Never forget, the "chimera" are just a mutated bio weapon of an alien race we never saw, mankind was almost erased by the alien equivalent of dropping smallpox blankets on earth. Mankind in this verse is utterly fucked
It’s a pity so much of it gets relegated to side materials outside the main trilogy of PS3 games. Having just finished Resistance 2, while I enjoyed the game, so much essential story elements felt like they were missing.
@@timhare9867 That's exactly what gets me. All of this is out there in ARGs and books, it's the epitome of unnecessary effort. Like I appreciate it but Resistance was never such a big deal that it was outright mandated. They must relaly have had something going on there
Something i always thought was neat, is that during Resistance 1 Hayle has an almost, Religious fixation with using good old Human Weaponry, But then in Resistance 2, Once the line between pure humanity and chimera-subserviance is crossed, he starts appearing in cutscene with the bullseye, more and more and more and more, until its his exclusive weapon, Almost twisting into a preference for chimeran tech as his mind and body alike are converted.
"Can you hear them? They're calling to us, it's beautiful." Is still haunting to hear till this day and the opening scene of San Franciso being invaded by the Chimera fleet is still my favourite backdrop in gaming to date. I need to replay the games now.
I can still clearly _feel_ that scene. I said it on her other video but that was, for me, the first time that a game really nailed a sense of scale. Everything just felt so much bigger than me.
Hale in the end looked so possessed with that smile and yet you can see through his eyes and body language that he wants to be shot, he knows there is no coming back
I mean, you can argue it's a design flaw, but if an auto-turret doesn't have any sort of proper IFF system and is just firing at anything that moves within a certain set of parameters, a limited range of motion helps cut friendly-fire incidents down to mostly those who didn't get the "don't cross this line if you want to continue existing" memo.
Now I have a mental picture of daedalus facepalming as dozens and dozens of grims run past the turret in a mad dash to kill Hale. Only to die in droves because the turret shoots them! 🤣
Henry Stillman is one of my absolute favorite side characters ever. You only ever hear him over the radio and only if you choose to stick around and listen, but if you do, you get one of the most memorable, heart wrenching performances and stories. Listening to his mental state get worse and worse over the course of the game really made me feel for the guy, and that moment about the boy gave me chills. So glad you got to 2, hope to see 3 next!
YES! More Resistance game videos! If they do Resistance 3 I can die happily "He wasn't special he was just luckier than the other guy." That quote hits hard
MINOR SPOILERS FOR THE GATHERING STORM NOVEL! Reading the tie-in novel provides great insight into Daedalus' character. He still maintains most of his memories and emotions as a Chimera, including his love for his wife, Hannah. When the government kidnaps and tortures her in order to lure Daedalus into an ambush, he personally leads a contingent of Chimera to rescue her without hesitation. The two converse, and rather than be disgusted by him, Hannah feels only sympathy and pity for what her husband has become. The way he thinks and acts...it's almost as if his service to the Chimera is a choice, rather than subjugation by the hive mind. He views them as something greater and is proud to be a part of it (hence the "it is beautiful" line when hearing the Pure Forms speaking to him). Whether that devotion is the hive mind twisting his desires or he actually believes that after being forcefully connected to it is anyone's guess. He can also transfer his consciousness into any other Chimera unit on Earth instantaneously and control them. I remember a scene of him swapping bodies across continents while in confinement, for no other reason than boredom.
@@ricpreganz2772 He does have a point, though. Man touches Daedalus' corpse and suddenly receives a massive surge of *something* and some fancy new telekinesis powers, and then quotes the same damn line from the intro in that final cutscene. They're even the same strain, I could definitely see some kind of partial or complete mind transference going down in that sequence.
"You should've ducked" okay, listen, I was lying PRONE and still got mulched by a friendly turret in HD2. It rotated, tilted DOWN at me, and tore me /many/ new ones.
Khanlusa, your Resistance and Crysis videos have been some of my favorite content here. They have been such a nostalgia trip for me as I grew up playing those games and loved the alien invasion themes they played with. Keep up the good work! you are the best and I cant wait for the Resistance 3 video :D
one thing i really love about the chimera is there combination of mechanical parts with flesh, its a design style i been messing with with people having basically jet engines in there bodys to move at horrifying fast speed.
The Rossmore was one of my favorite guns next to the bullseye. My cousin and I have an inside reference where every time we get a shotgun in a game we'll say, "Say hello to Mr Rossmore." Before blowing whatever we're dealing with to smithereens
Stories where the character you follow knows they have a shorter time left to live i feel are the biggest test of who they are as a person. When you know you have so little time left you spend it on the MAXIMUM priorities, making it clear what you hold above everything else.
I played the coop multiplayer mode of Resistance 2 quite a lot. I'm usually more interested in single player campaigns because they serve more lore, but in htis case the multiplayer had the welcome element that it took place before the single player and rewarded success by providing additional lore documents specifically tailored to putting the game's events in perspective.
major blake was actually voiced by troy baker .i don't know why little errors like that bug me so much. sorry for being that person. oh and the books are an amazing read if you can pick them up. i am definitely one of those people who tore into the lore of this series. oh and yes a comic book series too that was a limited run.
@TheChronozoan yes they are Resistance the gathering storm and resistance a hole in the sky. the first takes place in a time skip between the first mission and the second in resistance 2. the second takes place sometime after resistance 2 and a couple of years before the third game.
@khanlusa i would've definitely made that mistake if i wasn't such a nerd and dug into everyone about this series that I could get my grubby little hands on😭
Resistance 2 was just something else and i was one of the very few who played and liked Resistance 3 and playing multi-player too back in the day, time flies.
6:11 I know that seeing American cities in disarray is a trope but that moment when you walk out and see massive Chimeran ships over San Fran and the Golden Gate Bridge, bathed in an almost hellish sunset...it's just beautiful. It's a triumph of art direction that no amount of extra pixels or extra horsepower will ever replicate. Ever since I saw this scene at the age of 10 in a review for the game, it lived rent-free in my head.
I remember thinking 'Well shit." when I saw the ending to this game. I was pretty convinced the setting was gonna be a "rocks fall everyone dies" kinda thing.
@@WTFisTingispingis It nearly ended like that in Resistance 3 and I like how it shows the struggles to crawl back from the brink and now even in the depths of despair, good people with extraordinary effort can still prevail.
It's not entirely _unlike_ that. The Chimera fleet gets obliterated with a nuke, but no real remains of human civilization stand. The Chimera are still overwhelmingly stronger and more numerous. The human leaders and best soldiers are dead. The Chimeran home world is now connected to Earth, meaning Daedalus' plan ultimately worked.
@@nicolaszan1845 Yeah I have no clue how human civilization would recover from that. Even Malinkov, the de-facto smartest guy still alive by the point of 3, is dead.
Hey now talk about a pleasant surprise! Just finished watching part 1 (finally) yesterday! Can't wait to sink my teeth into this one! Thanks for another update. Always a highlight of my day
I don't think so. I mean, Khanlusa's like of the series hasn't been quite in line with mine, so bias is likely playing. Anyways, for what it's worth, Resistance got better with every iteration.
For me that is underlined by the fact rhat the first game is fully in the Sepia Generation of stylistic theming, the second starts adding more vibrancy to the world, and man Resistance 3 to me felt like suddenly be able to see all the colours. Plus with R3, to this day is much less common to be playing on the side of the defeated.
I only just recently discovered your channel, but I love how you are reviewing this series. Definitely one of the better FPS series that released at the time. I'm looking forward to how you tackle Resistance 3!
The Resistance series is so fascinating. I remember playing it when younger, and don't think I've played a shooter like it since. Hope we get a review of the third!
Yoooo I originally watched a friend play through this game when it first came out. That ending floored me. Watching your take on the game brings back memories
I only recently finished Resistance 2 for the first time, and still have very mixed feelings about it. On the positive side, it’s a really unique game and setting that somehow combines both a gritty WW2-esque setting with true Lovecraftian horror, and what feels like a truly insurmountable enemy. The Chimera cannot be stopped no matter how many of them you kill. On the negative side, they removed the weapon wheel. Your ‘squad’ is pretty much forgettable (I just remember the Major, the token black guy, and the token big angry guy with the chain-gun), and most importantly it feels like a truly astounding amount of essential story material is missing. What happened in the 2 years between Iceland and San Francisco? Who is Daedalus, the main antagonist of the game? What is the Liberty Defence Perimeter.? Where is the rest of the United States Army? What is the status of the war? Who is in charge? Who are the Cloven? How did the Chimera wipe out upwards of 168 million Americans in the space of about 2 months of fighting? I know all these questions have answers, but barely any of them are in the campaign. And those that are told rather than shown. Seeing Daedalus’s fleet physically breaching the LDP from multiple sides then launching thousands of spire missiles all across the southern states where 80 million or so Americans were packed into refugee camps should definitely have been something we physically saw and experienced, rather then just heard in a blink and you’ll miss it but of dialogue. We should have had commentary between missions from a Rachael Parker like character explaining how the Chimeras invasion of the USA was progressing like the first game had. As things stand, this game surprisingly felt like it had no stakes. The campaign didn’t like a war involving 14 million human combatants fighting tooth and nail to protect tens of millions of civilians against a much larger enemy swarming them from all sides. It felt like that battle happened months ago, and we’re being left to puck over the bones with a small remnant of very well equipped survivors. I actually read Resistance Gathering Storm before I played this game, and there were parts of the novel that definitely should have formed part of this game’s narrative. We should have seen President Noah Grace attempt to sell out the rest of humanity to preserve is little tinpot dictatorial rump state in the south before Daedalus tore him limb from limb. We should have seen ordinary civilians fleeing the Chimera in mass through cities like San Francisco, Chicago and Washington. And we should have actually seen the US attempt to use everything at its disposal from tanks and artillery to surface ships and nukes to beat the Chimera back, only fail spectacularly as the Chimera overrun the US Coasts, the LDP, and break the back the the last human resistance to their global dominance. And maybe somehow find a way to bring us into contact with the Cloven, while also setting up an organisation like Grace’s Domestic Security Agency as a foil and potential enemy of the Sentinels when Grace tries to sell them out to hold onto his power at all cost.
@@timhare9867 I definitely agree, I always thought it would have been better if Resistance 2 was The Gathering Storm's plot, and then the actual Resistance 2 was 3 instead. As it would give a lot more context to the world and the state of it by the time Daedalus pays San Fransisco a visit
The Resistance series is a series that should have been turned into an open world game after the third game, especially considering how amazing and interesting the world became in the third game, much like Killzone or Red Faction, this series just seems to end without much satisfaction and yet has so much to explore.
idk why but the section where Hale can use The Psychic Powers from Daedalus reminds me of The Section In Half-Life 2 where u can use the Blue Gravity Gun
Henry Stillman’s broadcasts were so gripping as a kid and even now the dude gave a brilliant gut retching performance that are some of the most memorable parts of these games for me
This is the closest content Resistance fans can get to a remake. Edit: all the radio broadcasts by Henry can be found here on youtube just in case they were missed during gameplay. Unfortunately the same can not be said for Freddie Valmore's broadcasts in Resistance 3.
yayy new videooo les goo Edit: i also loved how you make sure to point out ways some can seek help whenever a game shows us deep issues that can lie within us. Respect for caring so much about people you wont even meet :) there arent many like you in our world so its a nice change of pace stay healthy :)
Great video, resistance 1 and 2 were entertaining but for me I feel like the 3rd one has the most replayability. The story is more personal and Capelli comes across as a much more relatable character in terms of depth. Hopefully you cover the sequel in the future.
I dont know why but i always headcanoned that the race they were at war were the Ceph,it just fit in a way i cant explain. To recommend games for you to check out Golden Treasure the Great Green, Fear and Hunger, Pathologic Hope you like them
7:08 Coming from the ‘hear me out’ video and remembering how terrifying the chameleons are. My brain went into a place that I don’t want to go back to. 🥲
I’ve been really excited for this one. I haven’t played the games since they first came out, so fun to revisit the series! Excited to see you cover 3. Your videos are awesome by the way!
I’m so happy you did a Resistance 2 video! I remember reading a Game Informer article about Resistance 2 and being enthralled by these 4-5 paragraphs describing the desperate position of the soldiers fighting the Chimera. I’m excited to see how you present the game!
Hell yeah! New Khanlusa video ❤ I remember playing Resistance: Fall of Man a long long time ago on the PS3 but i never got around to playing the sequels, the lore goes so hard honestly, maybe I'll finally get around to playing them in the near future. Also, congrats on the 50k! You absolutely deserve it! Love your channel ❤
I remember being so hooked to Resistance 1 as it was my first ever PS3 title. I played through the campaign several times, gathering every bit of story, new game plus weapons and when Resistance 2 came out I was SO hyped. I remember when the ending cutscene played out, I was in complete shock and disbelief. I couldn’t believe that my favorite video game hero, Nathan Hale was dead. “ How could they kill him? That’s not fair!” I still think about it from time to time how impactful the series up to that moment really made me feel like the Chimera were cruel and terrifying.
This is one of my favourite new channels. They really give me the comfy old school vibes that you don't really get on this platform any more. Thank you for the entertainment, I hope your work reaches the audience it deserves.
This series and your points on it actually serve an interesting comparison point to Crysis, with the Chimera becoming increasingly eldritch, but in a less generic or mishandled way. Also just a hint of Dying Light (especially The Following) with the protagonist trying fighting the foe before he becomes the foe (heck, Hale's hands when he gets telekinesis are 'held' very very similarly to how Crane holds his almost-volatile claws, that animalistic pose that conveys raw power). Now that I think about it, there could be a really interesting set of videos comparing the themes of games you have already looked at with each other, how they create similar vibes.
Playing the online multiplayer PvP was some of the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. My friend and I would get home from school, hop on the game and play till the sun went down. Sure, the game is dated now and I can see flaws that I didn’t notice as a kid, but I still look back on it fondly and genuinely believe I would still have fun with it today if the servers were still up.
A little bit of lore on Daedalus is that when he was younger as a human, Shepherd had been exposed to like toxic waste and when they volunteered him for project Abraham, he lied and said he had never been exposed to anything dangerous, thus the chimera DNA mutated him
8:25 , wait wait i can what???, the Resistance lore and setting is amazing, if we get a season 2 of Secret Level i hope we get one set in this unvierse the leve of detail on the environment like the radio brodcast , it is scary just the way the chimera look , the fact that was a person and set during an alien invasion in those years its an amazing concept.Imagine if any studio made a new ip without context just some aliens fighting not a mention of humans and via an ARG we learn its concected to the resistance series . Speaking of ARG i kinda love that Kate has at least some lowkey part in some sci fi worlds and a big one in others Also props for giving a moment for mental health
Another Khanlusa vid! Your sarcastic humour and overal video set up is amazing. Always looking forward to seeing you post a video, makes my day! Just a small point, but it could just be me: The whole radio segment... I could only pick up part of it, because of the audio effects placed on it. I don't know the proper terms, but I think it's the reverb(?) or the echo part, that makes it very difficult to make out certain words. If the game didn't have subtitles for it, maybe some subtitles can be added for these sections? Otherwise, despite me not having played quite some games, all your videos this far I have really enjoyed watching! Hope you keep making more 😁
This is one of the best game trilogy from Insomniac Games, and both Resistance FOM and 2 are coming to PS Plus, and Travis Willingham is one of my favorite voice actors, he and Troy Baker are the goats
Another great video as always! Some context from the time though: Retribution wasn't considered "forced" onto the PSP so much as an outstandingly great third-person shooter for it, with an active multiplayer community, and even a cool bonus feature that uses Resistance 2. If you have Retribution on a PSP and connect it to your PS3 with a copy of Resistance 2 in the disc drive, you can "infect" Retribution, adding second analog stick aiming, upscaled resolution, and regenerating health. It was pretty neat! Some of those features have been patched into the PS4/PS5 re-release, but I swear they left less ammo lying around than in the original PSP version. There was also a (not very good) tie-in novel trying to bridge Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2, FWIW. It was, unfortunately, written by the same writer who buggered up the Mass Effect 3 tie-in novel so bad that BioWare publicly apologized about (and has basically treated as apocrypha at best since). I don't think you'll be quite happy with how Resistance 3 resolves the dangling threads of 2, but I do think you'll find the gameplay much more to your liking. As someone who used to be a huge Killzone player, even I found the Resistance 1-2 controls pretty damn awful, but 3 is quite smooth. You get the sense some of the folks from the Ratchet & Clank games stepped in and went "Okay, let me show you how a camera system works."
I only know about this series because of the Fall of Men cover. When I looked at it I felt like I had to play it but never did. Hopefully I'll feel like trying them this year. Anyways, great video!
Ah the chameleon such awful memories I got stuck on the Chimeran ship where you fight three back to back with 7 rounds left and no grenades that will only kill one... I being stubborn as a mule decided not to restart but to carry on with melee only 21 tries later I got through the level. Came back with a shotgun and a malicious hard on for the last checkpoint button.
I remember sinking hours into the Co-op Campaign for this. I remember making it to one mission and nobody seemed to play right at a certain part resulting in a failure.
Really love the format, I can't imagine how much work must be to first research the game, then play it and after all that is done, then analyse it all. I think you will enjoy playing Prey (2017), maybe it is a bit long, but you could give it a try. Congratulations on the 50k subscribers and keep doing such an amazing content!
I am happy you enjoyed Resistance 2, like I said. It did indeed up the ante. As for Resistance 3? Well... You'll know when you play it. Once again I am overjoyed you covered this series and can't wait for you to play future ones like Killzone which I mentioned before in one of your earlier videos, and perhaps Lost Planet. Which are both games near and dear to my heart. Resistance 2 was an incredible game and is incredibly striking with its set pieces letting you know the sheer scale of fucked humanity is at any one time, and it's use of the multiple different strains of the Chimera and their creation adds such a visceral layer of horror that is either easily missed by you unloading a barrage of bullets in anything more than two eyes or strikes you in the face with the dark reality what these extra-terrestrial invaders are doing to your own species no matter be them young and old, sick or healthy, kind or cruel. The sheer visual storytelling as the protagonist mentally and physically tears himself apart until there's nothing left just so humanity can fight another day only to be put down and killed like a dog. His deeds going unheard and unsung, all for the biggest gut punch being the reveal of this mysterious new sky of unrecognisable planets and stars making you realise that despite everything you did, even sacrificing your own humanity. The Chimaera succeeded in their plan of "the sky is filled with Chaemeran stars", and before you can process this you are unceremoniously killed and the game ends. A great way to setup tension for the third game. Can't wait to see your next video!
I never played Resistance 1 and 2, but your videos were a very enjoyable recap. Assuming the third game is next I was wondering if you were planning to go through stories of the InFamous games at any point? From what I'm aware you quite like that series, so was wondering about your takes on their stories., well, at least the Cole McGrath duology, as I never really cared for Second Son.
Never forget, the "chimera" are just a mutated bio weapon of an alien race we never saw, mankind was almost erased by the alien equivalent of dropping smallpox blankets on earth. Mankind in this verse is utterly fucked
That's what I love about this universe
@@nathanielclaw2841 dang🥲
A hyper intelegent smallpox but smallpox none the less.
an alien race that was on earth way before we were but were bascially forced to leave earth because of another alien speices we will never know.
@@PanzerKaii Sadly the fate I wish wasn't so, its hardcore hinted of coming but lead to well nothing
The lore of resistance is one of the few pieces of media where they truly didnt need to go so hard, and yet they did anyway
It’s a pity so much of it gets relegated to side materials outside the main trilogy of PS3 games. Having just finished Resistance 2, while I enjoyed the game, so much essential story elements felt like they were missing.
@@timhare9867 That's exactly what gets me. All of this is out there in ARGs and books, it's the epitome of unnecessary effort. Like I appreciate it but Resistance was never such a big deal that it was outright mandated. They must relaly have had something going on there
I loved all of this extra effort 👌
Something i always thought was neat, is that during Resistance 1 Hayle has an almost, Religious fixation with using good old Human Weaponry, But then in Resistance 2, Once the line between pure humanity and chimera-subserviance is crossed, he starts appearing in cutscene with the bullseye, more and more and more and more, until its his exclusive weapon, Almost twisting into a preference for chimeran tech as his mind and body alike are converted.
@chibipotate it's an amazing touch in the menu when you see him convert more and more and the carbine switches to a bullseye
"Can you hear them? They're calling to us, it's beautiful." Is still haunting to hear till this day and the opening scene of San Franciso being invaded by the Chimera fleet is still my favourite backdrop in gaming to date.
I need to replay the games now.
I can still clearly _feel_ that scene. I said it on her other video but that was, for me, the first time that a game really nailed a sense of scale. Everything just felt so much bigger than me.
@@TheChronozoan SAME!
@@DoctorKrain the line has stuck in my head all these years, I used to play these games with my dad and im almost afraid to play them without him, RIP
@@Timeothy Play them again, in memory of him.
Recently got all 3 and my ps3 shipped to me cross country!
"Which I understand is more realistic, but have you considered you're a killjoy?"
That got a good cackle out of me.
That made me laugh. 2 weapons had their place: but not in resistance
They’ll make you only be able to carry two weapons for realism but then have vtols in the 50s lmao
anytime you utter any variation of the phrase "obscene amount of bullshit" it fills my heart with joy
@@isaacmaya1915 RELTABLEE
Hale in the end looked so possessed with that smile and yet you can see through his eyes and body language that he wants to be shot, he knows there is no coming back
I mean, you can argue it's a design flaw, but if an auto-turret doesn't have any sort of proper IFF system and is just firing at anything that moves within a certain set of parameters, a limited range of motion helps cut friendly-fire incidents down to mostly those who didn't get the "don't cross this line if you want to continue existing" memo.
Now I have a mental picture of daedalus facepalming as dozens and dozens of grims run past the turret in a mad dash to kill Hale.
Only to die in droves because the turret shoots them! 🤣
Henry Stillman is one of my absolute favorite side characters ever. You only ever hear him over the radio and only if you choose to stick around and listen, but if you do, you get one of the most memorable, heart wrenching performances and stories. Listening to his mental state get worse and worse over the course of the game really made me feel for the guy, and that moment about the boy gave me chills. So glad you got to 2, hope to see 3 next!
YES! More Resistance game videos! If they do Resistance 3 I can die happily
"He wasn't special he was just luckier than the other guy." That quote hits hard
@@michaelcastro1944 you know resistance 3 was already made right
@@zamirvelazquez4968 OP was referring to Khanlusa. They want Khan to review Resistance 3.
It's already made
MINOR SPOILERS FOR THE GATHERING STORM NOVEL!
Reading the tie-in novel provides great insight into Daedalus' character. He still maintains most of his memories and emotions as a Chimera, including his love for his wife, Hannah. When the government kidnaps and tortures her in order to lure Daedalus into an ambush, he personally leads a contingent of Chimera to rescue her without hesitation. The two converse, and rather than be disgusted by him, Hannah feels only sympathy and pity for what her husband has become.
The way he thinks and acts...it's almost as if his service to the Chimera is a choice, rather than subjugation by the hive mind. He views them as something greater and is proud to be a part of it (hence the "it is beautiful" line when hearing the Pure Forms speaking to him). Whether that devotion is the hive mind twisting his desires or he actually believes that after being forcefully connected to it is anyone's guess.
He can also transfer his consciousness into any other Chimera unit on Earth instantaneously and control them. I remember a scene of him swapping bodies across continents while in confinement, for no other reason than boredom.
So that's what happened to Nathan at the end there... he got body snatched
@@insertedgynamehere___969 Or he came to the same "conclusion" Shepherd did: that the Chimera are something wonderous.
Ah yes the hivemind is truly the right goal trope sci fi authors love this trope
@@ricpreganz2772 He does have a point, though. Man touches Daedalus' corpse and suddenly receives a massive surge of *something* and some fancy new telekinesis powers, and then quotes the same damn line from the intro in that final cutscene. They're even the same strain, I could definitely see some kind of partial or complete mind transference going down in that sequence.
@@rhyssuy8361 Really? It's usually "Hivemind bad"
"You should've ducked" okay, listen, I was lying PRONE and still got mulched by a friendly turret in HD2. It rotated, tilted DOWN at me, and tore me /many/ new ones.
Clearly it sensed treason.
@@Skwiyhedd have you tried being more democratic?
Your lack of democracy disturbed it
@@thronezwei4412 I'm the most democratic!
@@naitor2594 or maybe your democracy just wasn't managed enough.
"Which I understand is more realistic, but have you considered your a killjoy" is entering my lexicon immediately.
Khanlusa, your Resistance and Crysis videos have been some of my favorite content here. They have been such a nostalgia trip for me as I grew up playing those games and loved the alien invasion themes they played with.
Keep up the good work! you are the best and I cant wait for the Resistance 3 video :D
one thing i really love about the chimera is there combination of mechanical parts with flesh, its a design style i been messing with with people having basically jet engines in there bodys to move at horrifying fast speed.
The Rossmore was one of my favorite guns next to the bullseye. My cousin and I have an inside reference where every time we get a shotgun in a game we'll say, "Say hello to Mr Rossmore." Before blowing whatever we're dealing with to smithereens
Stories where the character you follow knows they have a shorter time left to live i feel are the biggest test of who they are as a person. When you know you have so little time left you spend it on the MAXIMUM priorities, making it clear what you hold above everything else.
Can you hear them? It is beautiful.
WOOPWOOPWOOPWOOPWOOPWOOPWOOP
Forgive me sir, it was an honour
Bro the hard cut to credits from the split second of Hale's head being blow is such an gut punch
"Forgive me sir, it was a honour"
*Shoots*
I played the coop multiplayer mode of Resistance 2 quite a lot. I'm usually more interested in single player campaigns because they serve more lore, but in htis case the multiplayer had the welcome element that it took place before the single player and rewarded success by providing additional lore documents specifically tailored to putting the game's events in perspective.
before and along side as well. it really adds a lot to the story and i loved the additions to the story.
@@Wonzling0815 duuuuuuude I maxed the medic class and played up until 3 came out, I loved that mode.
major blake was actually voiced by troy baker .i don't know why little errors like that bug me so much. sorry for being that person.
oh and the books are an amazing read if you can pick them up. i am definitely one of those people who tore into the lore of this series. oh and yes a comic book series too that was a limited run.
First time I've heard there's books ?! Hell yeah
Resistance books?! Let's goooooo
@TheChronozoan yes they are Resistance the gathering storm and resistance a hole in the sky. the first takes place in a time skip between the first mission and the second in resistance 2. the second takes place sometime after resistance 2 and a couple of years before the third game.
Not mistaking Matthew Mercer and Troy Baker for each other Challenge: Impossible 😭😭
@khanlusa i would've definitely made that mistake if i wasn't such a nerd and dug into everyone about this series that I could get my grubby little hands on😭
I cannot wait until you do Resistance 3, that was my childhood scary game. That I proudly remember beating as a kid.
@frostmurray7866 same here. i remember so much I did on resistance 3. I just beat 1 and 2 on my ps3
It was my favorite among the trilogy
Resistance 2 was just something else and i was one of the very few who played and liked Resistance 3 and playing multi-player too back in the day, time flies.
6:11 I know that seeing American cities in disarray is a trope but that moment when you walk out and see massive Chimeran ships over San Fran and the Golden Gate Bridge, bathed in an almost hellish sunset...it's just beautiful. It's a triumph of art direction that no amount of extra pixels or extra horsepower will ever replicate. Ever since I saw this scene at the age of 10 in a review for the game, it lived rent-free in my head.
I remember thinking 'Well shit." when I saw the ending to this game. I was pretty convinced the setting was gonna be a "rocks fall everyone dies" kinda thing.
@@WTFisTingispingis It nearly ended like that in Resistance 3 and I like how it shows the struggles to crawl back from the brink and now even in the depths of despair, good people with extraordinary effort can still prevail.
It's not entirely _unlike_ that.
The Chimera fleet gets obliterated with a nuke, but no real remains of human civilization stand. The Chimera are still overwhelmingly stronger and more numerous. The human leaders and best soldiers are dead. The Chimeran home world is now connected to Earth, meaning Daedalus' plan ultimately worked.
@@nicolaszan1845 Yeah I have no clue how human civilization would recover from that. Even Malinkov, the de-facto smartest guy still alive by the point of 3, is dead.
Hey now talk about a pleasant surprise! Just finished watching part 1 (finally) yesterday! Can't wait to sink my teeth into this one! Thanks for another update. Always a highlight of my day
On a Saturday morning, this is some great coffee.
Ah, the Grims, the most used image on the internet to represent a 'rake'
i really hope this isnt a Crysis 3 situation where my memories of the third game are better than the game itself
I don't think so. I mean, Khanlusa's like of the series hasn't been quite in line with mine, so bias is likely playing. Anyways, for what it's worth, Resistance got better with every iteration.
For me that is underlined by the fact rhat the first game is fully in the Sepia Generation of stylistic theming, the second starts adding more vibrancy to the world, and man Resistance 3 to me felt like suddenly be able to see all the colours. Plus with R3, to this day is much less common to be playing on the side of the defeated.
iirc Resistance 3 fares better than Crysis 3 or Fear 3
Omg you always release vids during my roughest shifts and honestly you rlly help me get through them! Thanksssss 💜
I don’t know why all these videos about my favorite video game series ever are all coming out but I’m here for it
I only just recently discovered your channel, but I love how you are reviewing this series. Definitely one of the better FPS series that released at the time. I'm looking forward to how you tackle Resistance 3!
Just the thing I needed to brighten up, thank you Khan.
12:36 As someone who lives there, it's kinda sad that I've never played this game just to see how accurate it is.
The Resistance series is so fascinating. I remember playing it when younger, and don't think I've played a shooter like it since. Hope we get a review of the third!
Yoooo I originally watched a friend play through this game when it first came out. That ending floored me. Watching your take on the game brings back memories
"How are you feeling, Nathan?"
"Mostly human"
I only recently finished Resistance 2 for the first time, and still have very mixed feelings about it. On the positive side, it’s a really unique game and setting that somehow combines both a gritty WW2-esque setting with true Lovecraftian horror, and what feels like a truly insurmountable enemy. The Chimera cannot be stopped no matter how many of them you kill.
On the negative side, they removed the weapon wheel. Your ‘squad’ is pretty much forgettable (I just remember the Major, the token black guy, and the token big angry guy with the chain-gun), and most importantly it feels like a truly astounding amount of essential story material is missing. What happened in the 2 years between Iceland and San Francisco? Who is Daedalus, the main antagonist of the game? What is the Liberty Defence Perimeter.? Where is the rest of the United States Army? What is the status of the war? Who is in charge? Who are the Cloven? How did the Chimera wipe out upwards of 168 million Americans in the space of about 2 months of fighting?
I know all these questions have answers, but barely any of them are in the campaign. And those that are told rather than shown. Seeing Daedalus’s fleet physically breaching the LDP from multiple sides then launching thousands of spire missiles all across the southern states where 80 million or so Americans were packed into refugee camps should definitely have been something we physically saw and experienced, rather then just heard in a blink and you’ll miss it but of dialogue. We should have had commentary between missions from a Rachael Parker like character explaining how the Chimeras invasion of the USA was progressing like the first game had. As things stand, this game surprisingly felt like it had no stakes. The campaign didn’t like a war involving 14 million human combatants fighting tooth and nail to protect tens of millions of civilians against a much larger enemy swarming them from all sides. It felt like that battle happened months ago, and we’re being left to puck over the bones with a small remnant of very well equipped survivors.
I actually read Resistance Gathering Storm before I played this game, and there were parts of the novel that definitely should have formed part of this game’s narrative. We should have seen President Noah Grace attempt to sell out the rest of humanity to preserve is little tinpot dictatorial rump state in the south before Daedalus tore him limb from limb. We should have seen ordinary civilians fleeing the Chimera in mass through cities like San Francisco, Chicago and Washington. And we should have actually seen the US attempt to use everything at its disposal from tanks and artillery to surface ships and nukes to beat the Chimera back, only fail spectacularly as the Chimera overrun the US Coasts, the LDP, and break the back the the last human resistance to their global dominance. And maybe somehow find a way to bring us into contact with the Cloven, while also setting up an organisation like Grace’s Domestic Security Agency as a foil and potential enemy of the Sentinels when Grace tries to sell them out to hold onto his power at all cost.
@@timhare9867 I definitely agree, I always thought it would have been better if Resistance 2 was The Gathering Storm's plot, and then the actual Resistance 2 was 3 instead.
As it would give a lot more context to the world and the state of it by the time Daedalus pays San Fransisco a visit
Remember playing this as a kid. The forest section scared the shit out of me. I absolutely hate chameleons.
The Resistance series is a series that should have been turned into an open world game after the third game, especially considering how amazing and interesting the world became in the third game, much like Killzone or Red Faction, this series just seems to end without much satisfaction and yet has so much to explore.
idk why but the section where Hale can use The Psychic Powers from Daedalus reminds me of The Section In Half-Life 2 where u can use the Blue Gravity Gun
Henry Stillman’s broadcasts were so gripping as a kid and even now the dude gave a brilliant gut retching performance that are some of the most memorable parts of these games for me
Yeah it was really well done especially considering he was voiced by one of the devs.
This is the closest content Resistance fans can get to a remake.
Edit: all the radio broadcasts by Henry can be found here on youtube just in case they were missed during gameplay. Unfortunately the same can not be said for Freddie Valmore's broadcasts in Resistance 3.
Hey any chance (if posible) of you taking a look at Killzone series?
Yes please
yayy new videooo les goo
Edit: i also loved how you make sure to point out ways some can seek help whenever a game shows us deep issues that can lie within us. Respect for caring so much about people you wont even meet :) there arent many like you in our world so its a nice change of pace stay healthy :)
Hell yea. The Resistance series made a hell of an impact on me
Great video, resistance 1 and 2 were entertaining but for me I feel like the 3rd one has the most replayability. The story is more personal and Capelli comes across as a much more relatable character in terms of depth. Hopefully you cover the sequel in the future.
I dont know why but i always headcanoned that the race they were at war were the Ceph,it just fit in a way i cant explain.
To recommend games for you to check out Golden Treasure the Great Green, Fear and Hunger, Pathologic
Hope you like them
I recognize that NBC broadcast tune from the 1930s-1940s. Especially from the Glenn Miller Radio shows. Very good.
Thank you for your awesome videos! Cant wait to binge watch more! Keep it up!
This series was the first one I got into when I first got my PS3. Glad you enjoyed the game!
Literally just stumbled on your channel and watched the video on the first resistance game and then you upload this what a treat
Humanity is in such a dire and depressing situation, I hope they don't pull in the third game some sort of "destroy one thing and you win"
........Yikes
7:08 Coming from the ‘hear me out’ video and remembering how terrifying the chameleons are. My brain went into a place that I don’t want to go back to. 🥲
I’ve been really excited for this one. I haven’t played the games since they first came out, so fun to revisit the series! Excited to see you cover 3. Your videos are awesome by the way!
Been waiting for this! I’ve also been avoiding other videos for this game that have been recommended since I watched your first video😂
I’m so happy you did a Resistance 2 video! I remember reading a Game Informer article about Resistance 2 and being enthralled by these 4-5 paragraphs describing the desperate position of the soldiers fighting the Chimera. I’m excited to see how you present the game!
I loved the PvE operations for resistance 2, very underrated game mode.
Aw hell yeah! Another perfectly timed upload from Khanlusa!
Instant subscribe, this video was amazing and exactly the type on content I enjoy the most
The game is harder to take seriously because it doesn't look remotely like 1950s America, it looks more like 2010s video game
You deliver amazing gameplay, poignant critique, epic amounts of sass, and pinpoint skewering.
15/10
Resistance 3 is my fave of the series, I look forward to your video covering it.
Hell yeah! New Khanlusa video ❤
I remember playing Resistance: Fall of Man a long long time ago on the PS3 but i never got around to playing the sequels, the lore goes so hard honestly, maybe I'll finally get around to playing them in the near future. Also, congrats on the 50k! You absolutely deserve it! Love your channel ❤
This was a fun trip down memory lane. I played this game so long ago.
More Resistance please and thanks, love your content
I wonder if Goliaths *_not_* launching swarmer missles is part of the change to how humans are converted
I have to be honest here. Binged a few of your vids and I’m really liking your content, especially the resistance stuff as I’m a long time fan.
By God you did it, much love to ya dude
Just bought a resistance 2 shirt recently. Love it and the games, can’t wait for your video on Resistance 3❗️
I remember being so hooked to Resistance 1 as it was my first ever PS3 title. I played through the campaign several times, gathering every bit of story, new game plus weapons and when Resistance 2 came out I was SO hyped. I remember when the ending cutscene played out, I was in complete shock and disbelief. I couldn’t believe that my favorite video game hero, Nathan Hale was dead. “ How could they kill him? That’s not fair!” I still think about it from time to time how impactful the series up to that moment really made me feel like the Chimera were cruel and terrifying.
This is one of my favourite new channels. They really give me the comfy old school vibes that you don't really get on this platform any more. Thank you for the entertainment, I hope your work reaches the audience it deserves.
God I wish PlayStation would give this series another shot
This series and your points on it actually serve an interesting comparison point to Crysis, with the Chimera becoming increasingly eldritch, but in a less generic or mishandled way. Also just a hint of Dying Light (especially The Following) with the protagonist trying fighting the foe before he becomes the foe (heck, Hale's hands when he gets telekinesis are 'held' very very similarly to how Crane holds his almost-volatile claws, that animalistic pose that conveys raw power).
Now that I think about it, there could be a really interesting set of videos comparing the themes of games you have already looked at with each other, how they create similar vibes.
Playing the online multiplayer PvP was some of the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. My friend and I would get home from school, hop on the game and play till the sun went down. Sure, the game is dated now and I can see flaws that I didn’t notice as a kid, but I still look back on it fondly and genuinely believe I would still have fun with it today if the servers were still up.
I hope they remaster/remake this series. Also glad I found your channel not many people talking about this series anymore
Your voice is so relaxing to listen to. Looks like I got a new addition to my 'video essay on a second monitor' group. (This is a threat).
Highest compliment, thank you UwU
Iv been waiting for this one ❤❤❤ your awesome!!
Thank you so much Khan
A little bit of lore on Daedalus is that when he was younger as a human, Shepherd had been exposed to like toxic waste and when they volunteered him for project Abraham, he lied and said he had never been exposed to anything dangerous, thus the chimera DNA mutated him
Can you hear Khanlusa talking about Resistance 2? It's beautiful.
8:25 , wait wait i can what???, the Resistance lore and setting is amazing, if we get a season 2 of Secret Level i hope we get one set in this unvierse the leve of detail on the environment like the radio brodcast , it is scary just the way the chimera look , the fact that was a person and set during an alien invasion in those years its an amazing concept.Imagine if any studio made a new ip without context just some aliens fighting not a mention of humans and via an ARG we learn its concected to the resistance series .
Speaking of ARG i kinda love that Kate has at least some lowkey part in some sci fi worlds and a big one in others
Also props for giving a moment for mental health
Fantastic video. The Henry Stillman radio show has a lot more scenes, and it's beautifully voice acted.
I swear this game was sooo under rated for lore and i really wish it had a remake because that is desperately needed
The "we'll be right back" absolutely sent me (straight to the subscribe button)
Another Khanlusa vid!
Your sarcastic humour and overal video set up is amazing. Always looking forward to seeing you post a video, makes my day!
Just a small point, but it could just be me:
The whole radio segment... I could only pick up part of it, because of the audio effects placed on it. I don't know the proper terms, but I think it's the reverb(?) or the echo part, that makes it very difficult to make out certain words.
If the game didn't have subtitles for it, maybe some subtitles can be added for these sections?
Otherwise, despite me not having played quite some games, all your videos this far I have really enjoyed watching!
Hope you keep making more 😁
I always thought it was hilarious/terrifying how the chameleons cooed like pigeons right before they charged
This is one of the best game trilogy from Insomniac Games, and both Resistance FOM and 2 are coming to PS Plus, and Travis Willingham is one of my favorite voice actors, he and Troy Baker are the goats
You deserve the 50k and more
eyo, new khanlusa video dropped
Another great video as always! Some context from the time though: Retribution wasn't considered "forced" onto the PSP so much as an outstandingly great third-person shooter for it, with an active multiplayer community, and even a cool bonus feature that uses Resistance 2. If you have Retribution on a PSP and connect it to your PS3 with a copy of Resistance 2 in the disc drive, you can "infect" Retribution, adding second analog stick aiming, upscaled resolution, and regenerating health. It was pretty neat! Some of those features have been patched into the PS4/PS5 re-release, but I swear they left less ammo lying around than in the original PSP version.
There was also a (not very good) tie-in novel trying to bridge Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2, FWIW. It was, unfortunately, written by the same writer who buggered up the Mass Effect 3 tie-in novel so bad that BioWare publicly apologized about (and has basically treated as apocrypha at best since).
I don't think you'll be quite happy with how Resistance 3 resolves the dangling threads of 2, but I do think you'll find the gameplay much more to your liking. As someone who used to be a huge Killzone player, even I found the Resistance 1-2 controls pretty damn awful, but 3 is quite smooth. You get the sense some of the folks from the Ratchet & Clank games stepped in and went "Okay, let me show you how a camera system works."
Oh hell yeah we love a sequel video
You used my favorite song from the DX:HR soundtrack at 19:00. Pleasent surprise on an already fantastic video!
I only know about this series because of the Fall of Men cover. When I looked at it I felt like I had to play it but never did.
Hopefully I'll feel like trying them this year.
Anyways, great video!
Awesome video ❤
Ah the chameleon such awful memories I got stuck on the Chimeran ship where you fight three back to back with 7 rounds left and no grenades that will only kill one... I being stubborn as a mule decided not to restart but to carry on with melee only 21 tries later I got through the level. Came back with a shotgun and a malicious hard on for the last checkpoint button.
You know, in all seriousness this game did a really good job at making me absolutely ADMONISH Noah grace as a person.
I remember sinking hours into the Co-op Campaign for this. I remember making it to one mission and nobody seemed to play right at a certain part resulting in a failure.
Really love the format, I can't imagine how much work must be to first research the game, then play it and after all that is done, then analyse it all.
I think you will enjoy playing Prey (2017), maybe it is a bit long, but you could give it a try.
Congratulations on the 50k subscribers and keep doing such an amazing content!
I am happy you enjoyed Resistance 2, like I said. It did indeed up the ante. As for Resistance 3? Well... You'll know when you play it. Once again I am overjoyed you covered this series and can't wait for you to play future ones like Killzone which I mentioned before in one of your earlier videos, and perhaps Lost Planet. Which are both games near and dear to my heart.
Resistance 2 was an incredible game and is incredibly striking with its set pieces letting you know the sheer scale of fucked humanity is at any one time, and it's use of the multiple different strains of the Chimera and their creation adds such a visceral layer of horror that is either easily missed by you unloading a barrage of bullets in anything more than two eyes or strikes you in the face with the dark reality what these extra-terrestrial invaders are doing to your own species no matter be them young and old, sick or healthy, kind or cruel. The sheer visual storytelling as the protagonist mentally and physically tears himself apart until there's nothing left just so humanity can fight another day only to be put down and killed like a dog. His deeds going unheard and unsung, all for the biggest gut punch being the reveal of this mysterious new sky of unrecognisable planets and stars making you realise that despite everything you did, even sacrificing your own humanity. The Chimaera succeeded in their plan of "the sky is filled with Chaemeran stars", and before you can process this you are unceremoniously killed and the game ends. A great way to setup tension for the third game.
Can't wait to see your next video!
I never played Resistance 1 and 2, but your videos were a very enjoyable recap. Assuming the third game is next I was wondering if you were planning to go through stories of the InFamous games at any point? From what I'm aware you quite like that series, so was wondering about your takes on their stories., well, at least the Cole McGrath duology, as I never really cared for Second Son.
The duology will be a special for hitting 100K subscribers ✨✨