The Resistance Isn’t Over: Unfinished Stories in Games

As the video game medium continues to mature, so do the narrations and tales within them. Stories are integral to the experience, so it’s important for their creators to finish them on the right note. The Resistance franchise always struggled with its identity, with each iteration being different from the last, but its story and mystery kept them all fused together. After more than five years of struggling to fend off Chimera for humanity’s survival, with just a one minute announcement, many were left asking, “That’s it?”

[Lelldorianx]

There are untied ends everywhere you look -- companies are leaving ever more reasons to return to a series and milk it at a later date, as do movie franchises.

[farhsa2008]

Resistance is my favourite franchise, i fell in love with FOM, I hope there are many more games to come.

[Ghost250]

Resistance imo shits on killzone.

[cpayne93]

Single player does but killzone has better multiplayer imo.

[Ghost250]

killzone 2 just has too much grenade spammers and people spawn trap on that game way too much and killzone 3 people wanna plant fucking claymores everywhere it starts to get annoying. resistance multiplayer was pretty good on 1 and 2 not so much on three sadly. but hey different strokes for different folks

[DigitalRaptor]

I prefer Resistance for their campaigns.

Resistance 3 was one of the most underrated shooters of 2011!

[2pacalypsenow]

its a shame it sold so bad , for such a good game its better than 1/2 the games out there that have sold over 1m

[Ghost250]

yeah it really sucks man, resistance is one of those rare gems in a over-saturated genre that definitely deserves more attention than it got.

[ReservoirDog316]

That's honestly the reason Insomniac put aside the Resistance franchise. No one ever really supported it. I bought all 3 within days of it coming out but I was one of the few. You can't blame them either. Too many games with very little profit isn't good.

It's sad. I really loved Resistance. The controls in R3 were literally perfect.

[Knushwood Butt]

Clearly you didn't play it with Move...

[mayberry]

rfom was such an awesome launch title! That and motorstorm 1 kept my launch 60g very busy! any more would be very appreiciated! Cant wait for starhawk, dust 514, last of us, last guardian, and now for some journy! good times ahead!

[2pacalypsenow]

ahh Motorstorm still remember being amazed by the tire marks made on the mud :) good times

[r21]

man, the ending for R3 kinda disappointed me. wish they could have expanded further after the game with a 15 min scene about the future, not just still images during the credits.

also SPOILER->it was nice to see malikov being respected by josephs family<-SPOILER. maybe the next resistance will take place during modern times.

[dc1]

Im with you.
Loved R1 and although Im in the minority...I loved R2 more.

Although the mood and atmosphere was much better in R3, it felt like it was stripped of several different game play assets(-mostly multiplayer-).
**spoilers****

I also believe that you (Insomniac) can not/should not have kill off Nathan Hale as cavalierly as they did without some sort of dedicated insight in R3. I light monologue of how his death save the word didn't cut it.- He was a very interesting lead character- very giddy/likable.
Lastly, Jo Cacilie(sp) was a complete -arse- in R2 .... so looking forward to playing as him wasn't a key selling point for me.

By the way :Very very well written piece.

Forgive the typos as I sent this from my phone.

[GamingManiac]

I'm with you, played the living hell out of RFoM and R2, R3 on the other hand was such a huge disappointment on every level, SP hurt my feelings lol and MP.... Absolute crap compared to R1&2.... ;(

[cpayne93]

I understand why some people feel that way because it felt more like a spin off than a sequel. R3 was more survival horror than a big epic sci fi war, but that should kinda be expected considering how many humans were left. The story had a much different focus, gone was hale and the war theme, and now we had capelli, some angry dude without a whole lotta character development from R2.

Still though, in the last few hours of the game you had all your weapons and had to use them strategically against several different chimera, those last few hours felt like classic resistance to me. I also love them bringing back health packs, R3 is still has one of my favorite campaigns of all time.

[ginsunuva]

Still waiting for James Grayson to return from Russia.
I could care less about joe-shmoe firefighter in New York.

[KingofGambling]

I believe Sony is going to put the Resistance franchise on hold until the next gen, than Insomniac will develop Resistance 4 for the PS4.