky sci-fi, its core was more nerdy and not as serious, i loved it,, it's true that in terms of tone they have nothing to do with each other, but really please dont tell me you think ME2 is bad? 

"Of the people that call themselves game developers, Zynga takes the cake. Why? Because I have a soul.
 
Of actual game developers? Lionhead Studios, because everyone loves Fable games and I think they're bad. The fact that people are so in love with it fills me with a thick molasses rage. "

" Nnooo.  "

I sure have favorite developers, but I never even thought of what my least favorite is. 
I genially don't care to find out who it is either.

" @Little_Socrates:  Defending CODBLOPS and calling it great? You cannot be serious.   At the end of the day, it's all about marketing. The more ads there are of something, the more likely people will buy it. I even heard on a podcast the other week how they were discussing upcoming games and comparing them by how much advertising there's been of them. They literally compared how good these games were gonna be by how well-advertised they were. "