FUSE is Frustrating, Unfun, and Sucks Extremely

Remember when Insomniac made shooters for a while? Man that sure was crazy huh. Good thing they have the Spider Man these days or else everyone would just know them as "the Fuse guys". Actually, I think am going to be calling them "the Fuse guys" from now on, I talked myself into it.
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[@magnachemmayhem]

Oboe slicing the disc with a laser I never expected him to have was more entertaining than this game

[@0uttaS1TE]

Oboe dropping the fact that he had access to a laser out of nowhere

[@stinkybuttrat]

Do you not have access to a laser?

[@WojterEXx]

He used it in video just to get tax write off.

[@StudioHappyboy]

This is how it starts. First it’s an industrial cutting laser, next thing you know it’s an orbital death laser and he’s destroying anybody who had anything to do with 7th generation shooters.

[@QuickQuips]

Obo and Sytopryo collab when?

[@Mario_bland]

Orbital laser reveal at 500 subs

[@BugsyFoga]

Still can’t believe test audiences freaking robbed us from the original version of this game, overstrike .

[@lordsathariel4384]

the real question is who the hell thought this was a improvement like what was it like before if this is the improvement im 90% sure the test audience were all payed off no one could think this is good design or fun

[@DioLT]

Was going to comment the same thing. How did such an interesting concept turn into this

[@raresmacovei8382]

Oh? What's the story behind this?

[@BugsyFoga]

@@raresmacovei8382 From what I hear, test audiences of what I assume to be 12 year olds said this game wasn’t edgy enough, so that resulted in a extremely tonal change .

[@sneedclavehere8918]

Those fucking kids man, we could have played The Incredibles: The Shooter instead

[@mixererunio1757]

You actually destroyed the last FUSE copy in existence. Humanity is forever grateful for your service

[@Salzgard]

thats what you think, my copy of fuse will forever haunt this world

[@BJWeNeedUDefendingUsWithZeMG42]

My Xbox 360 copy will forever be a blight on this universe.

[@stolenheart1760]

My copy is in the console right now

[@Esitaro3670]

No, that's actually terrible, if you destroy the mistakes of the past, people will commit the same mistakes in the future

[@fariszakimy]

I too, have a copy of Fuse in my Xbox 360 E

[@faceless2302]

I cant believe Fuse was so bad that oboe had to go out and purchase a laser that could destroy Europe

[@DScott-nk1lo]

Watch out New York

[@morzemus1805]

Oh, no! I live in New York, Europe!

[@trigger4535]

“Call me Electronic Arts because I’m killing Titanfall” is the quickest I’ve gone from laughing to crying in a long time.

[@arkwrightdubstep]

This is like every game ever made all on one screen at once, there wasn't a single point on in this video where I had any idea what was going on.

[@kpmh2001]

Oh God Oboe’s got a BadGuy laser, he’s gonna become a seventh-gen video game villain.

[@JohnnyBurnes]

Oh yeah, it's that game that looked fun, and then they decided to do every bad idea possible instead. TOP FORM EA! 👍

[@billwilson1943]

I unironically refer to any and all enemies in video games now as bad guy industries

[@negative6442]

Cutting the game in half with a laser as revenge is the funniest bit you've done

[@piotr_bunkowski]

Actually, I remember this game quite fondly. I used to play it with my younger brother on PS3. We were going through all co-op shooters we could find and FUSE was one of them. I remember that demo was quite good and full game was our impulse buy, but I guess that if you're playing in co-op, every game is a little bit better.

[@theisaacpigg27_32]

Yea, I had a good time with Aliens Colonial Marines simply because me and my friend played through it

[@allthiskorrie3061]

Sames this game is a cult classic for me and my bro same with re5 and 6

[@shioriharu]

I adore this game as well, top shelf classic for me too.

[@Gabey28]

Same! Love this game so much. Shame I can't play it on the PS5

[@czinvazion816]

I can only assume the conversation with his boss that morning must have gone like this. Boss-"He Oboe, why did you bring a videogame to work?" Oboe-"don't worry about it." Boss-"alright then"

[@nagger8216]

@Chadam_Gensen Did you watch the ending? I doubt Oboe just has a plasma torch lying around in his house

[@czinvazion816]

@Chadam_Gensen I was talking about the wire edm at the end bud

[@RDR911]

@Chadam_Gensen Do you think KZbinrs with

[@DadsBud11]

@@RDR911 actually a plasma laser is exactly what you get for getting 500,000 subscribers. I'm on my way there myself, I can only hope to achieve that laser one day

[@SomeOne-vf1rs]

@@Satan_.You can have multiple jobs you know that right?

[@0lionheart]

I remember the Overstrike trailer creating a buzz in my friend group at the time. When it got cut up and reformed as Fuse, everyone shrugged and moved on. Completely forgot the game existed until I saw this title. It's a case study in the dangers of knee-jerk reactions to focus testing. What's that old saying, attributed to Henry Ford? "If you asked people what they wanted, they would've asked for a faster horse.. not a car".

[@Greyknight1575]

The dawn guard crossbow joke got me real good

[@_S0LUS_]

If you use the cover system in the cover shooter the last boss fight is a lot easier. Who would have known? This is why modern games have AI characters constantly tell you what to do. Also you can just self-revive by activating fusion.

[@vincere_]

He probably plays it up for the entertainment value, given this is mostly stream clips edited into a video

[@Seoul_Soldier]

Honestly, for a 7th gen game General Bad Lady had pretty decent facial animations. I've seen "next gen" games with worse faces.

[@kestrel1917]

IIRC this was announced as "Over Strike" with a more comedic tone/characters then was focus grouped into what we eventually got.

[@adams.2407]

Fuse inspired Dolmen and you can’t tell me otherwise

[@kestrozo]

This and Bodycount were actually the most hyped games from my childhood

[@conormullins4900]

f

[@gamingandwhatevs]

Don't forget Aliens: Colonial Marines.

[@mr.bubbles.9311]

i remember getting this game at the $5 bargain bin and then never beating it

[@caboosenom3rson]

I bought Fuse on release solely because it had FemShep and Liara’s voice actors in it. It was decently worth it with friends at least.

[@elijahtronti8574]

Wait, hold up, you can take cover in this game and the final boss has a projectile and you didn’t even try to take cover as soon it proved to be an insta kill? 😂 Oboooooee

[@acomingextinction]

lol my first thought

[@trianglemoebius]

Taking cover doesn't protect you from every angle, so you have to be in the right spot. Presumably he took cover in the wrong spot a few times and when it never protected him, he figured it didn't work.

[@elijahtronti8574]

@@trianglemoebius Very fair point, it’s possible

[@brunobruno-c1d]

@@trianglemoebius yeah that makes sense - maybe the robot attacked from where it looked like you should be protected, but you werent - so after trying it a few times and getting no results, you'd naturally assume it doesnt works specially since we see him using cover against the snipers, so its not like it was an unused mechanic

[@poodlemeister22314]

Oboe, have you done Binary Domain yet? The voice controls in that game are so frustrating That being said, the caricatures that are supposedly characters, are kinda funny and worth playing through just for them

[@benjaminsantos1014]

my friends and i stayed up all night during summer in middle school and played thru this entire game. at the time it was one of the best times we had and i still think of it fondly. definitely wouldnt play it now tho

[@Cousin_Uli]

I remember that first Overstrike trailer. Game looked like it would be a lot of fun at least personality wise. Then they decided to make it objectively worse in every way for no reason.

[@Psychonau]

yeah that was a really bad decision they made, the game could have been much better.

[@misterbadguy7325]

Honestly, it looked like an Overwatch clone only like six years before those became a thing. It was kind of comical that they seized on that trend early and EA went "nah, bros, make it more like Gears."

[@Haru-spicy]

imagine if this had still been Overstrike, we'd be in a universe where Overwatch would've had to have a different name or else test groups would have insisted it was 'too much like Overstrike'

[@kruterchraft454]

Is there going to be a VOD because this looks like fun

[@theonlythecoolgang]

I’d love to see a random bl2 play through mixed in these videos like it’s just another lost game he never played when it came out lol

[@trevorstockwell8290]

I honestly would like for them to reboot this because it had some promise but the execution

[@thew00dsman79]

I still have my gameinformer copy somewhere with this game’s reveal, it sounded really cool

[@johnsteve5594]

Definitly one of my more fun games yall can hate it all u want. I ran through this game like 2 or 3 times

[@acomingextinction]

"The board? Is that what they call people who are playing this game?" and subbed

[@jalobsterman6475]

I remember playing the demo of this game on 360 years ago

[@slavkun8706]

Literally spit my drink out at the Dawnguard Crossbow joke

[@zone3839]

Staples of obeoeshoes videos: Forklifts Shooting soda machines Red laser pointer snipers

[@matthewboer8279]

I found this to be ok once I figured out the character swap and built kits for them. There were worse cover shooters IMAO

[@doomslayer1210]

I remember fused. I actually like it

[@quint3ssent1a]

Cool Industrial laser, i hope it'll be featured in the future again.

[@michealhill7275]

I'm surprised oboe didn't notice that one liner Dalton said in the elevator is almost a direct quote of Marv in sin City

[@warrantyV0IDED]

"Call me electronic arts because I'm killing titanfall" I laughed, but it hurt.

[@ThealmightyMatt]

Been replaying KOTOR 1 the past couple of weeks, so the Bastilla cameo was 👌

[@shifty1927]

Did you really not try cover? After it was implemented all game? Damn bro.

[@YuriG03042]

Fuse is an amazing game. I'm sad that you only got to play it after the servers were destroyed. I had the most fun in my life (prior to Destiny 1 and 2) by playing Echelon mode with randoms, hard carrying noobs as Izzy, the always present medic. However it always just took a single trash Dalton player to collapse the whole mission. Submarine was the hardest Echelon level and you can't change my mind. Took me the longest to solo that one.

[@SebCarrasco]

I was literally just thinking about this game the other day. I remember how amazing the pre rendered trailers looked, then it just kinda Died on Arrival. Insomniac should really add a Fuse Easter egg in Spider-Man 2

[@mrpopo5097]

Why ? Why would they add a fuse Easter egg 😂

[@zaicanna96]

Does anyone know the name of the ending song

[@khoid]

Best part of this game was how broken the crossbow and the orange hair lady are. The crossbow chain kills people and is typically a one or two hit kill. The orange hair lady can drop a healing beacon that makes everyone invincible (and revives them) and it only costs 20 out of 300 ammo and lasts for about 30 seconds... Killing a single dude gives you like 50 ammo back BTW.

[@Weini123]

German watching from Munich and I was like "hot damn what are the odds?" as I looked up suspiciously

[@devalk_]

I feel like I shouldn't acknowledge the sudden whipping out of a laser...

[@Samsonfs]

Holy shit I remember playing this, I literally completely forgot this existed

[@FluidHyena]

Insomniac made THIS?! Also, really letting out your RLM influence at the end there.

[@itohagan]

that killing titanfall joke hurt so bad :' (

[@tiffaelesis2829]

7:24 thank you for going the extra mile of doing this for the sake of the joke 🤣😂 i really appreciated 👍

[@Anon_Spartan]

"I hope none of you have family in New York." "Ok guys, smoke break. When he blows up Manhattan we can continue."

[@coolen]

I never thought I'd hear anyone mention the quality of the cow killing in The Saboteur

[@shioriharu]

Funny how this is one of my favorite games for real. Had zero issues with it. To be honest the game is like hell of a lot better than what these clips might make you think. Loved to play it solo or with 3 of my friends. I also sent a thank you email to the devs via customer support, and they replied back. Nice chaps.

[@LuizBarotto]

I love this game too. 😊

[@weedstage4267]

You know what is satisfactory, fun AND doesnt suck? thats right, mercenaries 2 world in flames

[@1mp3r1alC0MMAND0]

the bad guy death sounds remind me of the trooper death sounds from the OG Star Wars Battlefront 2, just me...

[@MrAnimeFan4Eva]

Had multiple spit takes from their video and I just found you I love it

[@the1misscinny]

“Heard they’re reforming the Dawnguard!” I diiiiied 💀

[@kacketnaopacke]

Didn’t know you had such a short FUSE haha. I’ll see myself out.

[@brickstar56]

I think the being able to switch control over each character in your squad is a pretty cool feature. I wish fallout had something like that it'd make companions more fun if you could level them up and pick perks for them and switch to them whenever a situation calls for their skillset.

[@ninjacat230]

Why do you have a cutting laser?

[@phantomthiefirwin9631]

1:24 Bro... **TOO SOON**

[@BassPro150]

This Trailer and the first Cyberpunk trailer were perfect hype followed by failure, this original concept had such potential .

[@pingus2099]

Oboe reveals he has a laser, while Pongsifu reveals he went to prison or some shit

[@BJWeNeedUDefendingUsWithZeMG42]

Do your shoes taste like reeds?

[@flippedoutkyrii]

The moral of the story is- Never, under any circumstances, listen to any input on your game when it's hand delivered by a bunch of *12 year olds* Pour one out for the game we never got, boys. D:

[@cattysplat]

More like bunch of suits who saw brown and grey military shooter make money and said "stop what you're making, make that instead."

[@MarcAlcatraz]

its so interesting to see these older games when jetpack laser bad guys wasn't a relatively old concept

[@XarantaurTheWitness]

Randomly remembered this game and figured I'd see if someone made a video on it in current year. But oh my god i wasnt prepared to be called out for grinding the horde mode for exp before 5 minutes had passed 😭

[@wellyep790]

That Titanfall joke made me want to cry

[@swarlly]

Me and my buddy actually sat down and beat Fuse in a weekend when it came out. That's one weekend I'll never get back.

[@caretaker808]

That Titanfall joke hurt my soul but I still smirked

[@fernandoantoniomusic8712]

I had a room mate that absolutely loved this game and kept saying I should play it. I finally tried it one day and decided to never speak to him again. It’s been about 9 years now.

[@DigitalApex]

Yes, KZbin, this game is the classic Dead Space from 2008. Precisely.

[@Mister_Superfly]

I had a quick look over my Xbox achievements and seen this game pop up pop but couldn't remember a single thing about it, thanks for the video!

[@XarantaurTheWitness]

Side note. I remember this game being one of those "only some of the characters see special visions randomly throughout the game and we wont tell who so just cycle whenever theres dialogue :^)"

[@diiojasijodasj_817]

I didn't expect Oboe to have a laser.

[@chilloma1]

The ending with the real laser was my favorite ending 😂🎉

[@MaximumNilTag]

I would like to point out that the back of their helmets in the space mission say ИнПУ which when pronounced sounds something like "inpoo". You're welcome.

[@sgt_samples]

After watching enough of these videos, I think I have an idea of what you believe makes a good game: windows that can be broken (especially stained glass), red exploding barrels, drive-able forklifts, vending machines that dispense an object when hit, items that break apart when hit like plates and fruit, and as many small physics objects as possible. Did I miss anything?

[@lonelypumpkins3543]

“I heard they’re reforming the Dawngaurd” maybe me laugh super hard

[@blahjustchris]

So, um... where'd you get the laser, Oboe?

[@ishiggidiggi]

You.... you just never tried the waist high cover at the end..? Are you even a gamer?

[@susfringgaming4018]

Literally the only time i ever saw a copy of FUSE in the flesh was when i was visiting my grandmother out in the country and we stopped in a small village of about 300 people and some 85 year-old lady was having a garage sale and there was a copy of fuse there for like $4, but even that was too much

[@luftwaffle848]

Ah man, that titanfall comment made me sad. I can still hold out hope for its revival though

[@valentindelasierra7517]

Not gonna lie , I really liked this game when it came out ( I 100% did not understand what's happening in this game tho.

[@kwdblade4683]

All that make it through an oboeshoesgames live stream should be awarded the Purple Heart.

[@realdragon]

Can we appreciate for a moment that obo bought 10k laser cutter just to destroy FUSE disk

[@Robocopnik]

7:41 That is the biggest vent in the world.

[@GatsuRequim]

the best joke by far is 02:16

[@Jules-69lol]

That Dawnguard joke got me

[@dncewzrd]

No idea why, but I got this confused with FUEL, that dirt bike game

[@cthulhuchan9587]

This is the first and last time I’ve seen gameplay for this game that I’ve seen the box for collecting dust in every used game shop

[@Sentient6ix]

I've never seen Oboe Shoes so mad that he lazer sliced a game disk in half before....

[@Kanzuki]

I remember being interested in this game after I watched a trailer. It's been years since that point and I have yet to play it

[@MechanicalRabbits]

the ending is AVGN if he was an engineer

[@marvelmaniac88]

Who would’ve thought that taking cover would prevent taking damage. Way to go gamer.

[@CoyoteDen]

oboeshoes spinoff: will it laser

[@thedepressedgamer7375]

Absolutely incredible ending