Most overrated devoloper?

[Incarnate]

Looking back, I don't think Remedy has made one game with good story, gameplay, pacing, etc. Even Max Payne did not age well, but people pretend these guys are geniuses. People are shocked for some reason that Alan Wake 2 is a buggy, awkward, walking sim with bad puzzles.

The fact they are trying to mush all their awful writing and characters together into one universe is insufferably cutesy.

[Tiberius]

Cdpr

[Grumb]

Bethesda. I’ve gotten value out of many of their games but the writing and lore building has only gone downhill since Morrowind. The fact that the best modern “Bethesda” game was developed by Obsidian says a lot imo

[Incarnate]

Originally posted by Tiberius:

Cdpr

Never played The Witcher, but it looks super generic and dull.

Maybe you need to like the dark fantasy, Batman detective vision, spongey boss, and auto-lock-on-style hack-and-slash combat

[mr_raze]

Right now, every single studio is overrated. Bring on the crash.

[Thermal Lance]

Rockstar

Mainly due to how ♥♥♥♥ they are with their re-release and legacy titles.

[Incarnate]

Originally posted by Grumb:

Bethesda. I’ve gotten value out of many of their games but the writing and lore building has only gone downhill since Morrowind. The fact that the best modern “Bethesda” game was developed by Obsidian says a lot imo

Does anyone actually respect them though!

[The nameless Gamer]

Blizzard entertainment - after "The Lost Vikings" they stopped being original and just took other developers' ideas. While they DID improve genres, they didn't pioneer them. They deserved a lot of credit, but not the amount they got.

Nintendo - reselling the same games for 40 years. They just periodically give them a proverbial face-lift.

[Incarnate]

Originally posted by The nameless Commander:

Blizzard entertainment - after "The Lost Vikings" they stopped being original and just took other developers' ideas. While they DID improve genres, they didn't pioneer them. They deserved a lot of credit, but not the amount they got.

Nintendo - reselling the same games for 40 years. They just periodically give them a proverbial face-lift.

Nintendo was Ubisoft before Ubisoft.

[Vendicator Senpai]

Naughty Dog

[Slim]

From Software. Roll, strike, roll, strike, roll, strike, roll strike. Amazing gameplay

[Poyzo]

Blizzard.

[nullpo]

For me rockstar. Their game is mostly just mess with cops playground

[qb]

i think its no such thing as good or bad, its a business, i think also in case of remedy it is actually hard to be "indie" dev considering all games need to sell nowadays to make profit, in the past people could basically sell garage band amound of copies and games were not that hard to make, it was just paper pixels in the past, i certainly would ve like if for example studios at least attempted to preserve old game feel ie same pixelated look with updated gameplay/engine ie cut the costs on "presentation" to make games fun, but overall its not really what make any difference, ie i play games depending on mood, there was a time i could play games like dead space with intereset when i felt alone, now games like that are not "fun", its a matter of waiting a mood for "dark" games with story and most people today more care about senseless fun. even max payne if remade in good graphics perhaps would feel boring, so its more of industry practice than particular dev problem, ie most devs just follow industry trends that are mostly more about looks so its easier to sell hardware and just promoting games in general much easier with graphics/screenshots than actual gameplay since it takes time to explain gameplay while graphics is just a screenshot that explains itself.

[Goldias]

Fromsoft.

Never understand why people praise the story like it's the best story of the century when they are too lazy to tell it properly.
Even when understand majority of the story it's still not anything outstanding.

[Incarnate]

Originally posted by Slim:

From Software. Roll, strike, roll, strike, roll, strike, roll strike. Amazing gameplay

I'm just gonna suggest you go into FBI protection now, because the FromSoft fanboys will be coming for your blood.

But, yeah, it's like the Nintendo situation, where they make the same damn game repeatedly, but for some reason you can't acknowledge the devs have no imagination.