Which now-dead developer do you miss the most?

Origin or perhaps Irrational Games.. Looking Glass were great too.

Earlier posters have mentioned the ones I can think of. Of these, I'd probably say I miss Sir-Tech the most, with Troika as the runner up. Sir-Tech because we have no worthy successors to neither JA2 nor Wizardry 8 in my opinion, and I love both those games.Troika because no other RPG developer has pushed the boundaries quite as brilliantly. Although flawed technically, I find both VTM:B and Arcanum to be two of the greatest and most innovative games I've played.

If I'm talking about what developers whose games rate highest to me I would say Black Isle. But unlike with Wizardry and JA, I feel the games I enjoyed most from Black Isle have (FINALLY!!!) gotten not one but two great successors this year in PoE2 and PF:KM, so that torch is once again lit and held high. The same goes for Microprose, since I enjoyed both the new XCOM's and am really looking forward to Xenonauts 2.

Honourable mentions go to NWC/3DO, new iterations of Homm and MM are sorely missed in my gaming library. The Ubi Homms doesn't count.

Originally Posted by vurt
Origin or perhaps Irrational Games.. Looking Glass were great too.

Irrational Games were fantastic, definitely.

I wonder when we'll hear from Levine and Ghost Story Games. I'm really curious if they can pull off that "lego" narrative game they've been talking about.

I can usually come up with solutions for most design problems in my head (which is, of course, not that hard) - but I've yet to come up with a solution for the problem at hand.

I'm going to be very, very impressed if Levine and his team can truly make this work.