20th December 2004, 8:52 PM
Ah yes, the good old "I have no idea what you are talking about so I will say you are wrong" arguement... yes, SO convincing!
Firaxis = Sid Meier, 1998-now. Anyone who hasn't heard of Sid Meier doesn't deserve to call themselves a gamer.
Troika = Fallout/Arcanum/Temple of Elemental Evil/Vampire Bloodlines... good PC RPG developer.
For some more, how about Planet Moon, ID (they do count OB1), Creative Assembly, FunCom (Finland's Western, right? :)), Irrational Games... good developers all...
As for UbiSoft, the Rayman games are great. Very good platformers. I have a few other games they released... several they just published (Rocket, Conquest), several they developed (Pod, BG&E)... and they're all good, but comparing what I have of Ubisoft to Blizzard? No way. Oh, they have great art direction (as you expect from French developers), but... I guess a big part of it just comes down to whether you prefer PC or console style games. If I had to choose I'd choose PC. So UbiSoft loses out to the likes of Blizzard, and continuing that line of thought I'd probably also place them below several of those other developers... though they get a good ranking if just because of how awesome Rayman 2 was. And Pod. :D
Firaxis = Sid Meier, 1998-now. Anyone who hasn't heard of Sid Meier doesn't deserve to call themselves a gamer.
Troika = Fallout/Arcanum/Temple of Elemental Evil/Vampire Bloodlines... good PC RPG developer.
For some more, how about Planet Moon, ID (they do count OB1), Creative Assembly, FunCom (Finland's Western, right? :)), Irrational Games... good developers all...
As for UbiSoft, the Rayman games are great. Very good platformers. I have a few other games they released... several they just published (Rocket, Conquest), several they developed (Pod, BG&E)... and they're all good, but comparing what I have of Ubisoft to Blizzard? No way. Oh, they have great art direction (as you expect from French developers), but... I guess a big part of it just comes down to whether you prefer PC or console style games. If I had to choose I'd choose PC. So UbiSoft loses out to the likes of Blizzard, and continuing that line of thought I'd probably also place them below several of those other developers... though they get a good ranking if just because of how awesome Rayman 2 was. And Pod. :D
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