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Developers that release nothing but hits
- Thread starter civilstrife
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KingJ2002 said:
I wouldn't even call AM2 a golden child. They're a very talented developer, and should know since I've played thier games. However they do have a few rotten eggs, like Sonic Champions(Sonic The Fighters),
Also to Amusement Vision is a golden child also is pretty absurd. To be quite honest, Spikeout was one of the worst arcade games to come from SEGA, but that was produced AM4 aka Amusement Vision
Anyhow no dev is flaweless because they've all had stinkers at some point. I mean, I love Snowblind and all, but was shocked to the find out they produced the god-awful Top Gear games on the N64. Thankfully thier previous 3 titles was good enough to make those Top Gear games forgettable.
Mefisutoferesu
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I'll probably be burned for this, but what about Squaresoft? I'm not really counting after S-E merger though, so I dunno if it still hold, or even before that during their PC days.
Mefisutoferesu said:
3-D WorldRunner, Alcahest, Bahamut Lagoon, The Bouncer, Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring, Einhander, Rad Racer, Threads of Fate, Tobal No.1...
temp said:
Not sure, I thought it did fairly poor...hrrm.
Yoshi said:
Andrew2 said:
Hits, not "good games to me!" F-Zero GP Legend and Beach Spikers wound up being astounding commercial failures.
GitarooMan
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Andrew2 said:
It wasn't a H I T
Agent X
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argon said:
I don't think the recent "Blizzard Classic Arcade" conversions of these games to Game Boy Advance were big sellers, but the versions released for various systems in the 1990s were all fairly popular. They weren't massive multi-million sellers like the Warcraft or Diablo games, but I think all of them were popular enough that they could be considered "hits."
By the way, I own all three of those games for different platforms: The Lost Vikings for Amiga (for which very few people are aware of its existence; I think it was one of Interplay's last Amiga games here in the US), Blackthorne for PC, and Rock 'n Roll Racing for GBA.
Hey, according to their website it sold over 1 million copies. Although according to the same page their first game sold 200,000 copies, so I'm not sure how you want to count that.Matlock said:
Mefisutoferesu
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I liked Bahamut, Einhander, and Threads of Fate.
As to Tobal, Ehrgeiz, and the Bouncer... I believe Square published, but did not develop them, though obviously they were involved in the Asset process for bouncer (kinda like Crystal Chronicles).
None the less, you're right the rest.
krypt0nian
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So pretty much no one then. :lol
Because if Blizzard doesn't qualify, it can be done.
Because if Blizzard doesn't qualify, it can be done.
Matlock said:
Highly subjective. Sid's civil war games were very well liked. Nothing as big as the huge success of Civilizaiton, but Civilization is in a class in itself.
That's why I asked you what counts as a hit. Sales? critical acclaim? fan reception? weighted average of the 3?
If you're talking about any large developer with a long history they will have lots of games under their belts and a variety of successes from unqualified to lesser succeses. You're question seem to favour small developers who make very few games and are very young and may only have 2 or 3 big games in their entire history.
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Matlock said:
jungle beat was awesome! what you been smoking?
By that standard, I'd say there aren't any. Unless you want to loosen the definition of "nothing but hits."civilstrife said:
Intelligent Systems is the closest I can think of, but even then, not all their stuff sells like hotcakes regardless of how awesome it is. Especially factoring in Japanese sales, where nobody really buys anything from the Wars series.
C- Warrior
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I agree with the many listed here already, but one that wasn't said:
Capcom Production Studio 4:
RE1
RE2
RE3
RE4
REmake
RECV
DMC1
Viewtiful Joe 1
Devil Kings (...sold well in Japan, and certainly is better/slightly worse/on par than your most recent Dynasty Warriors)
PN03 (fuck, theory smashed, damn you Pn03!)
Capcom Production Studio 4:
RE1
RE2
RE3
RE4
REmake
RECV
DMC1
Viewtiful Joe 1
Devil Kings (...sold well in Japan, and certainly is better/slightly worse/on par than your most recent Dynasty Warriors)
PN03 (fuck, theory smashed, damn you Pn03!)
Hits as in sold well? Probably EA's sport teams. 
As far as making MOSTLY just good games..
Nintendo R&D1
Intelligent Systems
Firaxis
Blizzard maybe... WoW really made me like them a lot less though. It's the first Blizzard game that was absolutely no fun to play. Yeah yeah it's huge hit.. but easily the worst thing they've ever done.
As far as making MOSTLY just good games..Nintendo R&D1
Intelligent Systems
Firaxis
Blizzard maybe... WoW really made me like them a lot less though. It's the first Blizzard game that was absolutely no fun to play. Yeah yeah it's huge hit.. but easily the worst thing they've ever done.
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Retro.