What the actual fuck happened to this company? Does anyone have any insider information? Was it a case of talent leaving to go other places or did they get pozzed after a buyout or what? Lots of their early work is great. Spyro, Ratchet, and even Resistanc

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Anonymous 05/07/18 (Mon) 21:56:39 afc583 No.14754578

What the actual fuck happened to this company? Does anyone have any insider information? Was it a case of talent leaving to go other places or did they get pozzed after a buyout or what? Lots of their early work is great. Spyro, Ratchet, and even Resistance started off good. What gives?

I'm generally curious about stuff like this (especially in light of all the dirt on Obsidian coming out), but more specifically this company. Any former employees or anything know something special?

Anonymous 05/07/18 (Mon) 21:59:02 657879 No.14754597

>>14754578

They're currently working on the new Spiderman game for the PS4

Anonymous 05/07/18 (Mon) 22:02:31 e36028 No.14754611

They've bled talent in the past but during the 7th generation they really started to slip up. I don't they lost a lot of key people or anything.

Anonymous 05/07/18 (Mon) 22:05:43 9cb474 No.14754621

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>>14754597

>>14754578

I just taped insomniac games and get on 'images' and this is what I found

Anonymous 05/07/18 (Mon) 22:09:32 9dd6f6 No.14754642

If I had to take a guess:

>ran out of actual talent to leech off of

>Sony imploding and restructuring themselves probably circumcised the staff

>Caliphornia

Anonymous 05/07/18 (Mon) 22:14:33 e36028 No.14754666

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>>14754621

>doesn't have their spyro logo

Insomniac never was a flawless dev, ratchet 3 was pretty weak, but it's clear they've declined from decent to sub par.

Anonymous 05/07/18 (Mon) 22:19:30 8d2f15 No.14754689

>>14754578

wait what is this dirt on Obsidian coming out?

Anonymous 05/07/18 (Mon) 22:23:29 e96a88 No.14754715

>>14754689

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CDN-5QjGGKnQa4Bycmtn3AVtb-c9UfSqPmYQhzHlaVI/edit

Anonymous 05/07/18 (Mon) 22:26:20 93969e No.14754728

>>14754621

>they changed their logo

feels bad man

Anonymous 05/07/18 (Mon) 22:33:59 818ed4 No.14754754

>>14754578

>What the actual fuck happened to this company? Does anyone have any insider information?

Listen to the dev commentary for R&C 2 and 3 in particular., if you're not a complete idiot you probably can already guess why shit's fucked.

Anonymous 05/08/18 (Tue) 00:26:09 bd124b No.14755246

>>14754666

1 >= 3 > 2

2 Really felt like a prototype to 3.

Anonymous 05/08/18 (Tue) 00:28:59 5696db No.14755257

>>14755246

The PS3 games were really good.

Anonymous 05/08/18 (Tue) 00:30:39 e36028 No.14755265

>>14755246

2 is far better than 3. 3 is full of empty worlds where you only do one thing then fuck off to the next. 3 feels more like a prototype to deadlocked.

Anonymous 05/08/18 (Tue) 00:39:49 bd124b No.14755293

>>14755265

In 1 the branching paths actually felt like you where exploring some weird new part of the world most of the time. In 2 the branching paths all felt the same like you where on one long path. At least from how I remembered it.

Anonymous 05/08/18 (Tue) 00:49:00 e36028 No.14755330

>>14755293

You aren't totally wrong, I see where you're coming from. 2 feels more like you're visiting distinct game play sections in each route. Grind rail, story progress, time sink, secondary route for a coordinate, etc. This is kind of a problem with the series as a whole. Ratchet 3 just has quite a few more levels with even less of this stuff.

Anonymous 05/08/18 (Tue) 00:51:01 deb661 No.14755339

Sony bled them after losing spyro as hard as they could for ratchet games.

It's kind of the inverse of the Naughty Dog situation where they were forced to burn out a new IP every four games.

Anonymous 05/08/18 (Tue) 00:56:20 8eb91f No.14755363

I lost faith in Insomniac a while ago but god damn it I'm a Spider-Fag so I'm gomma be getting their game

Anonymous 05/08/18 (Tue) 02:28:26 c71ae4 No.14755798

>>14754642

Insomniac has always been independent, they have never been owned by Sony or anyone else.

It's almost a blessing that Overstrike got fucked up and became Fuse, which flopped hard. It discouraged EA from trying to buy them.