Insomniac games hinting at a multiplayer game in development
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Mister Wolf
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They never learn.
Signalis
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You mean Spithey/them-person
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Maybe it's a totally new game set in the Concord trans-media universe.
Gamer_By_Proxy
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Chuck Berry
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Fingers crossed for a sequel to Fuse
Venuspower
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Oh no. Just give me more Ratchet & Clank instead.
SILKYSMOOTH30FPS
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Great. Invest another 3-5 years before canning. Sony is lost.
DevilHunterX0
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Sunset Overdrive? Resistance?
Ar¢tos
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Resistance or MAG would be great!
DevilHunterX0
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MAG was awesome but made by Zipper Interactive
Hypereides
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May just be an online component. Not necessarily a full-blown GAAS multiplayer. At least, I hope that could be the case.
ProtoByte
. I've been critical of PS figureheads who came prior, but Hulst definitely takes the cake for the worst appointee at this point.
Personal speculation, but I want to think Noshino & Japan HQ are trying to make him resign, through the "Japanese way", with all the moves we've been hearing about as of recent. He's just a tougher nut to crack than Ryan though and seems to be adamant to "stick" in his position even if he doesn't deserve it.
Hulst needs to be launched out off PS through a "metaphorical cannon", to quote
ProtoByte
. I've been critical of PS figureheads who came prior, but Hulst definitely takes the cake for the worst appointee at this point.Personal speculation, but I want to think Noshino & Japan HQ are trying to make him resign, through the "Japanese way", with all the moves we've been hearing about as of recent. He's just a tougher nut to crack than Ryan though and seems to be adamant to "stick" in his position even if he doesn't deserve it.
EverydayBeast
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Resistance reboot would create millions of dollars, it's funny Sony is messing around with Concord, and now Marathon and they had a whole shooter in Resistance this whole time, you have the core original crowd and new fans.
UltimaKilo
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Are we finally getting another Resistance or did Sony give them Killzone? Or better yet, SOCOM?!
Hawk The Slayer
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Resistance 4 or a reboot.
tommyleelynn
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TJ Fixman wrote Resistance, Ratchet & Clank and recently the movie Carry-On.
If it's a multiplayer focused game, it wouldn't take a heavy narrative to get some involvement from him.
Mibu no ookami
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Say it with me:
Multiplayer gameplay doesn't mean a multiplayer game
A Multiplayer game doesn't mean live service game
Multiplayer gameplay doesn't mean a multiplayer game
A Multiplayer game doesn't mean live service game
*Spider-They/Them
TerribleAtThisGame
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I just realized I haven't played a single Insomniac game after Disruptor.
Mibu no ookami
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If the rumor of a Sunset Overdrive remaster is true. It would make a lot of sense for them to start looking at a sequel to this.
Have Sony given up on making games we actually want? Or are they just gonna make Gaas flops/cancelled games?
We've had nothing from 1st party this year. Barely anything announced.
It looks like the only thing from them for the entire year will be ghosts.
The last thing we got was astrobot in September if I recall correctly, and good tho it is its a small game by like 50 devs.
They seem a wash this gen. Appallingly bad management, meanwhile it seems xbox is hitting its stride, and have far far more studios now. Sony just don't have enough to have the vast majority redirected into failed Gaas crap.
We've had nothing from 1st party this year. Barely anything announced.
It looks like the only thing from them for the entire year will be ghosts.
The last thing we got was astrobot in September if I recall correctly, and good tho it is its a small game by like 50 devs.
They seem a wash this gen. Appallingly bad management, meanwhile it seems xbox is hitting its stride, and have far far more studios now. Sony just don't have enough to have the vast majority redirected into failed Gaas crap.
HRK69
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Funny how "multiplayer" used to mean playing with people, not playing around a storefront
ProtoByte
Weeb Underling
The Great Web thing thankfully got cancelled, and hopefully Insomniac is not stupid enough to go down that road again because it looked and sounded totally horrible.
Basically, if it's not a fighting game or a very simple concept like Marvel Rivals where you basically play a match on a map and fuck off, licensed games should rarely ever be MP. Live services are all but a no-no. It rarely ever works for normal games, licensed games have a much more uphill battle.
Didn't work with Avengers, didn't work with Gotham Knights, didn't work with Suicide Squad. If it's Injustice, or Marvel Tokon or Marvel Rivals, fine.
Insomniac though should not be touching MP at all anyway. Fucking focus on what makes you successful. Nobody played Resistance by the time we got around to 3.
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Mibu no ookami
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Have to disagree a bit here.
Gotham Knights failed for a lot of reasons. No Batman first of all. Second, the game was trash and ran at 30 fps and it was still only 2 player co-op for the main game. The same is true of suicide squad. It was just a bad game.
There's no way to suggest Marvel Rivals can work but a well made Spider-Man multiplayer live service couldn't. Especially if you throw in the X-Men.
Edit: PS Resistance would have been a hit franchise if the PS3 was more successful and/or if Sony had released it on PC day 1 back in the day.
Would have entirely changed the trajectory of the franchise and Killzone.
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ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
They are releasing Stellar Blade on Steam in a couple of days though.
Dr. Wilkinson
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Oh lovely. Another first-party single player studio going GaaS. 
ProtoByte
Weeb Underling
They were doomed to be bad by virtue of being multiplayer. I don't care if it sounds extreme. You either do SP or MP for this shit, no in between.
Because it's Spider-Man. Not Spider-Men. I'm going to go as far as to say this: having 2 of them in a SP game was a mistake. Including Miles was a mistake.
As for the X-Men: "There's no reason why a multiplayer Avengers game couldn't work".
No it wouldn't have. The PS3 was plenty successful, and PC gamers have more than enough options that mog mediocre Resistance in terms of FPS to last an eternity.
It definitely won't be today. And it doesn't matter, because it wasn't. Resistance was what it was. We can't keep going back and reheating every failed IP because "this time, it's gonna be different".
Mibu no ookami
Banned
Don't watch the Spider-Verse movies... lol
The Avengers game didn't fail because it was multiplayer. It failed because it was generic trash.
It's like saying Multiversus was doomed to fail even though Smash Bros is a success... the difference is quality.
80 million sold vs 117 million sold with the PS4... The multiplatform range has always been out of reach for AAA exclusives on premium consoles. That's a reality, not sure why you're denying it.
That's like saying Tomb Raider which was lagging in sales shouldn't have been rebooted. The reboot was initially successful, again until the quality of the games diminished.
Detroit Become Human like doubled its sales on PC....
Minecraft became a bigger hit when it ported to mobile.
Resistance sold as well as the pre Modern Warfare CoD games on PS3. So did Killzone.
Neither a 1st party game, nor a new release. Which seems pretty much all we've had, remasters, pc releases and multiplatform stuff they publish but don't own. Even Helldivers is second party and they've let Tencent swoop in and buy out a chunk.
As a big PlayStation fan, it's just crazy to me how bad they're being run right now.
Redefine07
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Make more garbage Sony , it's not like SP games made you what you are today.
Not to mention that was not only multiplayer but massively multiplayer.
xrnzaaas
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I still find it funny how Sony said that after showing their big plans for the gaas offensive... and then they had to start remastering PS4 games to fill empty spots left by big singleplayer games they didn't have resources to make.
genesisblock
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What is going on? I thought businesses were supposed to be risk averse. After all the failures from their top studios, they're still tripling down with this nonsense? I wanna know what it's like in the boardroom for this discussion.
kindaGoth
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ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
Stellar Blade is a first party game. It is a new release on PC.