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Game companies you wished that came back

Sanatana

Sanatana

Banned
Mar 2, 2020
544
Pacific Northwest
I'm talking about companies that either shut their doors completely, have been on a long hiatus, or were merged with another company. Which video game company do you wish was still around?
For me it's Interplay or Looking Glass Studios.
 

Deleted member 34949

Account closed at user request
Banned
Nov 30, 2017
19,101
Treasure is pretty much a holdings company at this point, so them.

Also, Double Helix was just coming into their own before they got bought out by Amazon. Killer Instinct and Strider 2014 were leaps and bounds above any of their previous work in quality, and I was really looking forward to seeing them grow further.
 
Z-Beat

Z-Beat

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
31,920
Most of the game companies I liked didn't die, they were absorbed by Activision into infinite Call of Duty machines
 
GameChanger

GameChanger

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
1,935
Old Bioware, old Bungie and old Dice.

Edit: Old Bethesda Game Studios. The folks that made Skyrim.
 
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Deleted member 16876

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
39,148
Might not count but Sony Japan Studios and all their teams. Gravity Rush, Soul Sacrifice, Tokyo Jungle, Ape Escape, Patapon, Wild Arms, Arc the Lad, Siren... I miss them so much.

Also Raven Software. They used to make so many cool games like Wolf 2009, X Men Origins, Soldier of Fortune and many others. They are too talented to be wasted on CoD and I wish Activision didn't own them.

Guerilla Cambridge, the guys who made Killzone Mercenary deserved a better chance.
 

Deleted member 73507

Banned
Jul 1, 2020
327
Pandemic, Visceral and Sony Japan shutdowns hurt me the most.
High Moon studios hasn't been shut down but they've been damned to the same fate as every other Activision developer, to work on COD until the end of time.
 
Ubersnug

Ubersnug

Member
Oct 25, 2017
115
Scotland
Bullfrog, back during Peter Molyneux's golden years. Some of the games they come up with were ground breaking at the time.
 
Vommy

Vommy

Chicken Chaser
Member
Oct 27, 2017
4,947
Bullfrog with a new Dungeon Keeper would make my heart explode
 
SolarLune

SolarLune

Member
Jun 22, 2021
905
Hudson, yeah. Wish Bomberman was still around.

Quintet, also, yeah - Robotrek and Terranigma, good lord.
 
nodakel

nodakel

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 27, 2017
438
United States
Treasure, Alpha Dream, Skip Ltd.

I'd love to see what a Mario & Luigi RPG on the Switch would be like, and a Chibi Robo game like the original one. Also, it's a crime that Treasure hasn't developed many games recently. I have a soft spot for Wario World.
 
egg

egg

The Fallen
Oct 26, 2017
6,669
Evolution.
Imagine what a PS5 powered Driveclub or Motorstorm would look like, good lord.
 
John Rabbit

John Rabbit

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,190
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Scottoest

Scottoest

Member
Feb 4, 2020
11,417
Warms my heart to see so many mentions of my choice - Bullfrog. Psygnosis would be up there for me too. I have fond memories of playing the first Destruction Derby on my PC.
 
KORNdog

KORNdog

Banned
Oct 30, 2017
8,001
Pandemic

I actually feel like they would have fit in that AA space alongside devs like rebellion these days. I miss the Marc's series a lot and the saboteur was super underated.
 
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