Insomniac vs naughty dog which one makes better games ?

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Poll Insomniac vs naughty dog which one makes better games ? (27 votes)

Insomniac 67%
Naughty dog 33%

I find naughty dog extremely overrated other than jak and daxter there games mostly don’t click with me insomniac on the other hand makes good games and I am stoked for the wolverine game

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#1 Archangel3371
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Insomniac gets my vote. I’d say that they’re probably Sony’s best developer currently. Love the Spider-Man and Ratchet & Clank games.

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#2 Ghosts4ever
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Last of us 1 is good. no desire to play woke sequel.

Spiderman 1 is ok. second game is trash.

didnot liked uncharted or any other.

want to play insomian resistance series since its only sony series I want to play not on PC.

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#3  Edited By Pedro
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@ghosts4ever said:

Last of us 1 is good. no desire to play woke sequel.

Spiderman 1 is ok. second game is trash.

didnot liked uncharted or any other.

want to play insomian resistance series since its only sony series I want to play not on PC.

You are not known for having good taste.😏

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#4 Ghosts4ever
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@Pedro said:
@ghosts4ever said:

Last of us 1 is good. no desire to play woke sequel.

Spiderman 1 is ok. second game is trash.

didnot liked uncharted or any other.

want to play insomian resistance series since its only sony series I want to play not on PC.

You are not known for having good taste.😏

the good taste is liking and supporting woke trash that flop and shut down studio lol.

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#5 R4gn4r0k
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I was gonna vote Naughty Dog but heard they are into woke games now.

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#6 Chutebox
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I've enjoyed more insomniac games, so that.

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#7 hrt_rulz01
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Insomniac. Naughty Dog makes movies.

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#8 TheEroica  Moderator
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From a gameplay perspective, Sunset Overdrive alone is better than every naughty dog game of the past 20 years.

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#9  Edited By RSM-HQ
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Try to avoid trashing Naughty Dog when I can, even if I haven't enjoyed a game they've made since Uncharted 2, because I see what they're specialty is and think for what they do, they do it well. Graphics and fluid animation (even if for us the input isn't very responsive), they have a focus on the outlandish set-pieces and impactful character moments.

Some have told me two of the more recent games I haven't ever played: The Last of Us 2 and Uncharted 4 have great gameplay, however I've seen that more debunked than proven to be true. If anything I feel Naughty Dog fans are very much caught up in the hype and just enjoy what the developer does (similar to a Bethesda fan). Even if it's a pacing nightmare with so-so actual gameplay, and that's assuming Naughty Dog even trusts you with controlling the game to begin with. They look great and have entertaining set-pieces. That's what fans want, a visual marvel to praise. Even so if another person tells me The Last of Us is better than Resident Evil.. just see yourselves out.. I'm so tired of having that conversation.

So to answer the actual question I personally pick Insomniac. Generally they just make more fun games, and that's not just because Insomniac understand we want to play our games too. Way more responsive and fluid controls over Naught Dog third person catalog. & usually with solid pacing over Naughty Dogs love for the slow walk RP segments.

R&CF: A Crack in Time is such a great game, it's actually one of my favorite games ever. Also for what they are I liked the Resistance trilogy, not great but good games, I'm surprised they pulled off making FPS games honestly. On that note Insomniac has ventured out and made all kinds of games. Naughty Dog has been making RP walking Gears of War clones for well over a decade. So way more one-note by comparison when compared to Insomniac. Sure mostly a Ratchet & Clank fan myself & no means a fan of the Spider Man games, however if that's what keeps Insomniacs lights on to make other games? so be it.

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Not sure

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@ghosts4ever said:
@Pedro said:
@ghosts4ever said:

Last of us 1 is good. no desire to play woke sequel.

Spiderman 1 is ok. second game is trash.

didnot liked uncharted or any other.

want to play insomian resistance series since its only sony series I want to play not on PC.

You are not known for having good taste.😏

the good taste is liking and supporting woke trash that flop and shut down studio lol.

Define woke.

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I don't care about either enough to weigh in.

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#14 Warm_Gun
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@lamprey263: Me neither. Don't care enough about either. But Spyro the Dragon 1998 is the best game between them.

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#15 my_user_name
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I prefer Insomniac, Sunset Overdrive puts them over the top.

PS1 - ND. Much prefer Crash

PS2 - Insomniac pains me to say this as Jak was one of my first PS2 games

PS3 - tie. Like the first Resistance a good amount, PS3 Ratchet games are solid but don't like em as much as the PS2 entries. Uncharted is alright. Couldn't make it past the opening of TLOU.

8th gen til now - Sunset Overdrive is one of my favorite games of 8th gen, Spiderman was alright. Last 2 Ratchet games , solid gameplay, great graphics - letdown in other areas. Haven't played anything from ND

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#16 TheEroica  Moderator
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Golden Abyss was the best uncharted.

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#17 DaVillain  Moderator  Online
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Insomniac knows how to handle and make good gameplay and ND just stopped making Uncharted games really showing them they only care about cinematic-driven games is a sad thing for a studio I once enjoyed playing their games.

@TheEroica said:

Golden Abyss was the best uncharted.

Are are aware Golden Abyss wasn't made by ND? ND even stated they don't see it as part of the main canon.

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I wasn't a big fan of Ratchet & Clank, or Sunset Overdrive. I haven't played their take on Spiderman though which has been well received by many folks.

Last of Us is one my favorite games of all time, and I had fun playing through the second and third Uncharted games. The first and fourth of Uncharted are easily the weakest links though.

I'm partial to ND just because of my love for the OG Last of Us. Such a good game... just don't bring up the travesty that is the sequel. Ugh.

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#19  Edited By mrbojangles25
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Well, you said who makes better games so obviously Insomniac.

Naughty Dog makes interactive movies.

In all seriousness, I firmly believe the first Spider-Man game is one of the best-made games of this century. Not like my most favorite game or even one I really rank highly, I just think that technically it was a rock-solid game, and everything about it was just really well crafted and clearly a labor of love. It looked great and ran well; it was stable and bug free; it had excellent writing, a fun story, and really great voice acting; there were a lot of different mechanics at work between combat and traversal and stealth and it all meshed together seamlessly; and so on and so forth.

Just a really well-made product made by craftsman. The industry needs more folks like that, more craftsmen. Less artists and divas and rockstars, just more people that are capable and do the work.

Anyway, that's my long rant on why I say Insomniac.

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#20 Macutchi
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would lean towards naughty dog.

tlou is the best narrative driven action game i've played. probably the only heavy narrative driven action game i really enjoyed. one of the few that manages to strike the right balance between game and telling a story, and it's a very good video game story too. the game mechanics are admittedly simplistic but it's a "whole is greater than the sum of its parts" type experience.

and there's a long stretch of uninterrupted gameplay in tlou2 - the hillcrest area in ellie's seattle 2 day section - which is better than any insomniac game i've played. one of the best examples of dynamic survival stealth out there. on higher difficulty it's real high tension, desperate, think on your feet, survive by any means necessary action / stealth. it shows what naughty dog are capable of when they focus on gameplay. shame that before ellie's seattle day 1-3 the game sucks, and after it completely falls apart.

but i'd rather take that small stretch of high quality, unique and hyper dynamic gameplay over a full game of spiderman's banal, lazy and derivative open world style

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#21  Edited By Litchie
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Have played neither of these studios games, but Insomniac. Their games look like games, not interactive movies.

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#22 Taint
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Naughty Dog gets my vote. I have enjoyed their games more than Insomniac games OVERALL. But Resistance is still top notch.

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#23 Jendeh
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Naughty Dog, but I love both.