Kudos on making a vid that perfectly describes the Resistance series. First had potential, second destroyed nearly all of it, and the third had best in class gameplay with a horribly presented story.
@@MerlautJones Naw, 1 is definitely better than 2, being an old-school mobility game rather than a generic hide and heal shooter, and not having a wri-tar come in and fuck another plot under the existing plot made entirely of alien cliches (doctor exposition who inexplicably knows everything, aliens that were here before us, hybrid who tells us how superior the aliens are and _everyone being fucking incompetent_ ). Plus 2 upped the Chimera from military threat to ridiculous god-like presence, meaning you knew they were going to have to cheat somehow for the humans to win. Fun fact: Android autocorrects "Chimera" to "Chinese." 🤔
I never understood the hate towards the second game. I loved it. If it had health kits and a weapon wheel it would've been awesome. I enjoyed the coop the most, and I loved the first game quite a bit as well.
They turned an old style FPS into a generic modern shooter with aliens. People who enjoyed and loved Fall of Men liked the old school gameplay, which was btw very hard to go through and never gave the player much room for mistakes. Resistance 2 is more bland, easier and the plot pretty much becomes garbage. The first title had this mysterious pseudo alien outbreak, every structure built by the Chimeras had reason to exist and was well explained by either the cutscenes or the documents you'd found around; Resistance 2 instead throws at you a bunch of sci fi thingies and calls it a day: the old buildings built by the aliens to reproduce disappeared with little explanation (you need to read a specific "bestiary" entry). Also the whole Cold War setting is thrown away: one of the cool things of FoM is that you never quite understand whether or not the infection comes from the russians or space. Here it goes down the path of pure sci fi and completely disregards what the plot was trying to establish. And the ending had almost no impact: when you decide to give your main protagonist the "power of speech" you should make sure he actually has something interesting to say, but here we have yet another generic soldier with little to no characterization, so killing him in the end bears almost no real emotional impact, besides the fact you go "nuuuuuh I'm dead" and then you're done. Capelli, like him or not, was had at least a personality and you can genuinely feel like his actions make sense for him in the third game. In Resistance 2 there's nothing of the sort: Hale fought mostly alone in Britain, he saw an astounding number of soldiers die, he became infected: all that shit is supposed to bear some sort of emotional drawback, he should be molded by that experience and we should see it during the dialogues: that's not what happens.
Tristin Hamilton I decided to beat the game in one sitting, and I don't really wanna touch that game again. The environments weren't all that interesting either compared to the previous, in my opinion. The second game has its moments for sure, but if I had a choice between the two, it would definitely be for the first, for all dem weapons, the spookiness, and that tasty impact from melee attacks.
Tristin Hamilton resistance 2 is a really good game. I only just played it again recently. To me, the only thing that holds that game from being truly great are the cheap deaths that can get incredibly frustrating. Still, its one of my top 5 fps games...
@BulletFarmer2 Main issue is he keeps refusing to get the inhibitor treatment for no reason other than that he seems to know he's the protagonist and so nothing can succeed without his direct supervision.
resistance 2 was GREAT as well as the first game. The only people that seem to hate it are game reviewers/ people that suck at fps games, and game reviewers that suck at fps games.
CyberLance26 I never said they were bad (though R2 was hot garbage) but R3 is the only one that reached the status of "good". The series as a whole is merely okay, if not somewhat bland.
The first one is the best, 2 turned into a CoD clone, 3 turned into a Half-Life clone (hitscan Bullseye? piss off), the PSP one sucks, and the PS Vita one is so bad the disabled the Vita's on-board screenshot feature to stop you showing people how shit it is.
The multiplayer in Resistance 1 was a blast. Definitely the best aspect of the game. I remember at launch you could find games of up to 40 people very fast. Definitely a very enjoyable game
I agree about the flaws, but I still loved this game. It still stands as one of the best PS 3 exclusives. It's no Half Life 2, but then again, what is?
Yes! To have a strong compelling narrative is to show a degree of depth that is part of the gameplay that draws immersion, all the more also being one of the core fundamentalist ideas in working notion that allows for apathetic care that isn't regressive in conjunction to something that fells lacking in whats needed. It's what moves a connection for players & the character, along with the story itself, to give a damn as to what they do, all while having an incentive of rewarding accomplishment.
"I'm not sure narrative should be the crux of your criticisms about a FPS videogame" Because it tried, and it failed to have a good story, and therefore is worth criticizing. As he mentioned many times, he enjoyed it regardless, but he would have enjoyed it even more if the story was solid.
One thing I'll always praise these games for is that they're not insufferable to play on harder difficulties. Most first and third-person shooters released after the early 2000's screw up their hardest modes by forcing the player into the most safe, boring, repetitive playstyle imaginable, and discourage the player from using all the tools at their disposal. Add regenerative health to the mix and you have a recipe for disaster. I played all three games on the hardest difficulty available from the start, and while I'm not a fan of regenerative health, I'm surprised at how smooth the gameplay experience was in all three, even in 2. I actually had fun and wasn't aggravated the entire time. I had options on how to approach each skirmish, and while 3's health system does encourage more discretion, staying imobile and hiding behind cover all the time was discouraged as well. Knowing what weapon to use when, zipping inbetween cover, and striking the chimera as fast as I can were all rewarded. It's why I much prefer playing these games to Naughty Dog's Uncharted series, so once again Insomniac wins me over. I know Uncharted is a third-person shooter with its own nuances, but its scripted set pieces take too much away from my agency as a player, and it falls for all the same shooter design trappings Resistance subverts. It honestly reminded me of Halo 1's campaign and how fairly-balanced its hardest difficulties are. If it weren't for some other flaws with the gameplay, like the dated visuals in 1 and 2, the choppy framerate (especially considering the dated visuals), the lack of payoff with 3's story, all the loose ends and unexplained threads, and the online multiplayer dying years before I even had a chance to try them, this could've been Sony's seminal sci-fi shooter. Xbox had Halo, Nintendo had Metroid Prime, and PlayStation had Resistance. There was also Killzone, but the parallels aren't quite there. Resistance has iconic enemy designs with the Chimera, and the weapons have their own signatures and quirks that help them stand out from other shooters. It's a shame we never got a remastered collection for modern hardware, because they'd greatly benefit from it and allow the art direction to really flourish.
Funny thing: i rented this game and loved it, played almost to the end, like, literally fifteen minutes or less before the end but had to do something else. I then returned the game and never really wanted to rent it ever again despite still loving it. This speaks volumes to what you discussed in this video, as soon as I felt the mechanics had delivered all they could i just straight up stopped playing. No ill feeling but also not compelled to continue. I never understood why I did that, so its really coom I stumbled in this video.
My biggest issue with this game is that it destroyed Capelli’s character. In Resistance canon he is one of only 3 survivors of Project Abraham which gave him pure chimeran DNA (the other two being Hale and Shepherd, aka Daedalus). He also has a pretty unstable and confrontational demeanor and quite literally fragged his CO at the end of the last game. What does this game do with that? Absolutely nothing. The whole story is nothing but a leave-your-family-or-watch-them-die cliché. It had soooo much potential, but it just wasted it by getting Capelli vaccinated and immune before I even got control of the character. It didn’t even seem to have a lot of consequences for killing the savior of humanity in the last game, aside from getting him a dishonorable discharge.
DØCTER HYDRËN Everyone complains about R2 because of the two weapon loadout.... could fix that in a rerelease of the trilogy... and I bet with a full arsenal... no one would care about 3 anymore LMAO
That incoming evil would've been the original aliens. The "Pure" Chimera. We didn't see them in the third game even though they had a massive portal to their homeworld...
Just finished a mild nostalgia kick with Resistance 1. It's definitely got some weaknesses. The story is laughable for sure, but being made by Insomniac games, the same guys who did Ratchet and Clank, the weapons have always been a huge strength. My favorite part of the franchise in fact, with a gun that shoots through walls, an alien machine gun that can shoot homing beacons for the rest of the shots to follow, and even a rocket launcher than fires rockets that change direction mid-flight. I wonder how some other shooters would have done if they had gotten the weapons so right like this one did.
People hate on the 2nd installment and I do think it’s the weakest campaign-wise and the fact that they dumbed it down to a two gun system and abandoned the weapon wheel, but I personally thought it had the best online offerings of the Trilogy series. Both the 8 player cooperative and up to 30v30 competitive were so much fun, yet I also enjoyed a competitive 5v5 match, too. I might be in the minority, but I got the most hours out of 2 for the online.
for some reason i really like this game and it's settings. the controls are a bit odd and not too responsive. overall a really interesting game that tries to do well. i didn't think it was too short.
This has most likely been said, but i'm pretty sure the first mission in Resistance 1 you had no health regain, then those parasite things got in and you starting healing. This carried over to 2. In 3 the character is not infected with the parasite (honestly can't remember much, its been years. Sorry if i forgot the names)
Res 2's glory was in the multiplayer (PvP and Co-op) which was absolutely godly. If you only played the SP/campaign, then yeah I'd understand disappointment.
It's a good game, leave me wanting more. Which is good for a franchise, i do hope they go space bound Resistance 4 as it would 60s and we wound want some payback
I think people are too negative on resistance 2. I think the campaign was pretty decent to playthrough(though the cheap deaths it had were frustrating). The multiplayer was actually real good imo, 60 player(30vs30) skirmish and 8 player Co-op spec Ops were awesome.
To be honest, Resistance 3 was by far the worst console Resistance title imo. Beautiful game, but I didn’t like the short campaign, the lack of co-op, and the multiplayer that tried extra hard to be CoD. It sucked that Resistance 2 lacked the weapon wheel, but it was one of the most fun multiplayer titles I’ve ever played, and the co-op was awesome too. Resistance 1 was probably the best; not great graphically, but the dark atmosphere and method of story telling really drove it forward and made it so much more interesting. To each their own though. I still love this franchise (minus that weird Vita title that never happened), and I really hope Insomniac is bringing it back in some form soon.
I totally agree with you. I honestly didn't like Resistance 2 at first due to not having a weapon wheel, but once I got into the game I was fine with it. Once I played the multiplayer I was purely addicted. Best multiplayer experience I ever had.
I disagree Resistance 2 had the best multiplayer which was perfect. There was no lag in the 30v30 games. Resistance 2 and 1 campaigns where amazing as well.
Resistance 3 took back some good things that 2 ditched, but 3 overall felt very "lazy" in comparison to the first two. It's like the developers didn't care for the game but just "had" to make it a trilogy.
i really liked the first game because it was more like a ps2 game, it had the best gameplay of all the parts. the second was a series of highlights, but was terrible to play, the third had some good level design but also some really bad level design (train and boat missions) and technically was a disaster in my opinion (didn´t even run at 720p).
The thing is WE failed an the end of two the portal was opened. they just changed it to fit three. Honestly is was terrible compared to one and two. It never pushed the envelope and instead played it safe and ruined the story for me. And the during credits ending was a massive joke
Completely disagree, Resistance 1 was fantastic and the best in the series, 3 was ok but 2 was the worst. Everything stale and mediocre about FPS at the time was super glued into the 2nd.
Resistance 3 took back the good input game designs that Resistance 2 ditched for a more Call of Duty-styled game play. But still I'd say 3 is the worst because the game just felt short, lazy and forced, like the developers didn't care about it. 1 and 2 had good length, a vast variety of enemy types, etc.
at the beginning of the yew York level, there was a journal that hints at the existence of a "super chimaera" called Pure Chimera which were behind the chimaera attack on Earth. I thought that they would have an impact on the story in some way: either Joe destroying the tower from the other side on the ruins of the alien planet that can be seen through the wormhole or a cliffhanger type ending that would shed more light on the incoming evil.
The problem is we never find out what the Pure Chimera actually _do_ or why they're supposed to be so scary. It's just like, "if you don't take this thing down, uh, _something really bad_ will happen." I feel they should have had a section where you had one of them invade and had to really jump through hoops just to get in a position to defeat it, like have to take control of a Goliath to fight it or something.
I must say that I was 12 years old when I first played this and the scene where the professor was killed still haunts me to this day . . . That's the day I learned that I wasn't ready for M rated games 😂
Play it with a friend its 10 times better due to the real lack of depth in the story. This is just one of like 4 series me and my best friend enjoy a lot because we use to be able to spend hours as 2 buddies sitting down with who ever else was around at boarding school and play these games that we did not haft to tell people or one another to shut up when the story came up
I think they didn't use Half Life's non-stop journey because if they kept that in with everything else in the game, then people would think they were deliberately ripping off Half-Life 2. The parallels between this game and Half-Life 2 are not that hard to notice.
In my opinion the biggest flaw of Resistance 3 are the graphics. Its so hard to look at with all those motion effects and low resolutions, it hurts my eyes. I had the same problem with Killzone 3. They should stop using effects that the systems cant handle and focus more on framerate and high resolutions.
I agree with your problems regarding the narrative, but it's unfortunately one of those things I only notice when I'm done with the game. I really enjoyed my time with this game, and it's sad that it didn't sell better : /
You should really play the Hitman series, you would probably enjoy them. And I would especially love to hear what you think about Hitman absolution, since I was very torn about it myself.
Conversely, how would a compelling narrative have hurt anything? It would have made an FPS with fun gameplay into an experience you remember, instead of one you just kill time with.
Lol the carbine assault rifle was so weak in the first 2 games that it mine as well have it shot bubbles at your enemies. On a second thought bubbles probably been more effective than the crap bullets they gave your for that weapon.
I think this game would have been alot more enjoyable if insomniac decided to put more time and effort into making more content for the single player and keeping the same multiplayer style of resistance 2 instead of trying to hop on the cod killstreak perk bandwagon and make a unbalanced unfinished dull cod4 clone multiplayer.
I wasn't satisfied with resistance 3 they dropped plot point threads from previous games and completely lacked narrative. It felt like insomiac wanted to finish the series and be done with it. The pure chimera were never explored again after Resistance 2. They never really explained the chimera end game besides recolonizing the world for themselves. But what the actual fuck why. And we never learned about the mysterious third faction that drove them off the planet in the first place. And it was just messy. It had no drive. It was awesome as a lil story set up in the universe of two men just trying to survive in this world. But being the series finisher it didn't do anything to answer half the questions it wanted to answer. Sure you have the Intel that answered some questions but does that really sound like a pleasing way to end the series?
After looking at this video and the title saying "The flaws..." usually when i think of "the flaws" i think of "a couple or a few problems that didn't look well for me" instead i feel like everything in resistance 3 is a huge complaint for you. Now don't get me wrong i only have a couple flaws i had in the game and one of them is the bugs and no actual final boss, maybe the final boss is the tower itself and you're taking it down piece by piece. The boss(tower) may not be physically moving around, but having a sworn of enemies plus a giant monster type gorilla chasing after you seems like a mild climax in my opinion. And one more thing, you say that beating the final boss in resistance 2 was disappointing, well when you think about its really similar to the final boss in uncharted 2 where the boss is chasing you and your shooting the surroundings to damage him while being chased. Just my opinion.
Great analysis I love the resistance series but I've always thought each title is just missing that little something to make it a great franchise. Heres hoping R4 on the PS4 (yes I know it hasn't been announced but why would Sony just let its franchise wither away) can push the series to new levels.
Victor Viridian Except I feel that ending was very undeserved, Capelli is going there to buy humanity some more time but oh look it also defeated all of the Chimera, humanities safe yay. I mean the war technically is won during the closing credits, did nobody want to play that section? But I suppose it's irrelevant anyway the series has clearly been put on the back burner probably as a result of the Vita game as Keegan Bradberry says
hey gaming brit, can you please re-upload the top 10 things legend of zelda did wrong video? it made me laugh so much, i'd really like to watch it again
I'm sure I'll get jumped by the White Knight Brigade of this series' fans but, I never liked a single thing about any of the Resistance titles at all. Just wasn't my "thing" I guess.
Why would it be biased? I'm pretty sure he's not a PC or 360 fanboy so there's no reason to hate on Resistance 1 other than he legitimately didn't enjoy it.
It would be so fucking cool if resistance 4 comes out for ps4 and the plot is that in the 80s-90s a new type of chimeras attacks earth as hale said.maybe infected humans become like hale so we would fight chimeras AND humans.freaking insomniac went to make a shitty xbone game instead of making res4.res3 was awesome leaving the mediocre plot
I couldn't finish this game because the visuals gave me eye cancer. The low framerates combined with the low resolution and blurry shaders made this a chore to play for me. If they would re-release it on the PS4, i might give it a try again.
Kudos on making a vid that perfectly describes the Resistance series. First had potential, second destroyed nearly all of it, and the third had best in class gameplay with a horribly presented story.
Jenna Yeah, the first game of a trilogy/series is, 9 times out of 10, normally the best entry in said trilogy/series in my experience anyway.
Disagree, it got better with each entry imo.
@@MerlautJones
Naw, 1 is definitely better than 2, being an old-school mobility game rather than a generic hide and heal shooter, and not having a wri-tar come in and fuck another plot under the existing plot made entirely of alien cliches (doctor exposition who inexplicably knows everything, aliens that were here before us, hybrid who tells us how superior the aliens are and _everyone being fucking incompetent_ ). Plus 2 upped the Chimera from military threat to ridiculous god-like presence, meaning you knew they were going to have to cheat somehow for the humans to win.
Fun fact: Android autocorrects "Chimera" to "Chinese." 🤔
4:23 - 5:21 Well said 😮
So here's this giant enemy crab, attack its weak point for massive damage.
I never understood the hate towards the second game. I loved it. If it had health kits and a weapon wheel it would've been awesome. I enjoyed the coop the most, and I loved the first game quite a bit as well.
They turned an old style FPS into a generic modern shooter with aliens. People who enjoyed and loved Fall of Men liked the old school gameplay, which was btw very hard to go through and never gave the player much room for mistakes. Resistance 2 is more bland, easier and the plot pretty much becomes garbage.
The first title had this mysterious pseudo alien outbreak, every structure built by the Chimeras had reason to exist and was well explained by either the cutscenes or the documents you'd found around; Resistance 2 instead throws at you a bunch of sci fi thingies and calls it a day: the old buildings built by the aliens to reproduce disappeared with little explanation (you need to read a specific "bestiary" entry). Also the whole Cold War setting is thrown away: one of the cool things of FoM is that you never quite understand whether or not the infection comes from the russians or space. Here it goes down the path of pure sci fi and completely disregards what the plot was trying to establish.
And the ending had almost no impact: when you decide to give your main protagonist the "power of speech" you should make sure he actually has something interesting to say, but here we have yet another generic soldier with little to no characterization, so killing him in the end bears almost no real emotional impact, besides the fact you go "nuuuuuh I'm dead" and then you're done.
Capelli, like him or not, was had at least a personality and you can genuinely feel like his actions make sense for him in the third game. In Resistance 2 there's nothing of the sort: Hale fought mostly alone in Britain, he saw an astounding number of soldiers die, he became infected: all that shit is supposed to bear some sort of emotional drawback, he should be molded by that experience and we should see it during the dialogues: that's not what happens.
Tristin Hamilton I decided to beat the game in one sitting, and I don't really wanna touch that game again. The environments weren't all that interesting either compared to the previous, in my opinion. The second game has its moments for sure, but if I had a choice between the two, it would definitely be for the first, for all dem weapons, the spookiness, and that tasty impact from melee attacks.
Tristin Hamilton resistance 2 is a really good game. I only just played it again recently.
To me, the only thing that holds that game from being truly great are the cheap deaths that can get incredibly frustrating.
Still, its one of my top 5 fps games...
@BulletFarmer2
Main issue is he keeps refusing to get the inhibitor treatment for no reason other than that he seems to know he's the protagonist and so nothing can succeed without his direct supervision.
resistance 2 was GREAT as well as the first game. The only people that seem to hate it are game reviewers/ people that suck at fps games, and game reviewers that suck at fps games.
Still love this franchise 😊
Too bad it seems to be dead. :(
The series never reached true excellence. R3 is the only entry that hit the "good" mark.
SamVision R1, R2 and the R game on the PSP are all great games to me.
CyberLance26
I never said they were bad (though R2 was hot garbage) but R3 is the only one that reached the status of "good". The series as a whole is merely okay, if not somewhat bland.
The first one is the best, 2 turned into a CoD clone, 3 turned into a Half-Life clone (hitscan Bullseye? piss off), the PSP one sucks, and the PS Vita one is so bad the disabled the Vita's on-board screenshot feature to stop you showing people how shit it is.
The multiplayer in Resistance 1 was a blast. Definitely the best aspect of the game. I remember at launch you could find games of up to 40 people very fast. Definitely a very enjoyable game
I agree about the flaws, but I still loved this game. It still stands as one of the best PS 3 exclusives. It's no Half Life 2, but then again, what is?
Shenmue is ten thousand times better tgan half life.
Half life= over rated
Whatever, bro.
gilgamesh310 The Last of Us is definitly one of the giants in the videogame industry so far
Acrox Shadow it rewrote narrative In video games
Knurdyob
The last of us is the worst game ever. Just a rip off of resident evil
Yes! To have a strong compelling narrative is to show a degree of depth that is part of the gameplay that draws immersion, all the more also being one of the core fundamentalist ideas in working notion that allows for apathetic care that isn't regressive in conjunction to something that fells lacking in whats needed.
It's what moves a connection for players & the character, along with the story itself, to give a damn as to what they do, all while having an incentive of rewarding accomplishment.
"I'm not sure narrative should be the crux of your criticisms about a FPS videogame"
Because it tried, and it failed to have a good story, and therefore is worth criticizing.
As he mentioned many times, he enjoyed it regardless, but he would have enjoyed it even more if the story was solid.
Gotta love that 28° field of view in Resistance 2.
One thing I'll always praise these games for is that they're not insufferable to play on harder difficulties. Most first and third-person shooters released after the early 2000's screw up their hardest modes by forcing the player into the most safe, boring, repetitive playstyle imaginable, and discourage the player from using all the tools at their disposal. Add regenerative health to the mix and you have a recipe for disaster.
I played all three games on the hardest difficulty available from the start, and while I'm not a fan of regenerative health, I'm surprised at how smooth the gameplay experience was in all three, even in 2. I actually had fun and wasn't aggravated the entire time. I had options on how to approach each skirmish, and while 3's health system does encourage more discretion, staying imobile and hiding behind cover all the time was discouraged as well. Knowing what weapon to use when, zipping inbetween cover, and striking the chimera as fast as I can were all rewarded. It's why I much prefer playing these games to Naughty Dog's Uncharted series, so once again Insomniac wins me over. I know Uncharted is a third-person shooter with its own nuances, but its scripted set pieces take too much away from my agency as a player, and it falls for all the same shooter design trappings Resistance subverts.
It honestly reminded me of Halo 1's campaign and how fairly-balanced its hardest difficulties are. If it weren't for some other flaws with the gameplay, like the dated visuals in 1 and 2, the choppy framerate (especially considering the dated visuals), the lack of payoff with 3's story, all the loose ends and unexplained threads, and the online multiplayer dying years before I even had a chance to try them, this could've been Sony's seminal sci-fi shooter. Xbox had Halo, Nintendo had Metroid Prime, and PlayStation had Resistance. There was also Killzone, but the parallels aren't quite there. Resistance has iconic enemy designs with the Chimera, and the weapons have their own signatures and quirks that help them stand out from other shooters. It's a shame we never got a remastered collection for modern hardware, because they'd greatly benefit from it and allow the art direction to really flourish.
Funny thing: i rented this game and loved it, played almost to the end, like, literally fifteen minutes or less before the end but had to do something else. I then returned the game and never really wanted to rent it ever again despite still loving it.
This speaks volumes to what you discussed in this video, as soon as I felt the mechanics had delivered all they could i just straight up stopped playing. No ill feeling but also not compelled to continue.
I never understood why I did that, so its really coom I stumbled in this video.
My biggest issue with this game is that it destroyed Capelli’s character. In Resistance canon he is one of only 3 survivors of Project Abraham which gave him pure chimeran DNA (the other two being Hale and Shepherd, aka Daedalus). He also has a pretty unstable and confrontational demeanor and quite literally fragged his CO at the end of the last game. What does this game do with that?
Absolutely nothing. The whole story is nothing but a leave-your-family-or-watch-them-die cliché. It had soooo much potential, but it just wasted it by getting Capelli vaccinated and immune before I even got control of the character. It didn’t even seem to have a lot of consequences for killing the savior of humanity in the last game, aside from getting him a dishonorable discharge.
Resistance 2 was awesome, a big, beautiful, fun game
R3 was garbage... and fuck capelli.... killed my protag
I KNOW RIGHT R2 was my favorite game in the series the guns were better so was the story and the levels
DØCTER HYDRËN
Everyone complains about R2 because of the two weapon loadout.... could fix that in a rerelease of the trilogy... and I bet with a full arsenal... no one would care about 3 anymore LMAO
Don't forget R2 also had health regen...
That incoming evil would've been the original aliens. The "Pure" Chimera. We didn't see them in the third game even though they had a massive portal to their homeworld...
Just finished a mild nostalgia kick with Resistance 1. It's definitely got some weaknesses. The story is laughable for sure, but being made by Insomniac games, the same guys who did Ratchet and Clank, the weapons have always been a huge strength. My favorite part of the franchise in fact, with a gun that shoots through walls, an alien machine gun that can shoot homing beacons for the rest of the shots to follow, and even a rocket launcher than fires rockets that change direction mid-flight. I wonder how some other shooters would have done if they had gotten the weapons so right like this one did.
People hate on the 2nd installment and I do think it’s the weakest campaign-wise and the fact that they dumbed it down to a two gun system and abandoned the weapon wheel, but I personally thought it had the best online offerings of the Trilogy series.
Both the 8 player cooperative and up to 30v30 competitive were so much fun, yet I also enjoyed a competitive 5v5 match, too. I might be in the minority, but I got the most hours out of 2 for the online.
I could never get over the really low resolution of this game. Resistance 2 was really good for
for some reason i really like this game and it's settings. the controls are a bit odd and not too responsive. overall a really interesting game that tries to do well. i didn't think it was too short.
If you liked this game, might I recommend Singularity. An fps with psudo time travel mechanics but a well executed title by Raven Studios.
resistance to me a very good game
Same hear
Well, I certainly believe the whole not-playing-a-lot-of-Resistance when you have no Co-op footage of R1 or R2.
This has most likely been said, but i'm pretty sure the first mission in Resistance 1 you had no health regain, then those parasite things got in and you starting healing. This carried over to 2. In 3 the character is not infected with the parasite (honestly can't remember much, its been years. Sorry if i forgot the names)
your narration has improved so much since this video
I didn't say it was a problem.
Res 2's glory was in the multiplayer (PvP and Co-op) which was absolutely godly. If you only played the SP/campaign, then yeah I'd understand disappointment.
I love the Resistance series. 3's my favorite of the trilogy, gameplay like Fall of Man with an engaging story like Resistance 2.
It's a good game, leave me wanting more. Which is good for a franchise, i do hope they go space bound Resistance 4 as it would 60s and we wound want some payback
I loved Resistance: Fall of Man. It's the best in the series.
Dylan Dixon No
The revolver is one of my favorite weapons in all of gaming
I love resistence series.
I think people are too negative on resistance 2. I think the campaign was pretty decent to playthrough(though the cheap deaths it had were frustrating). The multiplayer was actually real good imo, 60 player(30vs30) skirmish and 8 player Co-op spec Ops were awesome.
To be honest, Resistance 3 was by far the worst console Resistance title imo. Beautiful game, but I didn’t like the short campaign, the lack of co-op, and the multiplayer that tried extra hard to be CoD. It sucked that Resistance 2 lacked the weapon wheel, but it was one of the most fun multiplayer titles I’ve ever played, and the co-op was awesome too. Resistance 1 was probably the best; not great graphically, but the dark atmosphere and method of story telling really drove it forward and made it so much more interesting. To each their own though.
I still love this franchise (minus that weird Vita title that never happened), and I really hope Insomniac is bringing it back in some form soon.
I totally agree with you. I honestly didn't like Resistance 2 at first due to not having a weapon wheel, but once I got into the game I was fine with it. Once I played the multiplayer I was purely addicted. Best multiplayer experience I ever had.
3:24 - 10 years later, we have the opposite problem, where protagonists cannot shut up!
I disagree Resistance 2 had the best multiplayer which was perfect. There was no lag in the 30v30 games. Resistance 2 and 1 campaigns where amazing as well.
I agree I loved them both. I was totally hooked on Resistance 2 multiplayer
Resistance 2 was the best. I want to say that I spent literal days just playing coop.
Resistance 3 took back some good things that 2 ditched, but 3 overall felt very "lazy" in comparison to the first two. It's like the developers didn't care for the game but just "had" to make it a trilogy.
Dat ending XD
you should really make more videos because they are all awesome. Great video as always
Your videos are great! Subscribed.
don't care about reviews. RESISTANCE fall of man, and RESISTACE 2 was the best game I have ever played.
you fucked up, greatest game is ............KOTOR 1
What do you think about Journey on the PSN?
i really liked the first game because it was more like a ps2 game, it had the best gameplay of all the parts. the second was a series of highlights, but was terrible to play, the third had some good level design but also some really bad level design (train and boat missions) and technically was a disaster in my opinion (didn´t even run at 720p).
"so heres this giant enemy crab, attack its weakpoint for massive damage" THAT IS THE MOST INOVATIVE THING EVER!!!!
The thing is WE failed an the end of two the portal was opened. they just changed it to fit three. Honestly is was terrible compared to one and two. It never pushed the envelope and instead played it safe and ruined the story for me. And the during credits ending was a massive joke
wtf i loved all of them
Completely disagree, Resistance 1 was fantastic and the best in the series, 3 was ok but 2 was the worst. Everything stale and mediocre about FPS at the time was super glued into the 2nd.
Resistance 3 took back the good input game designs that Resistance 2 ditched for a more Call of Duty-styled game play. But still I'd say 3 is the worst because the game just felt short, lazy and forced, like the developers didn't care about it. 1 and 2 had good length, a vast variety of enemy types, etc.
CriticalShot1 The first Resistance is regular, Resistance 2 is very good and Resistance 3 is excellent
What's your opinion on KZ3? Ever thought of making a video about it?
I miss these games they're masterpieces compared to the crap being made these days. Where are all the good science fiction games?
The setting and the story were so good I cant believe they abandoned the series
there's nothing else like them i loved the 50s setting and creepy aliens
Also killzone
Doom 2016 was really good, if you haven't played it. Other than that, I agree.
@@bengrz13 yes I also just beat doom eternal recently it was great
at the beginning of the yew York level, there was a journal that hints at the existence of a "super chimaera" called Pure Chimera which were behind the chimaera attack on Earth. I thought that they would have an impact on the story in some way: either Joe destroying the tower from the other side on the ruins of the alien planet that can be seen through the wormhole or a cliffhanger type ending that would shed more light on the incoming evil.
The problem is we never find out what the Pure Chimera actually _do_ or why they're supposed to be so scary. It's just like, "if you don't take this thing down, uh, _something really bad_ will happen." I feel they should have had a section where you had one of them invade and had to really jump through hoops just to get in a position to defeat it, like have to take control of a Goliath to fight it or something.
So the Resistance series overall is somewhere between a "C" and a "B"
I must say that I was 12 years old when I first played this and the scene where the professor was killed still haunts me to this day . . . That's the day I learned that I wasn't ready for M rated games 😂
the best one in the trilogy for me
3 had the best game play and art aesthetic
Story was meh tbh
Resistance 3 is the OG The Last of Us
Play it with a friend its 10 times better due to the real lack of depth in the story. This is just one of like 4 series me and my best friend enjoy a lot because we use to be able to spend hours as 2 buddies sitting down with who ever else was around at boarding school and play these games that we did not haft to tell people or one another to shut up when the story came up
I think they didn't use Half Life's non-stop journey because if they kept that in with everything else in the game, then people would think they were deliberately ripping off Half-Life 2. The parallels between this game and Half-Life 2 are not that hard to notice.
i actually enjoyed the first and second games more... i couldnt finish the third cuz i got bored
In my opinion the biggest flaw of Resistance 3 are the graphics. Its so hard to look at with all those motion effects and low resolutions, it hurts my eyes. I had the same problem with Killzone 3. They should stop using effects that the systems cant handle and focus more on framerate and high resolutions.
I think the first Resistance should be rebooted, with revamped gameplay and story.
The gun looks like that Soldier / Knight's gun from Battleborn
Would you ever consider doing a review of Demon/Dark Souls?
what is your favorite game?
Is it bad that Resistance 2 is my favorite?
The thing that really bugs me about this game is the ridiculously small amount of recoil.
GamingBrit, love your videos. I like to see a retrospective of Metroid someday, more because i like the Devil May Cry one.
I didn't see this cause of the new layout, good fucking job youtube
I agree with your problems regarding the narrative, but it's unfortunately one of those things I only notice when I'm done with the game. I really enjoyed my time with this game, and it's sad that it didn't sell better : /
You should really play the Hitman series, you would probably enjoy them. And I would especially love to hear what you think about Hitman absolution, since I was very torn about it myself.
Easy up there, Tex! Sit in the bean bag chair over there and take deep, calm breaths for me as you think happy thoughts.
I'm the opposite. I really liked the first game, enjoyed the second, and found the third forgettable.
Resistance 3 is the only recent FPS I've enjoyed
How did it take so long for my to find you?
Is it about Metroid 2?
Conversely, how would a compelling narrative have hurt anything? It would have made an FPS with fun gameplay into an experience you remember, instead of one you just kill time with.
Me and my friends have this one joke where we pronounce the number 3 with th sound
Lol the carbine assault rifle was so weak in the first 2 games that it mine as well have it shot bubbles at your enemies. On a second thought bubbles probably been more effective than the crap bullets they gave your for that weapon.
I think this game would have been alot more enjoyable if insomniac decided to put more time and effort into making more content for the single player and keeping the same multiplayer style of resistance 2 instead of trying to hop on the cod killstreak perk bandwagon and make a unbalanced unfinished dull cod4 clone multiplayer.
I wasn't satisfied with resistance 3 they dropped plot point threads from previous games and completely lacked narrative. It felt like insomiac wanted to finish the series and be done with it. The pure chimera were never explored again after Resistance 2. They never really explained the chimera end game besides recolonizing the world for themselves. But what the actual fuck why. And we never learned about the mysterious third faction that drove them off the planet in the first place. And it was just messy. It had no drive. It was awesome as a lil story set up in the universe of two men just trying to survive in this world. But being the series finisher it didn't do anything to answer half the questions it wanted to answer. Sure you have the Intel that answered some questions but does that really sound like a pleasing way to end the series?
Do you pick things apart like this for humour sake or because it honestly bothers you?
Not mad, just curious
Compelley is not compeling ...wump wump
So glad to FINALLY have a new TGB video to watch! ^_^
Is it just me, or does GamingBrit's Voice sound slightly different? It's sounds so Badass.
After looking at this video and the title saying "The flaws..." usually when i think of "the flaws" i think of "a couple or a few problems that didn't look well for me" instead i feel like everything in resistance 3 is a huge complaint for you. Now don't get me wrong i only have a couple flaws i had in the game and one of them is the bugs and no actual final boss, maybe the final boss is the tower itself and you're taking it down piece by piece. The boss(tower) may not be physically moving around, but having a sworn of enemies plus a giant monster type gorilla chasing after you seems like a mild climax in my opinion. And one more thing, you say that beating the final boss in resistance 2 was disappointing, well when you think about its really similar to the final boss in uncharted 2 where the boss is chasing you and your shooting the surroundings to damage him while being chased. Just my opinion.
When I just literally finish the game 12 god dam hours ago and you make a video about it lol
That and it's unacceptable graphically as a PS3 exclusive.
Seems like a decent FPS. I man, compared to the other shit they pass off for FPS' these days, seems pretty good.
Resistance Free...
I got the whole trilogy for 25€ and I think it was really good
Why am i now finding this 5 days after...damn it YT. Instead of making crappy changes, how about fixing things :L anyway yeah good vid
New Gaming Brit Video?! WIN!
Great review, new subscriber.
Great analysis I love the resistance series but I've always thought each title is just missing that little something to make it a great franchise. Heres hoping R4 on the PS4 (yes I know it hasn't been announced but why would Sony just let its franchise wither away) can push the series to new levels.
Why would Sony let a franchise wither away, you ask?
Probably because the series clearly ended on 3.
We don't need a tacked on pointless sequel.
+Victor Viridian and perhaps the embarrassment of that shitty Vita game...
Victor Viridian Except I feel that ending was very undeserved, Capelli is going there to buy humanity some more time but oh look it also defeated all of the Chimera, humanities safe yay. I mean the war technically is won during the closing credits, did nobody want to play that section? But I suppose it's irrelevant anyway the series has clearly been put on the back burner probably as a result of the Vita game as Keegan Bradberry says
hey gaming brit, can you please re-upload the top 10 things legend of zelda did wrong video? it made me laugh so much, i'd really like to watch it again
I'm sure I'll get jumped by the White Knight Brigade of this series' fans but, I never liked a single thing about any of the Resistance titles at all. Just wasn't my "thing" I guess.
That movie IS a flaw.
The Flaws of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Would enjoy seeing you pick this pile of trash apart.
multiplayer is nice
Resistance Free
Why would it be biased? I'm pretty sure he's not a PC or 360 fanboy so there's no reason to hate on Resistance 1 other than he legitimately didn't enjoy it.
It would be so fucking cool if resistance 4 comes out for ps4 and the plot is that in the 80s-90s a new type of chimeras attacks earth as hale said.maybe infected humans become like hale so we would fight chimeras AND humans.freaking insomniac went to make a shitty xbone game instead of making res4.res3 was awesome leaving the mediocre plot
I couldn't finish this game because the visuals gave me eye cancer. The low framerates combined with the low resolution and blurry shaders made this a chore to play for me. If they would re-release it on the PS4, i might give it a try again.
PoweredByFlow I could see that happening. Give Resistance 1 and 3 remasters on PS4. And PC port would be nice, too