Insomniac Is Finished With the Resistance Franchise

I had a love/hate relationship with the Resistance series, and I probably won't be sad to see it go...

This is nothing new. Didn't they already tell us Resistance 3 would be the last game in the series months ago?

I liked it, but Insomniac can do better.

Resistance 3 is the only FPS I've ever wanted to play. I borrowed a PS3, and video rental membership, rented the game, and was very, very terrible at it. I played on easy. I was really amazed at the emotional aspect to it, even if the story itself was kind of simple. I did wonder, even at the time, who the target audience was since you're playing a thirty-something year old man with a wife and toddler who is only saving the world because your wife told you to.

I also appreciated how final the ending was. I grow tired of the endless open-endness of everything just in case it is successful enough to warrant (another) sequel. I understand that sometimes the questions left hanging are there as a statement or art, but I personally prefer solid conclusions.

the original Resistance was my first PS3 game, but I don't have enormously fond memories of either it or R2. The storytelling in both of them were always kinda half-assed and uninteresting. I haven't played 3 (and from what I hear it makes far better with the story side of things) but I always felt that Resistance as a franchise didn't fit Insomniac as a developer.

Insomniac makes lush, beautiful, colourful worlds with a quirky sense of humour and endearing characters. Resistance was a grey and brown, post-apocalyptic (kinda), self-serious shooter with one of the least endearing lead characters you'll likely see in a game (ignoring characters that are truly vile -- Postal Dude!!).

There were some great things about Resistance. The Chimera were an awesome and terrifying alien race. The weapons were mostly excellent (the Bullseye is one of the greatest weapons in any video game ever). At times in Resistance 2, the graphics stopped being bland, and started being striking and original. But these great parts never came together in any meaningful way. Nathan Hale was always there, being uninteresting. There were no memorable characters in Resistance. And that was too bad, because the ideas were always great. Their implementation was forever hindered by the characters and plot holes Insomniac dug for themselves.

Had a great time playing through the trilogy. Will be picking up burning skies.

Best of luck to Insomniac.

I never got into the Resistance series until a few months back when I borrowed my friend's copy of the first game. I did not enjoy Resistance.

I'm kinda bummed, but not really. Resistance 3 was great, but even if they wanted to make more it seems like it'd be kinda hard given the ending.

This was said a looooong time ago (way back in September) by Marcus Smith on the IGN Resistance 3 Spoilercast. Nothing new here.

Great! It's probably for the best.

@PenguinDust said:

Resistance Fall of Man was the reason I bought a PS3 (and the PS2 games backwards compatibility). I liked the first game but was disappointed by the sequel. It felt like they abandoned most of the originality of the former title and turned the game into a Halo clone. I heard good things about the finale, R3, but I haven't gotten around to picking it up. Honestly, there are too many of these shooters on the market and I can't play them all nor do I want to. I can't say I am sorry to see the franchise go because there are a dozen others out there that can fill the void. I'll try and pick up R3 eventually for the single-player but I'm in no rush.

This.

never cared about it

Good

I played all three. Kinda liked them, but I don't really care if another is made. I guess maybe I'm a little glad they are moving on. I was ready for the series to end part of the way through the third game.

I really, really liked Resistance 3. Those guns were extremely fun to shoot. And it could look real pretty like at points.

Resistance 2 made me hate ... maybe the entire world. Every moment I played Resistance 2's campaign was like nails-on-chalkboard. I can't even tell you why. Could not stand it.

I loved the first Resistance, and not just because it was the first game I got with my PS3. It delivered a great looking, long, memorable, & varied FPS campaign and a solid multiplayer that kept me hooked for those early months where there were hardly any PS3 titles.

Unfortunately I never made it past the first couple levels of Resistance 2 because it just didn't feel right, from the reviews I'm assuming it got better as you progressed and I'd like to give it another chance some day. But that game left such a bad first impression that I didn't get around to trying the Resistance 3 demo until a couple weeks ago --and I was blown away.

This was the Resistance experience I'd been waiting for and the new weapon upgrade system and weather effects were awesome. I was excited to go out & buy a copy as soon as possible, unfortunately my PS3 died a few days later. But as soon as I get a new PS3 I'll definitely be picking up Resistance 3, and I bet at that point I'll be even more disappointed by this news.

Thank god.

Bit sad that there won't be any more Olly Moss related artwork,but beyond that,eh,gotta move on sometime,right?

Finally!

They make the best Ratchet, Crack in time, and R3 only to kill both series. It is a real shame.

I thought one was OK. Loved two. Going to get three at some point.

 I'm okay with that.  I don't think Insomniac really knew what to do with the franchise anyway.  I do wish they had ended with something that was more of a main entry and less of a side-story though.

I guess you could say... Resistance is futile.

Still need to pick up 3 and see what happened.

At least they finished off the franchise with a really good game. Probably the best in the series. I hope another studio is able to pick up where they left off. Any word on if they'll come back and do another Ratchet and Clank though? Cause it would be truly tragic if that was the end of that franchise.

I ignored the first two games and bought resistance 3. I was dissapointed.

Eh. I played the first and didn't care for it, but 3 was pretty good.

Sony owns the IP, not Insomniac. It's might not go under.

Insomniac says: There'll be no more Resistance from us.

I say: There'll be no resistance from me.

Not surprised. The franchise was good but didn't seem to have the "it" factor to propel it into the stratosphere. The first Resistance felt like an old school shooter with all of it's guns, which was nice. But, much like Killzone, there is one piece both franchises are missing. It was an enjoyable franchise, but probably won't be remembered as anything more than solid.

No surprise here. None of the Resistance games have been any good. even R3 which is undoubtedly the best one is mediocre at best.

I'd say that Insomniac, in general, just doesnt have that something extra special to make their games shine. Apart from ACiT, most have been meh. Sadly they even killed the R&C franchise with that piece of shit known as All4One.

Resistance Fall of Man was the reason I bought a PS3 (and the PS2 games backwards compatibility). I liked the first game but was disappointed by the sequel. It felt like they abandoned most of the originality of the former title and turned the game into a Halo clone. I heard good things about the finale, R3, but I haven't gotten around to picking it up. Honestly, there are too many of these shooters on the market and I can't play them all nor do I want to. I can't say I am sorry to see the franchise go because there are a dozen others out there that can fill the void. I'll try and pick up R3 eventually for the single-player but I'm in no rush.

I hope Insomniac does something really different next (after Overstrike). Maybe something with gladiators.

Resistance 3 was my favorite game of last year. So bummer.

@kollay said:

@GetEveryone said:

@kollay said:

Only played the first. Pretty bland franchise.

Ugh.

The first game was enough to just not continue. Every media I saw that was released for the next installments projected no interesting thing for me to jump back in.

So what you actually meant was that the first game is bland, because judging a franchise based on the first installment would be moronic, right? Right.

While I won't defend 2, Resistance 3 is far from cookie-cutter. It's actually a really great game - and had you played it, you'd know it's most definitely not bland.

Resistance is not done. Sony owns it and you can bet that they'll keep pumping them.

I would MUCH rather see another Resistance than another Killzone.

You know... I really loved Resistance 3 when I first started playing. It was a gorgeous game, and the atmosphere reminded me of Half-Life 2. But then it seemed to become more and more linear as it went on, even trapping you on course with invisible walls (which I hate).

But it's biggest offense was that the long and winding desperate struggle of the hero's journey just out of nowhere wrapped up way too conveniently and happy, totally abandoning the tone and direction of the rest of the game. They just threw in a deus-ex-machina to make it all happy and tidy and it ended abruptly. That is crap, imo. There was no payoff.

They needed to move one after making 3 of these Resistance games.

Seems like a dangerous thing to commit to before OverStrike proves itself. It's not like EA were known for pushing Partner published titles the way they should. At least they ended on a high note, I guess - R3 is really good.

Five years after everyone else was.

Played the first one though it was shit and never played 2 or 3. Bummer but I really dont care about resistance.

1 was ok, 2 was complete shit except for some of the art on the backdrops, 3 was again ok and was it just me or did 3 take a Ton of ques from Half Life 2? And Resistance 3 had some pretty bad framerate issues at times. So yea they should put their talents elsewhere I see no point in keeping them going as much as I love the "concept"

What a god damn shame. Nothing like making 2 bewildering, dumb attempts at something, and then nailing it the 3rd time, only to ditch the whole project immediately after.

Resistance 3 was one of my absolute favorite titles of last year. And i *hated* the first two. What a god damn shame Insomniac.

Insomniac was really not a good gritty fps developer, now they always speak like if being a Sony exclusive developer was not the right choice, you made a pretty boring and souless IP!, Resistance 3 was the only AAA fun game in my opinion but before that they developed 3 more games that were garbage, why is Sony to blame?.

I thought the third one was a good comeback, showed promise to the future.

Still, I'd take a new Ratchet and Clank over a new Resistance any day.

have to admit i am happy about this. Hope they put some more focus on the Ratchet and Clank games as well.

While I enjoyed Resistance 1 and 3 (2 was a big misstep from Insomniac). I am hoping that they let this franchise sleep since Sony keep promoting Killzone as their premier shooter and potential replacement developers can move on to more interesting things than another FPS.

Well, there is a Vita game scheduled for this year so the franchise isn't over yet but as for Insomniac's involvement I think they are going out on a high note. Resistance 3 really surprised me, mostly because it didn't really feel like an Insomniac game. Insomniac tends to nail their core mechanics but their level design just tends to be in service of those core mechanics, they don't tend to mix it up too much. But with Resistance 3 they had a lot of variety to each level, a lot more scripted events than they tend to do and the story was way more interesting than the previous games. I would go so far as to say that Resistance 3 had the best first-person shooter campaign I played last year.

The whole series had sort of a run of bad luck. The first one was a launch title, so not that many people played it (especially considering the launch price of a PS3). The second one was universally panned, which meant that by the time 3 rolled around there wasn't anyone left to care.

Really home Insomniac hits it out of the park with their next titles. I bought all 3 Resistance titles...but they always seemed to lack that 'special sauce'.