PS US Blog - This holiday season just got better. Resistance Collection is hitting stores starting December 5th for $39.99, and it makes a great gift for any shooter fan who hasn’t had a chance to experience one of the best FPS trilogies on PS3.
The PlayStation 3 had a lot of great franchises however one of the best was Insomniac's Resistance franchise. The studio's first attempt at a first-person shooter launched alongside the PS3 and was one of the system's best series. With 3 core games as 2 handheld games released on the PSP and PS Vita Resistance ended on a high note with Resistance 3. The series may have ended but it's still one of Sony's best IPs.
Wouldn't it be cool is Resistance copied the Gears of War TPS mechanics. Gears of War has no competition and Resistance needs be reinvigorated. Even Kill Zone could be created in a Gears of War type hybrid engine
I'd rather see The Order 1887 combat Gears. But it would have to be quite a bit better than the first game.
Resistance and KZ there are nothing to do with Gears. Maybe The Order.
I miss those games...Re2 was one of the games that got me hooked on MP last gen, that and KZ2 MP. A Resistance trilogy remaster would be awesome.
Tps all the way for me. I don't think gears is still a reference though.
Man no one wants that I played and beat both and in my opinion resistance is hands over fist the better game the single player had a way better story I will give gears the multiplayer I am a single player gamer so I don’t give a crap about multiplayer
Clocked like the third most hours in a game in Resistance fall of man, but we don’t need that trash to be remastered. Shooters don’t need to be remastered.
I went back and played it again on PS3, it still holds up in terms of creating a great atmosphere. The presentation of the story is very well done.
If they're going to do a resistance then they should just make a new one, screw the remasters.
its more for the people who may have missed out on playing them on ps3 :)
but i woukd prefer a demon souls remaster first love that game.
and a new one would be awesome to have with the coop fun and 60player mp if i remember correctly
co-op in the 2nd game and KZ2 MP are my best memories of ps3 online FPS games. Till this day i truly believe resistance 3 failed because for some weird reason it didn't include the 8 player co-op which was one of the most played game modes in resistance 2. Insomniac has grown a lot as a studio and i would love to see a complete remake of the original like ratchet and clank style than for sequel go in any directions
The MP in the first one was up there with KZ2 MP.
But Warhawk trumped every MP game ever.
so based off what you're saying.... no one wanted the wiiu or xbone or nokia phones or near on any xbox game this gen due to how poorly they are doing? am i correct or did you mean something else?
No one wanted the WiiU, that is correct. Xbox One is selling about as good as the 360 did, so that logic is out. Nokia phones coming out after 2010, no one wanted. Where are they now?
I'd still like to see a remake of the first game with expanded lore then the series go in a different direction for the sequel...Resistance Fall of Man II with Nathan Hale being a fully developed character for the entire new trilogy.
Id like something along the lines of this to, though i do feel that 3 is where the 2nd game should have gone in terms of story. The guns are all cool (insomniac has always been good with weapons), i just IMO that the human race should never be able to comprehend the chimera tech, and have it be an ongoing struggle, old versus new. The 1st game nailed that feel, as did the third game. The 2nd game though had the best co-op
Its crazy how good the multiplayer was for the first game with the whole matchmaking system, friends list, clan system/battles ect ect. I would really love to see the features in the multiplayer to return back from 1.
Yeah for me Resistance 3 was fantastic but the only thing holding it back was the fact Joseph Capelli, who you take control of had hardly any development in the other two games so the ending of "winning the fight" didn't feel very compelling. However if they stuck with Nathan Hale and developed him better, giving him a good backstory and the like then I think I would have been satisfied more. Kind of shame they called him Nathan aswell considering at the time NaughtyDog had Uncharted with Nathan Drake...maybe a name change? Wouldn't mind it to be honest. Nicholas Hale? Nolan Hale? Who knows.
Personally I think they ruined Hale giving him the Chimeran Virus, it shouldn't have really been a huge plot point in my opinion, they got too into it with government programs and the like instead of just letting Nathan Hale be some lucky guy who managed to resist the virus by good genes. Then you had the small time skip and giving him a special team with other soldiers to lead. I kind of liked the "man against the world" feel from the first game. The family story they gave Joseph in the third game could probably be incorporated in with Nathan Hale someway if they ever do the re-telling, at least a wife...maybe give it a "War of the Worlds" vibe with her being like Carrie in that story, the woman he tries to find.
I just think they need to go back to what made the first game so great and take the best from Resistance 2 and 3. I loved that they went back to med kits in the third game and tried to fix their mistakes from the second, felt like an old school shooter considering this was the time when COD hit popularity.
Remake-Retell the first game
Develop Nathan more...maybe a name change
Keep the great multiplayer without all the gimmicks you see these days
Maybe some co-op with the other player being a non story character like what Halo used to do
Add to the lore
Change the ending a little to set up better future games
Sequel is Resistance Fall of Man II
Third game ends with Nathan ending up on their home world taking fight to them for future trilogy.
Well sadly I think he's a product of the era... Last gen was characterized by bland protagonists with only a few exceptions...
The Resistance games were not amazing. I played 1 and 2 back in the PS3 era, and it just felt like it was missing something to set it up to top tier level. The game felt like a score of an 8.
FOM and Retribution remastered with their online restored would be great.
I'm not bothered about the others as they didn't feel like Resistance games, although 3 was a huge step up from 2.
Sony May Be Bringing The Back The Resistance Franchise to the PS4 after developer Insomniac Games ended the franchise
Interesting. I hope it is a reboot rather than a remaster. I wonder which studio Sony could hand this off to develop?
I'm hoping we get a remaster in the short term and a reboot in the long term…Maybe a late 2015 remaster of Resistance 1-3 (w/Burning Skies) and a 2016 Reboot
Here's something to help out both Resistance and Killzone. Bring the Chimera in to fight the Helghast and ISA.
Resistance always had the better story, Killzone had the graphics and gameplay (although it changes too much with each gen).
Take the world of Killzone, turn it on it's head by throwing in the Chimera invading their worlds, bring back KZ3 gameplay mechs / jetpacks / etc..., and make the story dark like Killzone 2, and you have a winner on your hands.
Killzone: Resistance
Now send me my check Sony. Not only will it be a good game, it's ultimate fan service, and helps established the concept of 1 Sony even among 1st party developers (or in this case 1st party IP).
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P.S.
MS I'm still waiting on my check as well
Abizzel, pure genius
I love both franchises actually just bought killzone hd the other day and was playing split screen. Good memories booting That up
I think Sony can do good with it as Insomniac almost buried it with the 3rd game which was a disaster..
Resistance BS on Vita was not a great representation of the franchise unlike what KZM is doing on the same platform. KZM is arguably the best handheld FPS ever made while Resistance BS is just like something randomly put together and be called a game.
I would love for the franchise to be continued to this gen and for the love of god, Sony, don't treat it like a stepchild! R3 was amazing but the MP needs something like R2.
@ABizzel1,
Good ideas, I'd also retain the weapon wheel of Resistance + Resistance 1 multiplayer + splitscreen and i'm sold.
It would be nice if Soy would at least release digital downloads of all three games on the Playstation network on PS3. If they do bring back Resistance on PS4, and they do a great job, then between this and Uncharted, I might be swayed towards finally buying a PS4. A proper Killzone game wouldn't hurt either.
Resistance: The Angry Night
Prequel set in Russia and/or eastern Europe.
"Brotherhood, strength, and fortitude..."
"...in the face of the Angry Night."
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Start with R:FoM as the base.
R:FoM features to start with as a baseline:
*Manual Squading (But start everyone on Tango instead of None)
*Mirrored objective maps - Both side are even, no advantages to any given side.
*Focus on run&gun hip-firing with optional Aim Down Sights.
*Straight shots, no spread with carbine. Ability to 'carbine snipe' (Bullseye is meant to be the spread weapon and faster rate of fire to compensate for the spread.)
*Freedom of movement (Ability to run and jump in any direction, including backwards (Moving at the speed of thought), so you can skillfully dodge attacks and not get 'stuck' having to turn before you can run.
*Weapon Damage - A skillful difference in headshot to bodyshot hits to kill. Many shots to kill (R:FoM amount) so the cream rises to the top. So skill can overcome camping.
*Weapon wheel
*Weapon spawns (Everyone is even, and no-one starts with heat-seeking rocket launchers like R3.
*Node Games (Meltdown, Breach, Assault)
*Freedom of movement on Air Vents (Moving at the speed of thought) (like R:FoM and not forced vents like R2.
*Lip synching
*Spectators in Custom
*Co-op Campaign local and online.
*Offline local Multiplayer
*R:FoM-like narrated Cutscenes (In my opinion. Felt like you're playing an important historical event. I loved the presentation and atmosphere of these cutscenes.)
*Spawn points. The spawn points being located BEHIND the objective and not AT the objective (except when spawning with squad) was the perfect way to go. I don't know how the concept was lost in the building of R2. Killing off the team and having them all spawn directly (or in the very near vicinity) on the flag was absolutely ridiculous. It punishes the advancing team for killing off their opponents.
*Target Bombers - Rewarded good aim with your grenades and who didn't love the satisfaction of being on target with your arcing throw? The explosion, the bodies flying, and your target bomber ribbon? And one of the few 1hits brought about through skill (arcing aim and calcuating where your opponents would be).
*Bring back R:FoM style Auger, no half dome shield.
*Medals
*Ribbons
*Large player counts 60p maybe too much, 40p was good in R:FoM. 3v3s to 8v8s are fine to, but the 8v8 limit in R3 after 20v20 and 30v30 in the previous games was ridiculous.
*Pre-game chatroom lobby
*Clan support is a must.
*Clan tags.
R2 features to consider carrying over:
*Henry Stillman's Radio USA Philadelphia-like broadcasts (Instant Classic. My favorite part of R2. The squishing noise on headshots is cool too.)
*The 8 player Co-op
*All stats count, even if you quit or get disconnected. (Quitters still get their bad games in their stats, just get to put an end to it sooner, which shows how many times in their Quits. I argued/begged for this many times when I had a bad connection, for all my stats to count. Then argued in favor for it again to count all the stats of k/d quitters as a deterence against them.)
*In-game Stat Leaderboards
*In-game clan look-up
*Female Skins
*Chimera Loadout
*Trophies
cont.
Do Not include anything that kills or weakens enemies artificially for the player such as R3's turrets and other non-sense.
NO WEAPON UPGRADES. People already having the advantage of being more experienced and knowing the maps better do not need to also have stronger weapons.
*Reduce power weapon ammo, for example LAARKs and LAARK ammo have 1 shot, not 2. 40mms should be more rare, less ammo or longer spawn times. Bullseye tag delay. Arc charger was ruined in a later update to where it can 1hit kill and sometimes at relatively long distances. It was originally considered to be skilled. No 1hit body snipes, 1hit headshots only.
Nothing else unskilled and anti-competitive. If you want to add anything like that, add it as options in Custom, keep it out of Ranked.
@ABizzel1
DAAAAAAMN man, you had to go and say it...now you blew it, because SONY won't make that so they don't have to pay you a dime.
Thats exactly what they were gonna do, now they will slap something quick and nonsensical.
*Ability to turn off individual secondary fires in Custom for clan battles or regular skilled matches.
*Freedom of movement with the scoreboard open. You could not do this on R2.
*No quitting out of staging.
*No Berserks in Ranked, add them as optional in Custom if you must.
*Chimera and Human have differences like in R:FoM, not just a reskin like in R2.
*I mentioned node games above, but again, legit Meltdown like R:FoM. Active objectives where you actually have to do something, like Meltdown, CTF, Core Control, and Assault. No OBJs like R2's 'Meltdown' where you just stand around near a beacon. You need to actually shoot out the rods, the same as in R:FoM. Different weapons do different damage to it, so there's a knowledge curve and you may need to go out of your way to get node-killing weapons. Arc charger secondary kills enemies near node by linking off rods.
So no standing around OBJs, also no being babied around the map, hand beind held, like R2's Skirmish. Go here, ok, now go there.. no, put us on a map with nodes or a flag and start the clock. That's it.
*Screenshots (I guess that's built into the Share button now anyway)...
I've had a lot of this saved as notes from years ago and posted most of it on the old myres forums if anyone was wondering. I did type some new stuff, but no I did not just spend hours on writing this all.
R:FoM was about the most competitive and skilled game and it was the best game I've played where you can usually see real skill through someone's stats.. their accuracy, their weapons used, etc. R:FoM was great. R:TAN can be great. If they screw this up Again.. I don't know what to say. And R3 was no R:FoM, not with small player count, weapon upgrades, turrets, giant shields, killstreak rewards.
*Which reminds me.. No killstreak rewards, no perks, etc.
I also have a potential box art concept. If anyone working on this game wants to contact me, feel free to.
Insomniac could also be making the reboot. They're hard at work on the Ratchet & Clank reboot so it's not out of the question that Sony would have them do it.
I think it would be cool to have the Chimera take over happen during a different war. I'd love a Vietnam war era Resistance. That time period was so controversial (mainly in the US) as far as protesting the war goes. It would be cool if you played as a character that opposed the original Vietnam war, but was forced to join not because of the initial draft, but because of the Chimera draft.
Imagine a level where you were originally supposed to take over a Vietnamese Army base base, but instead it turned into a rescue mission where you save the soldiers from the chimera since the goal is saving humanity, not helping Nixon in the next election.
@below
Sorry, maybe if I said "I hope it takes place in the future where, when you aren't blowing up everything, you're fist bumping everything else!" that would interest you. Some people like actual story and conflict in their games.
Insomniac doing the reboot would be great but Ted Price has said they are kinda finished w/ that world, and Sony might want to keep the franchise in house...Hell I'd like to see Sony create another new first party dev & hand it off to them. That'd be a great franchise to prove talent off of, it's not so big to where a failure would be massive & it's not so small to where you wouldn't get many eyes on it if ends up great.
Mi doubt insomniac is making it as they kind of jumped off the Sony payroll and into Ms's. But, maybe they are coming back to Sony after SO pretty much flopped.
Imo though, insomniac is finished with Resistance
@smielman: god, insomniac always run back to sony when they are in trouble, arent they?
Insomniac aren't in a situation where they can pick and choose.
Fuse, and then Sunset Overdrive... It's not like they are the talk of the town.
I really hope its a brand new version. I think there is too much talk about remastering games, which will make developers think thats what we really want instead of originality.
Now this is some good news! I really enjoyed the multiplayer and the stories of the first 2 games. Not sure how well they'll hold up with all the other FPS games but I guess we will find out
Recently finished R1 and R2, probably gonna get 3rd one soon too. Im not big fan of FPS genre, but this game is pretty good and with a decent story.
I would absolutely love this! Resistance: FOM is one of my favourite PS3 and the multiplayer was one of the best I've ever played. 40 players, one-shot kill, on Manchester Cathedral was one of the best online experiences I'll ever have. Resistance 2 was really fun especially the coop. And Resistance 3 was also phenomenal, very very very underrated.
I just want a continuation of the universe because the story was excellent.
I like the Resistance series so much I would settle for a remaster if a reboot is not in the works.
Resistance 2 had amazing 8 plAyer coop yet somehow someway it wasn't included in resistance 3. To this day I don't understand the logic, you have a mode which is being played by a lot of people yet it was removed and imo that is why resistance 3 failed. Single player wise resistance 3 was amazing
Agreed....first had a great multiplayer map scaling was great according to # of players but I felt the controls were clunky cod style controls (only good thing copied by most fps games) were not mainstream yet, 2 was outstanding. Online rocked and co op was a blast. 3 bleh....it was Resistance of Duty killzone edition. It totally lost its identity and tried blending and fixing what didn't need tinkered with.
If new game went back to R1/R2 roots I'd pick it up, if it was anything like 3 wouldn't even give it a look. Not sure I'd even do a remaster unless it brought back r2 co op/multiplayer and threw in the R1 maps.
Agreed, if they had done expansions and updated I would still be playing. It was truly an amazing experience.
This is the last thing I want remastered. They need to move on to the next chapter.
Great news. Resistance 2 campaign was one of my favorite PS3 games and I'm halfway through Resistance 3.
or sony santa monica?...I'd love to see what either of them could do with resistance.
That was exactly what i thought when i saw the reveal trailer, it actually is a 3rd person R:fom
Yeah it will be interesting to see what they come up with or they could just be holding it so nobody else gets it who knows
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Our review of Far Cry 3 will be up very soon, but we can tell you that it is a game you should be spending your $60 on when Tuesday rolls around. There's also a bunch of games and DLC coming to the PSN, including a few PS1 imports.
Farcry 3. played it.
Graphically is a huge overhype (not trying to troll).
Atleast when it comes to PC, its huge hype.
Poor textures, poor water, poor asset density.
What I mean, is I ran both crysis/warhead and farcry 3 guess which was more impressive graphically?
2007 game.
Its a hard fact i've been trying to look past, but cant. Farcry 3 does have amazing character models (with SSAO disabled); gun models and its animations are top notch.
Still, reviews are overhyping this game like they do COD; 9/10s are bullshit these days. This game is a pure console port, all the PC effects were an afterthought and the overblown SSAO proves it.
Hype train, N4G marketing FTL.
You focus on the wrong thing - graphics.
In order to have the same amazing gaming experience that console player do, the graphics have to meet a certain standard, while console gamers are just having an absolute BLAST with this.
This is why I feel sorry for PC gamers - the graphics have to be of 'high standard' in order to get the same awesome experience console gamers do, otherwise it downgrades it for them.
As to the most important part - GAMEPLAY. The game is amazing. The sheer size of the world and the huge sense of exploration is awesome.
The stealth aspect is surprisingly well done as well
Killing animals is actually useful, as it increase your inventory size etc.
Absolutely LOVING IT so far!
I actually have to disagree. As someone who's been a PC gamer for friggin' years, I far from understand you. While, yes, you are certainly correct, Crysis 1 is the better looking game, I don't remember anyone saying it would look better than that game. Hell, Crysis 3 doesn't and won't look as that game.
However, to go, "Hurrdurr, it doesn't look as Crysis, so it doesn't look fantastic!" is just preposterous. The textures, water, asset density, as you mentioned are far from poor. Are they Crysis-level? No, but they're far from poor.
To say that the game is a console port is also just stupid. I've yet to play a straight-up console port that's even half as well-optimized as this game. It has an FoV slider (even if it's not clear what FoV you're choosing. I just pushed it almost all the way to the right, feeling like it's around 100 degrees), which console ports never include, and the PC effects are fine. SSAO is perhaps a bit, "OHOLYSHIT, WHAT HAPPENED??" even on low but, as far as I can tell, there isn't a problem with anything else except that d-pad thing that pops up when you equip weapons into your load-out and when you equip syringes.
As far as console-to-PC ports go, this is far from a "pure console port." It's a port with lots of effort put into it. That's not to say they couldn't have given us HUD scale sliders and, hell, gotten rid of those DAMN D-PADS (ugh), but it's still a great port nonetheless, beaten only by Dishonored and Borderlands 2 this year.
So, yeah. Well-optimized, good amount of options (could've been more, but that's because I just like seeing dozens of options in my menu to mess about with), can turn mouse acceleration off (default SHOULD be off, not on, Ubisoft). On the other hand, there's some tiny things here and there and horrendously taxing SSAO that detract from the overall quality of the port. Conclusion is that it's a pretty good port, though not great like Dishonored's and Borderlands 2's were.
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hey guys is far cry coming to the ps market? i really want to know cuz i wanna gameshare whit a friend who is really poor
I wanna play resistance fom again but I just can't with that control scheme. If they update it to match R2's or R3's I'd play it again.
Definitely picking this up never got a chance to play the first two games
A another way to define this gen is re-releases of PS2/PS3 games.
It would be nice if they'd release this on the Playstation Store.
I wonder if they'd give the first game a Trophy patch.. if so, I'd dust off my very first PS3 game for some more chaotic co-op fun!
Seriously though, Resistance Fall Of Man is brilliant, back in the day Motorstorm & RFOM were the only games I owned for a while for my PS3.
Ah.. Good times :') well worth picking up!