I chose these developers cause i like what there doing. and yeah so what i like niche developer/games. i think every developer has some impact and while you can heap praise on the likes of nintendo, other lesser known developers however are the ones who fill the uncreative voids with something different.

you don’t like it post your own damn top ten or insult my gaaammmaaaar or call me stupid or whatever i don’t care.

I do think nintendo is going for a younger audiance with kiddy dialog and simplistic gameplay, it was the one thing in wind waker that was worse then the sailing.

in no particular order except for crytec, crytec is number one.

Crytec-I like what there doing with tech and I love the map editor in farcry and the crysis map editor seems to really expand on that which is a good thing giving the creative consumer the tools to expand a game beyond its original vision and the community an opportunity to embrace something outside of your standard 15 map multiplayer affair.

Bioware-Epic Single player RPG’s, they also doing alot to expand npc interaction and player interaction with in what are usually static game worlds alternatives are mmo or japanic rpgs where every character says the same thing except for that one time during that one event 25 hours in when you long since stopped talking to everyone and you miss whatever that one thing was that you needed for that special event or whatever but can go get because that city and that npc died when the mr bad guy blew it all up…

Bethesda-big open worlds to explore, and do whatever you like generally. though, I think oblivion was one step forward, two steps back with broken mechanics like level scaling, random loot which is level based and respawning dungeons that just don’t make any sense…

Silicone Knights-I appreciate the level of detail they put into creating worlds to tell a story. I am attracted to the darker side of life so games like blood omen and eternal darkness appeal to me.

Double Fine-psychonaughts was to say the least under appreciated but after having given it a chance I really enjoyed the humor even if the style of game wasn’t my cup of tea. DF is unique in the style of games they create and there humor is probably unmatched in video games. I’m looking forward to seeing brutal legend and hope they do enough to keep me intrigued as I’m usually bored to tears with adventure games.

IO Interactive-Sandbox games are fun and Hitman 2 is probably the one I had the most fun with thus far. Kane and Lynch looks cool (I like lynch) I like the 3rd person kinda slow paced think what your gonna do gameplay as opposed to balls to the walls action point a to point b of other games all the time. I’m interested to see what IO does in the future.

Piranha Bytes-I’m the only one I know who likes to play the gothic series and thats fine with me. PB were recently removed from developing the next in the series so I hope to see a new ip from them. It will be a shame if they go under.

Obsidian-there like Black Isle hold outs aren’t they? anyway kotor 2 wasn’t very good and I haven’t played NV2 but there a good company with good devs so I’m hopeful for there future.

Free Radical-ex goldeneye guys or least they were I don’t know much about who works there. The timesplitters is a decent game with humor and time travel. recently had it lanned up its fun to play. Haze looks interesting and I hope to check it out soon. I hope it does well enough for them. theres of course another timesplitters coming but I’d like to see them branch out more with there unique style.

StarBreeze-Chronicles of riddick good.

I really want to see new ip and new ideas that build on already established ideas. I want to see independent developers that can flourish in the market and I want to see creativity rewarded not strangled in favor of sequels so balance.

how did the last two zelda’s innovate? they used the same exact game mechanics pioneered by ocarina, same weapons, same gameplay except for a lame talking boat or I have an okamai complex wolf play.

the only thing that changes in zelda is the instrument the little fairy link blows.

as for mario galaxy, I haven’t played it and currently do not have access and I’m not buying a wii until someone release an interesting game not geared towards a 5 year old. even vc is still lacking compelling games that I’d make a purchase for.

I’d like to add that miyamato is insane and so are pikmin. people worry about MJ’s wonderland but they need to be worried about miyamato’s Fu-ck-ing garden and what the hell ever that loon is smoking!

Game & Watch, NES, Gameboy, SNES, N64, GC, GBA, DS, Wii… all superb and essential systems. Impossible to beat. Thank you for a rare and well thought out list.

nintendo might still deliver quality software but I question who there target audiance is. it’s certainly not me, I’m Thoroughly uninterested in playing new zeldas and marios with the same formula

I’m even more tired of hearing nintendo talk about how gamers are getting bored…oh really, I wonder why…whatever.

Can’t really think of any Have Nots unless you count all those early crap games for the NES. Like “10 Yard Fight”.

And Luigis Mansion wasnt that bad i Enjoyed it personally!