[QUOTE="CarnageHeart"][QUOTE="dohhyulittle"] [QUOTE="Carnageheart"]Wow. Resistance must have been Insomniac's training wheels. I love the Ratchet series and I'll be there on day 1 for Future. I hope more weapons equal the disco ball in creativity.Acenso
Its the same engine only upgraded to do streaming textures as well as further optimized etc. They talk about all kinds of this stuff on the Insomniac Full moon show, its a bi weekly podcast and its great. They have had David Jaffe on, the co-founder of that Game company, and last episode they had the founders of Bioware on to talk about Mass Effect.
You should check it out, its right behind 1up yours for my favorite podcasts. Cool. I expect Resistance 2 will be extremely easy on the eyes. If they focus more on big battlefields and beef up the weapon and enemy variety (I know Insomniac doesn't want to go overboard with the weapons, but they could go a little crazier) then Resistance's campaign mode could really become something really special.
See this is what I never understood...Why Killzone? Why waste so much money and time on them? You have Zipper, Insomanic, and maybe a thrid party. Why them? Instead of trying to force an annual release out of them yearly. Why not give them a larger budget, more time, and everything else to really get something great there. Instead of forcing that annual release out of them. Doesn't really make any sense banking on Killzone when you have two developers yourself who actually made quality games before for your system.
I've never gotten into Naughty Dog's games (I played the first games in Daxter and Crash Bandicoot and neither game thrilled me though I thought they were competent) but Zipper Interactive has some really brilliant stuff under its belt (I'm the guy who only plays SOCOM offline and I enjoyed 2 and 3 quite a bit) and Insomniac has done some really great work (the Ratchet and Clank games feel episodic, but wild new weapons tend to be introduced each go-round and that's good enough for me).
Insomniac, Zipper and Naughty Dog are developers who make games which tend to be well done but not groundbreaking. That might be a limit of the studios (I read one interview where Insomniac admitted as much) not something forced upon them by relatively short development cycles. Sony's most innovative team (Team Ico) seem to take more time to do what they need to do. Is that because A) Sony is giving them more time or b) because they need more time because they are doing something that hasn't been done before and which there is no blueprint to work off of? I don't know but I suspect the second answer is the true answer (all things being equal why would Sony givethe mosttime to a developer whose games are commercially the least successful?).
As for why Sony decided to pick up Guerilla games. I guess they saw something I didn't. While its true that Killzone and Nam 67 were garbage, Killzone Liberation was quality and Killzone 2 looks extremely promising so it looks like Sony's bet paid off. Picking up unproven developers is probably the cheapest way to secure lasting exclusives. When one negotiates with Epic for its latest fps, one is negotiating for a small, expensive window of exclusivity. But developers such as Level 5 (who is now one of the most respected jrpg developers in the business despite a shaky start with DC1), Media Molecule (Littlebigplanet looks amazing), thatgamecompany (Flow was unlike anything I have ever played, and I haved played games for 29 years) and Ninja Theory (Heavenly Sword looks hot, even though it draws quite a bit from God of War) didn't have the world beating down their door, so the terms were undoubtedly more favorable to Sony.
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