One of the few other companies that made games of similar quality for me was Bioware. The critically acclaimed Star Wars RPGs, the Mass Effect and DragonAge franchises started as something new and special, with MassEffects focusing on epic interactive storytelling and DA on complex yet accessible RPG. Sadly, after EA (the dev killer) bought them, DA turned into a hack n slay, and ME into a CoD in space. With a VERY bad ending.