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Beta! What is it good for?

GameNTrain: I’ve been sitting here thinking about the Beta’s that I’ve been lucky enough to play. The current one on my console is the Resistance 3 Beta. Sadly, I’ve only fired this up twice. Both times I have done so just left a sour taste in my mouth. Hit the jump and see what I’m talking about.

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CrimsonEngage5388d ago

Good question. I'v been in hundreds of betas. It's just till recently with the BF3 beta due to come out that i realize that it shouldn't be called a Beta. They should just call it a "Demo".

The beta is in September and the game comes out in November. Second, the beta probably won't come out until the middle of September. I hardly think they can fix bugs in that amount of time.

Gears of War 3's beta was an actual beta. They have just been polishing this entire time.

PixL5387d ago

Multiplayer beta deals more with the server side of a game and servers can be adjusted more easily. Besides, I remember BFBC2 beta and they fixed a lot of issues between it and the final game. Also, BFBC2 had a beta, then a demo and they were different.

I like betas, especially those from PS+. I saved a lot more than the subscription fee on those alone.

gcolley5387d ago

plus they can release updates at launch, perfectly acceptable these days on console. releasing a broken game and not patching it for 6 months is the result of lack of beta testing where the actual game becomes the beta. of course with the internet, the damage has already been done.

Bad company 1 suffered badly from this. most people wrote the game off too early and missed out on the best MP FPS at the time, yes better than MW for the same reason BF3 will be better than MW3... destruction and vehicles.

rdgneoz35387d ago

Some are more like demos, others are actual betas. With UC3, they've had a bunch of improvements, adjustments, and bug fixes that occurred over the course of it. RE3 has had some improvements and bug fixes as well. Sure it had some major problems after a bit, but I'd rather them fix it in beta that have that problem at retail. Can't say anything about the GeOW 3 beta, as I didn't play it except for a bit at a friends.

Overall, even if its a month before release, testing the game out with a lot more people than what happens in internal testing or private betas is always better than releasing a product without doing that and having a ton of bugs, glitches, and hacks on release day (cough COD cough). Hell, making sure your servers can handle the amount of players you'll get on release is always good.

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Resistance 3 is a Classic, 13 Years On

Insomniac Games' thunderous conclusion to its acclaimed first-person shooter series remains an under-appreciated work of art.

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_SilverHawk_561d ago

Sony needs to remake the trilogy on ps5

CrimsonWing69561d ago

I’d rather them do a new game in the world of Resistance.

Cacabunga561d ago (Edited 561d ago )

I honestly liked the first one most..
killzone 2 and 3 outshined Resistance 2 and 3 for me in every aspect.

Eonjay561d ago

I absolutely adored Resistance 3 but they do not NEED to remake this game. They should do something that they enjoy and if it is Resistance then so be it.

Mr_cheese561d ago

Loved resistance 3, played the whole thing on co op with the move controller and gun, was very different!

Resistance 2 online was the best

gamerz561d ago

Me too, but also on a 3D tv! R3 was one of the few games that got plastic rifle panning motion right.

isarai561d ago

Such a criminally underrated series, id love a remaster collection of the trilogy.

preciousdeath561d ago

Yes! ...and make them PSVR2 compatible.

Pedrof561d ago

Not a classic in my opinion ; a pretty mediocre PS3 shooter as far as I'm concerned, not bad, not the worst of the trilogy, but certainly not great. Killzone 2 was miles ahead of it (and of most FPSs even today as far as I'm concerned).

pwnmaster3000561d ago

Naw man.
Resistance 1 will always be GOATed for me.
I remember playing all night on multiplayer. Such a fun game.

P_Bomb561d ago

Ah yeah, R1! I cut my teeth on the one-shot Walmart map, lol! Miss that.

gamerz561d ago

Played that demo soooooo many damn times since it was the only thing to play for a while at launch. That and motorstorm.

refocusedman561d ago

killzone was amazing but resistance was great as well. althpugh theybwrre both fps, I think that served different purposes.

JEECE561d ago

Thanks for turning Insomniac into a Marvel studio.

ApocalypseShadow561d ago (Edited 561d ago )

Although I agree on original games and creativity over licensed IP, especially something like Ghost of Tsushima. But Sony's looking at that series selling less and less overall with the 3rd estimated to not even sell 2 million. Gamers who say they loved it didn't really buy it.

While Spiderman the series has sold over 50 million not counting PC. And Spider-Man 2 is over 11 million so far. If you had their business and had to make their decisions, what would you do in their shoes?

JEECE561d ago

@ApocalypseShadow

Umm, that's exactly my point lol. Insomniac made great, original IP games and people didn't buy them because they were too busy lapping up yearly CODs and Assassin's Creeds, so naturally Sony/Insomniac had to pivot to something else.

Knushwood Butt561d ago

So you are saying 1 was the worst?
I respect your opinion but strongly disagree.

I'll start with what I didn't like about 3:
- OK, Nathan Hale is gone but new player character totally forgettable. Can't even remember their name.
- Awful forced in 3D. Just look at KZ3 for 3D done well.
- Online multiplayer that paled in comparison to 1 and 2. Put hundreds of hours into the first two. Probably less than 10 hours into 3.
- Campaign was OK but I played the other two more, especially 1.

Pedrof560d ago

1 had my favorite gunplay of the trilogy (no need for COD iron sight) so I guess my worst would be 2. At least 3 wrapped up the storyline, supported the move controller and had prettier graphics. But in my book, none of the three really stood out. From that era, I prefered Singularity for example and obviously Killzone 2.

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lex-1020561d ago

I wish they'd bring back the Resistance 2 multiplayer. God that co-op was so much fun.

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Top 10 PlayStation Plus Premium Shooters

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Eonjay1428d ago

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

cooperdnizzle1428d 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 Butt1486d 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.

Eidolon1484d ago

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

Miraak82 1484d 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_vulgaris1485d ago

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

GoodGuy091485d ago

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

fr0sty1484d ago

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

P_Bomb1485d ago

Never played Burning Skies but I still have Retribution.

monkey6021485d ago

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

porkChop1484d 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.

darthv721484d 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_Suzumiya1484d ago

Resistance 3 was shocking and brilliant. Loved it.

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