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Insomniac/Ted Price talk about Sunset Ovedrive, helmed by Resistance leads
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Some people just want to bash no matter what.
How is this "hunting the CoD crowd"? It has nothing in common with CoD besides the fact that you shoot guns (and even the weapons are way different).
I thought the trailer looked very cool, only question is if the gameplay will come close to it
90TilInfinity
Member
I love the look of this game, but I'm not seeing the comparison to J&D...at all.
The city reminds me of Haven and the character has the same movement of Jak IMO.
Edit. Although, yea I doubt Jak is an influence on them.
The video for the song in the trailer is video game and pop culture influenced. Pretty neat video, I wonder if it inspired the game at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dleV9-9xXsw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dleV9-9xXsw
And yet Resistance 3 is the only game in the series worth playing and IMO their best game by far.
Chance Hale
Member
I got the impression they were talking about what the dedicated server support offers them, not the always online requirement. The former remains and is a big part of the One's advantages in terms of how many Microsoft seem to have.
To be honest such "understanding" does make little sense. A game that is built around online will still require an itnernet connection. I am baffled why this is so ahrd to understand? It's not like MS cancelled all the cloud/azure/server stuff...
This was never the reason for the internet requirement to begin with.
What exactly makes it good, specifically campaign and multiplayer competitive. What makes it better than the first game?
I have seen several people claim that it's better yet I don't believe I've ever seen someone elaborate.
yes because Ms reversing its DRM scheme automatically disconnected everyone from the internet
Multiple players is a terrible CoD clone. The single player was ugly but a great change of pace from regen games. It also did a better job of capturing the desperation. eg. Capelli is emaciated. Human weapons are a rarity while salvaged/makeshift alien tech is common.
I wonder if they are going to show gameplay footage? Maybe even a trailer...
They said no gameplay yet upfront.
Two very important things which make Resistance 3 better for me - the enemies are more fun to fight against in single player and more importantly, the weapons and the feedback from the weapons is fantastic. I never enjoyed the first or second games combat because the weapons felt like shit to me and incredibly weedy. In Resistance 3 everything feels much more improved, the weapon sounds are especially MUCH better and shooting the enemies/getting into combat is much more satisfying as well. The shotgun is especially godly.
Also, apart from that I really liked the atmosphere which I felt was nonexistent in the first two games, thought the story was incredibly entertaining and in many ways it riffs off Half Life 2. I quite liked Capelli and liked the more personal story in Resistance 3 as well. You could tell they learned a lot in Resistance 3 and that's why I really like Resistance 3 much more than the first two.
Multiplayer wise I preferred Resistance 3 as well, but then that's more because I like the games core combat so would naturally get more enjoyment out of it anyway. I put some hours into and had a good time. I never liked the first two games multilplayer and hated R2's coop (though I utterly despise R2 in general anyway)
I'm not trying to tell anyone they are wrong for liking whichever Resistance game or arguing about it, just simply stating why I really like R3 and don't ike the first two much.
Ummm There is Absolutely nothing stopping Them from using "Cloud" servers on PS4 or even PS3 for that matter.
It was a buncha PR BS that was fed to us.
Also if you are talking about quantity, Amazon EC2 last YEAR had half a million servers spread around the world, probably more by now.
It's not . FoM is the only good game in the series.
And still had the best online in the series.
Which seems to be the only thing going for them..
Chance Hale
Member
I am talking about quantity and not mystical mumbo jumbo. Dedicated servers/magic are very important things. I doubt Sony has access to nearly as many. Amazon may have half a million servers spread around the world, but how many do Sony have access to?
Microsoft have 300K just for their own personal use. Or at least this was how I took it.
flyingmonkeywhoa
Banned
Does it require an internet connection? Because that trailer made it seem like it did.
Umm sony doesn't need to have any, People don't need to use their platform holder's Cloud.
And Microsoft's Cloud is not some Xbox One ONLY service. I repeat its not just for "Personal use" Anyone can start a server on Azure.
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/
It is used in exactly the same way as Amazon's only Amazon's is more robust
Chance Hale
Member
Dedicated Servers do a lot of good, they aren't "needed" but you can't say they aren't an advantage(for anyone using them). And I'm not sure why you keep trying to push amazon onto me. When did I say their servers were inferior or anything of the sort?
Sony propably want's to own the IP and yeah the game is too "fresh" for EA I guess.
Ted Price said in that interview that they got support for their creative vision from MS.
I think this sounds plausible. Maybe the game just doesn't fit Sony's portfolio. They do already have one over-the-top open world action game coming in Q1 after all.
Anyway, I love the trailer. Excited to see more of it.
Ploid 3.0
Member
Ted is streaming soon right? At 1pm PST. There is some relief now that the Xbox One's drm situation is taken care of, Insomniac has a good chance now. I hope Ted is doing ok, he's the nicest person in gaming and I want him to be as stress free as possible. The last time I saw him other than E3 xbox conference was that Fuse live stream, and he seemed exhausted.
You're claiming Xbox has an advantage because of the cloud.
I'm saying Anyone on any platform can leverage the cloud.
From my understanding devs can use MS cloud servers for anything they want, it's just there to use. Why would you rent amazon servers if you can just use MS one's if you make an Xbox game?
Similarly any Dev can use any cloud service for anything they want. They are also just there to use.
As of right now the only thing we know is that there are OS level hooks to access the Cloud.
So right now they only thing we can assume is that its a little bit easier to implement.
Your claim was that Xbox has an advantage because Devs have access to MORE cloud servers. This is incorrect.
Your first two paragraphs make sense yeah, that's what I mean.
I never said anything about more servers though...
Hmmm... indeed Not sure why i thought that was you
Chance Hale
Member
I said Microsoft has more of their own servers to use as of now when compared to Sony. Microsoft has 300 thousand servers recently acquired for the primarily purpose of the Xbox One networking functions, where you mentioned Amazon(the largest online distribution company in the world) only had 500 thousand as of last year. Even if Amazon has many more by this point(which I'm sure they do), why and how would Sony automatically have access to them? They could buy a suite of servers but would they actually do so? The functionality is there, I never denied this or implied only MS could, but Microsoft seems to be taking dedicated servers much more seriously and making them a part of the ecosystem for all titles. Sony has merely mentioned that the functionality is there. Such things remain to be seen though.
crooked spin
Member
Glad it's confirmed to be third person.
revolverjgw
Member
Goddamn Insomniac making me want an Xbone