Unfortunately the whole company is suffering as a result of Fuse at the moment, in my opinion.  The main team are pursuing it in a rather misguided attempt to make a 'mainstream appeal' title.  I have no doubt that it's going to turn out as a fairly decent game, but they're alienating the Insomniac fans with it's new (no doubt EA forced) direction; while failing to draw in any of the CoD crowd that they seem to be aiming for.

Meanwhile, the North Carolina studio is left with the Ratchet & Clank games and they're just a bit of a mess in all honesty.  I'll happily believe that they're good developers but between this + All 4 One they've demonstrated that they're nowhere near the level of the Burbank team.  They keep trying to innovate the R&C series when it needs no innovation at all - fans are crying out for another universe-trotting adventure like "A Crack in Time" and we get this instead.  As a Ratchet fan, I am going to play & hopefully enjoy this, but it's not the Ratchet game I want to be playing.

Honestly, I'm such a big Insomniac fan but Ted Price really need to sort out his teams at the moment.  They're not getting the best of anything.  If I were them (and I am biased, so take this with a grain of salt), I would set the Burbank team on making a PS4 'proper' Ratchet game because even if it only sells 2 million or so those are 'guaranteed' sales - the fans will turn out for it and I'm sure Sony will happily fund it.  And I'd put their North Carolina team on a new project or something.  They're betting on Fuse becoming their next Resistance: Fall of Man, but I feel circumstance brought about the success of that game and they're not looking like repeating it with what they've made so far.

I'll happily be proved wrong though, I hope the game sells well and brings them lots of money, when they're good they're my favourite developers in the business so I wish them all the best!

Unfortunately the whole company is suffering as a result of Fuse at the moment, in my opinion.  The main team are pursuing it in a rather misguided attempt to make a 'mainstream appeal' title.  I have no doubt that it's going to turn out as a fairly decent game, but they're alienating the Insomniac fans with it's new (no doubt EA forced) direction; while failing to draw in any of the CoD crowd that they seem to be aiming for.

Meanwhile, the North Carolina studio is left with the Ratchet & Clank games and they're just a bit of a mess in all honesty.  I'll happily believe that they're good developers but between this + All 4 One they've demonstrated that they're nowhere near the level of the Burbank team.  They keep trying to innovate the R&C series when it needs no innovation at all - fans are crying out for another universe-trotting adventure like "A Crack in Time" and we get this instead.  As a Ratchet fan, I am going to play & hopefully enjoy this, but it's not the Ratchet game I want to be playing.

Honestly, I'm such a big Insomniac fan but Ted Price really need to sort out his teams at the moment.  They're not getting the best of anything.  If I were them (and I am biased, so take this with a grain of salt), I would set the Burbank team on making a PS4 'proper' Ratchet game because even if it only sells 2 million or so those are 'guaranteed' sales - the fans will turn out for it and I'm sure Sony will happily fund it.  And I'd put their North Carolina team on a new project or something.  They're betting on Fuse becoming their next Resistance: Fall of Man, but I feel circumstance brought about the success of that game and they're not looking like repeating it with what they've made so far.

I'll happily be proved wrong though, I hope the game sells well and brings them lots of money, when they're good they're my favourite developers in the business so I wish them all the best!

To their credit they are working on stuff that interests and inspires them more. The theory being that when they are most inspired they will make the better game.

The problem of course is that they are not keeping the player in mind as much as they should while they pursue whatever might be of interest to them.

after playing resistence i think i realized they weren't quite the quality developer i thought they were.  still love the mainline R&C games but innovation doesn't seem to be their thing.