Overstrike Becomes Fuse

[purifico]

Looks bland, uninteresting and generally boring. Good job EA.

 

[LtFerret]

...and with that I have lost all interest in this game.

EA now has zero games that interest me so that's some good news

 

[Vivid Kazumi]

ick reminds me of the art direction from DA 1 and DA 2

 

[Li Mu]

Perhaps it was looking far too interesting and fun, so they pulled it back and attempted to make it as generic and dull as possible. I mean, hell, who wants to play a game which is fun? I know I don't.

 

[DTWolfwood]

Colors must be an expensive commodity over at EA.

Well yet another game i am no longer interested in.

 

[Wicky_42]

That trailer was really quite fun-looking. Those screen-shots are not. Then again, it's perhaps not fair to bump those against each other, so I'll see what a trailer for the new one looks like...

 

[Living_Brain]

They made the force field green. WORST MISTAKE EVER.

 

[vallorn]

They made the force field green. WORST MISTAKE EVER.

It looks kinda weird to look through which wont help the "shoot through Dalton's field" mechanic.

 

[MorganL4]

Eh. I am not really interested in it now. It just looks so bland now.

yeah, that was basically my reaction as well. The new game doesn't look bad, just like a thousand other games. And the original trailer made me want to get invested in the characters, this just doesn't.

 

[Weresquirrel]

Before Diablo 3's release: "This game looks too colorful now!"

Before Fuse's release: "This game looks too gritty now!"

The thing is, both scenarios involve changing a perceived expectation. The Diablo crowd were expecting something gritty, and it wasn't up to their standards. Insomniac set up a light hearted premise and it's taken a gritty turn. And frankly, we're fine for gritty shooters. This could've filled a niche with very little competiton. How many quirky comical shooters are there on the market at the moment? The only one that comes to mind is Borderlands, and even then that holds a different market appeal.

Personally, I'm less enthusiastic about this now. Insomniac has a good pedigree of humourous games, and frankly I was excited for another one. I'll withold judgement until I know more details, because Insomniac have proven they are able to do gritty quite well. The Resistance and Infamous series were both excellent, and while Infamous did have moments of levity it was still a fairly serious affair. I'm more than willing to reckon this will be a good game, barring any interference from EA (I really don't want to jump on the auto-EA hate wagon, but frankly you can only judge a horse by the races its won, or in this case the horses it's hamstrung and sent to the glue factory).

Overstrike would've been a day 1 purchase.
Fuse will be a wait and see affair.

 

[SuperScrub]

Wow just wow I mean I know ruining game companies and franchises are EAs thing but even I have to admit I'm impressed at how quickly they worked with ruining Insomniac Games. It almost makes me want to buy their game, almost.

 

[shrekfan246]

And always remember grit will always sell more than humor and charm, just ask MGS, WOW, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. Obviously EA is such a genious, if only they were smart enough to take the humor out of Mass Effect 3 the one thing people complain about in the damn thing.

To be fair to Metal Gear Solid, as ridiculous and campy as the story is, the aesthetic has always been rather 'stylized grit'.

Spoiler: Why hello there, shall we commence with the buttkickary? WE SHALL

I wanna party with those motherfuckers!

As soon as I saw the redhead in the trenchcoat in the trailer, I said aloud "Wow, I'd like playing a game as that character."

Then I looked at the screenshots.

I didn't even know anything about this game and I'm now disappointed about the change.

 

[Irridium]

That trailer was really quite fun-looking. Those screen-shots are not. Then again, it's perhaps not fair to bump those against each other, so I'll see what a trailer for the new one looks like...

It looks like this:


Not exactly riveting stuff. Especially not compared to the OverStrike trailer.

*sigh*

 

[carlh267]

Before Diablo 3's release: "This game looks too colorful now!"

Before Fuse's release: "This game looks too gritty now!"

The thing is, both scenarios involve changing a perceived expectation. The Diablo crowd were expecting something gritty, and it wasn't up to their standards. Insomniac set up a light hearted premise and it's taken a gritty turn. And frankly, we're fine for gritty shooters. This could've filled a niche with very little competiton. How many quirky comical shooters are there on the market at the moment? The only one that comes to mind is Borderlands, and even then that holds a different market appeal.

Personally, I'm less enthusiastic about this now. Insomniac has a good pedigree of humourous games, and frankly I was excited for another one. I'll withold judgement until I know more details, because Insomniac have proven they are able to do gritty quite well. The Resistance and Infamous series were both excellent, and while Infamous did have moments of levity it was still a fairly serious affair. I'm more than willing to reckon this will be a good game, barring any interference from EA (I really don't want to jump on the auto-EA hate wagon, but frankly you can only judge a horse by the races its won, or in this case the horses it's hamstrung and sent to the glue factory).

Overstrike would've been a day 1 purchase.
Fuse will be a wait and see affair.

I can get your point, but the whole "Diablo is too colorful now" argument was a tad bit ridiculous.

I'm a little less enthusiastic, but I agree with you, Resistance was a great series (despite the floundering of the second game, I still enjoyed its set pieces). Just a correction: Infamous was made by Sucker Punch, not Insomniac.

 

[kitsuta]

With Fuse's more photo-realistic visuals and altered story came new weapon forms and amplified violence. Enemies melt, explode into chunks, spray blood when they're cut, and wobble their backward heads after unsettling neck-break animations.

This quote seems to imply that their reason for changing the aesthetic was because they wanted more violence. Because clearly, color and smooth shapes means no violence is allowed. Just look at Borderlands, or TF2, or Mortal Kombat. Oh no. Wait. So-called cartoony aesthetics actually let you get away with more gruesome, violent things because they are less likely to put people off. Oops?

It's their game and they're the only ones who really know the full process behind the decisions they made. And if you compare the models' faces, it's not that drastic of a change in style - most of my problem is with the design of the suits and robots, which have that overwrought "we couldn't stop adding useless bits" look that plagues so much modern scifi. And honestly, you can still have ugly robots with cartoony models.

It's really not a deal-breaker, but man did I like the original style better.

Spoiler: Oh, alright. I guess you'll be the ones carrying my awesome weapons. Got it".][img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9xocgWqvd1qlf9wno1_400.png[/img][/spoiler] Meh. [spoiler="Why hello there, shall we commence with the buttkickary? WE SHALL

I wanna party with those motherfuckers!

 

[Wicky_42]

That trailer was really quite fun-looking. Those screen-shots are not. Then again, it's perhaps not fair to bump those against each other, so I'll see what a trailer for the new one looks like...

It looks like this:


Not exactly riveting stuff. Especially not compared to the OverStrike trailer.

*sigh*

Well, that was dry. And completely incomparable to the Overstrike trailer. Colour me disappointed until further info is released.

 

[Weresquirrel]

I can get your point, but the whole "Diablo is too colorful now" argument was a tad bit ridiculous.

I'm a little less enthusiastic, but I agree with you, Resistance was a great series (despite the floundering of the second game, I still enjoyed its set pieces). Just a correction: Infamous was made by Sucker Punch, not Insomniac.

D'oh! Not rightly sure what I was thinking when I wrote that... Anyway, I agree on the Diablo front being overblown for what it was, but then again, I never played Diablo 1 or 2, so I wasn't invested in it. I love me some Ratchet and Clank though, and comedic writing is a strong suit of theirs. I hate to see potential wasted. We'll have to wait and see though. No sense getting bent out of shape until more information is available to us. Then we can get ourselves good and angry about their BETRAYAL!

 

[TheNaut131]

Can I just sit here and cry about Izzy's design change? Even if she had the same moves, without that fucking coat it's just seems...empty

 

[Irridium]

Before Diablo 3's release: "This game looks too colorful now!"

Before Fuse's release: "This game looks too gritty now!"

The thing is, both scenarios involve changing a perceived expectation. The Diablo crowd were expecting something gritty, and it wasn't up to their standards. Insomniac set up a light hearted premise and it's taken a gritty turn. And frankly, we're fine for gritty shooters. This could've filled a niche with very little competiton. How many quirky comical shooters are there on the market at the moment? The only one that comes to mind is Borderlands, and even then that holds a different market appeal.

Personally, I'm less enthusiastic about this now. Insomniac has a good pedigree of humourous games, and frankly I was excited for another one. I'll withold judgement until I know more details, because Insomniac have proven they are able to do gritty quite well. The Resistance and Infamous series were both excellent, and while Infamous did have moments of levity it was still a fairly serious affair. I'm more than willing to reckon this will be a good game, barring any interference from EA (I really don't want to jump on the auto-EA hate wagon, but frankly you can only judge a horse by the races its won, or in this case the horses it's hamstrung and sent to the glue factory).

Overstrike would've been a day 1 purchase.
Fuse will be a wait and see affair.

Small correction. Infamous was created by Sucker Punch, of Sly Cooper fame. Not Insomniac.

 

[Living_Brain]

Small correction. Infamous was created by Sucker Punch, of Sly Cooper fame. Not Insomniac.

Already corrected Capt'n!