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Razgriz-Specter
Member
Killzone
I want to play Devil May Crys
Triggerhappytel
Member
Is it typical that Sony would re-register this trademark fourteen months before it's due though?
Yeah, Killzone is moderately successful by big-budget standards, but it has certainly never become the big success Sony would have liked or expected.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
I agree. It was a great way to do a WWII themed shooter. And the art direction for the aliens was always really good.
Put the Killzone Mercenaries team on it though. Best FPS team Sony has in my opinion.
Kenshin001
Member
I wish it was but why would the trademark be registered by SCEE when Bend is a US studio?
I'd also have no qualms about playing a third person Resistance. I think The Order is going to be mediocre and Sony still don't have a 4 person co-op campaign shooter. Take up where Retribution finished, in Russia fighting Chimera and Cloven.
Replace the word "Resistance" with "Killzone" and i would agree.
I don't think they ever expected more than it is, they barely promote the games. The latest one didn't even get a presence at their E3 conference in 2013.
sacrificengineer
Member
What I like about Sony is that they sometimes excavate their old things and make them new again. Not sure, if that's the case here, but there is nothing impossible about that.
It really is too bad it took Insomniac three entries to get to Resistance 3. If the series had such quality from the begininning and built further on that, there would be a lot of more hype and sales I think (especially 2 ruined it). The game was not perfect, but there are moments Resistance 3 really shines.
(I agree with Killzone though. Only the second one was really great. The other entries are not bad, but not great either. I'd rather see Guerilla trying on something new).
(I agree with Killzone though. Only the second one was really great. The other entries are not bad, but not great either. I'd rather see Guerilla trying on something new).
Jackpot combo
They both need to go. Those brands are solidified as middling in the collective gaming consciousness.
Precisely because of that. The FPS crowd is mostly on PC and Xbox, making it a TPS would give it more chances to be succesful IMO.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Nothing would thrill me more. This was honestly one of my favorite series on PS3 and would be thrilled to play it in 1080p/60fps.
Sony please make this happen!
Just add a weapon wheel to Resistance 2 and it will be an awesome trilogy.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
You can't let something die that is already dead.
Oh don't worry, they won't. If they did we would have Cambridge working on MediEvil 3 and Killzone would have been killed a long time ago.
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
Member
Wouldn't mind a remaster, but 2 is so bad, I don't think I could play it through again.
jackissocool
Member
Yup. Who would even develop it right now? Insomniac has made it clear they're done with the franchise for the foreseeable future. Bend is making that open world horror game, Cambridge is almost certainly making the next Killzone. What third party would make sense to farm it out to? I can't think of anyone.
People saying a collection could be right, though. I'd be ok with that, I never played 2 or 3.
Except Killzone consistently sells a couple million copies every time, so...
schwabdizzle
Banned
I'm down for more Resistance.
This is just weird, if Sony want more Resistance games for some reasons they should try to look for a new developer this time, like someone who really good with first person shooter like 4A Games or Starbreeze/Overkill or maybe go for Bethesda and their MachineGames studio.
Insomniac doesn't want to work on Resistance that bad?
NoMoreTrolls
Banned
You big meanie.
Unfortunately a couple million is not very good for a AAA shooter.
Cornbread78
Member
I know this is just a IP renewal, however.
If Bungie had a second team, I'd love for them to develope the next resistance and get a glimpse of the Chimera homeland somehow. The shooting mechanics in Destiny feel really good and it would work with the Sci-Fi nature of Halo and/or Destiny. I know it would never happen, but still would be a good match.
If it goes to a Sony Studio, I would say let the second team at Guerilla do it. They could add their own flair to the series and go back and forth between Resistance and Killzone.
Yeah, they openly stated they were completely done with it....
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/01/27/update-insomniac-is-finished-with-resistance
Nightengale
Member
Sure, but Killzone stopped having lofty goals of being competitive with the top-dogs of FPS long ago, if there ever was a time where it tried.
Don't know if Insomniac want to make more of them or not, but I think it's time for a new developer for the series if sony is thinking about new game (I just don't see Insomniac offering anything new here)
NoMoreTrolls
Banned
...by what metric? As a function of its budget? As a money-making enterprise? What corporate hurdle rate does Sony's investment have to exceed to be a success?
Have insomniac write the specs for the weapons and do pre-dev. Let Guerilla handle the rest.
jackissocool
Member
That's straight bullshit. The games turn a hefty profit. CoD is not the threshold for success on a AAA shooter, it's a crazy outlier. Sony's games are typically expected to sell 2-4 million. They have much lower production costs compared to other big companies. Sony obviously thinks it's good, because they keep making them and then talking about how it's so great how much they sell.
And thank Shu. I love Killzone. Can't wait to see Cambridge improve the franchise.
Samir Sedlar
Member
Add to that 'Resistance Camps' like HUB levels, Rescuing other resistance members and doing sabotage operations as side missions, oh gimme gimme.
I personally like R2 despite its flaws, one of the coolest things I liked about it is the boss battles, I hope whenever Resistance returns, boss battles comes in numbers.
Otherwise yeah I agree the setting of Britain was pretty cool, and the atmosphere of R1 remains so special.
Good point, but hey Sony's Bend is a small studio who is hiring, so maybe SCEE is helping them ?, just to fuel speculation, though I very much doubt Sony's Bend is doing it, they are most likely doing their own IP.
As for The Order 1886 I'm pretty excited about it, It is not every day that we get to kill some werewolves, probably the next Order will have a 4 person co-op for sure, hey maybe RAD will experiment with it as a DLC.
But why would they continue making a 2mil~ game when they could take a chance on a new franchise? Killzone and Resistance have no way to enter the hype machine. It's just never going to happen. A new franchise has a much better chance at igniting excitement.
Nightengale
Member
Because GG wanted to keep making Killzone?
At the end of the day, the desire to make a new IP/franchise needs to strongly come from within the studio. And even then. it's fair to say that a lot of the most passionate works of new IPs take a long time to materialise.
GG's new IP is in the oven for more than 3 years now, and it's looking to be 4 years by the time it's released. The Order took almost 5 years. MM's new IP is now almost 5 years in the making, and it's almost surely going to be 6 years by the time it's out.
Storm Raider
Banned
HYPE
RFOM was my first console FPS Online experience.
Not going to get my hopes up though.
Who knows? Could be a small downloadable title, or it could be some ADS-kill streak mess.
RFOM was my first console FPS Online experience.
Not going to get my hopes up though.
Who knows? Could be a small downloadable title, or it could be some ADS-kill streak mess.