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blackops on 23 October 2009
ultraslick said:
Rant incoming;
In retrospect, Resistance 2 left such a bad taste. It is so frustrating for me to even think about how terrible every aspect of the game was. Sure the statistical attributes are good, each part was okay when considered on a sheet of paper.. 60 players online, co-op campaign, new graphical tricks...
all for nothing.
The co-op campaign is broken beyond belief, once you die once, its over.
The menu system is terrible, it kicks you back out to the main menu
the entire games story has lost its integrity. These are supposed to be terrifying monsters you are fighting.. I was not scared a bit.

and that might be due to the terrible muttled art design. They are not invested enough in this alternate reality. There are dramatic colors and lighting in some areas, but then just incredibly drab shades of brown and grey in others.
(Killzone is beautiful if greys are the way a games art direction is kept)
Textures suck, so much of the level design is just incredibly terrible. OOHH im so impressed you have a still image of giant spaceships in the sky!!, except they dont move and we will never be able to board them.. ??? what?
Is the game supposed to be realistic graphics or cartoony realistic, because the mix of the two makes me want to throw up. I guarantee that insomnaic isnt sure either.

the multiplayer is destroyed by the pacing, balancing, and spawn points. They had all of the right attributes to make a great game (sans plot) but everything that could have gone wrong... did.

Did anyone play test this game? It felt so incredibly rushed. It felt like once the train was moving the dev team became afraid to deviate from the original plan, or to be able to identify weaknesses in the game on its development path.

There are many games that are worse, but for a game that should have been so much better.. Resistance 2 is my biggest disappointment this generation thus far. Because I truly was let down, where as Lair and Haze never interested me the same way.

They need to introduce a fucking plot that cannot be summed up in 10 words. Make it a horror FPS, re-introduce the fear into FPS's.

There is no erasing the harm that Resistance 2 has done to the franchise. It is now the most bland generic shooter in existence, and no amount of Bullshit hype or 9.5's from ign will get me excited for Resistance 3, because I won't make the same mistake twice.

Kill the franchise, or delay it till PS4 lauch, and refresh the hell out of every aspect.

If you don't like R2 ,fine, but don't bash it like it's the worst game this gen. Insomniac is one of the most talented developers and the only problem with R2 is that it just felt too different from R1 and I bet if R2 was the first game released for the Resistance series then no one would complain.




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Vetteman94 on 23 October 2009

blackops said:

If you don't like R2 ,fine, but don't bash it like it's the worst game this gen. Insomniac is one of the most talented developers and the only problem with R2 is that it just felt too different from R1 and I bet if R2 was the first game released for the Resistance series then no one would complain.


If R2 was the first one released I believe alot of people would have skipped it in favor of other games.  But because of how great the first one was everyone who had it was hyped for the second one.   But when it turned out to be such a departure from the first one and started to resemble other FPS games, people started getting pissed.   But you are right no one would have complained, but thats because about half of the people would have bought it with nothing to compare it to



Serious_frusting on 23 October 2009

i have never played it is just didnt turn out be be as good as i thought it would have done. The gameplay footage was kinda meh to be honest



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dbot on 23 October 2009

Insomniac made changes to the core gameplay, that is a recipe for pissing off your fanbase. That being said, Resistance 2 is an above average FPS that has sold 1.68 million copies in less than a year. I cannot think of another game that I've played that has had the number of enemies that are fighting at the same time. I agree with others that the game lacked some polish, and perhaps Insomniac tried to accomplish too much within their tight development schedule, but overall R2 is an excellent game and I can't wait for R3.



Thanks for the input, Jeff.

 

 

brendin24 on 23 October 2009

I was disappointed in R2. I really enjoyed it, but it wasnt as good as the first one, and I think that it was mainly due to the fact that it strayed so far off course of the first one. People really enjoyed the first one because it was different. R2 sort of tried to change that and it didnt really work.



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leo-j on 23 October 2009

the story line was the only problem, I liked the game



 

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ultraslick on 23 October 2009
Vetteman94 said:

blackops said:

If you don't like R2 ,fine, but don't bash it like it's the worst game this gen. Insomniac is one of the most talented developers and the only problem with R2 is that it just felt too different from R1 and I bet if R2 was the first game released for the Resistance series then no one would complain.


If R2 was the first one released I believe alot of people would have skipped it in favor of other games.  But because of how great the first one was everyone who had it was hyped for the second one.   But when it turned out to be such a departure from the first one and started to resemble other FPS games, people started getting pissed.   But you are right no one would have complained, but thats because about half of the people would have bought it with nothing to compare it to

Right, and @blackops; I never said it was one of the worst games this gen, It just was and still is my personal greatest dissapointment so far this gen. And Yes, insomniac is one of the best devs but I think the 1 game a year plan is really starting to show how taxing of a schedule it can be. I think they need to slow down and go back to the roots of what made them good in the first place. Find the passion and not have to worry about deadlines as much.

Just my opinion though, which I will admit is jaded from R2.



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dbot on 23 October 2009
CGI-Quality said:

I concur.

Btw, EPIC sig there, one of the best quotes in the game!

I was worried to it was too obscure.  I don't recall ever laughing out loud while playing a video game, until this one.



Thanks for the input, Jeff.

 

 

Kantor on 23 October 2009
Garnett said:

@Kantor

 

No because there fans dont know a good game, thats like Halo fans saying "Oh i dont like the hole shields" even tho many other games copied it. There fans are just ignorant, Its not supposed to be CoD Resistance at War, nor Halo: Resistance, its a great game on its own.

The original was a great game on its own, because there's nothing like it. Resistance 2 was CoD4, Halo and every other big FPS of the last few years rolled into one with a terrible story and significantly less polish.



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d21lewis on 23 October 2009

I played R2 for maybe an hour. Maybe. I got to the part where you had to throw bombs on the backs of these giant machines, took the game out, and never touched it again. It just felt so generic.