Insomniac is one of the most technically gifted developers in the industry and they put out titles are are consistently of the highest quality. The best ever? Hardly the best developer ever was Dreamcast era Sega. At that point in time Sega made top notch platfomers, fighting games, racing games, RPGs, action titles, etc. etc.

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Yes. I'd say they are. and yes, I am a huge fan of them. =)

First let's separate the idea of a company (as in what's it like to work there, how ) from their output (are their games good? Are they a reliable developer?).

As a company Insomniac would seem to be absolutely in the top tier in their industry. Awards for employee satisfaction and by all accounts a great place to work - having watched a few of the recent RFOM2 promotional interviews they seem nice and easy going : no massive egos and rock star posturing from those guys.

As a games developer they're pretty top rate too in terms of quality of product and delivery. I don't think I can recall an Insomniac title being delayed ever - hell they're about to release their third PS3 game when others have just launched their first. Even today RFOM remains a solid 88% or so FPS IMHO vs fare like Turok and Haze that is fun to play through.

But like Rocketpig while I think evey game of their's I've seen - which is essentially most since first R&C onwards - has been very good...

I think they've never quite been absolutely amazing (although Dr Nefarious and his butler are the best comic bad guys ever in probably the best R&C to date I reckon).

Still, If I was a console manufacturer I'd rather have a company like Insomniac pump out quality, strong selling titles like it does than a company that only produces a few titles every two or three years or delivers games of uneven quality.

Taking everything together they're not a good gaming company - they're a great gaming company!

I almost wish they'd go multi-platform so others could enjoy their games which are always fun and well made.

No they suck, i mean Resistance fall of man in 2006, followed by Ratchet and Clank in 2007, and Resistance 2 in 2008.

horrible company. Terrible games. I mean resistance only got an 86 for a brand new IP, and Ratchet scored a low 88.

/sarcasm of course


But back on topic, they're an amazing company, and will only get bigger and better.

@OP; No they're not, they are frickin' brilliant!

Is a good company nothing more.

 I agree with this. Sega was damn good.

They're good, but not the best.

Google isn't as good as they lead people to believe. I feel that you're insulting insomniac by comparing them to Google.

AFAIK Valve employees are quite happy too.

Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters and Secret Agent Clank say Hi!

OT: Yes I really do like Insomniac Games and the Company.