| BenVTrigger said: I find it strange how everyone acts like Insomniac is this awful developer now. Have they had some misses? Yes FUSE was a truly awful game. But this is also the studio that released Crack in Time, a fantastic game. And this game looks like Insomniac finally realized what they are good at and are going all in. Personally I think it looks like the absolute best of Insomniac rolled into one title. |
Your comment was probably directed at others as well, but I did mention that I don't really trust them. That's not the same as calling them an awful developer.
The problem, the way I see it, is that Insomniac often don't seem to know which direction to take. They appear to have a leadership problem, in terms of overall vision for a project. They can focus intensely on certain areas, quite often to the detriment of others. So while some pieces of a game are really well designed, others are down right bizarrely flawed. They went in circles with Ratchet and Clank for the entire of the 7th gen. They started off with their new IP Resistance, took it in a totally new direction, then tried to settle in the middle with the final installment. When you put everything together, you start to wonder- who is calling the shots at the studio? And what is the reasoning behind some of their decisions?
They haven't been able to make a completely solid game in 5 years, and that was a continuation of an existing franchise with 6 previous releases, essentially their bread and butter. Im just skeptical about anything from them, after being hyped and excited about projects of theirs in the past, to sitting there playing them, slightly puzzled.
