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[FortunateSon]

Honestly, where's the love for EA?

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

Konami: Rumble Roses XX
Koei: Musou series

That's it I guess.

 

[AltogetherAndrews]

Up until this point, Realtime Worlds. Crackdown, despite being short and rather starved of value once the abilities had all been maxed, was about as much fun as I've had with a game, ever. As for the now and the foreseeable future, Insomniac. Resistance was neat, but Ratchet & Clank will be heavenly.

Although I have a feeling Criterion will have won the generation when all is said and done.

 

[ryutaro's mama]

Konami: Rumble Roses XX

This is why those games continue to get made.

 

[KachoMakura]

Sony has a pretty stellar first party lineup now... if there only wasn't the PS3 barrier. Nonetheless, they've got awesome stuff in the pipeline like Uncharted, Heavenly Sword, Lair, LittleBigPlanet, Gran Turismo 5, Ratchet and Clank Future, Killzone 2, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Echochrome, Infamous, Eye of Judgment, SOCOM, Warhawk and more.

Sony is the publisher not the developer.

 

[AntMurda]

Sony is the publisher not the developer.

Still First-Party.

 

[trinest]

Cing
Konami
Nintendo

 

[TheFallen]

Damn, what's with so many people listing Publishers?

Anyway, mine is Starbreeze.

 

[KachoMakura]

Still First-Party.

What does that have to do with the question?

The developers deserve the credit, it wasn't Sony's talent that developed said games.

 

[AndersTheSwede]

Kinda hard to just have one...

Bungie
Bioware
Valve

Those would be the big three for me.

 

[crazyscreenwriter]

Kinda hard to just have one...

Bungie
Bioware
Valve

Those would be the big three for me.

Same here. I'd also add EPIC for Gears of War.

 

[polyh3dron]

Same here. I'd also add EPIC for Gears of War.

Epic's epic mishandling of their UE3 engine that they have licensed for many highly anticipated games is kinda ****ing this generation up a little though.

It's like they let a bunch of other devs/publishers moneyhat the Gears development.

Although I do love Gears, I'd have to keep them off of my favorites just because of that.

 

[AndersTheSwede]

Same here. I'd also add EPIC for Gears of War.

They are definitely good, but to be honest Gears has been the first game of theirs that I was really impressed by.

UT was always trounced (IMO) by Quake and Half-Life multi back in the day, and Unreal was again trounced by Half-Life.

So while I think they are very good, I hesitate to put them in the same category as those three who have been kicking ass consistently for decades.

Edit: Though I was going to add a fourth dev it would definitely be Blizzard.

 

[crazyscreenwriter]

Epic's epic mishandling of their UE3 engine that they have licensed for many highly anticipated games is kinda ****ing this generation up a little though.

Well, according to Denis Dyack.. who I am not all the inclined to believe anyway, because even if UE3 worked as well and was as complete as UE2.5 "TOO HUMAN" would still be delayed and still illicit yawns from the crowd.

But, yeah, it certainly seems like problems with UE3 that are kinda screwing developers. However they make a tasty game whe they want to.

 

[bjscott05]

Bungie
Bioware
Infinity Ward

 

[dfyb]

capcom was one of my favorites... and then they closed down clover studios and started making those "mass appeal" games.

valve
nippon ichi
SCE (as a publisher, too)
kojima
SNK

 

[theBishop]

Publisher: SCEW

Developer: Bethesda

 

[disappeared]

I'd have to say that Capcom has consistently managed to impress me over these past several years.

 

[Slacker]

Valve
Harmonix
Nintendo
Square Enix

 

[Icarus]

I'll toss another vote on for Capcom... As if the RE4/5 stuff lately wasn't enough, I played Super Puzzle Fighter 2 at Comic-con. T'was awesometastic. I hope it's only $10.

I also still love Bungie and Blizzard (man, the StarCraft 2 trailer at Comic-con gave me chills).

 

[guldakot]

Namco for the possibility of SC4 online

 

[DSN2K]

CAPCOM