Game companies you avoid

[Howie6925]

LJN. Absolute shit.

LJN was founded in 1970 by Jack Friedman who later founded the toy companies THQ and Jakks Pacific. Well that explains alot.

[buzz_n64]

Ocean, bad, very bad! EA, Square-Enix, Codemasters.

[zemmix]

Blizzard! I kid, I kid...

A good game is a good game and I don't care who published it. Though I stay far away from EA sports games.

[Icarus Moonsight]

LJN. Absolute shit.

Hey! That's my line! :P

[DigitalSpace]

I refuse to buy anything published by Activision unless it's used, but other than that, I don't really avoid any game companies.

[Nebagram]

I'll also second Codemasters, I really like Micro Machines but that's it. I thought the ... Dizzy games sucked.

I quoted that, now I'll ignore it. Right up until about 2007 I'd describe myself as a Codemasters fanboy- Micro Machines- everything up to V3 was awesome. The entire Colin McRae series was genre-defining. Hell, even TOCA was cool. Their recent efforts though... yech. They should never have changed their logo.

As for companies I'll go out of my way to avoid... there aren't really any off the top of my head. I'll admit I see the Activision logo as a 'badge of shitness' but I'll still buy the games. Under the right circumstances, any company can shit out a diamond if you feed it enough coal.

[exit]

I don't avoid any specific companies persay but if they're known for their bad games, or are a company I've never heard of, I tend to avoid them unless I've done some research on the game first.

[Hep038]

I just avoid bad games, I could care less who makes them.

[Smashed Brother]

LJN. Absolute shit.

X-Men (NES) and Back to the Future (NES) immediately come to mind. *Shudder*

[j_factor]

The only company I really avoid is Data Design Interactive. All the companies mentioned so far have put out some good games. For a while I hated EA, but in the last couple years they've released some great stuff.

[FayeC86]

Activision in the past. Nintendo in the present.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Well, statistically, someone has to have a preference to avoid good stuff.

Activision owned the 2600, and Nintendo... Not touching that one.

[dreamcaster]

Pretty much anything from Sega after the Sammy buyout has been been awful, and after too many bad games, I have given up on them.

[hbkprm]

Pretty much anything from Sega after the Sammy buyout has been been awful, and after too many bad games, I have given up on them.

but sega making a turnaround
trust me

[hbkprm]

Well, statistically, someone has to have a preference to avoid good stuff.

Activision owned the 2600, and Nintendo... Not touching that one.

i agree on the honor (or lack theirof) and a penis

[kupomogli]

For the last two years Sega has been one of the best developers/publishers out there.

Anyways. Here's another one.

Namco Bandai. However, this isn't because I want to, but because I have to. The majority of their games that they do localize and bring over here suck, the other half, and usually the better ones, are Japan only.

[Oobgarm]

i agree on the honor (or lack theirof) and a penis

I'm usually OK with anyone making games and don't avoid any companies in particular-just genres usually.

[buzz_n64]

I'm usually OK with anyone making games and don't avoid any companies in particular-just genres usually.

I am the same way, it just so happens that some of these companies generally make mostly one genre of games, like ea and square-enix.

I don't play FMV, RPG, Strategy, Sports or Casual board game titles

[peachstapler]

For what it's worth, you should avoid working for EA games.

[Ackman]

Definately Activision, steaming pile of crap games, esp lately, 4 or 5 years ago I wouldn't have said so. And then EA, they've got better but they've just released so many terrible stinkers, I'll never forget Superman Returns, LOTR games or The Godfather, The gameplay is terrible, they should actually get punished for releasing **** like that, they can barely be called games.