ARS - Resistance 3 is one of the best games of the year, and it has been highly anticipated. I know when I received my copy I did what gamers all over the world will do: hastened to play it! And that's when it stopped me dead in my tracks: the Resistance 3 setup feels like an unintentional guided tour of some of the failings of the PlayStation 3, both in terms of hardware and online user interface.
Insomniac Games' thunderous conclusion to its acclaimed first-person shooter series remains an under-appreciated work of art.
I honestly liked the first one most..
killzone 2 and 3 outshined Resistance 2 and 3 for me in every aspect.
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.
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).
Naw man.
Resistance 1 will always be GOATed for me.
I remember playing all night on multiplayer. Such a fun game.
killzone was amazing but resistance was great as well. althpugh theybwrre both fps, I think that served different purposes.
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?
@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.
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.
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.
I wish they'd bring back the Resistance 2 multiplayer. God that co-op was so much fun.
There are some epic PlayStation Plus Premium shooters, from Naughty Dog's Uncharted series to the high-stakes action of Doom published by Bethesda.
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.
While it's been on ice for as long as it was around, the Resistance franchise has no shortage of quality.
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.
Resistance 1 MP will always be my favorite. Call it nostalgia or whatever, but that was my jam, felt more balance, natural.
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
I only played the 3 main Resistance titles. My ranking would be;
1. Resistance 3
2. Resistance: Fall of Man
3. Resistance 2
Man I loved 3's campaign. Another gem stuck on the ps3 and who knows if insomniac will go back to the franchise.
Resistance, Warhawk, MAG, Motorstorm, there's so many first party gems on PS3 that Sony has just left to die...
Burning Skies was about 3 hours long and rather inconsequential. You haven't missed anything
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.
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.
"You can't just play Resistance 3 online just because you've installed the game! First you have exit the game, head to the PlayStation Store, and learn that you have to install a firmware update. Then, after it has applied, you get to return to the Store and input a one-time use code to unlock online play (take that, buyers of used games!)."
And the idiot writing the article and the idiot quoted in the article never knew that you could go into account management to enter the code... Also, how does he expect with any console to be able to play online if he doesn't have the firmware updated in the first place...
What a whinge.
Some valid points that have existed since Day 1 of the PS3, (and most gamers have just accepted) - all wrapped up in a pointless whine.
1. Not bad that a reviewer with a 60GB PS3 has only now, in 2011, reached the HDD capacity!
2. It's unusual, and bad luck, to have to do a firmware update at the same time as a game launches. I think it's happened to me maybe twice since 2006 - and I don't anticipate it being a problem in the future as I'm a PSN Plus subscriber.
3. It's not exactly hard to redeem the code before firing up the game. The process has always been the same... you have to quit the game and go to PSN Store or XMB to redeem codes. Redeeming a code (if there's no firmware update) takes a few seconds.
I'm not defending the way the PS3 works - mandatory installs can be annoying; and online passes are not the way forward. But they are a fact of life this generation for PS3 owners. Deal with it or don't play!
" Resistance 3 is one of the best games of the year, and it has been highly anticipated."
exactly, and if it's not a powerseller like others franchise, it's just because we have too many good games, and more thant that : because people are sheeps buying the more advertised franchises (it works for musics, movies, etc : it's never the best things who sell the most, no surprise here)
lol@for the stupid firmaware, pass,hd, etc things of artstechnica.
it's actually plausible for releasing day 1 patch from feedback of the beta.
switch on ps3 and do game installation and patch download as soon as u got the game, dun wait until u gonna play it.
if u can't freaking wait, disconnect ps3 and play it offline 1st.