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Interview with Insomniac founder & CEO Ted Price about Fuse

Last week, I had the chance to sit down with Insomniac founder and CEO Ted Price and ask him some questions about his studio's upcoming game, Fuse.

SonyAddict4422d ago

I think this game may be in trouble as ted has been popping up a lot on the interwebs..I think insomniac is starting to panic
about fuse!.

yaz2884422d ago

the game is out next week.. like Levine with bioshock.. they are just promoting the game.

SonyAddict4422d ago

I understand that they are promoting it but ken didn't promote as much as ted but BioShock was epic and fuse is just generic looking rubbish!.

Reibooi4422d ago

I kinda sad about this who thing with Fuse. I wanna know why it turned out like this. How much of this was Insomniac being off and just making a game that doesn't look like a hit and how much was this EA making them to crap they did want to do and put out this game?

I mean Overstrike looked interesting when they talked about it and granted we never saw game play the trailer looked fun, funny and interesting and Fuse doesn't look like any of those things. It's sad.

MilkMan4422d ago

Sorry Ted, this game is about as generic as it gets. I might as well be playing Inversion and at least I got to go upside down in that game.

There is no strategy in FUSE just a heaping mess of running and gunning. I was to happy to delete that demo you guys put out. Sorry for you but f@ck EA, they deserve to get screwed.

Maybe they'll focus their money and attention on the cell phone market as their programmer was so gleeful in saying.

NarooN4422d ago

This game will most likely flop, sadly. Wonder what made them change it from Overstrike to Fuse. Maybe it was EA, wanting them to make it more "gritty"...which if that's true, then it's incredibly dumb. Go check out Battlefield Heroes. It looks similar to TF2 and Overstrike.

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How ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Did Dual Protagonists Right (And Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Didn’t)

Shaz from Pixel Swish: “Both Insomniac Games and Ubisoft have given us games with dual protagonists. However, where Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart’s duo feel exactly the same, Assassin’s Creed Shadow’s Yasuke and Naoe feel unique.”

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-Foxtrot82d ago

They are exactly the same because it's another version of Ratchet within the multiverse. It's not Ratchet himself or a female version of him but it's someone else who's taken his place / role within that Universe.

The_Hooligan80d ago

Agreed! A better comparison take would have been between AC Syndicate and AC Shadows.

gold_drake82d ago

with ratchet, they are the same, they play the exact same.

im not even sure why this needs to be said, we all know.

isarai82d ago

They weren't trying to make them play differently, literally 2 versions of the same person. Wo ur saying they failed at something they never set out to do 🤨

Profchaos80d ago

What in the f who even thought of that concept and connect these two games that released years apart and have nothing to do with each other.

You could of said fuel protagonist vs other times where AC did duel protagonist or a game like GTA v that allows for on the fly switching

Like how desperate are they for clicks

Levii_9280d ago

Rivet's character was more useless and forced than Abby from TLOU2.

MULTIVERSESSSSSSS!!! Remember that trend people lol? Also remeber how a beloved vilain Dr Neferious was reduced to a braindead wimp and a parody of himself?

P_Bomb80d ago

“MULTIVERSESSSSSSS!!! Remember that trend people lol?”

It’s still going on. Especially @ Marvel.

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Insomniac Collectively Decided to "Double Down on Story-Driven Character Action Games"

Insomniac's Ted Price talks about the ballooning game development costs, and how it was a studio decision to focus on single-player games.

Cacabunga103d ago (Edited 103d ago )

Wise decision, but give up a little on spiderman please as well

darkwalker103d ago

In other words, Sony forced them lol.

isarai103d ago

Literally only ever made sp games even when they left sony 🙄😒

-Foxtrot102d ago (Edited 102d ago )

Not really. These days it would be more believable if you found out Sony tried to force them do generic live service slop

isarai102d ago

Which they did and cancelled it, thank goodness 😆

Inverno103d ago

I'll be that guy. Their writing needs work cause the story in both Spiderman games were pretty bad. I'm all for more SP games, I prefer em, but man is writing in games in general just gawd awful.

Extermin8or3_103d ago

First spidermans writing was fine, second hand some points where it could have been better and based on the leaks due to the hack alot of content for cut for whatever reason. Had it managed to stick to the story that was originally written without the sometimes frankly weird changes that were made - it would have been much better written.

Inverno103d ago

I thought the first game was too crowded and the characters that should've gotten more attention didn't get enough due to having a rushed Sinister 6 inclusion. But hey thnx for the reply rather than just hitting the disagree.

-Foxtrot102d ago

"enough due to having a rushed Sinister 6 inclusion"

It wouldn't be so bad if they continued this development in background of Spiderman 2 so when Spiderman 3 comes you had the Green Goblin and the Sinister Six as the end goal.

Oh but no...they decided to have Kraven kill most of them off screen and them kill Kraven off at the end when he was part of the original Sinister Six in the comics, how dumb can you get.

Flewid638103d ago

This isn't even the consensus on these games.

-Foxtrot102d ago (Edited 102d ago )

Depends on what game

First Spiderman had a great story

Miles Morales was alright changing the Tinkerer, giving them a brand new origin as Miles old friend to give him a villain over creating his own original villain (which he REALLY needs, even in the comics) was pretty silly. Some of her decisions, writing wise, in the game just made no sense where her sacrifice in the end didn't feel earned.

Spiderman 2...I'll give you that one. They tried to include far too many things story wise and they just couldn't spin that many plates. Harry's return, friction with MJ, Miles, Miles friends and Family, Hailey, Venom, the Symbiote war, Kraven and his Last Hunt. It just felt all over the place and Peter didn't to really shine like he did in the first game.

Extermin8or3_102d ago

Second game was subject to loads of cuts which is why the story feels off I think. https://youtu.be/VEONGKG1gL...

Travesty103d ago

Where are the days where we could have both a really good story and a really fun multiplayer without sacrificing one of the two.. It doesn’t have to be a live service title to be multiplayer. I understand there’s a lot of work that goes into keeping up with it, but still.

Inverno103d ago

Those days were left on the PS360 era. I spent too much time during my depressed teenage years playing and sucking at Uncharted 2. I know people really enjoyed the Gears MP too, and Halo doesn't need to even be explained. Some games did it right, too many tacked it on, and F2P ruined it all.

isarai103d ago

I think the main problem is that everyone overthinks the multiplayer. It doesn't have to be some Grand live service game with season passes and a giant open world map with a Battle Royale mode.

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Insomniac's Delisted VR Games Are Back on the Meta Store

Insomniac: "An update about our VR titles: they're coming back to the Meta Store!

The affected games should be live again: Edge of Nowhere, Stormland, and Feral Rites. 🥽

VR players, we appreciate your patience while we work with Meta restore access to these games."