/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.999591]

Who's your favorite retro now dead developer /vr/?

[Anonymous No.999597]

Kenji Eno

[Anonymous No.999606]

Westwood

[Anonymous No.999612]

SSI
Microprose
Epyx

[Anonymous No.999636]

3D Realms

[Anonymous No.999671]

treasure
they're still alive but lets face it they may aswell be dead

[Anonymous No.999670]

[Anonymous No.999682]

SunSoft.

[Anonymous No.999687]

>>999591
Enix

[Anonymous No.999702]

>>999591
Squaresoft (which I consider with Hashi's Xenogear and Yaz's Ogre battle teams and Sakaguchi)
Black Castle

[Anonymous No.999698]

Maxis

[Anonymous No.999706]

Many of the good ones have been mentioned already, so I'll just add:
Quintet
rare

[Anonymous No.999708]

APE

[Anonymous No.999707]

NINE~
EIGHT
NINE!
SPORTS!

(just because I liked their logo)

[Anonymous No.999723]

Blizzard. You know it in your heart to be true.

[Anonymous No.999720]

I miss these guys.

RIP in pieces ;_;7

[Tensnake !!Xk5TXfmbxdJ No.999727]

[Anonymous No.999728]

Looking Glass Studios

[Anonymous No.999730]

>>999723
;_;

[Anonymous No.999735]

Capcom

They're dead to me.

[Anonymous No.999745]

>>999597
why did it have to happen so soon

[Anonymous No.999746]

I don't suppose Working Designs counts, do they?

In that case, Hudson. I wish Konami would do something with the IPs they bough of them.

[Anonymous No.999748]

>>999727
rip in pieces Bumpy Trot 2 ;_;

[Anonymous No.999750]

>>999746
I thought people cheered when Working Designs died.

[Anonymous No.999751]

>>999597
You mean WARP? Isn't he working on a new project last I heard.

[Anonymous No.999754]

>>999735
>Capcom
has always been a great "developer", I don't think this has changed. I loved Asura's Wrath/Dragon's Dogma, and the whole SF4 revival was fantastic for the FGC. Despite RE6 being very disappointing and a huge misfire for the series, I still think it was packed with a lot of content (too much, actually) and was still as enjoyable as most games released last year (IE, Capcom's "worst" is still better than say, anything getting released by Bioware today...TOHHHHHHHHH)
That said, as a PUBLISHER, as a BUSINESS, they are abysmal. DLC policies, treatment of previous/current franchises, etc. However, I still pause to give them shit for that.

Bear in mind, Capcom's "policy" for
>REVIVE ______ FRANCHISE
is
>buy more of it now!
But this is the same for -every- company. Every Japanese company says the same shit,
>YOU WANT SEQUEL? BUY MORE GAEMMMM!!
Capcom has so many franchises that are fucking awesome that its not the same as Square turning Final Fantasy into a shit train (IE, make Final Fantasy like ____ again or remake ____). We notice it for -every- franchise Capcom refuses to return to.


I miss free radical.

[Anonymous No.999756]

>>999751
He's dead Jim.
;_;

[Anonymous No.999758]

>>999756
What? Really? When did this happen?

[Anonymous No.999761]

>>999751
no, Kenji Eno himself died a few months ago. Not like, out of business, or out of the industry, he's not living anymore. He died.

[Anonymous No.999764]

>>999750
>people cheered
Who are these faggots so I can hunt them down?
For a 90s JRPG developer, they were phenomenal and loved to bring over games that would never make it to stateside otherwise. Sure, translation added "humor" was hit or miss, but I miss them.

[Anonymous No.999770]

>>999764
The humour was hit or miss, but it was mostly limited to NPC so you could skip it. The only game they really ruined in my opinion was Silhouette Mirage, and even then it was still playable.

[Anonymous No.999772]

New World Computing.

[Anonymous No.999773]

>>999754

I didn't much like Asura's Wrath, but Dragon's Dogma is pretty good.

The only franchises Capcom is actually developing games for is Monster Hunter, Street Fighter, and Resident Evil.

Resident Evil kinda goes back and forth between shit and not as shit (That 3DS games was alright), Street Fighter is pretty good, Monster Hunter is still going strong except for the fact that MH4 isn't fucking being localized.

Everything else has been killed off. I'm certainly not holding my breath for another Megaman game.

And then there's the fact that they don't want to take any risks making a game that isn't going to sell a billion copies, but that's true for every publisher.

[Anonymous No.999778]

Psygnosis

And every single one of the PC/computer devs mentioned previously. Bullfrog, Maxis, Microprose and Origin the most.

[Anonymous No.999780]

>>999773
>But that's true for every publisher
Which is exactly my point. Capcom hasn't "Died" or "become shit", but the way they gauge the market, decide what games will/wont see the light of day has all become the subject of the almighty dollar.
I know a lot of people want to go
>CAPCOMMMMMMMMMMMM
at this, but its what every fucking developer is doing. The entire video game industry is in a serious rut right now.

[Anonymous No.999782]

>every single new game they make is better than the previous
>3D shit fucks them over

[Anonymous No.999783]

>>999764
That's hilarious. Working Designs wasn't content with fucking up their games' plot and dialogue, they actually started butchering the gameplay, too.

[Anonymous No.999786]

>>999772
After Homm 4 I'm kinda glad it died. Not saying it was just they fault, publishers etc., but it would only get worse from there.

[Anonymous No.999791]

>>999764
some people don't like WD because they messed with the game too much for English release. Lots of things were changed from the original Japanese versions.

[Anonymous No.999802]

Are we talking about dead dead, or dead because they made shitty games/decisions?

[Anonymous No.999807]

>>999802
Dead dead

[Anonymous No.999816]

>>999780

Yeah, well, they could at least not make BoF into a social media game.

And maybe had done something for Megaman's anniversary other than a Megaman X iOS port and hype up a fangame.

And not blatantly lie about why they cancelled MML3.

I get what you're saying though.

[Anonymous No.999818]

i miss theses guys, alone with bizarre creations

[Anonymous No.999835]

>>999818
Other than Tiny Tank and those two crappy Contra games, what else did they do?

[Anonymous No.999843]

Origin

[Anonymous No.999849]

>>999835
ecco the dolphin defender of the future one of my favourite DC, i love how they got Dr who to narrate it

[Anonymous No.999851]

>>999835
Fucking Ecco.
I thought everyone knew that.

[Anonymous No.999852]

>>999764
Vic Ireland please go.

[Anonymous No.999858]

>>999851
I've never played Ecco.

[Anonymous No.999861]

>>999773
>MH4 isn't fucking being localized.

Whoa, easy kiddo. MH4 isn't even out in Japan yet. The last game had a 1.5 year localization cycle. Let's be a little patient.

ON TOPIC: Quintet. Rest in peace.

[Anonymous No.999862]

>>999851

the dolphin??? did that game SUCK or what???

[Anonymous No.999864]

>>999858
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsEasMrPF_8
your missing out

[Anonymous No.999871]

>>999720

THIS

[Anonymous No.999876]

I miss the old SNK.

[Anonymous No.999878]

Technosoft.

Such fucking gold.

[Anonymous No.999884]

Lucasarts

[Anonymous No.1000009]

Atari s4s was the best console, with Babs Bunny's Duble adventure one of the best games.

[Anonymous No.1000138]

>>999772
>Planet's Edge will never get a sequel

[Anonymous No.1000156]

Infogrames (LOVED the original Alone in the Dark Trilogy)
Trilobite (7th Guest, the first real game that scared me as a kid)
Sierra (So many childhood memories)

[Anonymous No.1000173]

>>999706
Poor, poor Rare
RIP 2002

[Anonymous No.1000230]

Sierra- their demise was depressing at the very least. Ken Williams writes a bit about it on his website, and you can find out more info elsewhere.

Origin- EA using the name for its shit online system was just rubbing salt in the wound.

Psygnosis

[Anonymous No.1000261]

They went from Donkey Kong Country to Kinect shit. How the mighty have fallen!

[Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.1000319]

>>999862
>???

Please don't do that. And no, retard, Ecco is awesome.

[Anonymous No.1000349]

RIP

[Anonymous No.1000350]

>>1000319


Why not??? Guess what, I couldn't pass the first stage in megadrive. So I played nba live 97 instead.

[Anonymous No.1000379]

>>1000230
I always forget, who killed Psygnosis?

[Anonymous No.1000381]

>>1000261
They were one of the greatest developers on Spectrum, but I don't remember them having done anything worthwhile after they changed their name

[Anonymous No.1000384]

>>1000379
Sony.

[Anonymous No.1000406]

>>1000349
LJN never developed any games.

[Anonymous No.1000416]

Rare. Microsoft is pretty much just playing mad scientist with their corpse now, and their best IPs are either tied up in legal battles or killed by shitty sequels.

[Anonymous No.1000419]

>>1000349

LJN was a publisher.

[Anonymous No.1000435]

Westwood.

[Anonymous No.1000440]

NewKidCo

[Anonymous No.1000443]

Crystal Dynamics

[Anonymous No.1000447]

>>1000416
This exactly.
>mfw I expected a decent BK game when I bought Nuts & Bolts.

[Anonymous No.1000463]

>>1000406
>>1000419

Thanks for clearing that up guys

[scj !jm6eCwlAoQ No.1000465]

>>999720
oh my god

those are glasses

[Anonymous No.1000480]

[Anonymous No.1000492]

[Anonymous No.1000497]

>>1000492
The worst part is that they became part of Double Helix

[Anonymous No.1000502]

RIP Westwood. RIP Command and Conquer.

[Anonymous No.1000509]

>>1000492
Just reinstalled Earthworm Jim this week

[Anonymous No.1000517]

>>1000406
>>1000419
Most of /vr/ has never even played an LJN-published game, they just like to namedrop it because MUH AVGN

[Anonymous No.1000526]

>>1000502
I got Command & Conquer 3 and Red Alert 3 on Steam a few weeks ago, and boy, what piles of shit those games are. It seems like everything EA touches turns to shit.

[Anonymous No.1000537]

>>1000526
C&C3 and Kane's Wrath were okay until they started going in a totally retarded way with the patches in order to balance the economy (they made refineries cost 1.5x and harvester getting killed too easy).

Red Alert 3 could've been fucking fun if it had 2x bigger maps, 3-4 more units per faction, and big ore fields to harvest instead of enclosed little mines with fixed capacity. They tried making it micro-heavy when C&C was ALWAYS about tankspam.

[Anonymous No.1000563]

>>1000526
Which one reasonwhy I won't even touch anything done by EA anymore. Even if they're not doing the project directly, if they have any finances invested in someone else's project it'll turn to shit.

[Anonymous No.1000582]

>>1000537
C&C 3 feels closer to Battle for Middle-Earth II with a Tiberian Sun style makeover than it does a proper C&C game (though I actually really like Battle for Middle-Earth). The combat feels uninspired and the upgrade system feels out-of-place, and one of the most glaring issues for me is the shitty music. Uncle Frank's tunes were always one of the highlights of the series for me (even though he kind of lost his touch after a while), and it's disappointing to here the generic background music.

Red Alert just feels like babby's first RTS. The combat feels just as bland for me, and all the tiny little water maps included are no fun to play. The emphasis on water maps in general feels like a departure from C&C standards, as does the shitty mining system. The music also sounds just as boring as C&C 3's.

Honestly, I'd rather play C&C 4 of all games than either of the other festering post-Generals turds.

[Anonymous No.1000696]

>>999591
Mr. Gunpei Yokoi

[Anonymous No.1000738]

>>999728
Toss up between this and Access Software. At least most of Access is picking up with Tex at Big Finish Games.

From what I hear about Thief 4, someone basically dug up Thief, fucked the body, cremated it, made bread from its ashes, ate the bread, shit it out, and are now molding the shit into McDonald's hamburger patties and trying to sell it as prime cut steak.

[Anonymous No.1000758]

D-does S-Sega count?

[Anonymous No.1000776]

>>1000696
RIP.

Not many know it, but a lot of Nintendo systems/franchises exist because of this guy. Also, he was Miyamoto's teacher during his early days at the company.

[Anonymous No.1000787]

Thalion Software

[Anonymous No.1000789]

>>1000776

He invented the D-pad, don't ya know.

[Anonymous No.1000793]

>>1000758
I'll allow it.

[Anonymous No.1000815]

>>1000776
Amongst others, he:

Created:
D-Pad
Game & Watch
ROB
Game Boy
Virtual Boy
Game Boy Pocket

Produced:
Donkey Kong
Metroid
Kid Icarus
Famicom Wars
Super Mario Land 1/2
Wario Land
Tetris Attack
Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu

[Anonymous No.1000880]

Dream-team Id. The handful of people who made Commander Keen, Dangerous Dave 2, Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny, Doom, Doom 2, Quake 1.

[Anonymous No.1000931]

>>999670
mah nigga.
I dont think their was a PC dev on their level when they were the kings.

[Anonymous No.1000945]

>>999670
oh, Panzer General

I think one of the first strategy games I played

[Anonymous No.1000949]

>>1000502
Why does everyone remember westwood only for c&c?

They made so many good other games, kyrandia, blade runner, lands of lore

[Anonymous No.1000952]

>>999591
Magnetic Fields
>muh british rally games

[Anonymous No.1000967]

>Hudson Soft
I just want more Bomberman and Bonk ;_;

[2D !779o.ra/0E No.1000971]

>>999728
This so fucking much.

As a secondary pick I would probably go with Raven Software, although "technically" they're still alive.

Rogue Entertainment? There's too many to pick for the second place.

[Anonymous No.1000983]

>>999758
He died early this year. High blood pressure. It's such a shame too since he was planning to make a comeback soon.

[Anonymous No.1000990]

Infocom.

[Anonymous No.1000994]

>>999591
Blizzard North

[Anonymous No.1001002]

Technos Japan Corp. I know Million is technically their successors, but they're just the copyright holders of their old IPs. Double Dragon Neon was a disappointment.

[Anonymous No.1001005]

>>1000517
AVGN is a faggot. Among the crap they published, LJN also published some good stuff too. True Lies was pretty awesome.

[Anonymous No.1001014]

>>1000967
it's a real shame that it is so difficult to hunt down all the bonk games if you wish to play them on original hardware... at least the first two arn't too bad...not counting the costly tg16 to play them on.

Bonk: (tg16 is best version and runs $15-30 while the gameboy version is $5 and the nes version is $300+)

Bonk's Revenge: (tg16 version is best version and runs about $15-30 but it did get a gameboy port that is also inexpensive)

Bonk's big adventure: (tg16 had both chip and cd versions but expect to really have to shell out for this one $100-300)

Super Bonk: (snes game runs about $17-50)

Hudson Selection Volume 3: Bonk's Adventure / Round 1 (Japanese import only and is a remake of the first game from what i hear, unsure of what the going price is for this. guessing $30-60)

[Anonymous No.1001667]

>>1001005
Eh i dunno

[Anonymous No.1001673]

LucasArts.

[Anonymous No.1001672]

>>1000517
we don't actually like AVGN that much around here.

[Anonymous No.1001680]

>Strg+F
>no 3DO

Where are the Skeletons at /vr/?

[Anonymous No.1001684]

I sense a lack of Interplay in this thread.

[Anonymous No.1001696]

>>999687
>implying implications

[Anonymous No.1001724]

>>1001680
behind 7000 proxies.

[Anonymous No.1001737]

>>1001680
3DO was a publisher and console designer.

[Anonymous No.1001759]

Data East and Toaplan

[Anonymous No.1001769]

>>1000416
I thought DKCR was actually pretty good, but yeah for the most part I agree.

[Anonymous No.1001794]

>>1001684
>Not fallout

[Anonymous No.1001804]

>>999761
Shame he had to end his career making casual shit for the Wii and mobile.

[Anonymous No.1001817]

Does Team Goemon count

[Anonymous No.1001897]

>>999706
>Quintet
why must you remind me
dammit WHY?

[Anonymous No.1001903]

>>1001897
There will never be another Actraiser
There will never be another Robotrek
There will never be more artistic games like Terranigma, Soul Blader and Illusion of Gaia.

[Anonymous No.1001918]

>>1001903
it's like in terranigma... you can unlock the quintet studio building in neotokio and burgas later on kills everyone in neotokio.

[Anonymous No.1001935]

>>1000480
I still love how their choice of name came down to a coin toss.
Had it dropped on the other side they would have been 'Frozen Yak entertainment'.

Replaying Magic Carpet 2 this week I am certainly feeling the loss of Bullfrog

[Anonymous No.1001942]

poptop

[Anonymous No.1001945]

Tecno soft
Technos
Irem
NCS Masaya
Hudson Soft
Sunsoft

RIP

[Anonymous No.1002918]

Rareware.

After Microsoft, it quickly became a shadow of its former self in shambling corpse form

[Anonymous No.1002950]

>>1002918
The ancient wisdom has never failed to be true: You get in bed with Microsoft, and eventually you will wake up fucked.

[Anonymous No.1002951]

Westwood probably holds the title. Although...

>Midway/Acclaim
>Microprose
>Square/Enix before they went to hell

Any of those could be there too.

[Anonymous No.1003316]

Bullfrog and Lucasarts though their later star-wars stuff was obviously shit (except kotor)

[Anonymous No.1003335]

Origin. RIP.

If for NOTHING else than Ultima. Fucking EA killed them, dead, and raped their fucking corpse by fucking up the last 2 Ultima games and dragging UO from the best MMO ever to one of the worst after their death.

[Anonymous No.1003352]

>>1002950
Luckily, most of Rare staff that was worthwhile jumped ship the second the sale occurred.

[Anonymous No.1003358]

>>999591
Acclaim Austin.

[Anonymous No.1003362]

>>1003352
>most of Rare staff that was worthwhile jumped ship the second the sale occurred.
Not entirely true. Quite a few key developers from Perfect Dark's team hung around and worked on Zero for the Xbox 360 - however, Rare had already fired one of their most competent coders at this point.

Chris Seavor hung around and worked on Bad Fur Day: Live and Reloaded, for example... then they fired him.

[Anonymous No.1003374]

>>1003335
Ultima, why why EA

[Anonymous No.1003674]

>>1003374
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0zQd6ylP8jU

[Anonymous No.1004275]

>>999591
RIP Bullfrog ;_;

[Anonymous No.1004286]

midway

[Anonymous No.1004369]

>>1003674
Christ, I've read this dozens pf times before and it still shocks/horrifies me. It makes me wonder though that if it's this bad to work at EA, how bad is it to work at Activision, or Ubisoft, or Microsoft.

[Anonymous No.1004396]

Do you prefer a gaming company you admire(d) die a quick death (i.e. Bullfrog) or a slow becoming-a-mere-shell-of-their-former-self death (i.e. Sierra)

[Anonymous No.1004416]

>>1004396
Quick death.

What happened to Quintet is sad, but I don't want to imagine what kind of horrors Square-Enix would be doing to them today.

[Anonymous No.1004431]

>>1000480
Sucks that they're gone. On the brightside though, the main brains behind TA are still around and will be making Planetary Annihilation soon.

[Anonymous No.1004439]

>>1004431
The main brain was Chris Taylor and his Kickstarter for an RPG failed.

[Anonymous No.1004459]

Rareware

for those who say they're not dead, they are, they are make software for Kinect, they're dead ;_;

[Anonymous No.1005202]

>>1004396
Either way, the real talent of the company hopefully ends up at other companies sooner rather than later. A quick death might mean that happens quicker (and their properties might not linger as long before being acquired and revisited), so maybe that's better.

[Anonymous No.1005246]

>>1004275

[Anonymous No.1005251]

>>999843
what do you think of LB's new ultima game?

[Anonymous No.1005265]

>>1000815
can't forget that it was because of him that Nintendo got into the toy business (and game business as an extension of that) in the first place

[Anonymous No.1005276]

I picked a sqaureenix 3 years ago without knowing anything about their actual situation (nor playing any of their merged titles) like 3 years ago. It was the pc one the last whatever because I don't own any modern console.

Played it for a hour, closed it, uninstalled it and forgot about it until I saw this thread.

Square was killed long time ago. Not sure who is the culprit

[Anonymous No.1005279]

>>1003335
And don't forget calling their steam clone origin.

That probably made someone's day.

[Anonymous No.1005318]

>>999591

I'm so fed up with their shit that I'm cheering for the day Bioware dies OP.

That said, Rareware. Don't try and pretend that corpse MS parades around is them, it isn't.

[Anonymous No.1005392]

Atari
Hudson Soft

[Anonymous No.1005672]

>>1005276
>Square was killed long time ago. Not sure who is the culprit
Square did it to themselves. Since FF7 they've wanted everything they do to be a huge production. Remember the FF movie, The Spirits Within? lol

Their handheld games are still fine because they have a template for success with them. But their home console, PC, and mobile games (All The Bravest: hahahaha) have all been garbage for years.

[Anonymous No.1006035]

>Hudson soft
>Sunsoft

You are aware that these developers still exist right? Although Hudson soft is now owned by Konami and haven't produced much, and Sunsoft is still kicking it but they haven't put anything since like 2000?

[Anonymous No.1006307]

>>1006035
I take that back Hudson soft was dissolved last year. Oh well thy they had a great run

[Anonymous No.1006348]

>>1006307
Sunsoft made a Blaster Master remake for WiiWare in 2010 and a 3D Mahjong game for the 3DS

they aren't completely dead

[Anonymous No.1006495]

>>1006348
Yeah, Sunsoft is like Florence Henderson. Just when you think they're dead they pop up at random to let everybody know they still exist. On a completely unrelated note, was that Blaster Master remake any good?

[Anonymous No.1006843]

>>1006495
>was that Blaster Master remake any good?
Well, considering nobody ever talks about it...

[Anonymous No.1007471]

>>1006843
Huh?

[Anonymous No.1007550]

>>1000261
RIP Rare....the games they make with the exception of Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero just suck ass. Literally the new Killer Instinct looks disappointing because you need to buy the fighters (mostly).

[Anonymous No.1007590]

>>1007471
He is implying that no, it wasn't. I have not played it, so I could not say one way or the other, but come on, man. Learn how to context clues.

[Anonymous No.1007831]

>>999591
Warp. RIP Kenji Eno, you were one of the good ones.

[Anonymous No.1008039]

>>1000156
based infogrames
their asterix platformers were the best, rip in pieces ;_;

[Anonymous No.1008048]

>>1001769
The DKCR series is developed with absolutely no involvement from Rare.

[Anonymous No.1008073]

>>1008039
yfw infogrames bought out studios themselves