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What game studio or publisher has contributed mosty to your game addiction, upbringing and the most fun?
For me my addition started with Microprose which for me is the GOAT still: the best games and game series imho have come from Microprose originally:
Sid Meier's Civilization series: Doesn't need explanation imho.
Transport Tycoon (Deluxe) ( I still consider games like Factorio would never be as good without Transport Tycoon to give an example. For me the first game I ever bought on pc-cdrom. I used to get up at 6am before school and before my parents were awake to play this in secret. Thousands and thousands of hours wasted, and later with OpenTTD.
Rollercoaster Tycoon series.
Railroad Tycoon series.
Masters of Orion / Star Trek Birth of the Federation.
Colonization.
Worms...
Xcom.
Microprose single-handedly cost me years of my life, but in a good and very educational way and helped with my upbringing, sparking interest and teaching knowlege. I think very fondly of them and their games.
Honorable mentions:
Ensemble Studio's (Aoe1, 2 and AOM): A very strong runner up, I cannot explain how much I loved AOE and later AOE2. I was 11 years old and in a clan playing AOE2 on the MSN gaming zone, good times... Because of this game I learned HTML (at 11-12 years old, as I wanted to update our clan website) and later programming.
Maxxis ( Sim city and Sims series)
Rockstar games ( or specific, R* North, needs no explanation)
Impressions Games/Sierra (Pharaoh, Caesar 3), I learned so much from these games...
Westwood Studios (command and conquer, RA, Generals, and later on the same engine LOTR:BFME for example). Just ******* awesome, Frank Klepacki through the speakers, Tanya, Kirov reporting, etc....
Blue Byte (Settlers series)
ID Games/softwake (Commander Keen series, and everything off their Q3 engine, I loved Mohaa, CoD)
Valve (for resparking PC gaming when Source came out and Steam being the first digital tv store success)
EA Digital Illusions CE and later Dice (NFS series, Mohaa, Battlefield 1942, Desert Combat for BF1942, BF2)
Game Freak (I'm not a huge Ninendo fan, but Pokemon for gameboy color was awesome)
Lesser known european publishers but still awesome :
Joymania (Knights and Merchants)
CSC Game world ( Cossacks series)
As you can see mostly older game studio's, as they contributed highly to more modern games.
Of the modern companies I guess I like CD Project Red, for their DRM-less and continued support of superb games. And GOG store of course...
Most modern game studio's are trash compared to the good old days imho...
What game studio or publisher has contributed mosty to your game addiction, upbringing and the most fun?
For me my addition started with Microprose which for me is the GOAT still: the best games and game series imho have come from Microprose originally:
Sid Meier's Civilization series: Doesn't need explanation imho.
Transport Tycoon (Deluxe) ( I still consider games like Factorio would never be as good without Transport Tycoon to give an example. For me the first game I ever bought on pc-cdrom. I used to get up at 6am before school and before my parents were awake to play this in secret. Thousands and thousands of hours wasted, and later with OpenTTD.
Rollercoaster Tycoon series.
Railroad Tycoon series.
Masters of Orion / Star Trek Birth of the Federation.
Colonization.
Worms...
Xcom.
Microprose single-handedly cost me years of my life, but in a good and very educational way and helped with my upbringing, sparking interest and teaching knowlege. I think very fondly of them and their games.
Honorable mentions:
Ensemble Studio's (Aoe1, 2 and AOM): A very strong runner up, I cannot explain how much I loved AOE and later AOE2. I was 11 years old and in a clan playing AOE2 on the MSN gaming zone, good times... Because of this game I learned HTML (at 11-12 years old, as I wanted to update our clan website) and later programming.
Maxxis ( Sim city and Sims series)
Rockstar games ( or specific, R* North, needs no explanation)
Impressions Games/Sierra (Pharaoh, Caesar 3), I learned so much from these games...
Westwood Studios (command and conquer, RA, Generals, and later on the same engine LOTR:BFME for example). Just ******* awesome, Frank Klepacki through the speakers, Tanya, Kirov reporting, etc....
Blue Byte (Settlers series)
ID Games/softwake (Commander Keen series, and everything off their Q3 engine, I loved Mohaa, CoD)
Valve (for resparking PC gaming when Source came out and Steam being the first digital tv store success)
EA Digital Illusions CE and later Dice (NFS series, Mohaa, Battlefield 1942, Desert Combat for BF1942, BF2)
Game Freak (I'm not a huge Ninendo fan, but Pokemon for gameboy color was awesome)
Lesser known european publishers but still awesome :
Joymania (Knights and Merchants)
CSC Game world ( Cossacks series)
As you can see mostly older game studio's, as they contributed highly to more modern games.
Of the modern companies I guess I like CD Project Red, for their DRM-less and continued support of superb games. And GOG store of course...
Most modern game studio's are trash compared to the good old days imho...
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