Worth noting this is less a comprehensive overview of the Resistance series and more me playing them in sequence for the first time and trying to piece things together. I intentionally avoided looking things up because I wanted to dodge spoilers and let story moments and revelations hit as intended.
entirely fair, I greatly enjoyed the trilogy as a kid and hope you do as well. If I may add if at all possible you should also check out the PSP side game. It also is quite interesting.
Fun fact: We actually see the Cloven in Resistance: Retribution. They act more as an easter egg than a plot point in almost all of their encounters but at least you can fight some of them (they are not so interesting in terms of fighting but they are a cool addition).
This series was one of my firsts in my childhood so it's always fun to see someone new going through it. There's *a lot* to "miss" in the games if you don't know what to look. Different intel pamphlets and the dead SRPA soldiers scattered around maps help with a lot of plot holes. A lot more is revealed in the 2nd and 3rd games though.
Fun Fact: in the strategy guide that was officially released by insomniac had little dossier on all the enemy types describing how best to kill them and little lore bits. The single best thing in all of them I still remember to this day and it was on how to kill the "Menial" enemies. It went something along the lines of "Don't even waste your ammo on them, a single hit with your gun will ALWAYS do the job, they can't hit you from range and your faster". This also lead to the best running gag that my dad and I had when we Co-oped this game back in the day: I've always been Mr. Melee so we had a deal that anytime we found a Menial, I got dibs to run up and beat it to death. This culminated with a scene in the final level where you are locked in a smallish room and dozens of Menials at released inside with you. To which I paused the game looked at my dad and with a giddy smile said: "I got this", unpaused and proceed to run around the room systematically beating each and every one, all while humming "The Cancan" loudly and to the beat of...well the beatings. My dad almost fell off the bed laughing his ass off and didn't get hit once the whole time.
God I wish I had that sort of courage to do goofy stuff with the Menials. I was horrified of them when I was a kid, still immensely creeped out by them even to this day. lol.
Reminds me of how my dad and I would take the preorder exclusive blimp in GTA V storymode and joust the NPC blimp while playing flight of the valkyries
The wall wasn’t built by the other countries, Russia itself was keeping the Chimera at bay all those years until they wasn’t, the other countries thought the isolation from the Russians was because they was preparing weapons of some kind they had no idea about the outbreak until it was too late, i had the platinum trophy for both Fall Of Man and 2, most of the lore is explained in intel documents you acquire throughout missions
@@brandonmccann15 we don’t actually see the cloven in-game other than as a skin in the Resistance 2 multiplayer, the menial’s in Fall Of Man was used as workers for the factories and facilities but they don’t appear in 2 as the Chimera began to focus more on troop variants of the strain
‘Knock out the mothership and the drones all collapse’ is one of my most hated tropes. The description here of the chimera not being able to go on without the Angels though leads me to a thought that I’d love to see explored more in something, where instead of just stopping functioning, the bad guys emotionally can’t go on after the big heroic victory and the heroes have to deal with, like, what do we do with a metric ton of suddenly docile but not dead enemy combatants?
@@khanlusa Minor spoiler: when you find a weakness in the Chimaera, they tend to figure out a way to stop that from happening again. Enjoy Resistance 2 :3
god I miss this series. I always loved the horror of an enemy that assimilates you, The Flood, the Chimera, the Harvest. All of them have this horrifying idea that you are probably alive threw it all.
@@Sceptical_Giraffe I think he means the Reapers and Harvesters from Mass Effect, which tracks as we're talking about aliens that assimilate humans through brutal body-horror esque ways.
Hi, Hydralisk here. Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior the overmind? Come to the nearest zerg hive to get your free assimilation into the swarm. We have creep flavored cookies.
Just a note. The Soviet Union does not exist in this timeline. It was Tsarist Imperial Russia that was overwhelmed by the Chimera in the 1930’s. In regards to the US government suppressing news of the Chimera. It’s noted that all wireless radios became state property, and the borders were closed. If we assume all newspapers were also nationalised, it’s not impossible to assume in an era before home tv, the government could have kept the bulk of the population in the dark for a limited period of time while the Chimeras attention was focused on Europe and Asia.
@@timhare9867 thank you I was going to point that out myself, in this alternative timeline Russia would have fallen to the invasion long before the Revolution, so it would have been a Tsarist Russia and not the Soviet Union
Also the European Trade Organization was suppressing news of the Chimera invasion as a way to prevent panic in the first stages of said invasion and get help from the USA (it's stated that in exchange for telling that a pandemic is spreading in Europe (which explain the travel ban between the Americas and Europe) they received military assets from SERPA like VTOL aircrafts, Folsom carbines and Sabertooth tanks)
fun fact the bolshevik revolution failed in the resistance universe so it was imperial Russia that had spent decades fighting the chimera and build the red curtain why was it named that no idea
It was an important weakness of the Chimera that the resistance fighters exploited... and when the Chimera realized how bad of a weakness it was, they stamped it out by creating something that could lead the hivemind without the Chimera needing them to live.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 its explained in R2 that daedalus essentially restructured the chimeran ranks to be more akin to how a modern military works, using a chain of command system instead of a single entity controlling the forces
My favorite part of this game was actually the random soldiers bantering. "Say what you want about the Chimera, they have heart. AND TEETH! Big fookin' teeth!" "Before you ask, yes, Cheddar Gorge is where cheddar cheese is from."
From what I understood about Nathan being somewhat immune to the chimeran virus in the 1st game was because he was part of the Abraham project. The project took Chimeran cells and injected to American soilder volunteers (Nathan being one of them) and it was this reason for why Nathan had awesome healing abilities. The intel in the 2nd game explains more on what the Americans did before the invasion of the USA.
Yes and that he is also infected with a special strain called Pure Chimera, if I remember correctly, it came from the original Chimeran race that didn't come from the virus itself.
Not just being part of the Abraham project, he was one of two to be infected with dna from the Pure Chimera that were in Bryce Canyon, but his infection became dormant afterwards, only being awakened once the crawlers went into him in this game, being of such a high caste, as seen with Daedalus in 2 it's only natural he could resist the angels control since he was above them in the hierarchy
How fortunate that a video covering a game with an alien species with a fascinating mutation process involving quite a bit of body horror comes out as I prepare to go watch a new movie about an alien species with a fascinating if rather grotesque life cycle process. Also, as someone who's occasionally dehydrated during the day, I appreciate the reminder to drink enough water. :)
@@thirdcoinedge Let's not forget that one of the most anticipated September releases (Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2) is all about going up against another alien lifeform that is known to assimilate, corrupt, and evolve everything into it while warping your consciousness against your will.
@@vlanson6529 I look forward to that. Also the Nids dissolve your consciousness for info. No you left over for anything. Even their genestealer cults get eaten and absorbed when the hive fleet is ready to move on. It's the Zerg that will convert you body and mind in a chrysalis if you seem unique enough to them or give them a good enough fight. Extremely rare but more likely in now that Kerrigan commands them.
Between the chimera, the cybermen from dr who, and the flood from halo, a sci-fi faction that gains reinforcements from converting enemy losses always is so intimidating. Almost always makes a very overbearing enemy and can do good at making them feel like a impossible foe imo.
The horror of playing xcom, seeing first chrysalid, get 2 soldiers killed by said chrysalid, those soldiers turn into "zombies", those zombies turn into chrysalids
There are the Tyranids that not only assimilate you but your entire planet's biosphere and atmosphere...Heck they even eat the minerals and soil of the planet
@@elpsykoongro5379 hence why in XCOM circles, the first meeting with Chrysalids is called C-Day. ... or if you're coming from Xenonauts, the first time you meet the Chrysalid equivalent (Reapers), it's R-Day.
26:10 It's rather sad that the lack of a forced and totally unneeded "romantic subplot" is in general so notable because of how commonplace they are despite almost always been trash.
Before I forget, that pilot that 'disobeyed orders' technically didn't. That pilot was likely the crew chief, while it is generally polite to deffer to the highest rank on the bird, they are defacto the highest rank on their bird. If he doesn't want a general on his VTOL guess who ain't going on that VTOL. The US military did and still does grant a large leeway to its grunts. (I don't remember if I mentioned something like this in another video of yours or someone else's so ignore if I have) I do wish the writers take the dynamic that the aliens are simply regrouping instead of trying to hold the territory. I say this as, strategically, this is the smarter move after such a critical blow. Hivemind is gonna hivemind, so they'll do maneuvers that RTS gamers would find normal, and others that are unconventional even to the RTS crowd.
13:15 The Chimera simply took Manchester and pushed it somewhere else! But seriously, Resistance is one of those IPs Sony should have really hung onto as it could have grown into a ton of interesting games and story lines. I always loved the alternate history of it and how different tech and weapons seemed to have evolved without WWII to jumpstart that process. A lack of the Soviet Union and seemingly WWI also seems to have greatly diverted this timeline from our own.
Don't worry The Chimera isn't defeated, the Chimera heavily adapts themselves very well, this victory is extremely short lived and the Chimera learns their lesson of not relying on a central hive mind
@@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 That's because it was split between the Feral Chimera and the Militarized Chimera, the former were made up of what once was animals native to Earth and lesser Hybrids while the latter were the superior Hybrids and their automated war machines. The Ferals were basically similar to the Crysis 3 Stalkers while the Militarized were under the direct control of the True Chimera.
Didn't daedelus rework the hive mind from a "queen and her drones" style hive mind into more of a "military" style hive mind with some regular chimera being turned into commanders and generals to prevent the "chop the head off the serpent" tactics?
What I wouldn’t give for a Resistance: Fall of Man RTS game. Want an even bigger head scratcher? We don’t know what became of the Cloven, or whether or not the “Chimera” were what caused humans to evolve in the first place. All we find out later that they were here long before humans were and their “civilization” is still out there… or they’re running on autopilot and are carrying out preprogrammed responses to reconnect with the main “body”. But I’m pretty sure the Tunguska event either awoke the Chimera or it revealed them and the Russian Federation poke what they ought not to have touched. Thanks for the video. This series has a special place in one of my heart. Which I contribute to my enjoyment of the alternative history genre.
Ah yes that one part of the lore with serious implications that puts everything into a new perspective. There is something out there that basically kicked the Chimera off of earth, and this conflict is the Chimera’s desperate attempt to reclaim former territory or the last muscle spasms of a dead empire.
What also does not help was what happened to James Grayson from the psp spinoff. At the end of the game he had already ventured into the former Russian empire.
It's sad so many peoples are afraid of insects, they're by far the most interesting kind of animal out there. Did you know there are more species of coleopteras alone than mammals, avians, and molluscs combined? And not by a small margin either, there are 5500 species of mammals, 10 000 avians, and 85 000 for molluscs, wereas there are 400 000 species of coleopteras
Honestly, it's entirely a reflex reaction. I actually have a respect for insects. I just hate how they look. But they never chose to look the way they do, that's just how it is. Same with arachnids.
1:56 The Soviet Union never became a thing in the Resistance timeline, as the Tsars cracked down on the Bolsheviks. But other than that, good video. Can't wait to see you do the rest of the series too.
Thanks for the nice callback and a reminder how much of a shame it is, that they never continued the series. Btw, the first game is actually worth replaying since in a new game, you unlock some pretty cool new weapons very early on. It´s basically a second weapon ring ontop of the existing one. ;)
The Chimera came through the Tunguska event, spreading through the Siberian wilderness unchecked. And from what i can remember off the top of my head, the Europeans united before the onset of the First World War and heading into alternate history, as the Russian Empire tried to contain the Chimera spread, and the Europeans uniting due to intercepting radio signals during the Russian blackout, and sending in spies, so naturally they unite under an alliance and create technology slightly advanced like 20 years in advanced at the time, as shown with the helicopters of the US soldiers, tank designs, and overall weapons from Humanity. And it was very clear the Chimera are aliens due to the Tunguska cutscene, advanced technology though originally spreading through some particles to infect people, as well as the portal opening up in Resistance 2: Fall of Man
I woulda loved to see an ALTERNATE timeline of 3 where Nathan became a human-angel hybrid, creating a swarm to combat the invasion. Imagine the possibilities and freaky space powers we could wield. Would be so much better than the depressing slog that 3 was.
I've been waiting for this vid since you posted a short about it a few days ago. Saw it recommended to me and had to watch. I've been bingeing your vids, they're so damn good.
Also I love that you add clips of memes into your videos. It adds flavor to the video that I greatly appreciate, making it much more entertaining than it would be without said clips.
0:01 .. I .. I RECOGNISE THAT SOUNDRACK, ITS INFAMOUS 1 TRACK VS FINAL BOSS, KESSLER! The song name is GENESIS, props to the Editor for using this iconic song 🚬🗿
I like at least that the destruction of the tower implies that the death of dozens, maybe even hundreds of Angels caused some kind of GIGANTIC psychic backlash. Especially since it took minutes. But alas, a cop out is still a cop out.
Something I didn’t appreciate when I was younger was just how creative these PS3 shooters in terms of their settings and backgrounds. Yes, World Wars in Space (Killzone) aren't exactly the most original but the presentation of it clearly evoked some response in people, and was based off iceland's own nazi occupation. Resistance inverts this, adding aliens and cosmic horror to a world war setting, which lets it fall just enough into the uncanny valley to be memorable.
Interesting fact I learned when I was still playing this game. If your aim is good and you're quick, you can save some of the soldier NPCs. They usually die kinda quick to the chimera, but killing the monsters quick enough saves them. Doesn't do anything but I just liked to keep them alive if possible.
Resistance features an actual pretty unique alternate history. In the Resistance universe, Anerican President William McKinley managed to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor in 1898. So the Spanish-American War neber happens. America never joins the world stage as an up in coming empire, and this spirals into the Great War never happening or at least not ending with the destruction of Inperial Russia, who crush the Bolshevik revolution, so the Soviets never rise to power.
I've had the displeasure a couple of times and remember it being... well, yeah, like death. You feel someone shoved a furnace in your chest and all you can do is lay there shivering for some ungodly reason wishing someone would inject coolant directly into your spine.
@@khanlusa Exactly. And if you are unfortunate enough you'll also be vomiting and have diarrhea for a whole week u_u. I also wish I could be suspended in mid-air because I was soaked in my own sweat
Hey I don't want to be rude in the resistance universe the Soviet union doesn't exist it's imperial Russia and in imperial Russia built the red curtain to keep the chimera out of Europe I think again sorry I sound rude I'm just happy someone's making another video on resistance
@@khanlusa yeah it's in Intel documents and and I think it's another games but what happens in the resistance universe the Russian tsar are basically destroys the revolution TV tropes have a summary I can't wait for you to play the other games in the series if you're going to
Id love to see your coverage of the Lost Planet games. It’s a childhood favorite and definitely one where the story doesn’t really matter all too much, but it’s a series so criminally underrated and missed, plus it’s got mechs and bug aliens
Found this video by complete random chance when searching "Solipsis game explained" here on UA-cam. I do not regret clicking on it for a second! This video reminded me just how much I loved Resistance. My Personal favorite in the franchise is Retribution on PSP which recently got a classics release PS4/PS5 which made me so happy! The Chimera really creeped me the hell out when I first played these games. But at the same time the lore was so intriguing that I couldn't get enough of it! We'll probably never see Insomniac make another one of these games, but I will always hold these games dear to my heart! Even Burning Skies on the Vita, despite being underwhelming, I still treasure it too! Have a wonderful day!
Resistance was my first PS3 (I was way too young to play it) but even all these years later I still love the series. The Chimera are such an interesting enemy and the art direction of the games is just so good.
I'd never survive this, because rollers look like those adorable little lizards that bite their tails and I'd never be able to fight back against their infectious cuteness...
Ok, so your ability to sneak in gaming lore and history while breaking down the story with serious yet critical and sometimes sarcastic commentary is amazing. I just love your channel!
Love the reviews. This is a game I started and never finished due to headaches not caused by the game. All the inspiration I need to give it another try. 😊
I rmemebr playing this a little a few years ago but never got to the others. I really liked the aesthetics of fall of men with the ww2 with aliens, all our war between 2 species, but the changes in 2 aesthetics wise kinda put me off a bit. Either way I hope it gets a port someday. I also love the lore too it’s so fascinating
I thoroughly appreciate the regular 2000s nostalgia trips on this channel, even when it's things that weren't directly pertinent to my childhood the vibes are still on point.
I like how the chimera can tank a bit of damage compared to the humans who go down in like 1 to 2 shots really sells that feeling of them easily wiping us out
The chimera used to rule earth hundreds of years before humans walked, they were at war with another species and the planet became unlivable, so they left, and waited for the planet to get better, that’s why they have such advanced weapons, that’s as much as I remember
Thank you for covering this game. I never got to beat it growing up, and it was refreshing for the nostalgia hit with the cutscenes Your voice was an absolute treat for the coverage
Especially against the Crawler and Leaper strains. There actually IS a flamethrower (The L11-2 Dragon) that is accessible on a second playthrough and can be found in the Bristol levels. Also, in the Orick level for Resistance 2 there is a mention of "fire squads" which are used to burn out Spinners as well as Grim and Leaper Pods.
The way the chimera and Nathan heal is with this symbiotic bacteria that helps repair any damage they sustain. That’s what’s in the little yellow vials he uses. Guessing the infection helps him also use the bacteria
I'd recommend watching the "Shattered History" game trailer for Resistance 2 before playing it, since it gives some tasty lore bits and a nice, short recap of the setting's history It really helps feed into it being a unique alt-history timeline.
Played all three games in main series and sub games and read books was one of the main updates for the resistance wiki when that was still up. Ask me questions.... Anything, I know them well. Like the heat stacks on the back, shoot them, there basically reactors on there backs, of it glows there energy flowing in it. A lot. But they are from a part of space that's been in darkness for a long time, sooo yeah heat and light is not friendly to them if I remember right.
The description of the scene is that the bodies of the men, including Hale, were stumbled upon by others and while they were checking the bodies Hale suddenly woke up and refused treatment.
I love resistance lore, resistance retribution was my favourite game on PSP and there was a time in when I was in primary school when I was fully consumed by lore of these games. I wish they would revive the series one day.
"Fall Of Man" had it's flaws, true, but I still fondly remember it as one of my favourite titles for the PS3. The wordbuilding was great, and it was kinda nice to play a game set here in the UK with primarily British characters (even if still had an American "Chosen One" hero). I also appreciated a story of an alien invasion that isn't over within a month, and actually swings back and forth over years, like a real war would. It combined two of my great loves in fiction, "alt-history" and "dark sci-fi", to create a bleak and gritty experience that has stuck with me all these years. Of particular note is that Fall Of Man, though nominally an action shooter, always felt to me like it was at least half a horror game. The challenging and somewhat unforgiving combat, coupled with the grim setting and Hale frequently fighting alone, created a near-permanent sense of tension. The monstrous and mysterious nature of the Chimera added to this atmosphere too. The only exceptions are the big, dramatic battle sections, where the presence of NPC companions, and the thundering, flashing effects, ironically makes things calmer and more normal. What I'm trying to say is, while Fall Of Man may only be rather mediocre as an overall game, for me it has a certain unique charm that stands out even from it's own sequels; and it will always hold a special place in my heart as honestly one of the most immersive and engaging gaming experiences I've ever had.
I never played the Resistance series but you made me wish I had. This looks fun, much more than the grim-tastic Gears of War series. I understand your gripe over the trope of destroying one object defeats the whole enemy but it does avoid certain problems. Suikoden is a turn-base RPG series set in a medieval fantasy with loads of Game of Thrones political intrigue and war. Each game has the big battle that breaks the enemy country's army, but then there is about a couple hours left where you have to go into their land to pick off scattered troops desperate to hold you off and failing miserably. This leads to a great moment where you occupy the enemy capital where all its citizens denounce their leaders and insist they were always against the war when at the beginning you stealthily infiltrated the city where everyone was celebrating their early wins and couldn't wait to expand their borders. It's a great moment and I don't see why Resistance couldn't do that: Whittling down the surviving chimeras like a virus so others won't get infected. It'd be a good epilogue DLC.
In addition to WW2 never happening in the Resistance universe, Orson Welles' 1938 "War of The Worlds" broadcast also ended differently. Instead of elevating his career, Welles was ruined by the backlash of the broadcast instigated by U.S. Government, who were very much aware of (and scared shitless by) the Chimeran invasion happening in Russia. I also vaguely remember reading a collectible in-game that was essentially telling radio stations and operators what they could and could not say to the British public. I remember reading something along the lines of: "Do not use the words 'Aliens, invasion, extinction, or genocide during broadcasts.'"
I’m pretty sure the plot of Resistance 2 is gunna feel kind scattered without the context of the Project Abraham ARG that preceded the game. At least in the beginning. The videos and documents served as a kind of “cold opening” when it was released, and soft retconned a few details.
Excellent video. I played tons of Resistance 1 back when it first released. Was always interested in the story, and the mystery of the Cloven faction. Your complaint at the end of "destroy 1 structure to win the war" is also a trope they use again in Resistance 3.
i can’t tell you how excited i was to click on this video, the resistance games are one of my favorite franchises on playstation, besides inFAMOUS and white knight chronicles
One of my favourite series that I have played endlessly, one of my number one aesthetics and quite possibly the coolest depiction of the British army in any timeline; ticks all my little niche autism interests
I'm glad you enjoyed Fall of Man. It captured my imagination ever since I played it at my friend's house years ago. And then I played Resistance 2 at another friend's house some years later and had my speculations about the origins of the Chimera vindicated. Some years ago, I bought the trilogy and a bunch of other PS3 games I fondly remember playing with my friends in preparation to buy my own console... and then after beating the Resistance series all over again, I subjected them to one of my co-workers.
I like to think the reason why we get to heal and not overheat so much is because our metabolism is indeed raised up but not as drastic and something we can actually cool with with our own sweat And u don’t think the aliens themselves even needed the ability to sweat because water exposure to a ice planet their on would just freeze up and try to immobilise them. I’d say we have roughly. 4-5 times metabolism when in recovery mode which is challenging our sweat glands but it’s still countering some of the heat regardless and we just have to deal with a major case of BO
That was one of the first games my best friend and I played together. It was basically the beginning of us playing shooters. That would definitely be a series I would like to see remake.
This game is so slept on, I have so many memories with my older sister playing through the entire campaign coop with her doing all the work but being in no cutscenes, this game needs a remake or sequel as 3 was really good aswell, I genuinely think this game could be the best survival horror fps if Sony decided to do something with it
Just found the channel. I like the content and how u narrate. Now I found it strange u havent reviewed FEAR & HUNGER. And its sequel TERMINA. I personally consider it genius just like Silent Hill 2 is. That lvl of awesomeness. So I HIGHLY recommend you play and review both games of F&H.
Worth noting this is less a comprehensive overview of the Resistance series and more me playing them in sequence for the first time and trying to piece things together. I intentionally avoided looking things up because I wanted to dodge spoilers and let story moments and revelations hit as intended.
entirely fair, I greatly enjoyed the trilogy as a kid and hope you do as well. If I may add if at all possible you should also check out the PSP side game. It also is quite interesting.
I wonder if that'll somehow include Retribution on the PSP and the one that released on the Vita.
You should get interested in Xeelee Sequence by Stephen Baxter, specifically the stories about occupation of the solar system by alien species 🙃
Fun fact: We actually see the Cloven in Resistance: Retribution. They act more as an easter egg than a plot point in almost all of their encounters but at least you can fight some of them (they are not so interesting in terms of fighting but they are a cool addition).
This series was one of my firsts in my childhood so it's always fun to see someone new going through it. There's *a lot* to "miss" in the games if you don't know what to look. Different intel pamphlets and the dead SRPA soldiers scattered around maps help with a lot of plot holes. A lot more is revealed in the 2nd and 3rd games though.
Fun Fact: in the strategy guide that was officially released by insomniac had little dossier on all the enemy types describing how best to kill them and little lore bits. The single best thing in all of them I still remember to this day and it was on how to kill the "Menial" enemies. It went something along the lines of "Don't even waste your ammo on them, a single hit with your gun will ALWAYS do the job, they can't hit you from range and your faster".
This also lead to the best running gag that my dad and I had when we Co-oped this game back in the day: I've always been Mr. Melee so we had a deal that anytime we found a Menial, I got dibs to run up and beat it to death. This culminated with a scene in the final level where you are locked in a smallish room and dozens of Menials at released inside with you. To which I paused the game looked at my dad and with a giddy smile said: "I got this", unpaused and proceed to run around the room systematically beating each and every one, all while humming "The Cancan" loudly and to the beat of...well the beatings. My dad almost fell off the bed laughing his ass off and didn't get hit once the whole time.
That's lovely, thank you for sharing xD
God I wish I had that sort of courage to do goofy stuff with the Menials. I was horrified of them when I was a kid, still immensely creeped out by them even to this day. lol.
I miss Co-op so much! This and WaW were my favorites...
Reminds me of how my dad and I would take the preorder exclusive blimp in GTA V storymode and joust the NPC blimp while playing flight of the valkyries
i know exactly what room you’re talking about, that sounds awesome 😂
Most realistic part of this game is the government not telling their soldiers what they’re up against.
That's impossible to do because it's worse than that: not even the government knows what they're up against.
@@codyconnor6981 Nobody wants to fight monsters
@@Time-hf8nr They never tell the truth
@@Time-hf8nr so you send them to die without knowing
@@steiner4864 welcome to the US army. If youre standard infantry, cav scout, etc. you usually find out how fucked the situation is firsthand
The wall wasn’t built by the other countries, Russia itself was keeping the Chimera at bay all those years until they wasn’t, the other countries thought the isolation from the Russians was because they was preparing weapons of some kind they had no idea about the outbreak until it was too late, i had the platinum trophy for both Fall Of Man and 2, most of the lore is explained in intel documents you acquire throughout missions
Since when does Fall of Man has achievements?
@@steelbear2063 on ps3? Lmao
@@steelbear2063 in game achievements from collecting all the guns and intel documents, i was wrong, 2 had the trophies
@@beencomfy had no idea about the cloven lol are they also mentioned in the second and third game ?
@@brandonmccann15 we don’t actually see the cloven in-game other than as a skin in the Resistance 2 multiplayer, the menial’s in Fall Of Man was used as workers for the factories and facilities but they don’t appear in 2 as the Chimera began to focus more on troop variants of the strain
The Chimera skull with the army helmet is easily the hardest box art of any game imo
‘Knock out the mothership and the drones all collapse’ is one of my most hated tropes. The description here of the chimera not being able to go on without the Angels though leads me to a thought that I’d love to see explored more in something, where instead of just stopping functioning, the bad guys emotionally can’t go on after the big heroic victory and the heroes have to deal with, like, what do we do with a metric ton of suddenly docile but not dead enemy combatants?
The funny part is they did go on after the angels death.
@@norseman423 "They died within minutes" that doesn't sound like going on???
@@khanlusa Minor spoiler: when you find a weakness in the Chimaera, they tend to figure out a way to stop that from happening again. Enjoy Resistance 2 :3
@@Threvlin that’s what happens to the Orcs in Warcraft between the second and third games!
@@khanlusa Huh? "going on" meaning living?
god I miss this series. I always loved the horror of an enemy that assimilates you, The Flood, the Chimera, the Harvest. All of them have this horrifying idea that you are probably alive threw it all.
@grave5512 What game has The Harvest as an enemy? Would love to give it a go (Also a sucker for games where your enemies assimilate people)
@@Sceptical_Giraffe I think he means the Reapers and Harvesters from Mass Effect, which tracks as we're talking about aliens that assimilate humans through brutal body-horror esque ways.
don't forget the the strogg (specifically quake 4). oh and to a lesser extent the combine.
The necromorphs from dead space aswell!
Hi, Hydralisk here. Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior the overmind? Come to the nearest zerg hive to get your free assimilation into the swarm. We have creep flavored cookies.
Just a note. The Soviet Union does not exist in this timeline. It was Tsarist Imperial Russia that was overwhelmed by the Chimera in the 1930’s.
In regards to the US government suppressing news of the Chimera. It’s noted that all wireless radios became state property, and the borders were closed. If we assume all newspapers were also nationalised, it’s not impossible to assume in an era before home tv, the government could have kept the bulk of the population in the dark for a limited period of time while the Chimeras attention was focused on Europe and Asia.
@@timhare9867 thank you I was going to point that out myself, in this alternative timeline Russia would have fallen to the invasion long before the Revolution, so it would have been a Tsarist Russia and not the Soviet Union
Also the European Trade Organization was suppressing news of the Chimera invasion as a way to prevent panic in the first stages of said invasion and get help from the USA (it's stated that in exchange for telling that a pandemic is spreading in Europe (which explain the travel ban between the Americas and Europe) they received military assets from SERPA like VTOL aircrafts, Folsom carbines and Sabertooth tanks)
the war of the worlds radio broadcast apparently happens in the games story as well, and they shut it down and tell orsen wells to fuckoff.
Also, in the Spanish civil war,
Which occured in that timeline, general Franco lost and was executed for war crimes.
Lenin got turned into bug-food
fun fact the bolshevik revolution failed in the resistance universe so it was imperial Russia that had spent decades fighting the chimera and build the red curtain why was it named that no idea
@@catgod1017 Named for the bodies they buried that day to raise it
Based and Nicholas II pilled.
Iron Curtain.
I guess it wasn't metaphorical in Resistance.
@@shemsuhor8763 well, based Tsar Mikhail II
Yeah trust me, 2 will clear up some things real quick. Also at least the "kill the queen" cliché works for this series.
It was an important weakness of the Chimera that the resistance fighters exploited... and when the Chimera realized how bad of a weakness it was, they stamped it out by creating something that could lead the hivemind without the Chimera needing them to live.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 its explained in R2 that daedalus essentially restructured the chimeran ranks to be more akin to how a modern military works, using a chain of command system instead of a single entity controlling the forces
My favorite part of this game was actually the random soldiers bantering.
"Say what you want about the Chimera, they have heart. AND TEETH! Big fookin' teeth!"
"Before you ask, yes, Cheddar Gorge is where cheddar cheese is from."
Small conversations like this are nice. Army of Two had some cool moments with casual dialogue between the two characters.
The one quote that I'll always love and added a word to my vocabulary for years;
"Lucky bugger, you don't have a scratch on ya!"
I noticed one where they asked what was going on with Nathan's eyes
From what I understood about Nathan being somewhat immune to the chimeran virus in the 1st game was because he was part of the Abraham project. The project took Chimeran cells and injected to American soilder volunteers (Nathan being one of them) and it was this reason for why Nathan had awesome healing abilities. The intel in the 2nd game explains more on what the Americans did before the invasion of the USA.
Don't hold this against me, it was a long time since I played these games
Yes and that he is also infected with a special strain called Pure Chimera, if I remember correctly, it came from the original Chimeran race that didn't come from the virus itself.
Not just being part of the Abraham project, he was one of two to be infected with dna from the Pure Chimera that were in Bryce Canyon, but his infection became dormant afterwards, only being awakened once the crawlers went into him in this game, being of such a high caste, as seen with Daedalus in 2 it's only natural he could resist the angels control since he was above them in the hierarchy
How fortunate that a video covering a game with an alien species with a fascinating mutation process involving quite a bit of body horror comes out as I prepare to go watch a new movie about an alien species with a fascinating if rather grotesque life cycle process.
Also, as someone who's occasionally dehydrated during the day, I appreciate the reminder to drink enough water. :)
I do really want to go see Romulus, lol, hope you enjoy!
@@thirdcoinedge Let's not forget that one of the most anticipated September releases (Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2) is all about going up against another alien lifeform that is known to assimilate, corrupt, and evolve everything into it while warping your consciousness against your will.
@@vlanson6529 I look forward to that.
Also the Nids dissolve your consciousness for info.
No you left over for anything.
Even their genestealer cults get eaten and absorbed when the hive fleet is ready to move on.
It's the Zerg that will convert you body and mind in a chrysalis if you seem unique enough to them or give them a good enough fight.
Extremely rare but more likely in now that Kerrigan commands them.
Between the chimera, the cybermen from dr who, and the flood from halo, a sci-fi faction that gains reinforcements from converting enemy losses always is so intimidating. Almost always makes a very overbearing enemy and can do good at making them feel like a impossible foe imo.
The horror of playing xcom, seeing first chrysalid, get 2 soldiers killed by said chrysalid, those soldiers turn into "zombies", those zombies turn into chrysalids
There are the Tyranids that not only assimilate you but your entire planet's biosphere and atmosphere...Heck they even eat the minerals and soil of the planet
@@elpsykoongro5379 hence why in XCOM circles, the first meeting with Chrysalids is called C-Day.
... or if you're coming from Xenonauts, the first time you meet the Chrysalid equivalent (Reapers), it's R-Day.
26:10 It's rather sad that the lack of a forced and totally unneeded "romantic subplot" is in general so notable because of how commonplace they are despite almost always been trash.
Before I forget, that pilot that 'disobeyed orders' technically didn't. That pilot was likely the crew chief, while it is generally polite to deffer to the highest rank on the bird, they are defacto the highest rank on their bird. If he doesn't want a general on his VTOL guess who ain't going on that VTOL. The US military did and still does grant a large leeway to its grunts. (I don't remember if I mentioned something like this in another video of yours or someone else's so ignore if I have)
I do wish the writers take the dynamic that the aliens are simply regrouping instead of trying to hold the territory. I say this as, strategically, this is the smarter move after such a critical blow. Hivemind is gonna hivemind, so they'll do maneuvers that RTS gamers would find normal, and others that are unconventional even to the RTS crowd.
@@AnotherOtherMan-alive pilots aren’t grunts lol
As someone put it once concerning crew chiefs, “On that helicopter, he is God.”
Wanna know what would suck
Winning, going home, and having ptsd every summer because of the cicadas
@@evanwesolowski3717 lmaooo
"It was an honor sir"😢
this game series was a pillar of my childhood! I replayed the campaigns countless times and always wish we got another game
13:15 The Chimera simply took Manchester and pushed it somewhere else! But seriously, Resistance is one of those IPs Sony should have really hung onto as it could have grown into a ton of interesting games and story lines. I always loved the alternate history of it and how different tech and weapons seemed to have evolved without WWII to jumpstart that process. A lack of the Soviet Union and seemingly WWI also seems to have greatly diverted this timeline from our own.
Don't worry
The Chimera isn't defeated, the Chimera heavily adapts themselves very well, this victory is extremely short lived and the Chimera learns their lesson of not relying on a central hive mind
Not entirely. Instead of having the hivemind spread out, it's centralized into one being. Why do you think Daedalus exists?
@@BaxterAndLunala they killed deadalus and still the chimera went on
@@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 That's because it was split between the Feral Chimera and the Militarized Chimera, the former were made up of what once was animals native to Earth and lesser Hybrids while the latter were the superior Hybrids and their automated war machines. The Ferals were basically similar to the Crysis 3 Stalkers while the Militarized were under the direct control of the True Chimera.
Didn't daedelus rework the hive mind from a "queen and her drones" style hive mind into more of a "military" style hive mind with some regular chimera being turned into commanders and generals to prevent the "chop the head off the serpent" tactics?
What I wouldn’t give for a Resistance: Fall of Man RTS game.
Want an even bigger head scratcher? We don’t know what became of the Cloven, or whether or not the “Chimera” were what caused humans to evolve in the first place.
All we find out later that they were here long before humans were and their “civilization” is still out there… or they’re running on autopilot and are carrying out preprogrammed responses to reconnect with the main “body”.
But I’m pretty sure the Tunguska event either awoke the Chimera or it revealed them and the Russian Federation poke what they ought not to have touched.
Thanks for the video. This series has a special place in one of my heart. Which I contribute to my enjoyment of the alternative history genre.
Ah yes that one part of the lore with serious implications that puts everything into a new perspective. There is something out there that basically kicked the Chimera off of earth, and this conflict is the Chimera’s desperate attempt to reclaim former territory or the last muscle spasms of a dead empire.
@@fumarc4501 There was a RTS Game of Resistance but it was only a web browser Game that had a short Lifetime,it was quite entertaining though
@@SniperFallen06wish we had more.
Imagining Resistance but in the scope and style of SupCom makes my brain go brrrrr
What also does not help was what happened to James Grayson from the psp spinoff. At the end of the game he had already ventured into the former Russian empire.
The non-modern setting really helps it stand out
It's sad so many peoples are afraid of insects, they're by far the most interesting kind of animal out there. Did you know there are more species of coleopteras alone than mammals, avians, and molluscs combined? And not by a small margin either, there are 5500 species of mammals, 10 000 avians, and 85 000 for molluscs, wereas there are 400 000 species of coleopteras
They're icky and make my skin crawl.
Ye and we have flamethrowers and nukes just for that.
Insects and other micro world animals are victims to the meanest sorts of parasites. We should pity them.
Honestly, it's entirely a reflex reaction. I actually have a respect for insects. I just hate how they look. But they never chose to look the way they do, that's just how it is. Same with arachnids.
1:56 The Soviet Union never became a thing in the Resistance timeline, as the Tsars cracked down on the Bolsheviks.
But other than that, good video. Can't wait to see you do the rest of the series too.
Not to mention Japan stayed an empire. Not trying to be disrespectful to the Japanese, I actually have a level of respect for them and their culture.
Thanks for the nice callback and a reminder how much of a shame it is, that they never continued the series.
Btw, the first game is actually worth replaying since in a new game, you unlock some pretty cool new weapons very early on. It´s basically a second weapon ring ontop of the existing one. ;)
They need to remake or even reboot this franchise. They did it for dead space, they should do it with Resistance.
If insomniac owns the right, they would have to find the funding. If sony owns the rights... GG.
The Chimera came through the Tunguska event, spreading through the Siberian wilderness unchecked. And from what i can remember off the top of my head, the Europeans united before the onset of the First World War and heading into alternate history, as the Russian Empire tried to contain the Chimera spread, and the Europeans uniting due to intercepting radio signals during the Russian blackout, and sending in spies, so naturally they unite under an alliance and create technology slightly advanced like 20 years in advanced at the time, as shown with the helicopters of the US soldiers, tank designs, and overall weapons from Humanity.
And it was very clear the Chimera are aliens due to the Tunguska cutscene, advanced technology though originally spreading through some particles to infect people, as well as the portal opening up in Resistance 2: Fall of Man
I woulda loved to see an ALTERNATE timeline of 3 where Nathan became a human-angel hybrid, creating a swarm to combat the invasion. Imagine the possibilities and freaky space powers we could wield. Would be so much better than the depressing slog that 3 was.
I've been waiting for this vid since you posted a short about it a few days ago. Saw it recommended to me and had to watch. I've been bingeing your vids, they're so damn good.
Also I love that you add clips of memes into your videos. It adds flavor to the video that I greatly appreciate, making it much more entertaining than it would be without said clips.
@@lunanyx8592 it's the internet brainrot lmao
Resistance was top tier
0:01 .. I .. I RECOGNISE THAT SOUNDRACK, ITS INFAMOUS 1 TRACK VS FINAL BOSS, KESSLER! The song name is GENESIS, props to the Editor for using this iconic song 🚬🗿
Soundrack moment
@@elpsykoongro5379 Im so hyped SONIC MOVIE 3 & knuckles TRAILER just came out!!!
ya know, a hazmat suit and a flamethrower might be a good future investment lol
I like at least that the destruction of the tower implies that the death of dozens, maybe even hundreds of Angels caused some kind of GIGANTIC psychic backlash. Especially since it took minutes. But alas, a cop out is still a cop out.
I do give it a slight bit of slack for the psychic component, but yeah
Something I didn’t appreciate when I was younger was just how creative these PS3 shooters in terms of their settings and backgrounds.
Yes, World Wars in Space (Killzone) aren't exactly the most original but the presentation of it clearly evoked some response in people, and was based off iceland's own nazi occupation.
Resistance inverts this, adding aliens and cosmic horror to a world war setting, which lets it fall just enough into the uncanny valley to be memorable.
Interesting fact I learned when I was still playing this game. If your aim is good and you're quick, you can save some of the soldier NPCs. They usually die kinda quick to the chimera, but killing the monsters quick enough saves them. Doesn't do anything but I just liked to keep them alive if possible.
You are probably one of the better game analysis youtubers out there. You are informative and offer very good insight into the games you address.
Resistance features an actual pretty unique alternate history. In the Resistance universe, Anerican President William McKinley managed to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor in 1898. So the Spanish-American War neber happens. America never joins the world stage as an up in coming empire, and this spirals into the Great War never happening or at least not ending with the destruction of Inperial Russia, who crush the Bolshevik revolution, so the Soviets never rise to power.
I had a 42°C fever once (salmonelosis) and It really feels like you're dying and you can't do anything about it
I've had the displeasure a couple of times and remember it being... well, yeah, like death. You feel someone shoved a furnace in your chest and all you can do is lay there shivering for some ungodly reason wishing someone would inject coolant directly into your spine.
@@khanlusa Exactly. And if you are unfortunate enough you'll also be vomiting and have diarrhea for a whole week u_u. I also wish I could be suspended in mid-air because I was soaked in my own sweat
FINALLY , a Resistance vid, i so dearly hope you talk about the absoloute insane brick that is the Folsom ""Carbine""
Seeing your videos genuinely makes my day better. I thank you for what you do.🙂
I remember playing this with a friend soon after the PS3 launched, it's such an interesting setting.
Hey I don't want to be rude in the resistance universe the Soviet union doesn't exist it's imperial Russia and in imperial Russia built the red curtain to keep the chimera out of Europe I think again sorry I sound rude I'm just happy someone's making another video on resistance
I feel like I must have missed where they give you that information in Fall of Man?
@@khanlusa yeah it's in Intel documents and and I think it's another games but what happens in the resistance universe the Russian tsar are basically destroys the revolution TV tropes have a summary I can't wait for you to play the other games in the series if you're going to
@@khanlusa
The game is like almost 20 years old, you'd think you would know this fact before writing the video script about the game
Also Georgia and Armenia were part of Turkey.
@@khanlusa basically the Chimera attacked in the timeframe the October revolution would've happened so they couldn't finish the revolution properly
Your so cool for doing this video this game was sick asf
YAY, my favorite video-game essay channel. I love ya
I hope she does the rest of the resistance games, the whole trilogy is a hell of a ride.
Id love to see your coverage of the Lost Planet games. It’s a childhood favorite and definitely one where the story doesn’t really matter all too much, but it’s a series so criminally underrated and missed, plus it’s got mechs and bug aliens
Was that the one with bugs, snow and being paranoid about freezing to death?
@@madsword19 it is! And it’s got the neat (for a 2006 game) grappling hook and over the top anime esque action
Honestly, this is one of the best review channels I have watched in a while. Very refreshing perspectives, and great humour
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Parker is the real example of building a respected female character: no showboating, no talking down to subordinates, no playing the victim card.
Found this video by complete random chance when searching "Solipsis game explained" here on UA-cam. I do not regret clicking on it for a second! This video reminded me just how much I loved Resistance. My Personal favorite in the franchise is Retribution on PSP which recently got a classics release PS4/PS5 which made me so happy!
The Chimera really creeped me the hell out when I first played these games. But at the same time the lore was so intriguing that I couldn't get enough of it!
We'll probably never see Insomniac make another one of these games, but I will always hold these games dear to my heart! Even Burning Skies on the Vita, despite being underwhelming, I still treasure it too!
Have a wonderful day!
Thank you for the donation, it's really appreciated :D
I played this game as a child and didnt understand the plot, it was nice to understand what was going on in that game! Thanks.
jesus there’s a lot of smart people in the comments correcting the one mistake about the soviet union
😂😭💀
Resistance was my first PS3 (I was way too young to play it) but even all these years later I still love the series. The Chimera are such an interesting enemy and the art direction of the games is just so good.
I was dyslexic as a kid and I remember reading it as “RESIDENT” and thinking it was a prequel to the resident evil franchise set in WW2 😭
I'd never survive this, because rollers look like those adorable little lizards that bite their tails and I'd never be able to fight back against their infectious cuteness...
Ok, so your ability to sneak in gaming lore and history while breaking down the story with serious yet critical and sometimes sarcastic commentary is amazing. I just love your channel!
Love the reviews. This is a game I started and never finished due to headaches not caused by the game. All the inspiration I need to give it another try. 😊
I rmemebr playing this a little a few years ago but never got to the others.
I really liked the aesthetics of fall of men with the ww2 with aliens, all our war between 2 species, but the changes in 2 aesthetics wise kinda put me off a bit.
Either way I hope it gets a port someday.
I also love the lore too it’s so fascinating
I thoroughly appreciate the regular 2000s nostalgia trips on this channel, even when it's things that weren't directly pertinent to my childhood the vibes are still on point.
I like how the chimera can tank a bit of damage compared to the humans who go down in like 1 to 2 shots really sells that feeling of them easily wiping us out
The chimera used to rule earth hundreds of years before humans walked, they were at war with another species and the planet became unlivable, so they left, and waited for the planet to get better, that’s why they have such advanced weapons, that’s as much as I remember
Literally just found your channel and I already like what I see, looking forward to seeing what else is next!
I just discovered you and your channel, and I think I fell in love, I've always liked this type of content, game analysis and a touch of humor.
I really wish we would get another game in this series, the world is just so cool
Thank you for covering this game. I never got to beat it growing up, and it was refreshing for the nostalgia hit with the cutscenes
Your voice was an absolute treat for the coverage
i listen to these sorts of videos to fall asleep, so thank you for having a relaxing non-nerdy voice!
I remember playing this game co op with my dad, brings back amazing memories, thanks!
bro same mannn!!
Glad I found this channel. Watching videos on old fps games like this is a fun time! Keep it up!
One would think that flamethrowers would have been used against mostly naked aliens
Especially against the Crawler and Leaper strains. There actually IS a flamethrower (The L11-2 Dragon) that is accessible on a second playthrough and can be found in the Bristol levels. Also, in the Orick level for Resistance 2 there is a mention of "fire squads" which are used to burn out Spinners as well as Grim and Leaper Pods.
The way the chimera and Nathan heal is with this symbiotic bacteria that helps repair any damage they sustain. That’s what’s in the little yellow vials he uses. Guessing the infection helps him also use the bacteria
Fairly new to your channel gotta say love the work you put out. Keep up the good work fr homie.
I'd recommend watching the "Shattered History" game trailer for Resistance 2 before playing it, since it gives some tasty lore bits and a nice, short recap of the setting's history
It really helps feed into it being a unique alt-history timeline.
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This one
Played all three games in main series and sub games and read books was one of the main updates for the resistance wiki when that was still up.
Ask me questions.... Anything, I know them well.
Like the heat stacks on the back, shoot them, there basically reactors on there backs, of it glows there energy flowing in it. A lot.
But they are from a part of space that's been in darkness for a long time, sooo yeah heat and light is not friendly to them if I remember right.
It’s always an enjoyable experience playing Resistance. When I boot em up it’s just so fun
God I hope you cover the rest of the games. This series needs all the love it gets.
I loved revisiting the lore of this massively underappreciated series from your fresh perspective, can't wait to see more from you.
I played this a lot with my cousin when I was younger. Offline PS3 co-op was great.
4:36 wasn’t the medic also killed at the same time? How’d they write anything about it?
The description of the scene is that the bodies of the men, including Hale, were stumbled upon by others and while they were checking the bodies Hale suddenly woke up and refused treatment.
I love resistance lore, resistance retribution was my favourite game on PSP and there was a time in when I was in primary school when I was fully consumed by lore of these games. I wish they would revive the series one day.
"Fall Of Man" had it's flaws, true, but I still fondly remember it as one of my favourite titles for the PS3. The wordbuilding was great, and it was kinda nice to play a game set here in the UK with primarily British characters (even if still had an American "Chosen One" hero). I also appreciated a story of an alien invasion that isn't over within a month, and actually swings back and forth over years, like a real war would. It combined two of my great loves in fiction, "alt-history" and "dark sci-fi", to create a bleak and gritty experience that has stuck with me all these years.
Of particular note is that Fall Of Man, though nominally an action shooter, always felt to me like it was at least half a horror game. The challenging and somewhat unforgiving combat, coupled with the grim setting and Hale frequently fighting alone, created a near-permanent sense of tension. The monstrous and mysterious nature of the Chimera added to this atmosphere too. The only exceptions are the big, dramatic battle sections, where the presence of NPC companions, and the thundering, flashing effects, ironically makes things calmer and more normal.
What I'm trying to say is, while Fall Of Man may only be rather mediocre as an overall game, for me it has a certain unique charm that stands out even from it's own sequels; and it will always hold a special place in my heart as honestly one of the most immersive and engaging gaming experiences I've ever had.
I never played the Resistance series but you made me wish I had. This looks fun, much more than the grim-tastic Gears of War series.
I understand your gripe over the trope of destroying one object defeats the whole enemy but it does avoid certain problems. Suikoden is a turn-base RPG series set in a medieval fantasy with loads of Game of Thrones political intrigue and war. Each game has the big battle that breaks the enemy country's army, but then there is about a couple hours left where you have to go into their land to pick off scattered troops desperate to hold you off and failing miserably. This leads to a great moment where you occupy the enemy capital where all its citizens denounce their leaders and insist they were always against the war when at the beginning you stealthily infiltrated the city where everyone was celebrating their early wins and couldn't wait to expand their borders.
It's a great moment and I don't see why Resistance couldn't do that: Whittling down the surviving chimeras like a virus so others won't get infected. It'd be a good epilogue DLC.
Using Genesis from Infamous to open the video was an amazing call hats off to ya!
In addition to WW2 never happening in the Resistance universe, Orson Welles' 1938 "War of The Worlds" broadcast also ended differently. Instead of elevating his career, Welles was ruined by the backlash of the broadcast instigated by U.S. Government, who were very much aware of (and scared shitless by) the Chimeran invasion happening in Russia.
I also vaguely remember reading a collectible in-game that was essentially telling radio stations and operators what they could and could not say to the British public. I remember reading something along the lines of: "Do not use the words 'Aliens, invasion, extinction, or genocide during broadcasts.'"
I’m pretty sure the plot of Resistance 2 is gunna feel kind scattered without the context of the Project Abraham ARG that preceded the game. At least in the beginning. The videos and documents served as a kind of “cold opening” when it was released, and soft retconned a few details.
Excellent video. I played tons of Resistance 1 back when it first released. Was always interested in the story, and the mystery of the Cloven faction. Your complaint at the end of "destroy 1 structure to win the war" is also a trope they use again in Resistance 3.
Darkwood's soundtrack so good it shows up in so many unrelated videos
That was great. Now to watch the resistance 2 video...this video is only 2 weeks old? Damn.
i can’t tell you how excited i was to click on this video, the resistance games are one of my favorite franchises on playstation, besides inFAMOUS and white knight chronicles
One of my favourite series that I have played endlessly, one of my number one aesthetics and quite possibly the coolest depiction of the British army in any timeline; ticks all my little niche autism interests
I'm glad you enjoyed Fall of Man. It captured my imagination ever since I played it at my friend's house years ago. And then I played Resistance 2 at another friend's house some years later and had my speculations about the origins of the Chimera vindicated.
Some years ago, I bought the trilogy and a bunch of other PS3 games I fondly remember playing with my friends in preparation to buy my own console... and then after beating the Resistance series all over again, I subjected them to one of my co-workers.
I like to think the reason why we get to heal and not overheat so much is because our metabolism is indeed raised up but not as drastic and something we can actually cool with with our own sweat
And u don’t think the aliens themselves even needed the ability to sweat because water exposure to a ice planet their on would just freeze up and try to immobilise them. I’d say we have roughly. 4-5 times metabolism when in recovery mode which is challenging our sweat glands but it’s still countering some of the heat regardless and we just have to deal with a major case of BO
"Fire up Resistance, baby, fire it up." Only real ones know.
My favorite things in Resistance fall of man and Resistance 2 was having actually useful ally soldiers, (I love my SRPA bois)
Omg i love the Infamous soundtrack! Thank you for using it!
That was one of the first games my best friend and I played together. It was basically the beginning of us playing shooters. That would definitely be a series I would like to see remake.
This game is so slept on, I have so many memories with my older sister playing through the entire campaign coop with her doing all the work but being in no cutscenes, this game needs a remake or sequel as 3 was really good aswell, I genuinely think this game could be the best survival horror fps if Sony decided to do something with it
whoever this is sounds like the type of person who says "there's a lot to unpack here" without a hint of irony
Elaborate ✨
Didn't know that Parker had that high-pitched voice in the original English dub
Just found the channel. I like the content and how u narrate. Now I found it strange u havent reviewed FEAR & HUNGER. And its sequel TERMINA. I personally consider it genius just like Silent Hill 2 is. That lvl of awesomeness. So I HIGHLY recommend you play and review both games of F&H.
Earth also just never discovered how to make jets
One of the most enjoyable base guns in any game I've played. The sound effects for it just made it so satisfying!