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Insomniac Games respond to complaints about Resistance 3’s PSN demo

Insomniac Games respond to fan complaints about Resistance 3’s playable boat demo that briefly appeared on the Asian Playstation Store. The also revealed why it was taken down.

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Dart894857d ago

*A few fans who were able to get their hands on the demo before it was taken down expressed their disappointment with the trial version of the upcoming first-person shooter, especially in regards to the graphics.

It's a (DEMO)of course the graphics aren't gonna look like that when it comes out.Jeez can't people tell the difference between a (DEMO)and final product??

Focker4204857d ago

Overall I thought the demo was fun. Were the graphics Uncharted level? No, but that still doesn't mean they were bad. I'm thoroughly looking forward to this when it comes out, especially after seeing some of the multiplayer footage.

Active Reload4857d ago

WTF? Now all of a sudden the game looks bad?

50Terabytespersec4856d ago

Im so skeptical about this mess of a game!
The first was great the second was a mess and now the third has this happen?
But realize the original game engine was a "half life"
Type of engine meaning last gen, much like COD is using the doom 3 engine.
So don't expect Uncharted or KZ3 type of graphics.
And plus they don't work for Sony so they don't get all the special optimization and technical secrets that the Sony teams share!!!
This game will be what it always has been second to Gears and KZ a second choice.
But I still love it and will buy it!!

Ravenor4856d ago

@terabyte

Quake 3 for CoD, not Doom 3.

I find it unlikely that Insomniac doesn't have access to all the resources for something like Resistance, it is a PS3 exclusive after all.

I would also hardly call it second place to KZ or Gears, it's COOP is still some of the best available on the PS3 or console in general. Me and the lady friend had plenty of fun playing through the missions cooperatively online.

NegativeCreep4274857d ago

I'm sure most people can, but then trolling wouldn't be as fun for them and as annoying to us as it is now, now would it?

ASTAROTH4856d ago

Its happening again. How fast guys you forget things? First it was Killzone 3. The devs said the demo wasnt as polished as the final game. Everyone and their mom jumped to conclusions and guess what? The final build looked miles better. Second it was Crysis 2. Nobody believes the devs and again people get owned with the final game. Third it was Gears 3, even though Gears 3 is still a fall game. Everybody will know how good and polished the game ends up looking this fall. Next it was inFAMOUS2, The demo was good but the final game looks better than the demo.

Now we have R3, can we just wait for the final game and believe the devs when they said its an unpolished demo?? . No!!!!!!! everyone jumped to conclusions again. Every media site is calling it for not bein the "Halo killer" and the likes. I dont care!!. 4 me the game looks so far impresive and will end looking better. Also I noticed that the ones who complained about the first Resistance being colorless are the ones who then complained aboout R2 being too colorfull and cartoony and are the ones complaining for this demo. Im believing that you are not as Resistance fans as you want us to believe... HATERS GONNA HATE!!!

Ducky4857d ago (Edited 4857d ago )

Aren't demos supposed to be a sample of the final product?

... or is it a beta? O.o

Max_Dissatisfaction4857d ago

shhhh! There will be no questioning of a ps3 exclusive...esp using logic and reason.

jdfoster004857d ago

Put it this way the beta isn't even out yet... Demo is like a sample yes. I'm sure closer to the release date we will see an open demo and it will be considerably better than this one.

Jonah_Reese4857d ago

Yes that is the point of a demo, to sample the final. The problem is a person may not like the sample handed out to them. And if they're using the boat demo, the demo that debuted back in what? September or was it October? I mean I've seen later demos and the game looks nice to me, I've also seen the boat demo and I can tell that it was older. But that's just me.

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Peaceful_Jelly4857d ago

Demo is short for Demonstration. You can make a Demonstration out of anything. Its purpose is to give us a taste of a product finished or not.

Beta is when a developer makes an unfinished game public with the purpose of receiving feedback...

Neko_Mega4857d ago

No and yes, not all developers give you the best looking demo. I mean look at the Bleach demo on Japan's PSN.

They said that it was old and the game looks alot better and runs better, so most of the time demo's don't even look close to what the full game does.

Bioshock on PS3 go alot of reports that the demo didn't look that great and the developers made a update for the demo.

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No Way4857d ago (Edited 4857d ago )

Uhm, I thought demos are more less a representation of the final product.
Meaning, that it's close to done but still some polishing and what not needed.
Typically, games will have some message stating that it's not the final build..
Though, of course, quite often it's not always the case for demos.. obviously.

M-A-R-S-H-A-L-L4856d ago

Nathan uses logic and gets marked as trolling.

What a surprise. /s

A demo is a sample of the game *IN PROGRESS* . The game isn't even out yet so I don't see why people are jumping all over it already.

KwietStorm_BLM4856d ago

A demo can really be anything you want it to be. What you said is usually right, but when a demo releases this early, it's safe to say it's a demo of an old build. You could even see a lot of jaggies and inconsistencies when they showed the first trailer, but look at the E3 videos. I'm sure they really just saw the cross promotion deal with Battle Los Angeles as an opportunity, not unlike the FFXIII demo with Advent Children.

MaxXAttaxX4856d ago (Edited 4856d ago )

All I said was that the God of War 3 demo was released almost a year before the final game and the Resistance 3 demo was released 9 months before the final game is released.

Which is proof that demos ARE NOT always a sample of the final product!

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nopunctuation4857d ago

>Complaining about an old demo that wasnt meant to be shown.
Man some people are just dense.

Close_Second4857d ago

I have heard that so many times. Its a demo so the graphics will be better in the final game. Sure glitches may be fixed but demo graphics are more often than not indicative of the final product.

Resistance graphics have always been solid but nothing special.

showtimefolks4856d ago

and a demo isn't finished product. that's why i feel like sometimes demos can hurt the game more than helping and sometimes they do help too

keep up the great work guys at insomniac can't wait to check out ratchet and resistance 3

anyone know if when playing ratchet offline will we still get 3 AI partners?

just_sayin4856d ago

i not sure u get all 3 but i know u get a partner it was in 1 of the videos on psn look it up

Megaton4856d ago

I always hear that, "it's just a demo, it'll look nothing like the final game". I've yet to see that actually become a reality. Demos are almost always nearly identical to their gold release counterparts in terms of graphics.

This isn't to say anything about the R3 demo one way or the other, but I do find that argument to be really stale and consistently false.

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Peaceful_Jelly4857d ago

and frame rate was kind of inconsistent too but Insomniac say that it was really old code.

Oldman1004857d ago

I'm surprised no one has complained yet about the absence of the dynamic water effects that were in R2.

MGRogue20174857d ago (Edited 4857d ago )

I managed to finish downloading the demo a little while ago even while it was supposedly taken down from the PSN store lol.. Haven't started playing it yet but at least I've got it. :)

Edit: Playing it now, works great.. Graphics look average, It doesn't look *that* bad though, looks fine. However, There's quite a bit of jaggies, so hopefully Insomniac implement some MLAA or some of their own AA tech into the final build.

theonlylolking4857d ago (Edited 4857d ago )

Your sharpness settings might be to high. I know a lot of people that have sharpness at the max so the games have lots of jaggies. Most stores also have sharpness way to high for video games.

GOW3 can even have super huge amount of jaggies if the sharpness is to high.

MGRogue20174857d ago (Edited 4857d ago )

I have my TVs sharpness setting to 0.. so it's definately nothing to do with that.

I'm pretty sure they'll have the AA & graphics over all sorted out in the final retail build.

-MD-4857d ago

The graphics in Resistance have never been cutting edge how is this a surprise to anybody?

Kon4857d ago

Sequels were supposed to be an improvement over it's predecessors

Pintheshadows4857d ago

You have to admit this looks and sounds like a massive improvement over 2.

Nes_Daze4856d ago (Edited 4856d ago )

True, but it's more than just graphics involved.

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Eonjay821d ago

Resistance 3 is such a great game. One of my all time bests.

cooperdnizzle821d ago

Couldn’t agree more. Still love It as a shooter to this day.

Just something about that game. I really wish they would just do a remaster, don’t even need a remake just bring it up to todays out put, touch up a few things if any, and I am there to buy it day one.

Of course I would love a remake built from the ground up. As long as they treated it like Shadow of the Colossus, or close to those type of remake. Wouldn’t want it to get the RE treatment…. Just because the game is already paced so perfect and hits all the right beats that I wouldn’t touch that aspect.

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Ranking the Resistance Games From Worst To Best

While it's been on ice for as long as it was around, the Resistance franchise has no shortage of quality.

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Knushwood Butt878d ago

My take:

Single player
3, 2, 1

Multiplayer
3, 1, 2

Overall
3, 2, 1

I beat the lengthy single player in 1 multiple times and spent hours in the online too. Plus 1 featured my home town! Special mention to the audio design in 1: playing that with surround headphones blew me away.

Note: I have the platinum for Resistance 2.

Eidolon877d ago

Resistance 1 MP will always be my favorite. Call it nostalgia or whatever, but that was my jam, felt more balance, natural.

Miraak82 877d ago

i have the platinium too , 10k kills in online ranked matches was no joke . Took me 3-4 months straight grinding but it was fun . To put it in perspective you only got like 25 kills per match if you were 1st place every match that's at Least 400 matches in 1st

Sciurus_vulgaris878d ago

I only played the 3 main Resistance titles. My ranking would be;
1. Resistance 3
2. Resistance: Fall of Man
3. Resistance 2

GoodGuy09878d ago

Man I loved 3's campaign. Another gem stuck on the ps3 and who knows if insomniac will go back to the franchise.

fr0sty877d ago

Resistance, Warhawk, MAG, Motorstorm, there's so many first party gems on PS3 that Sony has just left to die...

P_Bomb878d ago

Never played Burning Skies but I still have Retribution.

monkey602878d ago

Burning Skies was about 3 hours long and rather inconsequential. You haven't missed anything

porkChop877d ago

Honestly, Burning Skies was shit. There's no two ways about it. At first I thought it looked terrible, then I second guessed myself. Big mistake.

darthv72876d ago

Retribution has this really cool feature where you could use a PS3 to link a controller to it and play. So if you had a 2000 or 3000 hooked to a tv, you can use a real controller. All of this predates the PSP Go's ability to sync a sixaxis to it via bluetooth.

Yui_Suzumiya877d ago

Resistance 3 was shocking and brilliant. Loved it.

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While the studio is best known for Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet, and Clank, and Spider-Man back on the PS3 the studio broke from creating platformers and made one of the highest regarded science-fiction first-person shooters of all time. This was Resistance and it remains one of Sony's most acclaimed and dormant franchises.

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Jin_Sakai1234d ago

Really wish Insomniac would bring back Resistance!

darthv721233d ago

Agreed. Until they do a new entry, I'd love to get the two portable games remade into console versions. Maybe in a nice compilation with the mainline titles.

monkey6021233d ago

Burning Skies wasn't a great game.
It was only a couple of hours long and there was nothing memorable about it.

I'd love a new entry

darthv721233d ago

^monkey, hence why it should be remade into a better version.

SullysCigar1234d ago

Resistance 3's campaign was gorgeous for the time - and an awesome game to boot.

monkey6021233d ago

I remember being put off by it because McHale wasn't the MC but it turned out to be my favourite campaign

CBaoth1233d ago

by and large though the Resistance IP featured many protagonists (4 altogether I think if you include the portables). One of the reasons I enjoyed it was not being shackled to individual story arcs. Very rare for a major franchise.

Army_of_Darkness1233d ago

My favorite resistance game as well! It seriously had creepy, scary a$$ moments bro! It made me want an action horror game from insomniac!

Mr_cheese1233d ago

Remember playing this through online co op with the move controller and gun attachment! What a game!

BlackIceJoe1234d ago

I've said in the past I'd like to see this series return and have it take place years later, like in the present.

I'll give you an example if I'm not mistaken the last game ended in the 50s, so if it was to take place some time in the 2020s you'd have an opportunity to see how the world changed after the fall of Chimera and all the new technology that came out of that war.

Just like in our universe we all know WW2 happened, but we never experienced it, so if the next Resistance game takes place years later so too would people in that universe know a war look place against the Chimera, they just wouldn't know what it really was like.

So getting to see how that universe would respond to the Chimera reemerging would be interesting.

Imagine a little kid talking with his grandfather about the war and the kid just thinks it was just a made up bed time horror story and what was said was worse than what really took place, but now that the Chimera come back the kid will find out why years later the old timer adults were still waiting for the Chimera to return.

I think there is great potential for this series still and I really believe the best way forward for Resistance is make it have a time jump too.

So hopefully this series will return.

Dragonopolis1233d ago

Great Idea. I'd play that version.

Resistance was a great game and of all the remasters.... I would play a great remastered version of resistance series as well

waverider1233d ago

I was blown away when i played for the first time Resistance on the PS3. Great Game. Also liked very much an played for hundred of hours the Co-op of R2. The SP campaign of R3 is also excelent. I really hope that Sony and Insomniac annouced the Remaster of the Series and a new chapter. They got story to do that.

Jambola121233d ago

Resistance 2 was one of the first few games i played on ps3 and I loved it, would definitely finish that again :D

Chevalier1233d ago

I loved all the Resistance games. But part 2 online was amazing. The Marksmen for the Spec Ops type class when it was fully upgraded was such an amazing weapon. Oh man I wish they release all the games again and let us play part 2 online again.

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