The 6 worst video game developers in the world – Reader’s Feature

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A reader lists what he considers to be the worst video game developers working today, from Sonic Team to Quantic Dream.

There are many video game franchises now that can boast of being 30 years old or more, and in some cases it’s been the same developer working on them for all that time. Thanks to the current rush to buy up anyone that’s still independent most of these studios are now owned by other, bigger companies but even so, many of them have a long and proud history.

At the same time, there are a lot of developers out there that I can’t believe lasted past their first couple of games, let alone the decades they’ve now been around.

Perhaps you might say I’m being meanspirited but here is a list of the developers I can’t believe are still getting work. They’re all big companies, so I’m not picking on some two-person indie team, but how they got so big I have no idea…

I’ll give you three guesses as to what inspired me to write this Reader’s Feature. I didn’t buy the new Saints Row, there was never any chance of that, but for some reason my friend is a big fan and is always raving over the series. I’ve always found the games, including Red Faction, to be janky, unfunny trash and Saints Row somehow seems worse than ever.

He tried to show off the new game and quickly gave up as he batted lorries out of the way on a motorbike and watched enemies freak out in a mess of polygons while suspended 10 foot in the air. How Volition has lasted this long while making such mediocre games is a mystery to me. And I haven’t even mentioned Agents Of Mayhem, which may be the worst full price game I’ve ever seen!

This was the other big inspiration, given the way Halo Infinite is slowly transforming itself from a generally