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I have recently been involved in a pretty good debate.

Whom in your opinion is the best developer of the last 20 years.

Konami: Castlevania, Salamander, Contra. etc.

Capcom: Street Fighter, Mega Man, 1942,43, etc

Tecmo: Ninja Gaiden, Tecmo Super Bowl, Star Force, etc


I know tecmo doesn't have as many releases, but damn, what they have is fucking outstanding.

Please vote and give us some comments.

Capcom all the way. That and I can't seem to get the hang of any fighter game that isn't theirs.

Gonna have to vote Capcom, though I loved Tecmo Bowl back on my NES

Although I think Nintendo tops any of them, as do a few other companies such as Square Enix (hugs Kingdom Hearts box).

Has Tecmo even done anything notable within the last ten years, other than the Dead or Alive and Monster Rancher series?

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Has Tecmo even done anything notable within the last ten years?

Um, yeah, Ninja Gaiden Black and deception ring a bell?

Never heard of Deception.

Frankly in terms of relative overall output, I've give it to either Capcom or Konami, but beyond that, I frankly can't decide.

EDIT: Aw fuck, just give it to Capcom and award Konami an honourable mention.

Wait. None of them made Soul Calibur, did they?

Have any of these companies made a game I care about ?

No.

If there is a greatest, it's Nintendo. Both in quantity and sustained quality.

Since E3 I've realized what a machine Nintendo is when it comes to pumping out games. They're working on like a dozen Wii titles (a half dozen or so for launch and a bunch for later on, not counting the unannounced games), a good two dozen or more DS titles, and several AAA GameCube titles (Zelda, Kirby's Adventure, and Super Paper Mario), while at the same time assisting Ubisoft and several other companies in the development of Wii titles, developing the console itself, and developing new virtual console titles. It's ridiculous. And somehow they keep it from being a spew of crap like other big companies do sometimes (eyes EA).

My vote is for Konami.

They're responsible for:

• Frogger
  The Metal Gear series
  Dance Dance Revolution
  The Simpsons & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle arcade games
  Vendetta (one of my all-time favorite arcade games)

Bounty wrote:Have any of these companies made a game I care about ?

No.

Have you ever been to a fucking arcade?! Street Fighter? Marvel vs. Capcom? Sheesh. At least acknowledge some of the all-time arcade classics, man.

Naturally, many days spent at an arcade perfecting my goddamn Hadokens will tell you that Capcom is my pick. Contra and Castlevania both whoop ass, so lotsa love to them too. And somewhere buried under a pile of broken jewel cases I have Tecmo's Deception. Dumb game, really, but my pals and I used to have all kinds of fun with it.

Have you ever been to a fucking arcade?! Street Fighter? Marvel vs. Capcom? Sheesh. At least acknowledge some of the all-time arcade classics, man.

I know about SF and other Simon Says button-combo-whoring..."fighting" games. That does not mean I care about them in any way.

Metal Gear and Castlevania give it to Konami by a very wide margin.

Bounty wrote:I know about SF and other Simon Says button-combo-whoring..."fighting" games. That does not mean I care about them in any way.

A lack of arcades in your childhood must be the true cause of this irrational behavior.

MGS versus RE. Why must you do this to me?!

Capcom, simply for the three Mega Man X games on the SNES.

This is by no means any easy decision. I love Konami for their Metal Gear series, and Castlevania series. But I also love Capcom for Megaman, Resident Evil, etc. This is simply not a fair choice.

Gonna have to be Tecmo, I think. Ninja Gaiden, Project Zero, and Dead or Alive.

With Metal Gear and Silent Hill Konami come second, but the only Capcom must have for me is Breath of Fire.

Konami created Castlevania, Gradius, MGS and the Turtles games. Therefore they win.

Bounty wrote:

Have you ever been to a fucking arcade?! Street Fighter? Marvel vs. Capcom? Sheesh. At least acknowledge some of the all-time arcade classics, man.

I know about SF and other Simon Says button-combo-whoring..."fighting" games. That does not mean I care about them in any way.

Sounds like someone who completely doesn't undertand fighting games. Going into a "dial-a-combo" is a great way to get parried and your face beat in.

I refer you to the Daigo versus Justin Wong CvS2 final, where Daigo was at a sliver of life. Chip damage would kill him. He knew it, JWong knew it, the audience knew it. So what happens? JWong throws Chun-Li's super, only to get all 14 hits parried and gets destroyed.

"Dial-a-combo" works great against your neighborhood 14 year olds, but it rapidly diminishes in effect the better you get.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:MGS versus RE. Why must you do this to me?!

One could argue that only one or two games in the RE sereis were truly good, and the series was stagnant. That was before they released RE4, which was kickass.

Capcom FTW!!!

Capcom's Megaman X games and three Megaman Legends games win the whole thing. Second in line would be Tecmo (Dead Or Alive series, Ninja Gaiden) and then Konami in third.

Konami takes the top spot for me by a wide margin. Castlevania, TMNT, MGS, Gradius, and Contra, not to mention Gensou Suikoden, Silent Hill, and Zone of the Enders. They started good and continued to stay good throughout their run, with only a few hiccups (Castlevania 64 and the original ZOE, anyone?).

Capcom would come in second on this list primarily due to Megaman X and Breath of Fire. Though there have been outstanding Street Fighter and Resident Evil/Biohazard games, these aren't as consistently good.

For me, the Ninja Gaiden games are the only recent thing that Tecmo's made recently that I've been interested in (I simply could not get into DoA at all). They really can't take a top slot for me as a modern developer on account of a single series, despite a large stock of older games that I'd liked.

Silent Hill was the only survival horror game to really scare the shit out of me. Resident Evil and Dino Crisis were simply too campy to take seriously. Oh yes, there were "startling" moments, but those simply amounted to "boo raptor/zombie dog, lol" and failed to be downright soul-smotheringly disturbing like SH.

Silver Paladin wrote:

Bounty wrote:

Have you ever been to a fucking arcade?! Street Fighter? Marvel vs. Capcom? Sheesh. At least acknowledge some of the all-time arcade classics, man.

I know about SF and other Simon Says button-combo-whoring..."fighting" games. That does not mean I care about them in any way.

Sounds like someone who completely doesn't undertand fighting games. Going into a "dial-a-combo" is a great way to get parried and your face beat in.

I refer you to the Daigo versus Justin Wong CvS2 final, where Daigo was at a sliver of life.

You have to link that shit homey!