The Best PC Game Developers of All Time

ZTGameDomain has counted down what they feel are the best PC game studios of all time, and quite a few RPG developers made the list. Included among them are Westwood (Nox), Lionhead (Fable), Black Isle (Planescape: Torment), Bethesda (The Elder Scrolls), BioWare (Baldur’s Gate), and Blizzard (Diablo). Here’s their BIS blurb, for better or worse:

Ok well let’s just get the big one out of the way, it’s a little game you might of heard of, it changed RPG’s forever, had an amazing setting, yada, yada, yada, it’s called Fallout, the post apocalyptic black humour, open world RPG that landed in the laps of PC gamers in 1997 and blew away our concept of what was possible. Fallout was the first truly open world game that allowed one to chose how they wanted to play, allowing for people to customize their character in a million different ways, while also giving them choice, choice that would actually changed the world. This gem was followed a year later by Fallout 2 which is considered superior to its younger brother, and made people realize that when it came to RPG’s, Black Isle was one of the best. I could stop there but then I would be ignoring the fact that they developed the amazing IceWind Dale, the legendary Planescape, and even helped produced a little title called Baldur’s Gate. Though this studio ended on a sad note of shutting down in 2003, most of the team found a new home at Obsidian Entertainment, which of course created Knight Of The Old Republic 2, and Never-WinterNights 2.