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[Spiegel]

This story is awesome - with some never before revealed tidbits about the Resistance timleline:

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/10/15/the-official-resistance-series-timeline.aspx

Do you guys don't accept Resistance Retribution as a true Resistance game or is there a reason why none of the events of that game is listed in the timeline?

 

[jstevenson]

Do you guys don't accept Resistance Retribution as a true Resistance game or is there a reason why none of the events of that game is listed in the timeline?

It's absolutely canon and part of the series... this was just focused on the console games. Probably should've had it in there.

 

[Darkatomz]

That timeline reminds me... Will there be another ARG for R3 or something along those lines?

 

[TacticalFox88]

So...wait. What the hell happened to the US Army? There's no "official" agency resistanting the Chimera?

 

[Pai Pai Master]

So...wait. What the hell happened to the US Army? There's no "official" agency resistanting the Chimera?

SRPA resist...ances...the chimera. Though is SRPA pretty much non-existent in R3? I'm assuming things didn't go so well for them after the events of that game.

 

[Fersis]

After reading the time line i think im gonna replay both games.

 

[Melchiah]

No matter how good the singleplayer campaign is, you won't play through it more than a few times. 8 man coop was all about re-playability.

I've played RFoM's campaign through 4 times by myself, and 3 times with friend. Would have played the co-op campaign more, but haven't had the chance to hold a play night with those friends for a long time.

 

[Lagspike_exe]

I've played RFoM's campaign through 4 times by myself, and 3 times with friend. Would have played the co-op campaign more, but haven't had the chance to hold a play night with those friends for a long time.

Cool for you, but you are far above the average.

 

[vissione]

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[Synless]

I fear for the Resistance IP going forward now. This made any excitement I had for R3 vanish.

Resistance 2 was a good game. It wasn't "great", but it wasn't bad by any stretch of the imagination. You could do far far worse.

 

[jstevenson]

I fear for the Resistance IP going forward now. This made any excitement I had for R3 vanish.

Not sure what you expect: put two full years into it, did some really new stuff, jammed the box full of gameplay and modes, and we reviewed and sold very well worldwide. What else should we say?

We certainly saw things we could improve upon- which is why are being more focused on R3 and taking more time so we can have even more polish and iteration time.

 

[Melchiah]

Did you even play R2 co-op?

That thing was an amazing experience. I put in endless hours into it. It could have been the start of a FPS-MMORPG done right if given time and resources.

Teamwork was key. Specs ammo dropped, Soldiers shielded, Medics healed. Could have ridiculous combination's. 5 specs, 2 soldiers, 1 medic, or 8 soldiers/medics/specs, the combination's alone were hilarious.

Which is exactly why I hated it, as two people couldn't play it offline.

 

[Melchiah]

Cool for you, but you are far above the average.

Then I guess almost all of my PS3-owning friends are.

 

[Lagspike_exe]

Not sure what you expect: put two full years into it, did some really new stuff, jammed the box full of gameplay and modes, and we reviewed and sold very well worldwide. What else should we say?

We certainly saw things we could improve upon- which is why are being more focused on R3 and taking more time so we can have even more polish and iteration time.

Have the sales and reviews been around your predictions? Exceeded them/fail to meet the mark...?

 

[Loudninja]

Lagspike_exe I see your point but the single player is the biggest part for most people,I can see why they made the cut.R2 modes were not supported as they should be because they tried to do too much.

 

[TEH-CJ]

I think I'm the only person in the world that finished r2 campaign 27 times. I have stats to prove it...

the game just clicked with me, despite all the flaws and bugs it felt right and it was fun as hell to play. this is coming from a fps critic btw.

edit: I feel like replaying R2 chicago level <3

 

[Fersis]

I dont get it guys.
What do you expect? Do you expect some R2 Lead to say the game is trash? Saying that is saying that the work of another 100 people is trash.
When you work years in a game you learn to take the good and the bad, theyre rightfully proud of their work.

They been more open and sincere than every other dev out there about the shortcomings of their work,check the last podcast and you will see that they acknowledged most of our criticism as valid.

tl;dr: Theres a line between constructive criticism and just bashing.

Keep the good work guys.
* Pats IG back *

EDIT: Sorry for my english... im sleepy. -__-

 

[Callibretto]

This story is awesome - with some never before revealed tidbits about the Resistance timleline:

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/10/15/the-official-resistance-series-timeline.aspx

so the freaky sky in R2 ending is a wormhole? anything worthwhile happened with it? or does it just disappear eventually on it's own and we'll never hear about it again in R3?

btw. that link just reminds me what's the problem with Resistance game story. it's Killzone 2 all over again, great interesting detailed backstory for the game world, but the actual game storyline only focus on the ongoing action, almost nothing about the overarching story (you have to read intel hidden in the game to get a glimpse of the world)

Resistance 1 is a bit better because of the narration in between levels that explain what's different in the game's universe, but the actual game storyline only mounts to 1 sentence in that website. R2 don't have the narration, the story focus on the ongoing mission, for anyone that missed the intel completely and unaware of these backstory, I imagine the story is going to be a bit dull and not very engaging.

btw, is there any explanation why Cappeli is such a violent douchebag? hitting superior officer etc, also what is operation bellerophon?

 

[Loudninja]

Will GI post any new pics?

 

[Yoboman]

Game looks good, there are only a few new pictures shown though

 

[Yoboman]

Is it me or is R3 slightly cel shaded?

Either way I'm loving the filters and colouring, so much better than the bland looking first two

 

[Unknown One]

Isn't that artwork though? If it had that style I'll be satisfied.

 

[Yoboman]

Isn't that artwork though? If it had that style I'll be satisfied.

No I don't think so, they had concept art with those pictures as welll and it looks totally different

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The 2D grass gives it away too... But I wouldn't be surprised if they were touched up like Resistance 2's early shots. Hopefully not

 

[Yoboman]

Based on the scans those environments I posted above seem to be from a multiplayer level in an African prison

 

[TEH-CJ]

hOLY shit at the R3 scans. :O

 

[Fersis]

I love you guys! :lol

 

[Mad_Ban]

Are we allowed to discuss scans?

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The posting of full transcriptions of articles and whole or partially-scanned images is not allowed. Users in breach of this rule are subject to banning. The posting of review scores (without text), news summaries, rumors, and review paraphrasing is acceptable, as long as credit is given to the original source.

Seems like talking about them is okay.

In which case, the picture on the bottom right of P60 gives me massive HL2 City-17 vibes.

 

[Nirolak]

Are we allowed to discuss scans?

Discuss the content? Absolutely, we do that every Famitsu thread.

Oh come on !!
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However dingbat here may want to edit his post to reflect my quote before I come back.

 

[Fersis]

Discuss the content? Absolutely, we do that every Famitsu thread.


However dingbat here may want to edit his post to reflect my quote before I come back.

:lol

Sorry!
I remember being banned a year ago for posting a magazine scan. :lol

 

[RavenFox]

Looking the vids of the first game on youtube. Animation, Speed, graphics,story sooo good

 

[Nirolak]

Is it me or is R3 slightly cel shaded?

I think they're hand painting over the phototextures to get that look, since outside of the film grain and the color grading it doesn't seem to be a post processing effect.

It looks really nice though.

Edit:

Except that first one where I think they were (blatantly) painting over the screenshot as well. :lol

 

[Loudninja]

Hey I notice that the Resistance game barely have any night levels.I think the first one had 1 and that was it.

 

[jstevenson]

The two shots up close are cinematic shots... the environment ones are screenshots of the African Prison MP map.

 

[Fersis]

The two shots up close are cinematic shots... the environment ones are screenshots of the African Prison MP map.

We need to see it in motion JS.

Can we expect gameplay footage before 2011 ?

 

[Lord Error]

Except that first one where I think they were (blatantly) painting over the screenshot as well. :lol

If you're talking about those blobs all over the picture, they are part of what the DOF looks like with older lenses, due to light leaks and imperfections. I hope they have realtime effect for that and it's not just CG for cutscene.

 

[badcrumble]

The two shots up close are cinematic shots... the environment ones are screenshots of the African Prison MP map.

Facial modeling and texturing is leaps and bounds above the previous two games. I look forward to seeing the animation

 

[Deware80]

The two shots up close are cinematic shots... the environment ones are screenshots of the African Prison MP map.

I refuse to believe multiplayer actually looks that good. We need to see it in motion!

 

[Byakuya769]

Then I guess almost all of my PS3-owning friends are.

Yea they are. Self selection.

 

[Mikey Jr.]

Why does Capelli not look like Capelli at all? Its been only, what? 5 years?

 

[Loudninja]

Why does Capelli not look like Capelli at all? Its been only, what? 5 years?

Its been 4 years, and I am pretty sure living in that type of would woudl change you.

 

[Mikey Jr.]

Its been 4 years, and I am pretty sure living in that type of woudl woudl change you.

Ok, 4 years, even better. And Nathan Hale didn't change that drastically. He honestly looks like he's aged 20 years.

Btw, grammatical error already on front page of R3 info. Bleh. "ispocketed"? Come on now.

edit: Just wanted to say that the game looks great. Not trolling or anything here and am excited to see the MP.

 

[MrPliskin]

Ok, 4 years, even better. And Nathan Hale didn't change that drastically. He honestly looks like he's aged 20 years.

Btw, grammatical error already on front page of R3 info. Bleh. "ispocketed"? Come on now.

4 years in 1950's alien run, war torn earth. No one farming, no live stock, and probably not a lot of canned goods or frozen produce...pretty sure one would look like a sell of a man in 4 years, given the scarcity of food.

 

[Loudninja]

Ok, 4 years, even better. And Nathan Hale didn't change that drastically. He honestly looks like he's aged 20 years.

Btw, grammatical error already on front page of R3 info. Bleh. "ispocketed"? Come on now.

edit: Just wanted to say that the game looks great. Not trolling or anything here and am excited to see the MP.

4 years in 1950's alien run, war torn earth. No one farming, no live stock, and probably not a lot of canned goods or frozen produce...pretty sure one would look like a sell of a man in 4 years, given the scarcity of food.

Yeah this is what I mean, Hale did not live in the world Capelli lives now.Also Dude I know you not trolling no need to bring it up

 

[MrPliskin]

We need to see it in motion JS.

Can we expect gameplay footage before 2011 ?

I'll wager it will be at the VGA's this year.

 

[jstevenson]

Why does Capelli not look like Capelli at all? Its been only, what? 5 years?

Malnutrition is the biggest reason.

 

[Redbeard]

That african prison MP map looks great

Huge step up in terms of artistic detail and lighting.

One can only hope that the weapon models, animation, iron sights, and post processing effects are up to snuff.

Put in R2 last night after playing a bunch of Halo Reach and it felt very bad to play in comparison.

 

[BoilersFan23]

They better have the awesome Resistance 2 online Co-op back. It was just so much fun!

I agree, it was the main reason I played R2. Having different classes and helping each other out was SO much fun.

 

[Kittonwy]

The art direction for the enemies is more coherent this time.

 

[badcrumble]

The art direction for the enemies is more coherent this time.

I hope they're still gaunt and creepy - they look a little bit more buffed up in some of what we've seen, and I don't know how to feel about that.

HOWEVER, I kind of like the idea that (as jstevenson said) humanity is suffering from malnutrition. Would be pretty fucking cool (and disturbing, and intelligent) if - as the Chimera terraform Earth and change its climate - they grow healthier-looking and it's the humans who start to look like just skin and bones.

Also, I'm just glad that the Widowmaker is back.

 

[yencid]

I'll wager it will be at the VGA's this year.

yeah like uncharted 2 im 08