Best Gaming Company

[Jackreyes]

Nintendo
Square Enix (tend to make good games)
Valve

 

[babelfish]

Intelligent Systems: the Fire Emblem series, the Advance Wars series, Paper Mario 1 and 2 / Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga, Super Metroid; IMHO they're the best internal dev team Nintendo has.

Blizzard is a close second though, as I love their "it's done when it's done" policy; not many companies release even half as many high quality games as they do, and they care about their customers more than even Nintendo.

Third I'd say Treasure, and though lately I haven't been too impressed with their releases, when they get it right it's the stuff that 2D dreams are made of.

Honorable mention to Epic, their support for Unreal Tournament and the community surrounding it is phenomenal, I still love to play 2k4 to this day.

 

[mojoex]

square enix
ubisoft montréal

 

[Artheido]

Capcom - Street Fighter
Square (before they merged with Enix) - The RPGs
Nintendo - Mario

and a few others I forgot the names of.

 

[jalaneme]

ubisoft montréal

you got to be kidding me....

 

[da_head]

blizzard. y? starcraft. enough said

nintendo is a top contender, but honestly, its like they don't even try to make ds graphics comparable to psp. :S

ds-> n64 < psp->ps2

next gameboy ->gamecube < psp->ps2

but they make up for it with incredibly fun and unique games (mario kart, zelda, eba)

and capcom for phoenix wright

 

[Bob Evil]

When will people stop thinking that graphics must be good for games to be good?

Graphics have nothing to do with gameplay.

If you'd have been playing games in the 70s & 80s, you'd know that gameplay was all that mattered ... not how the thing looked.

All kids want nowadays are short, shallow, shiny games ... tragic.

 

[airpirate545]

agreed, even though I'm technically a kid

 

[DeMoN]

Blizzard (Star/Warcraft)
Westwood (Command and Conquer)
Nintendo (Everything)
Konami (Castlevania)

 

[coolbho3000]

Infinit Wardz.

Hell no. They are Microsoft sellouts. Still waiting for CoD4 DLC for my PS3.

I'd have to say Nintendo and Valve for the time being.

 

[Seven]

Capcom, Square sans Enix, some Konami games... and that's about it. I'd put in Squeenix, but my eternal hatred for the FFVII franchise still continues.

 

[frostfire]

Intelligent Systems: Gotta love advance wars.
Nintendo: This doesn't need any explanation

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Dice: Battlefield still rocks, though they profithunt a bit too much by creating these "Booster packs" for BF2 and BF2142. Battlefield heroes gonna be free, oh yeah!

 

[sean0007]

Nintendo, Bethesda Softworks (Can't believe it's not in anyone else's top 3 -> Elder Scrolls, Fallout, etc.), and Valve. Love Bioware games too, the EA takeover may change that.

Edit: Got so carried away trying to pick a top few that I forgot the why, and the answer is the quality of the games put out, not the quantity. Everyone can agree that Bethesda puts out only a game every two to three years but the quality is unparalleled. Same with the other companies listed, Nintendo when they try has sick quality and good franchises.

 

[Rizsparky]

Nintendo and Capcom

 

[xcalibur]

Atlus, because well.. they're atlus.
Banpresto, for SRTG
And Treasure because they also have a shitload of awesome games.

 

[reilina]

Atlus, because well.. they're atlus.

i second that, they bring unique/bizzare games in the US market.
i remmember they ask squaresoft to bring game here but they got
rejected. now thats what i call a good gaming company.

 

[TrolleyDave]

Sierra On-line - For creating the point and click genre, and of course Larry.
Infocom - For creating the finest adventure games with more atmosphere than any modern company seems to be able to acheive.
Epyx - Just because they're Epyx
iD - For creating the FPS genre.
Magnetic Scrolls - For being the 16 bit Infocom!
SSL - For creating some of the best strategy games ever.
Sega/AM3 - No need to explain this one!
Nintendo - For constantly creating new ideas in tired genres.
Atari - For bringing cartridge based gaming to the world!
Digital Illusions - For creating the finest pinball games ever and for showing that crackers make great programmers!
Acornsoft - Because Elite still ranks as one of the most original creations of all time, and it was done in 32k!

 

[Mr.kuchinawa]

Generally speaking... I'd say namco, capcom, konami, nintendo and atlus.

 

[yuyuyup]

treasure, data design interactive

 

[Seven]

Atlus, because well.. they're atlus.

i second that, they bring unique/bizzare games in the US market.
i remmember they ask squaresoft to bring game here but they got
rejected. now thats what i call a good gaming company.

You know, that's what makes me happy too. I recall once on their official forums people were begging and petitioning for a release of Persona 3 FES, and look what's happened: it's in stores on April 22nd. I'm glad when they consider how the fans feel. But then again, that's just me being a fanboy. I know there's tons of games Atlus released that shouldn't even see the light of day again... but out of the good ones, they really shine and leave a good impression to the esoteric consumers.