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Kyuu on 25 September 2025
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BraLoD said:
Kyuu said:

Insomniac will have released Miles Morales, Rift Apart, Spider-Man 2, Wolverine, and possibly one more game before Naughty Dog made their first current gen game 😆

All good games probably, never played them, but the funny thing is that I firmly believe Intergalactic will possibly be better than all of those combined.

Naughty Dog games are generation definying moments, so even as they missed their first go at this gen hardware with TLoU online, when their game do drop it has potential to outshine basically everything else released up to that point.

Unless quality gap is monumental, one masterpiece will never be better than 3 games of very high quality as far as I'm concerned. Playstation consoles have always been comfortably my favorite of their generations with the exception of X360 coming close. And the reason is the diversity and sheer numbers of games of very high quality in addition to the few "true masterpieces".

If I delete MGS and the top 10 PS1 games from the console's library, it would have still been the best platform of its generation imo, and comfortably ahead of N64 which in this scenario dominates the PS1 in a purely top 10 vs 10 comparison.

I don't want to talk much about TLoU2 which is obviously a sensitive topic. Some aspects about the game were excellent but it's just not the universal masterpiece some fans make it out to be. It's not in the same league as TLoU1 or Uncharted 2 which are on a tier of their own when it comes to Naughty Dog's games from an objective standpoint (the consensus). Personally, my favorite Naughty Dog game is Crash Team Racing, followed by TLoU1 and Uncharted 2. But then again, I don't really believe in ranking incomparable games anymore. CTR and Uncharted 2 provide different kinds of entertainment, as do games like Rift Apart and Spider-Man. Some things just can't be compared.

Naughty Dog does hold a better record at the absolute top, but Insomianc's combination of quality and productivity is admirable, and they deserve to be recognized as the superior developer these days. As someone who hasn't played anything from Insomniac since Ratchet PS2, I'm more excited for Wolverine (X-Men is my favorite comic book series) than Intergalactic. I don't think it's a sure thing that critics or people in general will prefer Intergalactic over Wolverine, let alone all of Insomniac's games combined.

Naughty Dog is more like Sony's Retro Studios nowadays. Their capability of making masterpieces doesn't justify the poor output.

Last edited by Kyuu - on 25 September 2025