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[fart town usa]

I thought this happened last year.

It's a shame what happened to Insomniac, they are still highly regarded but their level of quality has gone down and it's only going to get worse considering they are stuck making Marvel games. If this is controversial to you, I assume you slept on Insomniac until Spiderman was released.

They'll always be on my radar but I don't see myself buying their games again. Their back catalog is golden though and I'm glad I own it all, they seriously didn't have any misses from PSX-PS3 (that EA published game doesn't count).

 

[Barakov]

I always liked Ted Price. Sad to see him go. Not terribly optimistic about the three guys that going to replace him.

 

[fart town usa]

Also, RIP Dan Johnson

 

[fart town usa]

Ted Price did a lot of interviews when the PS3 was just around.

Insomniac has been a great studio. Fuse was probably their biggest misfire since their debut game Disruptor, and it mightve been down to EA as Overstrike looked more promising. I can do without the Marvel slop but Crack in Time, Resistance 1 and 3 were a few of the best games on PS3.

I should try to pick Into the Nexus one day. I actually liked it a ton but then just stopped because the PS4 arrived.

Into the Nexus is great, it's small like Quest for Booty but the graphics in ITN are stunning, it looks like a launch-era PS4 title IMO.

Full Frontal Assault is awesome as well, it's tower defense but you're also jet booting across stages, killing enemies and whatnot. I hate tower defense games but FFA is fun as hell.

 

[diffusionx]

I thought this happened last year.

It's a shame what happened to Insomniac, they are still highly regarded but their level of quality has gone down and it's only going to get worse considering they are stuck making Marvel games. If this is controversial to you, I assume you slept on Insomniac until Spiderman was released.

They'll always be on my radar but I don't see myself buying their games again. Their back catalog is golden though and I'm glad I own it all, they seriously didn't have any misses from PSX-PS3 (that EA published game doesn't count).

The Spiderman games are better than the Resistance series.

 

[fart town usa]

The Spiderman games are better than the Resistance series.

And R&C is better than Spiderman.

Resistance is also a FPS, silly comparison.

 

[diffusionx]

And R&C is better than Spiderman.

Resistance is also a FPS, silly comparison.

you're the one who said the quality has gone down, it has not.

 

[YCoCg]

And with that, Insomniac is dead.

 

[fart town usa]

you're the one who said the quality has gone down, it has not.

The writing has objectively become worse. Gameplay too, Insomniac peaked with R&C, hard to say if it was R&C 2, 3 or A Crack in Time. Those games are incredible.

It's been gradually downhill from the R&C remake to the present, Spiderman 1 is pretty dope but it's just Arkham combat with web slinging. That's fine and all but the studio has declined and I base that on playing all of their prior 3rd person games numerous times over the years. I have no interest in replaying Spiderman or even bothering with Spiderman 2.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Ted Price…no!!!

Happy retirement gaming legend.
Thanks for these 16 games:

1998 Spyro the Dragon 1
1999 Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage
2000 Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon
2002 Ratchet & Clank 1
2003 Ratchet & Clank 2: Going Commando
2004 Ratchet & Clank 3: Up Your Arsenal
2007 R&C Future: Tools Of Destruction
2008 R&C Future: Quest For Booty
2009 R&C Future: A Crack In Time
2013 Ratchet & Clank: Into The Nexus
2014 Sunset Overdrive
2016 Ratchet & Clank
2018 Spider-Man 1
2020 Spider-Man: Miles Morales
2021 Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart
2023 Spider-Man 2

If there's one thing Insomniac can do expertly is make quality games fast.

Outside of your list, they even made a slew of small scale, mobile and whatever Magic Leap One VR games are. Fuse was junk though.

I dont think you ever hear about it, but consider all the games they make that overlap they must have 2-3 separate internal teams making stuff all at once. Unless it's really just one massive team that can work on many projects at once(?)

 

[Hypereides]

The Spiderman games are better than the Resistance series.

Don't you dare diss the Resistance series, chubby Pikachu.

 

[Arsic]

He obviously doesn't need to work but he is only in his early 50's. Sony is losing a LOT of institutional knowledge and yet another OG from the old days. Not good. Being replaced with three guys is also not a good sign - the truth is that he was good enough to do all of that work himself, but this stuff doesn't work in the real world.

My company refused to price match a competitor sweeping up a guy I worked with. They had to instead hire 3 people to replace him too and in the end will pay more.

It’s just foolish corporate stuff but they’d rather the money be shifted in smaller pools than have one person making bigger bank. Then more people will want to get to that same income level who work there for a long time. They see it as setting a trend to have to pay everyone more in the long run.

 

[Arsic]

May the woke leave with him...

Likely the reason he left hahaha.

 

[saintjules]