Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet trailer is getting "mixed" reactions on Youtube

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Darc Requiem said:

Eric2048 said:

Big Disagree there. Insomniac is way too safe both gameplay and writing wise. Now more than ever.

Naughty Dog's writing used to be really good but their best writer is no longer at the studio and it shows. That's a big issue because Naugthy Dog, at least recently, makes games that live and die by their story telling. TLOU didn't get acclaim for it's gameplay, it got praise because of it's story telling. Insomniac games have story and gameplay to live on. Like Uncharted did in the past for ND. Insomniac has basically put the PS5 on it's back and released mulltiple quality titles. In the same time frame, Naughty has been re-heating and re-serving TLOU and TLOU2 to Playstation audience for what seven years (?) at this point.

Games, for me, at the end of the day are about an enjoyable experience. Slugging through a title with passable gameplay and bad story telling isn't going to cut it for me. This gets compounded if the games story telling and gameplay have a disconnect that dulls the effect of the message you are trying to get across. What makes great story telling isn't just what happens in a story but how the events of the story are conveyed. That latter aspect seems to have gone by the wayside at ND. Although it's not just them, it's become prevalent in entertainment as a whole.

Edit: This situation with Aloy's face bugs me for a different reason than most. At least I belive so. I'm tired of western developers expressing that women should not have to be beautiful while hiring beautiful women to model their characters. If you want more "average" looking women, then how about you employ them and pay them for their likeness. Paying someone to use their likeness and then altering it to the point that it looks nothing like them seems like a waste of development time and money. 

Agree on the Naughty Dog part. TLOU1 story was impeccable. Pinnacle of video games, IMO. P2 was clearly, CLEARLY inferior.

Tough for me to judge Insomniac because of Spider Man. Im just bored of it. Played the first one...very good. Got the dlc and everything. Think I got the platinum. Bought Miles Morales. Still very good. Got SM2....couldn't get through 2 or 3 hours of it. Its just more of the same. Im really bummed about it. I hope they can move on to other things because they are too talented to stay stagnated on that franchise. I did really enjoy Rift Apart, fwiw. 

I didnt really understand where you were coming from with Aloy's face but this explanation makes more sense to me. Frankly I'd be annoyed if they used me as a model for a video game (like that would ever happen) and then they made me uglier than I was IRL. But the paycheck probably makes up for it.