Sunset Overdrive website - say hello to Fizzie! (Insomniac/MS/XB1)

tfur said:
It was the first thing I thought of when I saw it. Why did they use something so close to sackboy. Maybe this is about some Sony/Insomniac fallout or something. It just seems unnecessarily close to me. It even has a seam in the middle of the head, .like a stitch or something. Someone should tweet @ysop and ask him about the sackboy clone.

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He basically looks like the default LBP smile, with the vamp teeth.
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Someone could fire up LBP and show how easy it is to make a clone of this.
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=plush+doll
 
Didn't you guys know? Every 3rd person action RPG with monsters and knights is a dark souls clone. Every 3rd person cover shooter is a gears clone. Every plush toy is a sackboy clone. That's how our brains work. Please understand.
 
Really hope this game turns out well (and in that case, also sells well) for Insomniac's sake, and just in general even though I don't have an Xbone. The more good games out there the better.
 
Ape said:
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Help me see it, Gaf. I Don't think they could be any more dissimilar, personally but maybe this is one of those things that need to be highlighted before it can't be unseen.
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Honestly it looks more like Koromon:

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Einbroch said:
Never a good sign when you groan more than laugh.

Here's hoping, though.
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That's kinda the boat I'm in. I'm still sold on the art style, even though the characters revealed are kind boring looking. I expect cooler people to be revealed later. But man, all the writing accompanying the screenshots... they lay it on thick lol
 
NoirVisage said:
bothering? You are always super sensitive in threads like this, but it could be worst, you're at least normal compared to the super defender who is also in this thread.
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Why not just say who you're takling about instead if making an overtly ambiguous post that you know people will flock to...
 
viveks86 said:
Actually, it's neither. It's a brand mascot. The air balloon is just one of many forms they might use.
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Yes, but this image:

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is of an air balloon, hence the seam.

tfur said:
Neither mascots really look like those though, or are they video game characters in digital form.

These are digital characters/mascots for console games that look incredibly alike. More than a few people seem to think so.
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Honestly, I think more than a few people need to get out more.

[edit] ddd I really hope I am the 'super defender'.
 
Fizzie is a highly stylized cartoony character with very few distinguishing features (apart from its clothing), that's why you can project many different things onto it, including characters deliberately designed so that they could be highly customizable through paint jobs, clothes and accessories (for example, Sackboy, Dunny toys, Funko Pop! Vinyls and so on).
 
NoirVisage said:
I did but edited it out when I realized there were more than one, so I just lumped them into a single entity. Is that okay with you?
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What do "super defenders" do in your opinoin? Because I've seen a lot of people defending the game from unwarranted hate, or telling someone not to port beg.
 
NoirVisage said:
I did but edited it out when I realized there were more than one, so I just lumped them into a single entity. Is that okay with you?
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Lol I hope I made the cut. Calling out people who shit up the thread isn't defending imo.

That being said I'm done doing that in this thread since it's a constant stream and there's no way to address every post of that nature.
 
daman824 said:
What do "super defenders" do in your opinoin? Because I've seen a lot of people defending the game from unwarranted hate, or telling someone not to port beg.
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Typical defense force tactics in every thread even remotely related to their brand of choice, I can understand defense, but hostility along with it isn't cool. And that's my last word on the subject in this thread, PM me if you want to continue this course of questioning, lest we derail the thread further.
 
NoirVisage said:
Typical defense force tactics in every thread even remotely related to their brand of choice, I can understand defense, but hostility along with it isn't cool. And that's my last word on the subject in this thread, PM me if you want to continue this course of questioning, lest we derail the thread further.
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The comments saying that Fizzie looks like sackboy, I thought sackboy was supposed to be a sort of generic style plush toy? Fizzie just looks like a plush toy to me...
 
At first glance it looks boring, hope that is better than Fuse. Hoping Insomiac can do more than be the developer that made Ratchet and Clank.
 
I'm really excited. A large, colorful, fun environment to play around in. I wonder if they'll incorporate RPG elements as well. Thursday should be interesting.
 
Pankratous said:
Oh Insomniac, how far you have fallen.
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I don't really understand this statement...what are you basing this conclusion on? A reasonable person would at least wait for gameplay footage before judging a game, no?

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Pankratous said:
There is absolutely nothing Microsoft could do to interest me in an Xbox. There was no reason for me to own even a 360, which is significantly better than X1.
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Never mind.
 
derFeef said:
I wrote on twitter that maybe the characters on the website are NPC's in a hub, like in Rage.
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Now that would be pretty sweet and I can totally see Chet Fisher as a end game/level boss battle.

Speaking of, really hope there are boss battles with mutated execs.

Team Vernia said:
Bish likes to give people one hour deadlines to those who hold out on this kind of thing, so maybe it worth contacting him.
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He seems to have left because he couldn't back up the claims? If he comes back and continues to make the same claims without backing them up, might be worth contacting a mod.
 
Was this just recently announced? I had to Google it and I see it is an Insomniac exclusive on the One, and I truly have never heard of it until this thread.
 
That mascot looks more like Nibbler from Futurama than Sackboy from LBP. I don't even understand how that's the first thing that people come up with. Is it the appearance of stitches or the seam running down its face that's the thing?
 
Insomniac looks to be trying way too hard to be cool. They apparently have lost their mojo, and it is kind of sad to watch. They were once a good studio
 
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