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Some pretty decent picks there. Devs have good tastes in video games. Who knew!

Here's a few examples:

Randy Pitchford (Best known for: Borderlands, Brothers in Arms)
Gearbox Software President

1) Super Mario Galaxy (Series)
2) Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
3) Rock Band (Series)
4) Viva Pinata
5) LittleBigPlanet (Series)

Edmund McMillen (Best known for: Super Meat Boy, Mew-Genics)
Team Meat Designer

1) Spelunky
2) Braid
3) Fallout 3
4) Skyrim
5) Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Neil Druckmann (Best known for: Uncharted, The Last of Us)
Naughty Dog Creative Director

1) Journey
2) Gears of War
3) The Walking Dead
4) Bioshock
5) Super Mario Galaxy 2

Swery65 (Best known for: Deadly Premonition, D4)
Access Games Director

1) Minecraft
2) TLoZ: Twilight Princess
3) From Dust
4) Beautiful Katamari
5) Heavy Rain

Ted Price (Best known for: Ratchet & Clank, Resistance, Sunset Overdrive)
Insomniac Games President

1) Skyrim
2) Uncharted 3
3) Journey
4) LittleBigPlanet
5) Limbo

Vince Zampella (Best known for: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Call of Duty, Titanfall)
Respawn Entertainment CEO

1) Assassin's Creed II
2) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
3) Skyrim
4) Trials Evolution
5) Uncharted 2

Greg Kasavin (Best known for: Bastion, Transistor)
Supergiant Games Creative Director

1) Bioshock
2) Valkyria Chronicles
3) Street Fighter IV
4) Braid
5) Demon's Souls

 

[Majmun]

Uncharted seems to be VERY popular among devs.

Great picks overall.

 

[Zalman]

Evan Wells
1. Wii Sports Resort

Amazing.

 

[Bamihap]

I counted 7 non western games. Such a diverse selection.

 

[Icyflamez96]

Where is mah boi Ratchet :[

 

[Astral/H3X]

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[Santiako]

Kasavin best taste confirmed.

 

[Skelter]

Randy Pitchford's top two...I like.

 

[Recall]

I counted 7 non western games. Such a diverse selection.

Devs like, what devs like.

Why aren't all 35 on one page, why spread out an article over 6 pages? Need those views/clicks?

 

[andymcc]

hahaha those are some boring picks.

no wonder.

 

[FaintDeftone]

Glad to see Dishonored on a lot of these lists. That game is very under-appreciated.

 

[Hatchtag]

I counted 7 non western games. Such a diverse selection.

3 came from Team Meat alone.

Spoiler

Probably why they're the best devs on this list.

 

[FourMyle]

Greg Kasavin with the GOAT pick SFIV aw yea

 

[SuperSonic1305]

lol Zampella. No shame at all.

 

[fedexpeon]

hahaha those are some boring picks.

no wonder.

Yup, no wonder we keep getting white male and guns games.

 

[Branduil]

Shocking lack of Dark Souls on these lists.

 

[ohlawd]

some of these guys have good taste

 

[kai3345]

lol Swery with dat garbage taste

 

[Doombacon]

Greg Kasavin with that godlike taste.

 

[Karak]

Hahaha. Asking Randy. That's rich.

 

[Anustart]

I counted 7 non western games. Such a diverse selection.

Perhaps they're not as well liked and as such, wouldn't make the lists? That can't be it, they're japanese games after all, the people must just be dumb huh.

 

[Toki767]

34 Developers picking games they had nothing to do with.

Vince Zampella picking his own game.

 

[Turdburger]

dat U2 developer love.

 

[zewone]

Surprising lack of Demon/Dark Souls.

 

[skLaFarebear]

Greg with the Valkyria Chronicles hype

 

[Deadstar]

Really disappointed to not see more Demon's Souls picks. That game changed multiplayer forever.

 

[illmatic22]

Lots of Mario Galaxy & Uncharted 2 love <3

 

[BananasWithGuns]

Rod Fergusson is pretty much my hero for putting Lost Odyssey in his top 5. It's a shame how little love that game gets sometimes.

 

[Servbot24]

Shocking lack of Dark Souls on these lists.

Yeah I was surprised by this too. Maybe too busy working to get good at it

 

[Simzyy]

The only list which I thought was really good

Kasavin is awesome!

 

[BeatResetsTheWorld]

Nice to see the Galaxy love

 

[Dragon]

Rod Fergusson is pretty much my hero for putting Lost Odyssey in his top 5. It's a shame how little love that game gets sometimes.

That LO gets so much praise is a function of how few good jRPGs were created this generation. It is not a good game.

 

[ShineALight]

Corey May with Xenoblade and MHTri, not bad.

 

[AcademicSaucer]

I counted 7 non western games. Such a diverse selection.

Japanese games are not what they were in the ps2/gamecube/xbox era

 

[BPoole]

Journey got mentioned way too many times

 

[mattp]

biggest surprise: the amount of times limbo appears on peoples lists

what a fucking overrated game

 

[andymcc]

Japanese games are not what they were in the ps2/gamecube/xbox era

There are still great Japanese releases.

biggest surprise: the amount of times limbo appears on peoples lists

what a fucking overrated game

Braid and Journey too.

 

[noobasuar]

This just goes to show how awful most developers are and the games that came out last gen.

 

[Soodanim]

Only one mention of a Souls game from the lot of them? That's surprising.

Lots of love for Arkham Asylum though, good to see.

biggest surprise: the amount of times limbo appears on peoples lists

what a fucking overrated game

Oh god yes. I played it. I finished it. I liked it. But it doesn't even come close to my top games of the generation.

I wonder. If we gave every choice a numerical value (5 points for 1st choice, 1 for 5th), what would be the developers' choice award. Probably Skyrim or Arkham, but I wasn't paying much attention.

 

[Aureon]

Impressive how many U2 picks and how little TloU picks.

 

[Acquiescence]

There sure are a lot of votes for Uncharted.

 

[Hatchtag]

biggest surprise: the amount of times limbo appears on peoples lists

what a fucking overrated game

I keep trying it to see the appeal.
I can't see it. It's a clunky puzzle-platformer where the only puzzles are figuring out how to use the terrible controls and the only platforming is being able to put up with how long it takes to get from one point to the other.

 

[mattp]

Braid and Journey too.

braid's puzzles are 100000000000x better than limbo
and journey, in my opinion, is such a better "experience" than limbo

which leaves limbo with...not much

 

[StuBurns]

From Dust was like the biggest disappointment of the generation.

 

[XxSlasherMcGirkxX]

Really disappointed to not see more Demon's Souls picks. That game changed multiplayer forever.

Hyperbole to the max.

 

[Ferrio]

The only list which I thought was really good

Kasavin is awesome!

Ya, he had some of best picks IMO.

 

[zma1013]

Really disappointed to not see more Demon's Souls picks. That game changed multiplayer forever.

Perhaps they were confused by its refusal to follow modern game design conventions.

 

[digita1alchemy]

These are some piss-poor lists. Explains the state of the industry, I guess.

 

[mattp]

These are some piss-poor lists. Explains the state of the industry, I guess.

 

[vpance]

A lot of Limbo love at ND. Definitely a memorable game.