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Atlus (SMT/Persona, Odin Sphere, Arcana Heart, these guys always have something surprisingly refreshing up their sleeve)
Namco-Bandai (Tales, Soulcalibur)
Cyber-Connect2 (.hack, Narutimate series; even though I hate Naruto with a passion, the games are damn good fun)
Team Shangai Alice (Touhou!! Danmaku games are my new love)
Tri-Ace (Star Ocean, Valkyrie Profile, Infinite Undiscovery is turning out to be pretty good too)
Nippon Ichi (Disgaea, Makai Kingdom, etc.)
Valve (I gotta admit, Team Fortress 2 was well worth the purchase. I haven't played Portal yet, but ought to before my friends kill me. Left 4 Dead is looking AWESOMELY fun).
SNK (KoF, Metal Slug, Samurai Shodown, all the good old classics and even some of the new ones they're releasing)
Arc Systems (Guilty Gear, Battle Fantasia, BlazBlue; I was a GGX2 player for a while, but I wasn't TOO hardcore into it, and I sort of went on GG hiatus during the long string of GGX2 rehashes that kept getting released. To be honest I'm getting excited for GG2, and I'm loving how BlazBlue is looking. I'm also mildly interested in Battle Fantasia).
Clover (I really enjoyed Okami. I wasn't too crazy about Godhand, though the engine looked fun...the game was just kind of cheesy and tasteless)
Capcom (Resident Evil 4 and Devil May Cry 4 were both really fun, and I'm interested in trying out Dead Rising. Wasn't too crazy about Street Fighter, but SFIV is starting to look amazing. Also, Phoenix Wright is awesome.)

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Blizzard (Played WoW 'til level 70 with the promise of "the real game starting", which only captured my interest for about a month; otherwise, the game likes to poop on you and force you into plugging 168 hours a week into the game JUST so you can start to feel mildly cool. Liked Starcraft, but have little faith in Starcraft II EVER coming out. I'm impartial to Diablo)
Square-Enix (Ever since Nomura started heading the Final Fantasy franchise, it's just been oozing with homoerotic pretty-boy parades to shell out to all the fangirls out there. Case and point, Kingdom Hearts and Dirge of Cerberus)
Midway (Every time I look at all the students in my college who major in Game Art and Design and I wonder why all of them just want to make FPS games and no one wants to make fighting games, I see footage of MK vs DC and remember just why Americans just can't ever make good fighting games)
 
Devs I like

Stardock- GalCiv II is great
Paradox
AM2 (though rest of Sega can DIAF)
Valve

Those are companies that support their games and make sure they get it right.
 
Soul Calibur is technically made by "Project Soul"... not Namco/Bandai...

As well, the same goes for the Tales Series, there are two different teams on that list...

Team 1 (the good team): Project Melfes
Team 2 (the bad team): Project Tales

While they were originally one team, they aren't now.
 
Dead Rising is awesome but it has so many flaws. The characteristic can't move and shoot. Left stick aiming. Rather clunky controls. Bad survivor AI.


I pretty much agree with what generally is being said here. Sega felt weak since the DC...and they have most definitely ruined Sonic. Hasn't Arcade and PSN games shown that 2D can still be great fun? I wish they would just do a HD2D sonic game. Sonic 2, 3&Knuckles were among its crowning moments.

I like Konami for Pro Evolution Soccer, Silent Hill (although I dunno what I think of the new one yet) and Metal Gear Solid is one of my all time favourite series.

Nintendo, hmm, Super Mario Bros 1 & 3, Super Mario World, LoZ Link to the Past, Ocarina of time, Super Mario Kart, Super Metroid, Metroid Prime, Smash Bros. I would consider classics.

Recently, I have felt patronized by them. The Wii has toned down games so much because of it's ridiculous controller. Metroid Prime 3 feels like a joke and the fact there is human interaction has KILLED my perceptions on Samus Aran. I thought she'd be a take-no-shit-from-no-one yet she's as mute and wet behind the ears as Link is...

Mario Sunshine was a fucking disgrace. Wind Waker was irritating and Twilight Princess I detest simply because it feels like it was built on the WW engine - so what took them so fucking long to get the game out; had it come out in 2004-2005 I would have vouched for it being GameCubes crowning moment alongside RE4...but that shit being delayed and Wii-Ported was a letdown and the game is uninspired. I feel Nintendo's E3 conference shows exactly what Nintendo's intentions are; fuck gaming, it's all about waggling a remote mindlessly at a screen.

I haven't played anything from Clover...but Platinum Games has my ears pricked. Mad World looks sick, Bayonetta is gonna be a DMC clone and I couldn't give a fuck if people mark it down for that - that shit better be crazy.

Killer7 is one of my personal favourites. That plot was so crazy I was in the zone all the way through and I will worship Goichi Suda if he pairs up with Kojima on something.
 
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