The 5 most overrated video game developers working today – Reader’s Feature

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has fixed the facial animation issue but the rest of it? I won’t believe it till I see it.Although I still wouldn’t call them bad I would say that Insomniac are easily the worst developer on this list, as I don’t believe they’ve made a single interesting or especially notable game. I’ve played multiple Ratchet & Clank games (the graphics are good, what can I tell you?) but I’ve always got bored about a third in, as you realise that this is all its going to be and the huge range of weapons can’t make up for how bland and formulaic everything feels.Spider-Man is hugely successful but it’s just Batman: Arkham City with the web-swinging from previous Spider-Man games copied and pasted in.

There’s not a single original idea in the whole game and yet its success seems to have convinced Insomniac that they’re some sort of untouchable master of their craft. I’m pretty sure we’re only a few years away from being able to train an AI to make a game just as well as them, by patching together ideas from other people’s games in a similar manner.I almost didn’t include Rare here as they barely seem like a functioning developer nowadays, given they haven’t made a new game in five years, and that was Sea Of Thieves.

Sure, they’re very good graphically but all their games are just rip-offs of existing Nintendo games, except not as good. Banjo-Kazooie is nowhere near as good as 64, Diddy Kong Racing pales compared to, and Zelda laughs in the face of Star Fox Adventures.Although the bigger question is why did they keep copying Nintendo when those same games were already right there on the same console? They were doing it on earlier consoles to, with the whole Donkey Kong Country series on SNES.