Agreed and from reading the comments I reckon that's the consensus view. However the old-style videos weren't quite right either and felt a bit tired. hold tight while we trial and error our way to the correct format.
Imagine being in the army and you hear that the new guy that's joining your squad has been on 3 major missions and was the lone survivor of each mission. You're gonna probably think he's a badass that no one can stop or he sucks up all the good luck from whoever's around like a luck vampire.
The fact this game had you fighting in Manchester cathedral caused a controversy here and people demanded it be removed from the game. It was cool for most people here to see our own city in a game for the first time though and people bought the game just because they knew Manchester was in
It's always funny when city heritage groups cry over games depicting their cities/landmarks destroyed or associated with less than perfectly moral things, only to realise immediately after that it's free advertising for their tourism bureau regardless of whether it gets blown up or a GTA character does drug deals there.
@Based_Gigachad_001 one time i had a nightmare with him, i was slaying demons and he showed up as a doctor healing demons, and which i just have been revealed rn that because he shares awareness of demons hes sorta helping them:0! (Dream was about a year ago)
You know what ticks me off.... Hale gets a sweet-looking knife in the opening cut-scene to the game. Carries it strapped to his forearm for the _entire_ course of the game.... and *NEVER* uses it! Not even once!! Not even in a cut-scene to sabotage some enemy communications. What kinda crap is that!? 😠
The thing I hated about this game is it takes place at York bus Station. I was living in York at the time and it was a massive bone of contention that the city council wouldn't grant planning permission to build a central bus station and thus the bus routes were poorly interconnected. True story.
Did it actually look like York at all? I find it amazing they can make any amount of game with York. Manchester and London I understand but York is hilarious.
"Hale was the only survivor" "Hale was the only one to make it out" Does anyone ever suspect these super soldiers of maybe being the reason they're the only survivors? Like, ever?
All that fossilized lore I have from playing this back in the day is slowly coming back to me. The Chimera, the hints of another alien race they fought aeons ago hinted about in the last game, the whole Clovis organization, the books they wrote for this series- how Hale killed the president in one of those. It’s all coming back to me.
@@miniloaf2274 There was an era when big name publishers would license a title and milk it for all sorts of promotional stuff like books, comics, even animation films. Some of them were hit, some of them were miss.
@@miniloaf2274 They are pretty good, the last one wasn't as great but still decent. The series overall (games included) are great... Except for the vita title, that one felt meh...
I absolutely loved Resistance when it first came out. The whole backstory and lore involved with the first game were pretty good and I enjoyed how paranoid the American government came out to be from the lore tidbits that could be discovered. (Always enjoyed finding the deceased American Black Ops units that were scattered throughout the game and learning just how Xenophobic and closed-off the US had become after they had secretly? learned of Europe's downfall and did everything they could to hide the truth from the public.) I think it was the hidden lore and learning about what had happened to Europe, what was going on in America, how the Chimera were struggling to take land anywhere south of the Equator, how the weapons and vehicles looked and how they came to be, etc. that made me really love the first game of this series. The spinoffs were ok and I enjoyed the first spinoff where we fought to take back Paris (though if I'm remembering right, that game's main character felt like a carbon copy of Hale. Which didn't sit right with me.) The direct sequels, however, were very meh. 2 started out pretty great, but then it became way too sci-fi for my taste. The Chimeran weapons, and subsequently the human weapons as well, started to become way too out of hand with regards to how high-tech they felt as well as what they could do and made me wish that the creators had instead gone for the original idea with the series and just had the Chimera and Humans duking it out in space. Though I heavily enjoyed that Hale was starting to become more "Chimeran" as the game's story progressed, but then they just nonchalantly killed him off in what was literally the last 10 seconds of the game left a god awful taste in my mouth and I lost all hope for any future games within the series. Resistance 3, while fun, just made me think "Why is this even a part of the series?" the whole time I was playing it. I enjoyed the feral Chimera aspects of it as well as the bits that showed " crazy human who devolved into madmax tribal lunatics" angle, but the whole game just felt out of place.
I feel like Resistance 3 was a different title they were working on, realized they couldn't make it work as it was and converted it to a Resistance sequel.
In my opinion, Insomniac wanted to be done with Resistance (they were going to make another game for another company, as I recall, Sunset something) and so deliberately ended the series with Resistance 3, disregarding any plot holes along the way. 3 left so many things unanswered, especially regarding the ancient aliens and their relation to humans.
It was either resistance 1 or 2, but I remember doing 1v1’s with my brother in it. I remember having hours of fun just firing the missile launcher far up into the sky, to then redirect the missile with the laser to wherever my brother was. Funniest thing seeing him on the coop screen try and snipe me, only to have the missile I had shot like a minute before come crashing down on him. 10/10 game
At least he’d get you too. It always pissed me off when someone would tag me with that rifle that sends all the rounds to the tag, and I didn’t manage to do shit.
This game had some of the best weapons in this shooter generation. Also fast roping (going down a rope from a helo without a lanyard) is very much a thing. Doing it barehanded would burn the ever living crap out of your hands though
I also had alot of fun, would be cool if they could bring the series back. The only thing that sucks in my opinion is that games from those times are always so colourless with that ugly grey/brown touch
@@1CJMac1 even then you’re burning the hell out of your hands with the rope lmao. You need specialized gloves for fast roping-dudes will wear their shooting gloves and the rope will burn through them immediately. You’ll have a pair to rope down, and then pull them off and use the shooting gloves you were wearing underneath to work your weapon.
@@NattyBuns Probably my favorite game on the PSP, I was surprised how much effort went into a portable shooter. The connectivity between it and R2 on the PS3 was cool touch as well
It does seem like they decided halfway through that having a buddy-picture thing going with Hale and Cartwright would work better than Hale waiting for Parker to debrief him, but they didn't bother to write her out and retcon.
The perspective is odd, that past tense storytelling could work if its someone who was present the whole time or someone who investigates Hale after all never having met him. But Parker kind of was there but still telling about secondhand accounts of Hale
@@yetipotato8567 I mean, she's just reading a dossier. It shows when the scarbs infect Hale and she's narrating "No one knows how Hale was infected" showing that documents can be unreliable and miss crucial evidence.
Cartwright RANK General (Resistance 3); formerly Major (Retribution), Lieutenant (Fall of Man) Parker RANK Colonel; formally Captain (Fall of Man) Cartwright. He was promoted to Lieutenant and made a Marine Commando a year before the Chimeran invasion. When the Chimera invaded Britain, most of his family were killed save for his youngest daughter Angela, who went missing. He was then made leader of the Royal Marine Commandos. Resistance 3 As of 1957, Cartwright had been promoted to General, and is leading British resistance troops in Wales and Western Europe, as learned through a radio broadcast on Freddie Valmore's announcement.[1] It is unknown what happened to him afterwards. Parker. Resistance: Retribution Following the liberation of Britain, Parker worked quickly, initiating restoration and rescue efforts throughout the country, restoring and re-deploying armed forces, beginning research efforts into the Chimera's mysterious history and reverse-engineering Chimeran technology alongside Special Research Projects Administration. At this time, Parker was promoted to Colonel and made official head of the British Intelligence Corps and British Armed Forces. Axbridge, UK: Promoted to Colonel, Parker has deployed the majority of her forces against the Chimera on continental Europe.
Holy damn, this is such a throwback. I remember playing this co-op for days when we were kids at my friends house. Nice to rediscover this and actually learn the story, we had no idea what it was about then because we didnt speak english
I love the Resistance series so damn much. Owned every one and remember beating them all in like a single weekend they were so good. Please review them all, including the PSP game. Not enough people talk about the series anymore even though they were the highlights of console FPS's during their hayday.
Resistance 1 was planed to have vehicles in MP but they were cut due to the power of vehicular man slaughter being to OP so it was almost like halo in ww2 :/
My grandfather once told me about life before safety gloves, working with metal and shit. You would get slivers of metal threaded into the skin of your hands, and my grandmother would have to pry the slivers out with tweasers and pliers. That's what happens when you don't use a carabiner to rappel into battle.
people in the past used to get off work and pull the metal slivers out of their hands, people today feel violated if someone in their city isn't vaxxed or says a word that offends them are we sure that we're advancing or 'evolving'? :P
I really enjoyed this series. The lore they gave felt like observations on a new species. The other games were fun too. Seeing the wild varieties of chimeras that werent part of the hive mind and lacked coolers
For real I was like “Oh they don’t have many videos :(“ …then the Resident Evil 5 video mentioned an earlier expleened of another Resident Evil that didn’t seem to exist. So then I looked around and found the playlists. Needless to say I’m both excited and upset these were hidden from me.
I was part of this really small multiplayer community on this game when I was 11 or 12, I remember the game mode being called Conversion? The game was ridden with people who used the Ethernet lagswitches to win. I also remember there being Ratchet and Clank in-game loot you could get as well. Such a simple yet brilliant game. Oh and of course, the glitch on Somerset to jump out of the map through that window on the 40-player map. So many fond memories.
Oh the laggy thing to win was just Australians, we had terrible internet back in 2006 and it made it so online we would teleport around the map in online games and no one could see us but we could see them, you had to shoot where someone would be in like 10 seconds time, fun stuff.
It feels like Parker was added to the game in order to have her spell out the story in those slideshow exposition pieces. I was wondering why the devs didn't have cutscenes to show the story instead, especially since the slides look like they were taken from cutscenes. Maybe it just wasn't feasible (rushed production?) so they used Parker to compensate. That's probably why she's everyone's commander as well. It's a reason for her to know all the details and to be relevant to the story she tells. Her line "I knew Hale would eventually find the map room." is such conjecture, it really sounds like the devs didn't plan for the voiceover at first.
I'm sure they didn't have all the resources of their studio available for this game. They had to also be working on Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction, which released the following year.
@@chrisrichfield8906 Yeah, Resistance 1 was an experiment for Insomniac along the lines of "what if we made a FPS with guns as good as Ratchet and Clank"? You can see the massive increase in production in Resistance 2 and 3 once they realized people loved the first game and it had a solid future.
It was a launch title so you're probably not far off. Hitman 2 had this same thing where the cutscenes were replaced with slideshows due to crunch and limited funding.
this game was so difficult i loved every moment of it. very few games gave me such a satisfaction with every level passed. lol its funny because i finally learned about the homing feature on the very last level. which i used to cheesed the boss and never died once. it felt so good to give him all my pent up frustration i built slogging thru entire game.
How is it possible that I randomly came across this channel a few days ago and right when I lamenting the time since I last heard this angelic voice? Been on a binge ever since.
5:41 I love how you singled out the quote "The Conversion Center was Built on top of an Old Fish Cannery" Like its the most important quote in the game lmfao
This game wasn't just my intro to the PS3. It was the _reason_ I got a PS3. I suppose it was Playstation's answer to Halo because they play very similarly but as far as personal taste goes, I always like the setting of Resistance more than Halo.
@@slicedtopieces same, I went over to a friend's house and watched him play this on his big plasma TV. I was used to the OG Xbox on a CRT, so this game blew me away visually. It looks ok now, but back then the materials looked so crisp and "next gen".
For some reason, I finished Fall of Man but have extremely vague memory of it. I mostly remember the game to be quite challenging, but I also think it was the DualShock 3 terrible trigger button that caused all shooter game on the PS3 to be annoying. Other than that, I do remember the basic of the story, the virus, invasion and all of that. It was quite absorbing back in the day, but not particularly so. It had that proper blend of horror and military. It’s half way between Halo and CoD. Too bad, they essentially ran out of ideas. Part of what made it a little forgettable was the brownish, grey colour tone. The Xbox also had Gears of War, so it didn’t feel like Resistance was doing anything special. Overall, I found that era of gaming quite fun. Gaming was approaching cinema, it was interesting to see what kind of things they wanted to adopt from cinema. Now it’s just the same thing recycled, after the novelty wore off.
Nathan Hale: "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country." Nathan Hale after finding out that, not only is reincarnation a thing, it drops you into an alternate reality: "I regret regretting having only one life."
I honestly wonder if the writer understood the irony of naming an American who cooperates with Brits to save the UK after Nathan Hale. Dick Winters, I can see that. Nathan Hale? Not as much.
@@douglassun8456 If you wanna get too deep college essay style analysis with it you can say that Hale represents to the combined mankind forces what the original did to the American revolutionaries. Alternatively, Hale gets his wish in having more than one life to give when he "dies" in the initial infection and comes back to life to continue fighting
Honestly one of my favourite games series. With all the remastering going on these days of old games, do me a favor and take this one with it. Awesome video :)
Timesplitters 2 first, and if they change ANYTHING other than the graphics they'll have to start calling me Daniel Day Lewis because There Will Be Blood.
yeah also infamous 2 too (the whole series of infamous 1 and 2 would be nice too) i would pay 1k dollars just to get my hands on one copy of that games remastered version i love that game
@@Error-33 Yeah, I missed out on infamous, too poor, but I played it at a friend's place once and it was just so amazing. I don't know how well they executed the idea but the idea of becoming a hero or a villain is always great in my eyes, the less clear cut, the better. Like I love the idea of slowly becoming corrupted and becoming stronger in defiance or succumbing and seeking something like revenge.
I love Resistance 1 and 2, I talk about them constantly and nobody will listen, my kids are having me put in a home and this video is the only thing that understands me
Military ranks are a bit weird since they're two completely separate career tracks. While a Lieutenant *technically* outranks a Sergeant like this guy, Lt. Butterbars is going to listen damn well to him if he has any sense.
IIRC, that's Comissioned vs NonCommissions ranks... Comissioned = went to school/college to kill people for your "glorious" state/govt. NC = drafted/enlisted, and worked your way up thru guts of dead brown folks. NC >>> Cs in combat. 'Practice vs Theory principle'.
In army the lt can can go into the forces straight away with higher education but hardly no experience whith a cp or seargent they have had experience and raised up the ranks thru time sweat and tears so in affect lot of people with lower ranks can have lot more experience
I'd also recommend one of the series on RUclips that goes deeper into Resistance lore (Roanoke Gaming channel) and it's actually pretty damn thought out for something that looks like a generic alien shooter. I personally liked the other 2 games. I had my issues with Resistance 2, especially visually I found it pretty weird with plastic-looking textures, but overall I thought it wasn't so bad, even though I still prefered the first one. Rural US was a pretty nice setting too. Really liked the 3 though, which brought a deeper meaning to the title, as at this point humanity was very much on the brink of extinction with the Chimera being all over. I also liked the take on the "feral" Chimeras, showing how the Earth's whole ecosystem was shifting. Overall a pretty good and underappreciated franchise in my opinion.
This has almost the exact same conceit and execution as the Blight in Dragon Age: Origins, down to the maze of caverns to the ancient spawn point. DA:O came out well after.
The co-op in Resistance 2 and 3 was amazing! I played that for hours. Also I didn't realize how similar this game is to halo. You have your driving level, run and gun level and the final level is you running around destroying vents in a tower/ship structure to kill the alien/ monsters lmao
Tbh there’s a ton of fun weapons in this game that make gameplay more interesting, it’s a shame whoever made the playthrough video basically stuck to the first few you pick up lol
I remember hating that they went to the COD/Halo "only 2 weapons at a time" thing in the sequels, the weapons and variety were the most fun part of the game imo
@@LangstonDev The second had the 2 weapon limit and health regen mechanic. They realised how dumb that is and with the third, thankfully reverted back to weapon wheel and health pick ups.
"They're taken to a conversion center, where they are made gay or straight based on their original orientation." Oh shit that's why the main character is resistant then -- he must be bi.
Sony really did everything they could to try and get some of that sc-fi- FPS love that Halo created by combining Halo with WWII...not once but TWICE. Killzone and Resistance.
What a game! Resistance 1 & 2 were a huge part of my childhood, the amount of hours I put into Resistance 2 online is second only to MW2. Fond memories.
Sgt winters is voiced by Darren Norris. He was the voice of Spotswood in team America. Fairy cosmo The janitor in Ned's school survival guide And half the voices in the original spider man game for ps1 and PC
Darren Norris, probably most recognisable from the 9/11 * 1000 joke in Team America, Fairly Odd Parents, Powerpuff Girls, Naruto, Avatar, and a bunch of cartoons and vidya games
As a Brit-ish person, I bloody loved this picture slider with audio (or a video for you fosters and yankies) ! Soo much Queen and country representation! Im gunna hav a chin wag with my mates about this!
@@dannyk9507 ah.. they all had online multiplayer and it was addictive as fuck. The only reason why we all stopped was because Sony shut down the servers because they were not making money out of the micro-transactions. Dammit... I wish I could play those maps.
@@Mariet31 now it's been a few years but I believe only 2 and 3 had online multilayer. And yes they were addictive. My best friend and I easily sunk 1500 hours in 2's online co-op. Also micro transactions didn't exist back then in the capacity that they do now. Back then there was dlc. That was it pretty much... Except for Bethesda and their horse armor... 🙄
@@dannyk9507: The multiplayer was just so pure. No play 2 win, no stupid skins aside from the achievement based ones. Took forever for to get the 20-0 achievement. Also, OG vent sniping on the carrier ship map. Now I’m remembering everything. I abused the Auger so much. Wish we could find our stats now.
That voice actor is DARAN NORRIS ... I believe you probably know him from fairly odd parents or another Nickelodeon show or as Jack Smith ( Stan's dad) on American dad..... But hes been in a bunch of stuff going back to the mid nineties
I swear it's the best and worst thing finding your new channels out of nowhere. On one hand, I never know they exist till I stumble upon a video. On the other hand, it's more fun content...lol
Thank God Historian is doing this game. It was so hyped up as an exclusive for the brand new PS3 and I couldn’t wait to play it. Then I finally did, and it was so lackluster that I couldn’t even bring myself to finish it. Still, the concept is interesting enough that I kinda want to see how it ends.
It's honestly still fun, I played it for the first time a couple years ago. The weapons are really good and I was impressed by the glass physics for such an old game. 3 is really good as well.
WHERE ARE U GUYS! IS EVERYTHING OK! INTERNET HISTORIAN DISAPPEARED AT THE SAME TIME YALL DID AND IN THESE CRAZY TIMES U NEVER NO WHAT MIGHT OF HAPPENED. SO I HOPE UR ALL OK! God damn caps lock. I'm not retyping that!
Hey internet historian, love the content . Someone has probably said it but the dude is Daran Norris. He voices Cosmo and the dad in fairy odd parents and was a bunch of dudes in cowboy bebop . Also the janitor from neds declassified school survival guide .
13:06 "We call them angels" why would a military force nickname an enemy unit something positive like Angels? Most likely they would have come up with some racial slur to call them.
Thanks for this. Back when the PS3 and Xbox 360 came out, my home had neither until at least a year after release. My father once took me to one of his cousin's homes where they had a PS3 with Resistance, Fall of Man. I, socially awkward preteen with nothing to discuss with cousins I didn't know, was invited to play the game. I went through the campaign for the duration of the visit and quit at the last level when I told my dad that I was tired and needed sleep before school in the morning. Never finished the game. Never visited those cousins again. Never got a PS3. Good memories.
'Their presence in a remote region like Somerset' its like an hour out of a major city lol. That's just what England looks like outside of London: farmers and grass
I can't be the only one who thinks these are so much better with a co-commentator, right?
Bezos and Warren are stuck in the Australian quarantine camps
We can pretend that the grils voice is herstorian 🤷🏼♂️
Oh look, an eevee, what a shame it would be if someone fed you a water stone
Agreed and from reading the comments I reckon that's the consensus view. However the old-style videos weren't quite right either and felt a bit tired. hold tight while we trial and error our way to the correct format.
@@IHstorymode whatever you do we are gonna watch it IH
Imagine being in the army and you hear that the new guy that's joining your squad has been on 3 major missions and was the lone survivor of each mission. You're gonna probably think he's a badass that no one can stop or he sucks up all the good luck from whoever's around like a luck vampire.
Best to shoot one of your toes off and get sent to the rear for discharge before he gets there and gets everyone killed
@@2percentright toe or too late
he shoots his fellow soldiers so he can leave them as bait as he runs away
Literally a sub plot in the best gundam series, 08th MS Team
My thought is : "guess this is my last mission then nice known ya guys."
Darren Norris, best known for voicing Cosmo in Fairly Odd Parents and a plethora of other stuff, voices Winters.
In team America as well 👍🏻
Pin this commet, nobhead
He is also Jack Smith from American Dad.
He's doing his Knockout voice from Transformers prime here it seems. Very sexy
Your pfp is adorable 🥰
The fact this game had you fighting in Manchester cathedral caused a controversy here and people demanded it be removed from the game. It was cool for most people here to see our own city in a game for the first time though and people bought the game just because they knew Manchester was in
Foreign lands being carpet bombed was okay but Manchester is going too far
It's always funny when city heritage groups cry over games depicting their cities/landmarks destroyed or associated with less than perfectly moral things, only to realise immediately after that it's free advertising for their tourism bureau regardless of whether it gets blown up or a GTA character does drug deals there.
I know Sleeping Dogs made me nostalgic about Hong Kong and I've never been there
the fun police
It’s hilarious how cartoonishly out of touch they can be
I just quit playing video games at this point. These videos are like I’m really there
It’s wild to see comments like this not knowing who the person is, then happen to come back after you recognize them
Wow thats a GIANT step for you to admit that, it really means the most.......BYE
We need more Sunday school Vida: 0
@Based_Gigachad_001 one time i had a nightmare with him, i was slaying demons and he showed up as a doctor healing demons, and which i just have been revealed rn that because he shares awareness of demons hes sorta helping them:0! (Dream was about a year ago)
omg its the Pyrocynical guy
You know what ticks me off.... Hale gets a sweet-looking knife in the opening cut-scene to the game. Carries it strapped to his forearm for the _entire_ course of the game.... and *NEVER* uses it! Not even once!! Not even in a cut-scene to sabotage some enemy communications. What kinda crap is that!? 😠
The thing I hated about this game is it takes place at York bus Station. I was living in York at the time and it was a massive bone of contention that the city council wouldn't grant planning permission to build a central bus station and thus the bus routes were poorly interconnected. True story.
I hope one day York gets a central bus station without virus creatures to ruin the well connected routes.
That's so remarkably banal and petty that I have no doubt that it's a real city council story.
Did it actually look like York at all? I find it amazing they can make any amount of game with York. Manchester and London I understand but York is hilarious.
@@trollol1914 kind of.
I've a friend daedae from there he's a stoner
"Hale was the only survivor" "Hale was the only one to make it out"
Does anyone ever suspect these super soldiers of maybe being the reason they're the only survivors? Like, ever?
sometimes it just happens
some people are just the right mix of badass and lucky
I've had sole survivors from multiple missions in UFO defense
The humans also seem really bad with expecting a 4-6 man squad to accomplish what would normally take a whole team of men.
@@Anon_Spartan they also seem really bad at losing all of europe but expecting this one dude to do anything
no one accounts for the split screen mode of this game
Marine: oh my god i'm alive ha you were wrong chief i guess your gonna have to go through the rest of the game with a marine sidekick no.......(BANG)
All that fossilized lore I have from playing this back in the day is slowly coming back to me. The Chimera, the hints of another alien race they fought aeons ago hinted about in the last game, the whole Clovis organization, the books they wrote for this series- how Hale killed the president in one of those. It’s all coming back to me.
wait... there are BOOKS!?
THE LORE CHEFWONDERS WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!
@@miniloaf2274 There was an era when big name publishers would license a title and milk it for all sorts of promotional stuff like books, comics, even animation films. Some of them were hit, some of them were miss.
@@miniloaf2274
They are pretty good, the last one wasn't as great but still decent.
The series overall (games included) are great...
Except for the vita title, that one felt meh...
This ancient lore cannot be translated
I absolutely loved Resistance when it first came out. The whole backstory and lore involved with the first game were pretty good and I enjoyed how paranoid the American government came out to be from the lore tidbits that could be discovered. (Always enjoyed finding the deceased American Black Ops units that were scattered throughout the game and learning just how Xenophobic and closed-off the US had become after they had secretly? learned of Europe's downfall and did everything they could to hide the truth from the public.) I think it was the hidden lore and learning about what had happened to Europe, what was going on in America, how the Chimera were struggling to take land anywhere south of the Equator, how the weapons and vehicles looked and how they came to be, etc. that made me really love the first game of this series.
The spinoffs were ok and I enjoyed the first spinoff where we fought to take back Paris (though if I'm remembering right, that game's main character felt like a carbon copy of Hale. Which didn't sit right with me.)
The direct sequels, however, were very meh. 2 started out pretty great, but then it became way too sci-fi for my taste. The Chimeran weapons, and subsequently the human weapons as well, started to become way too out of hand with regards to how high-tech they felt as well as what they could do and made me wish that the creators had instead gone for the original idea with the series and just had the Chimera and Humans duking it out in space. Though I heavily enjoyed that Hale was starting to become more "Chimeran" as the game's story progressed, but then they just nonchalantly killed him off in what was literally the last 10 seconds of the game left a god awful taste in my mouth and I lost all hope for any future games within the series.
Resistance 3, while fun, just made me think "Why is this even a part of the series?" the whole time I was playing it. I enjoyed the feral Chimera aspects of it as well as the bits that showed " crazy human who devolved into madmax tribal lunatics" angle, but the whole game just felt out of place.
Cool
You've got half your own video written right there
I feel like Resistance 3 was a different title they were working on, realized they couldn't make it work as it was and converted it to a Resistance sequel.
In my opinion, Insomniac wanted to be done with Resistance (they were going to make another game for another company, as I recall, Sunset something) and so deliberately ended the series with Resistance 3, disregarding any plot holes along the way.
3 left so many things unanswered, especially regarding the ancient aliens and their relation to humans.
You should make a video about it. I’m not being sarcastic.
It was either resistance 1 or 2, but I remember doing 1v1’s with my brother in it. I remember having hours of fun just firing the missile launcher far up into the sky, to then redirect the missile with the laser to wherever my brother was. Funniest thing seeing him on the coop screen try and snipe me, only to have the missile I had shot like a minute before come crashing down on him. 10/10 game
Pretty sure only the first game had competitive multiplayer, the sequal went all in on the Coop aspect.
@@chrisrichfield8906 no resistance 2 had multiplayer. I grinded for months to get the 10,000 kills trophy. I was an idiot.
@@Chris-jw8vm thanks for the correction I think I actually do remember playing the competitive multiplayer now.
At least he’d get you too. It always pissed me off when someone would tag me with that rifle that sends all the rounds to the tag, and I didn’t manage to do shit.
@@Chris-jw8vm The first one did too.
This game had some of the best weapons in this shooter generation. Also fast roping (going down a rope from a helo without a lanyard) is very much a thing. Doing it barehanded would burn the ever living crap out of your hands though
Navy seals use glove.
Green berets use gloves.
Chimera hybrids wipe their rear with said gloves
I also had alot of fun, would be cool if they could bring the series back.
The only thing that sucks in my opinion is that games from those times are always so colourless with that ugly grey/brown touch
You don't grip with your hands though, you squeeze the rope with your legs
@@1CJMac1 even then you’re burning the hell out of your hands with the rope lmao. You need specialized gloves for fast roping-dudes will wear their shooting gloves and the rope will burn through them immediately. You’ll have a pair to rope down, and then pull them off and use the shooting gloves you were wearing underneath to work your weapon.
@@Blexg or just wear thicker Shooting gloves. Thats what I do.
I got it for free with my ps3 in 2007, really liked the game and its sequel. Never played the last one though
It was good but really different. It's completely post apocalyptic with the military defeated and what's left of humanity in hiding
3rd is often considered the best one. I'd check it out, really fun game
Last one was alright, not the strongest entry but shook up the formula and was neat
Same, i feel like that's how everyone got into the game
the psp resistance game was pretty good too
@@NattyBuns Probably my favorite game on the PSP, I was surprised how much effort went into a portable shooter. The connectivity between it and R2 on the PS3 was cool touch as well
Tbh I like the idea of throwing Parker out, giving her monologues to Cartwright and making him a colonel to explain why he orders people around...
It does seem like they decided halfway through that having a buddy-picture thing going with Hale and Cartwright would work better than Hale waiting for Parker to debrief him, but they didn't bother to write her out and retcon.
Oh yeah I would’ve liked a debriefing between hale and Cartwright lol
The perspective is odd, that past tense storytelling could work if its someone who was present the whole time or someone who investigates Hale after all never having met him. But Parker kind of was there but still telling about secondhand accounts of Hale
@@yetipotato8567 I mean, she's just reading a dossier. It shows when the scarbs infect Hale and she's narrating "No one knows how Hale was infected" showing that documents can be unreliable and miss crucial evidence.
Cartwright RANK
General (Resistance 3); formerly Major (Retribution), Lieutenant (Fall of Man)
Parker RANK
Colonel; formally Captain (Fall of Man)
Cartwright.
He was promoted to Lieutenant and made a Marine Commando a year before the Chimeran invasion. When the Chimera invaded Britain, most of his family were killed save for his youngest daughter Angela, who went missing. He was then made leader of the Royal Marine Commandos.
Resistance 3
As of 1957, Cartwright had been promoted to General, and is leading British resistance troops in Wales and Western Europe, as learned through a radio broadcast on Freddie Valmore's announcement.[1] It is unknown what happened to him afterwards.
Parker.
Resistance: Retribution
Following the liberation of Britain, Parker worked quickly, initiating restoration and rescue efforts throughout the country, restoring and re-deploying armed forces, beginning research efforts into the Chimera's mysterious history and reverse-engineering Chimeran technology alongside Special Research Projects Administration. At this time, Parker was promoted to Colonel and made official head of the British Intelligence Corps and British Armed Forces.
Axbridge, UK: Promoted to Colonel, Parker has deployed the majority of her forces against the Chimera on continental Europe.
Holy damn, this is such a throwback. I remember playing this co-op for days when we were kids at my friends house. Nice to rediscover this and actually learn the story, we had no idea what it was about then because we didnt speak english
What language do you speak?
I love the Resistance series so damn much. Owned every one and remember beating them all in like a single weekend they were so good. Please review them all, including the PSP game.
Not enough people talk about the series anymore even though they were the highlights of console FPS's during their hayday.
The second one is garbage
Loved this series, wish it would make a come-back. As a Playstation kid, this was my "Halo".
same, i play resistance 2 as well.
@@codenameprototype6219 Love Resistance 2 which is the best one.
same
Resistance 1 was planed to have vehicles in MP but they were cut due to the power of vehicular man slaughter being to OP
so it was almost like halo in ww2 :/
@@codenameprototype6219 VERY fond memories of playing Resistance 2 multiplayer with all my friends.
This video feels like ih insisted it would be a good idea and no one wanted to help, but as soon as he started he didn’t want to do it anymore.
This comment reminds me of the videos where people misspell the word "pregnant"
@@dirkbastardrelief
Pergenat
My grandfather once told me about life before safety gloves, working with metal and shit. You would get slivers of metal threaded into the skin of your hands, and my grandmother would have to pry the slivers out with tweasers and pliers.
That's what happens when you don't use a carabiner to rappel into battle.
That's what happens when you rappel with metal cable for some crazy reason.
Xerox actually created the 1st safety gloves in 1977 but they didn't realize the potential gold mine they were sitting on.
@@rook1196 I'm inclined to believe Xerox also invented sliced bread at this point.
He just gets to the bottom and just does not have skin on his hands any more lol
people in the past used to get off work and pull the metal slivers out of their hands, people today feel violated if someone in their city isn't vaxxed or says a word that offends them
are we sure that we're advancing or 'evolving'? :P
I really enjoyed this series. The lore they gave felt like observations on a new species. The other games were fun too. Seeing the wild varieties of chimeras that werent part of the hive mind and lacked coolers
Holy crap I didn't realize you nuked over 40 videos. Thank you for keeping em in the playlist.
But why?
@@everythingpony because these dont have sponsors
@@everythingpony they felt they were somewhat lazy so they now make them in more different way
For real I was like “Oh they don’t have many videos :(“
…then the Resident Evil 5 video mentioned an earlier expleened of another Resident Evil that didn’t seem to exist. So then I looked around and found the playlists.
Needless to say I’m both excited and upset these were hidden from me.
I was part of this really small multiplayer community on this game when I was 11 or 12, I remember the game mode being called Conversion? The game was ridden with people who used the Ethernet lagswitches to win.
I also remember there being Ratchet and Clank in-game loot you could get as well. Such a simple yet brilliant game.
Oh and of course, the glitch on Somerset to jump out of the map through that window on the 40-player map.
So many fond memories.
You're not special
Oh the laggy thing to win was just Australians, we had terrible internet back in 2006 and it made it so online we would teleport around the map in online games and no one could see us but we could see them, you had to shoot where someone would be in like 10 seconds time, fun stuff.
It feels like Parker was added to the game in order to have her spell out the story in those slideshow exposition pieces. I was wondering why the devs didn't have cutscenes to show the story instead, especially since the slides look like they were taken from cutscenes. Maybe it just wasn't feasible (rushed production?) so they used Parker to compensate. That's probably why she's everyone's commander as well. It's a reason for her to know all the details and to be relevant to the story she tells. Her line "I knew Hale would eventually find the map room." is such conjecture, it really sounds like the devs didn't plan for the voiceover at first.
I'm sure they didn't have all the resources of their studio available for this game. They had to also be working on Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction, which released the following year.
@@chrisrichfield8906 Yeah, Resistance 1 was an experiment for Insomniac along the lines of "what if we made a FPS with guns as good as Ratchet and Clank"?
You can see the massive increase in production in Resistance 2 and 3 once they realized people loved the first game and it had a solid future.
It was a launch title so you're probably not far off. Hitman 2 had this same thing where the cutscenes were replaced with slideshows due to crunch and limited funding.
to be honest i always liked those story telling slideshows in the game, they always set the mood right for me
@@iphoeniximarco5488 Same. They felt really thematic.
this game was so difficult i loved every moment of it. very few games gave me such a satisfaction with every level passed. lol its funny because i finally learned about the homing feature on the very last level. which i used to cheesed the boss and never died once. it felt so good to give him all my pent up frustration i built slogging thru entire game.
This video is 40% explaining the story and 60% British stereotypes and racism.
Can't believe Cthulhu kidnapping people and turning them gay, or straight... depending the original orientation. Smh he would never do this
the voice actor in search is actually called Pyrocynical and got famous for his line "The aliens are coming"
Dad has returned from getting a new expleened episode from the grocery store.
The editing for this video is straight up godlike.
I love the low-key, casual style and humor .
How is it possible that I randomly came across this channel a few days ago and right when I lamenting the time since I last heard this angelic voice?
Been on a binge ever since.
Greatest voice in the history of the internet, innit.
5:41 I love how you singled out the quote "The Conversion Center was Built on top of an Old Fish Cannery"
Like its the most important quote in the game lmfao
Well as a serious explanation, it’s to establish the setting.
But for comedic purposes it is a hilarious sentence
This game was my introduction to ps3. Played it coop with a friend. Amazing game.
This game wasn't just my intro to the PS3. It was the _reason_ I got a PS3. I suppose it was Playstation's answer to Halo because they play very similarly but as far as personal taste goes, I always like the setting of Resistance more than Halo.
@@slicedtopieces same, I went over to a friend's house and watched him play this on his big plasma TV. I was used to the OG Xbox on a CRT, so this game blew me away visually. It looks ok now, but back then the materials looked so crisp and "next gen".
Is it just me or is that woman trying to narrate a How It's Made episode about these fictional creatures
For some reason, I finished Fall of Man but have extremely vague memory of it. I mostly remember the game to be quite challenging, but I also think it was the DualShock 3 terrible trigger button that caused all shooter game on the PS3 to be annoying. Other than that, I do remember the basic of the story, the virus, invasion and all of that. It was quite absorbing back in the day, but not particularly so. It had that proper blend of horror and military. It’s half way between Halo and CoD. Too bad, they essentially ran out of ideas. Part of what made it a little forgettable was the brownish, grey colour tone. The Xbox also had Gears of War, so it didn’t feel like Resistance was doing anything special. Overall, I found that era of gaming quite fun. Gaming was approaching cinema, it was interesting to see what kind of things they wanted to adopt from cinema. Now it’s just the same thing recycled, after the novelty wore off.
That Jim Can't Swim edit was damn perfect. Earned a subscriber for that.
Nathan Hale: "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
Nathan Hale after finding out that, not only is reincarnation a thing, it drops you into an alternate reality: "I regret regretting having only one life."
I honestly wonder if the writer understood the irony of naming an American who cooperates with Brits to save the UK after Nathan Hale. Dick Winters, I can see that. Nathan Hale? Not as much.
@@douglassun8456 If you wanna get too deep college essay style analysis with it you can say that Hale represents to the combined mankind forces what the original did to the American revolutionaries. Alternatively, Hale gets his wish in having more than one life to give when he "dies" in the initial infection and comes back to life to continue fighting
Honestly one of my favourite games series. With all the remastering going on these days of old games, do me a favor and take this one with it. Awesome video :)
Timesplitters 2 first, and if they change ANYTHING other than the graphics they'll have to start calling me Daniel Day Lewis because There Will Be Blood.
with the current emulator you can play the games at 4k
yeah also infamous 2 too (the whole series of infamous 1 and 2 would be nice too) i would pay 1k dollars just to get my hands on one copy of that games remastered version i love that game
I always loved the concept of this series but the controls and health system always made me stop playing on level 1
@@Error-33 Yeah, I missed out on infamous, too poor, but I played it at a friend's place once and it was just so amazing. I don't know how well they executed the idea but the idea of becoming a hero or a villain is always great in my eyes, the less clear cut, the better. Like I love the idea of slowly becoming corrupted and becoming stronger in defiance or succumbing and seeking something like revenge.
The voice actor "Sir" is the Head of team America spotteswoode 😂
Finally, after all these years…I have them all (internet historian channels)
Two men walked into a bar with Hale. Only Hale came back out
Is Mark just giving live commentary over a RUclips video with no editing for this one? I love it
It's like how you'd explain it to your mates. Very cool.
There is good editing too
I love Resistance 1 and 2, I talk about them constantly and nobody will listen, my kids are having me put in a home and this video is the only thing that understands me
This is like the first time he sounds happy to be talking about the game they're expleened
Really ? I felt that this Video is the worst one on the Channel. Its Not Bad, but by comparison i lost interest really quickly.
with this video, you reminded me of my favorite game franchise that I have long forgotten
IH really just gives us content and then leaves forever
That dicaprio cut got me off guard.
I fucking love this channel
Military ranks are a bit weird since they're two completely separate career tracks.
While a Lieutenant *technically* outranks a Sergeant like this guy, Lt. Butterbars is going to listen damn well to him if he has any sense.
He certainly seems to.
I can see since its a combat situation theyd ignore ranks like that.
IIRC, that's Comissioned vs NonCommissions ranks...
Comissioned = went to school/college to kill people for your "glorious" state/govt.
NC = drafted/enlisted, and worked your way up thru guts of dead brown folks.
NC >>> Cs in combat. 'Practice vs Theory principle'.
In army the lt can can go into the forces straight away with higher education but hardly no experience whith a cp or seargent they have had experience and raised up the ranks thru time sweat and tears so in affect lot of people with lower ranks can have lot more experience
There’s a story about an LT that made CSM pick up cigarette butts in the parking lot. He got disappeared…
The funny part of this is not the game nor the jokes but the fact you made this video using another RUclips video.
I applaud your efficiency sir
I'd also recommend one of the series on RUclips that goes deeper into Resistance lore (Roanoke Gaming channel) and it's actually pretty damn thought out for something that looks like a generic alien shooter.
I personally liked the other 2 games. I had my issues with Resistance 2, especially visually I found it pretty weird with plastic-looking textures, but overall I thought it wasn't so bad, even though I still prefered the first one. Rural US was a pretty nice setting too.
Really liked the 3 though, which brought a deeper meaning to the title, as at this point humanity was very much on the brink of extinction with the Chimera being all over. I also liked the take on the "feral" Chimeras, showing how the Earth's whole ecosystem was shifting.
Overall a pretty good and underappreciated franchise in my opinion.
“So this is what you’ve been doing….” I said in my most disapproving dad voice.
This has almost the exact same conceit and execution as the Blight in Dragon Age: Origins, down to the maze of caverns to the ancient spawn point. DA:O came out well after.
The co-op in Resistance 2 and 3 was amazing! I played that for hours. Also I didn't realize how similar this game is to halo. You have your driving level, run and gun level and the final level is you running around destroying vents in a tower/ship structure to kill the alien/ monsters lmao
RUclips interrupted that scene talking about getting bugs in your mouth with an ad for Domino's pizza. I don't know what that means.
Please, continue. You guys are amazing and I'm quite addicted to your videos
Man, I got this when it came out and at the time the graphics blew my mind. Still doesn't look bad!
Tbh there’s a ton of fun weapons in this game that make gameplay more interesting, it’s a shame whoever made the playthrough video basically stuck to the first few you pick up lol
stack up americans
I mean the channel is called story mode not gameplay mechanics mode
I remember hating that they went to the COD/Halo "only 2 weapons at a time" thing in the sequels, the weapons and variety were the most fun part of the game imo
@@LangstonDev The second had the 2 weapon limit and health regen mechanic. They realised how dumb that is and with the third, thankfully reverted back to weapon wheel and health pick ups.
the foam gun always made me laugh!
"They're taken to a conversion center, where they are made gay or straight based on their original orientation."
Oh shit that's why the main character is resistant then -- he must be bi.
It truly is a superpower.
Sony really did everything they could to try and get some of that sc-fi- FPS love that Halo created by combining Halo with WWII...not once but TWICE. Killzone and Resistance.
Resistance is pretty good
@@joshuabrien2970 hopefully they make another one and lean more into the horror elements
What a game! Resistance 1 & 2 were a huge part of my childhood, the amount of hours I put into Resistance 2 online is second only to MW2. Fond memories.
Sgt winters is voiced by Darren Norris.
He was the voice of Spotswood in team America.
Fairy cosmo
The janitor in Ned's school survival guide
And half the voices in the original spider man game for ps1 and PC
Oh and stans dad in America dad.
Darren Norris, probably most recognisable from the 9/11 * 1000 joke in Team America, Fairly Odd Parents, Powerpuff Girls, Naruto, Avatar, and a bunch of cartoons and vidya games
5:40 I'm glad this 2 second scene of exposition is here. I think I would've been confused without that detail.
I remember playing a lot of Resistance 2. It had a decent multiplayer. Same with all the Killzone games
I loved this game series as a kid, thank you for bringing this masterpiece back to the surface.
The melee in this game created some amazing rag dolls especially on those drone workers! first game I ever had on Ps3 all time favourite!
There's the memories!
I remember playing this as my first FPS when I was a kid and I always remembered it like some kind of fever dream
As a Brit-ish person, I bloody loved this picture slider with audio (or a video for you fosters and yankies) ! Soo much Queen and country representation! Im gunna hav a chin wag with my mates about this!
As long as they consent to this chin wag and buy you dinner after
such an incredibly fun trilogy. hope they get remastered for the ps5 *with* the multiplayer intact
No online multilayer, I wouldn't even want it.
@@dannyk9507 ah.. they all had online multiplayer and it was addictive as fuck. The only reason why we all stopped was because Sony shut down the servers because they were not making money out of the micro-transactions. Dammit... I wish I could play those maps.
@@Mariet31 now it's been a few years but I believe only 2 and 3 had online multilayer. And yes they were addictive. My best friend and I easily sunk 1500 hours in 2's online co-op. Also micro transactions didn't exist back then in the capacity that they do now. Back then there was dlc. That was it pretty much... Except for Bethesda and their horse armor... 🙄
@@dannyk9507: The multiplayer was just so pure. No play 2 win, no stupid skins aside from the achievement based ones. Took forever for to get the 20-0 achievement. Also, OG vent sniping on the carrier ship map. Now I’m remembering everything. I abused the Auger so much. Wish we could find our stats now.
@@dannyk9507 The first one had multiplayer. It was my favorite of the 3. So classic
I fucking love this video, easily one of my most rewatched Storymodes
This game was my childhood man :( hopefully they can remaster it soon and the new generation can experience this masterpiece of a game.
That voice actor is DARAN NORRIS ... I believe you probably know him from fairly odd parents or another Nickelodeon show or as Jack Smith
( Stan's dad) on American dad..... But hes been in a bunch of stuff going back to the mid nineties
Huh, it almost sounded like Phil Lamarr to me.
Remember this game being really good, played straight through it on co-op.
Took me years to get the skeleton suit in achievements, great game especially multiplayer.
Multiplayer was a hit for me and my friends at the time, still salty about them throwing hegghog grenades into tight spaces where I was at. Good time!
Finally a game summary channel, with movie ones becoming so popular i was about to do it myself. thanks for saving me the trouble
I swear it's the best and worst thing finding your new channels out of nowhere.
On one hand, I never know they exist till I stumble upon a video. On the other hand, it's more fun content...lol
Oh shit I remember this game, it was actually really fun at the time, I loved the couch co-op modes
Oh fuck I played this game for how long and never figured out about shooting the stuff on their backs, good god
God the clips used in this episode are on point
To be fair Cartwright is probably really good at football or some shit, Hale can't compare
I enjoyed the Resistance series, I've got fond memories of the MP in 2 and 3. Doubt Insomniac will ever revisit it though.
Thank God Historian is doing this game. It was so hyped up as an exclusive for the brand new PS3 and I couldn’t wait to play it. Then I finally did, and it was so lackluster that I couldn’t even bring myself to finish it. Still, the concept is interesting enough that I kinda want to see how it ends.
The next two improve on the initial one, with the 3rd being an excellent conclusion
It's honestly still fun, I played it for the first time a couple years ago. The weapons are really good and I was impressed by the glass physics for such an old game. 3 is really good as well.
I was exact opposite. The story [if you read all the accompanying websites and ministories] were so enthralling that I couldn't put it down.
WHERE ARE U GUYS! IS EVERYTHING OK! INTERNET HISTORIAN DISAPPEARED AT THE SAME TIME YALL DID AND IN THESE CRAZY TIMES U NEVER NO WHAT MIGHT OF HAPPENED. SO I HOPE UR ALL OK! God damn caps lock. I'm not retyping that!
Honestly one of my favorite old school shooters of all time. Resistance: Fall Guy Kind was the first game I ever played on the PS3.
Honestly some of the best shooters out there.
The third game had some solid multiplayer too
good story and visuals too just to dam short
Hey internet historian, love the content . Someone has probably said it but the dude is Daran Norris. He voices Cosmo and the dad in fairy odd parents and was a bunch of dudes in cowboy bebop . Also the janitor from neds declassified school survival guide .
Good I love the JCS commentator cropping up everywhere recently
Captain Winters of the 101st airborne was a real guy. He fought in ww2. Damien Lewis played Captain Winters on Band of Brothers
Love how they are both flat but they turn at different rates, lol
I loved this game holy shit I still have a little statue of a little chimera dude. Rip the homie Nathan Hale
13:06 "We call them angels" why would a military force nickname an enemy unit something positive like Angels? Most likely they would have come up with some racial slur to call them.
In our world angel is a racial slur. They should have called them rabbis
They were Evangelion fans
This really do be a NATO designation for the MiG-15 moment.
flesh monsters supreme
Can you expleen Elmo's Letter Adventure next? I have no clue what happens in that game.
Thanks for this. Back when the PS3 and Xbox 360 came out, my home had neither until at least a year after release. My father once took me to one of his cousin's homes where they had a PS3 with Resistance, Fall of Man. I, socially awkward preteen with nothing to discuss with cousins I didn't know, was invited to play the game. I went through the campaign for the duration of the visit and quit at the last level when I told my dad that I was tired and needed sleep before school in the morning.
Never finished the game. Never visited those cousins again. Never got a PS3. Good memories.
That last part were Nathan was holding the Grenade was so hilarious to me for some reason. And you commentary made it so much funnier. Good gracious🤣
I missed Jeff and Bill already
Zuckerberg speaking at us make is seems this is all a historical account after the fact from the bug perspective.
'Their presence in a remote region like Somerset' its like an hour out of a major city lol. That's just what England looks like outside of London: farmers and grass
Why am I just finding this channel now. Starved of IH content I've been wandering a barren hellscape AND THIS HAS 44 VIDEOS
I didn’t know Internet Historian had a game channel. You gotta tell us these things, we’re starving for any videos out here!
this was a banger of a game. I played these on my uncles ps3 in secret. I was shit scared. Never beat the water level. to fucking scary
LOL
All I want for Christmas is a new video on the main channel
I absolutely loved the game when it came out I’m very glad to see it being covered!
Come back historian we need you!
are you fucking kidding me there is this whole Chanel for internet historian ... im happy right now