OnlySP: Since the time that EA announced Overstrike way back when, I’ve constantly been asking myself what reason I have to pick up this game. Over the last few months though, it’s begun to pique my interest due to it’s cooperative gameplay and creative weaponry that Insomniac is so well known for. Sadly, I think FUSE will be one of those games that garners high review scores, but low sales due to EA’s lack of marketing of the game aside from a trailer every now and then and the fan feedback of the game due to EA’s partnership with Insomniac, leading many gamers to believe it will simply be another generic shooter under the EA brand.
Fuse from Insomniac Games is a co-op third-person shooter that is actually a blast to play alone, thanks to being able to switch between characters.
Whether self-published or under a larger company, these developers suffered their share of outside meddling.
The list is
Deus Ex Mankind Divided
Halo 2
Dragon Age 2
Fuse
Haze
Telltales's The Walking Dead
Dead Space 3
Dungeon Keeper
Need for Speed Payback
MGSV
Star Wars 1313
Lair
Middle Earth Shadow of War
GB says Halo 2 was terrible and they hail Halo 3 as being superior, but Halo 2 actually has a higher Metacritic and was actually a very fun game. I much preferred Halo 2 over Halo 3.
They rip Deus Ex MD yet if u ignore the overblown preorder controversy and the ridiculous little MTs it was actually received very well by critics. GB claims it had a poor reception, and it did commercially, but the game is an 84 Meta. It really didn't deserve to bomb commercially. If anything choose Deus Ex The Fall. Blame the publisher for turning a gritty, sophisticated stealth masterpiece into mobile trash.
I love me some Insomniac, but can we honestly blame EA for Fuse? Didn't Insomniac go multiplat in order to have more control? Yet EA made Fuse bad? I have to blame Ted Price on this one.
Sony wanted Six Axis implemented into Lair "allegedly" but Lair was flawed well beyond the Six Axis control scheme.
GB has a line where they say 'if u thought Ubisoft was above this" and then they mention Haze. Ubisoft is among the worst offenders, why would we think they are above mismanagement and greed when AC is ridiculously milked and their games are often stuffed with MTs? And who keeps buying The Crew? The Crew 2, a terrible sequel to a terrible game. Virtually every Ubisoft game is a "service" based game with MTs. Oh, and they've had numerous downgrades this gen. The funny thing is, ppl somehow slammed Sony for Haze.
Blame Disney for 1313, they were the ones who cut development once they acquired Lucas.
Project Hammer is another. Nintendo royally fucked over NST with that game leading to its cancelation and by that point, they were forced to change it to a Mii party game. Phantom Dust and Scalebound from MS as well. Sony with Lair.
Sometimes, games change drastically between their initial pitch and the version players get their hands on. Such was the case with these five games that would have been totally different if they'd stuck to their original pitch.
Oh hell no, Borderlands is perfect the way it is, that gritty/serious vibe would have killed the game
if this game had the ff13 battle system it would have been a joy to play. it just doesnt seem like a ff game to me
Twinfinite you come with some pretty cool lists but the fact that they're multi page kills it.
I was happy with how Prey turned out, but there was a reveal for Prey 2 and it looked awesome. They should still develop that concept into a stand alone game.
Have you seen the boxart? Casuals still buy games based on boxart.
The coregamer that visits sites like this, alot of them are still mad about Overstrike turning into this generic tps and the other half doesnt even know the game exists, because there is absolutely no marketing from EA. They should have never folded to EA's focus group and just say bleep you EA we will find another publisher for Overstrike.
Its what Naughty dog did after a marketing firm hired by Sony didnt want Ellie on the boxart or behind Joel.
Its what Ken Levine should have done. Even after a marketing firm did research in a frat house and most of those guys said they buy games based on their boxart and they have never heard of Bioshock. Elizabeth played a bigger role in the game to me then Booker, she shouldve been part of the boxart not shoved to the back.
Sorry for my long rant. But it pisses me off that these studios and publishers think that aiming for the dudebro crowd is gonna get them a massive fanbase.
Maybe after this games bombs we will get the details behind the Overstrike to Fuse change.
I think the author is right in the fact that because of recent events at EA a good number of people will pass on the game simply because it's branded by EA.
Personally I don't really have an issue with EA, and have loved all of Insomniac's games so I'm interested in trying this one out. But EA has certainly done a horrendous job of marketing the game or even making it look that fun to begin with. I hope it does critically well, but on the financial side of things, maybe Insomniac will realize their true home is at Sony.
Preferred overstrikes humor.This is just another generic pos shooter
@logic.Trailers pretty much show what its going to be from my point of view
'Will FUSE be the Sleeper Hit of the Year?'
...No
Nope
EA butchered Insomniacs original game....yeah yeah yeah I know we didn't see that much it was just a CGI trailer but that trailer give many people our first impressions on this new game which made us think "Wow...finally fun looking shooter which isn't that serious, kind of like a Pixar game in a way. This has Insomniac written all over it"
However EA came along with their "game testers" and changed it. Now it's a generic third person shooter which looks terrible and dosen't look like a game Insomniac would make
The characters styles, the humour, the designs, the plot, the name of the game even....have all been changed for the worst.
I wouldn't be bothered about it that much but the problem was that Insomniac said themselves that they moved away from Sony and refused to be bought by them because they wanted freedom and didn't want to be restricted while making games...YET they've done just that, they go with the worst publisher this gen who doesn't allow such things. I mean look what they did to Bioware, Maxis with SimCity and Visceral Games, then you have some issues about what they've done to DICE.
Want to save Insomniac from sticking with EA in the future...don't buy the game. Insomniac will then go crawling back to Sony. I'd rather have an exclusive studio then a ruined one stuck with EA.