It’s a pity so much of it gets relegated to side materials outside the main trilogy of PS3 games. Having just finished Resistance 2, while I enjoyed the game, so much essential story elements felt like they were missing.
@@timhare9867 That's exactly what gets me. All of this is out there in ARGs and books, it's the epitome of unnecessary effort. Like I appreciate it but Resistance was never such a big deal that it was outright mandated. They must relaly have had something going on there
"Can you hear them? They're calling to us, it's beautiful." Is still haunting to hear till this day and the opening scene of San Franciso being invaded by the Chimera fleet is still my favourite backdrop in gaming to date. I need to replay the games now.
I can still clearly _feel_ that scene. I said it on her other video but that was, for me, the first time that a game really nailed a sense of scale. Everything just felt so much bigger than me.
Something i always thought was neat, is that during Resistance 1 Hayle has an almost, Religious fixation with using good old Human Weaponry, But then in Resistance 2, Once the line between pure humanity and chimera-subserviance is crossed, he starts appearing in cutscene with the bullseye, more and more and more and more, until its his exclusive weapon, Almost twisting into a preference for chimeran tech as his mind and body alike are converted.
YES! More Resistance game videos! If they do Resistance 3 I can die happily "He wasn't special he was just luckier than the other guy." That quote hits hard
Henry Stillman is one of my absolute favorite side characters ever. You only ever hear him over the radio and only if you choose to stick around and listen, but if you do, you get one of the most memorable, heart wrenching performances and stories. Listening to his mental state get worse and worse over the course of the game really made me feel for the guy, and that moment about the boy gave me chills. So glad you got to 2, hope to see 3 next!
major blake was actually voiced by troy baker .i don't know why little errors like that bug me so much. sorry for being that person. oh and the books are an amazing read if you can pick them up. i am definitely one of those people who tore into the lore of this series. oh and yes a comic book series too that was a limited run.
@TheChronozoan yes they are Resistance the gathering storm and resistance a hole in the sky. the first takes place in a time skip between the first mission and the second in resistance 2. the second takes place sometime after resistance 2 and a couple of years before the third game.
@khanlusa i would've definitely made that mistake if i wasn't such a nerd and dug into everyone about this series that I could get my grubby little hands on😭
one thing i really love about the chimera is there combination of mechanical parts with flesh, its a design style i been messing with with people having basically jet engines in there bodys to move at horrifying fast speed.
MINOR SPOILERS FOR THE GATHERING STORM NOVEL! Reading the tie-in novel provides great insight into Daedalus' character. He still maintains most of his memories and emotions as a Chimera, including his love for his wife, Hannah. When the government kidnaps and tortures her in order to lure Daedalus into an ambush, he personally leads a contingent of Chimera to rescue her without hesitation. The two converse, and rather than be disgusted by him, Hannah feels only sympathy and pity for what her husband has become. The way he thinks and acts...it's almost as if his service to the Chimera is a choice, rather than subjugation by the hive mind. He views them as something greater and is proud to be a part of it (hence the "it is beautiful" line when hearing the Pure Forms speaking to him). Whether that devotion is the hive mind twisting his desires or he actually believes that after being forcefully connected to it is anyone's guess. He can also transfer his consciousness into any other Chimera unit on Earth instantaneously and control them. I remember a scene of him swapping bodies across continents while in confinement, for no other reason than boredom.
@@ricpreganz2772 He does have a point, though. Man touches Daedalus' corpse and suddenly receives a massive surge of *something* and some fancy new telekinesis powers, and then quotes the same damn line from the intro in that final cutscene. They're even the same strain, I could definitely see some kind of partial or complete mind transference going down in that sequence.
I mean, you can argue it's a design flaw, but if an auto-turret doesn't have any sort of proper IFF system and is just firing at anything that moves within a certain set of parameters, a limited range of motion helps cut friendly-fire incidents down to mostly those who didn't get the "don't cross this line if you want to continue existing" memo.
Never forget, the "chimera" are just a mutated bio weapon of an alien race we never saw, mankind was almost erased by the alien equivalent of dropping smallpox blankets on earth. Mankind in this verse is utterly fucked
Khanlusa, your Resistance and Crysis videos have been some of my favorite content here. They have been such a nostalgia trip for me as I grew up playing those games and loved the alien invasion themes they played with. Keep up the good work! you are the best and I cant wait for the Resistance 3 video :D
I don't think so. I mean, Khanlusa's like of the series hasn't been quite in line with mine, so bias is likely playing. Anyways, for what it's worth, Resistance got better with every iteration.
For me that is underlined by the fact rhat the first game is fully in the Sepia Generation of stylistic theming, the second starts adding more vibrancy to the world, and man Resistance 3 to me felt like suddenly be able to see all the colours. Plus with R3, to this day is much less common to be playing on the side of the defeated.
"You should've ducked" okay, listen, I was lying PRONE and still got mulched by a friendly turret in HD2. It rotated, tilted DOWN at me, and tore me /many/ new ones.
Hale in the end looked so possessed with that smile and yet you can see through his eyes and body language that he wants to be shot, he knows there is no coming back
I played the coop multiplayer mode of Resistance 2 quite a lot. I'm usually more interested in single player campaigns because they serve more lore, but in htis case the multiplayer had the welcome element that it took place before the single player and rewarded success by providing additional lore documents specifically tailored to putting the game's events in perspective.
Resistance 2 was just something else and i was one of the very few who played and liked Resistance 3 and playing multi-player too back in the day, time flies.
I only just recently discovered your channel, but I love how you are reviewing this series. Definitely one of the better FPS series that released at the time. I'm looking forward to how you tackle Resistance 3!
Hey now talk about a pleasant surprise! Just finished watching part 1 (finally) yesterday! Can't wait to sink my teeth into this one! Thanks for another update. Always a highlight of my day
Stories where the character you follow knows they have a shorter time left to live i feel are the biggest test of who they are as a person. When you know you have so little time left you spend it on the MAXIMUM priorities, making it clear what you hold above everything else.
idk why but the section where Hale can use The Psychic Powers from Daedalus reminds me of The Section In Half-Life 2 where u can use the Blue Gravity Gun
I remember thinking 'Well shit." when I saw the ending to this game. I was pretty convinced the setting was gonna be a "rocks fall everyone dies" kinda thing.
@@WTFisTingispingis It nearly ended like that in Resistance 3 and I like how it shows the struggles to crawl back from the brink and now even in the depths of despair, good people with extraordinary effort can still prevail.
It's not entirely _unlike_ that. The Chimera fleet gets obliterated with a nuke, but no real remains of human civilization stand. The Chimera are still overwhelmingly stronger and more numerous. The human leaders and best soldiers are dead. The Chimeran home world is now connected to Earth, meaning Daedalus' plan ultimately worked.
I dont know why but i always headcanoned that the race they were at war were the Ceph,it just fit in a way i cant explain. To recommend games for you to check out Golden Treasure the Great Green, Fear and Hunger, Pathologic Hope you like them
This is one of my favourite new channels. They really give me the comfy old school vibes that you don't really get on this platform any more. Thank you for the entertainment, I hope your work reaches the audience it deserves.
This is the closest content Resistance fans can get to a remake. Edit: all the radio broadcasts by Henry can be found here on youtube just in case they were missed during gameplay. Unfortunately the same can not be said for Freddie Valmore's broadcasts in Resistance 3.
The Resistance series is a series that should have been turned into an open world game after the third game, especially considering how amazing and interesting the world became in the third game, much like Killzone or Red Faction, this series just seems to end without much satisfaction and yet has so much to explore.
6:11 I know that seeing American cities in disarray is a trope but that moment when you walk out and see massive Chimeran ships over San Fran and the Golden Gate Bridge, bathed in an almost hellish sunset...it's just beautiful. It's a triumph of art direction that no amount of extra pixels or extra horsepower will ever replicate. Ever since I saw this scene at the age of 10 in a review for the game, it lived rent-free in my head.
This game honestly looks way better than I thought it would, usually when you remember an older game looking good there's a fair amount of rose-tinted nostalgia involved.
I’m so happy you did a Resistance 2 video! I remember reading a Game Informer article about Resistance 2 and being enthralled by these 4-5 paragraphs describing the desperate position of the soldiers fighting the Chimera. I’m excited to see how you present the game!
The Resistance series is so fascinating. I remember playing it when younger, and don't think I've played a shooter like it since. Hope we get a review of the third!
Yoooo I originally watched a friend play through this game when it first came out. That ending floored me. Watching your take on the game brings back memories
yayy new videooo les goo Edit: i also loved how you make sure to point out ways some can seek help whenever a game shows us deep issues that can lie within us. Respect for caring so much about people you wont even meet :) there arent many like you in our world so its a nice change of pace stay healthy :)
I’ve been really excited for this one. I haven’t played the games since they first came out, so fun to revisit the series! Excited to see you cover 3. Your videos are awesome by the way!
This series and your points on it actually serve an interesting comparison point to Crysis, with the Chimera becoming increasingly eldritch, but in a less generic or mishandled way. Also just a hint of Dying Light (especially The Following) with the protagonist trying fighting the foe before he becomes the foe (heck, Hale's hands when he gets telekinesis are 'held' very very similarly to how Crane holds his almost-volatile claws, that animalistic pose that conveys raw power). Now that I think about it, there could be a really interesting set of videos comparing the themes of games you have already looked at with each other, how they create similar vibes.
It is kind of funny to see all the parallels between Crysis and Resistance. Probably not intentional on the writers' parts, but still extremely coincidental.
Another great video as always! Some context from the time though: Retribution wasn't considered "forced" onto the PSP so much as an outstandingly great third-person shooter for it, with an active multiplayer community, and even a cool bonus feature that uses Resistance 2. If you have Retribution on a PSP and connect it to your PS3 with a copy of Resistance 2 in the disc drive, you can "infect" Retribution, adding second analog stick aiming, upscaled resolution, and regenerating health. It was pretty neat! Some of those features have been patched into the PS4/PS5 re-release, but I swear they left less ammo lying around than in the original PSP version. There was also a (not very good) tie-in novel trying to bridge Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2, FWIW. It was, unfortunately, written by the same writer who buggered up the Mass Effect 3 tie-in novel so bad that BioWare publicly apologized about (and has basically treated as apocrypha at best since). I don't think you'll be quite happy with how Resistance 3 resolves the dangling threads of 2, but I do think you'll find the gameplay much more to your liking. As someone who used to be a huge Killzone player, even I found the Resistance 1-2 controls pretty damn awful, but 3 is quite smooth. You get the sense some of the folks from the Ratchet & Clank games stepped in and went "Okay, let me show you how a camera system works."
Young me was not a fan of the Grim sections, complete dread each playthrough. I did become a huge fan of the Kraken. I still love its design, wonderful mix of water monster and deadly machinery.
Another Khanlusa vid! Your sarcastic humour and overal video set up is amazing. Always looking forward to seeing you post a video, makes my day! Just a small point, but it could just be me: The whole radio segment... I could only pick up part of it, because of the audio effects placed on it. I don't know the proper terms, but I think it's the reverb(?) or the echo part, that makes it very difficult to make out certain words. If the game didn't have subtitles for it, maybe some subtitles can be added for these sections? Otherwise, despite me not having played quite some games, all your videos this far I have really enjoyed watching! Hope you keep making more 😁
I remember sinking hours into the Co-op Campaign for this. I remember making it to one mission and nobody seemed to play right at a certain part resulting in a failure.
8:25 , wait wait i can what???, the Resistance lore and setting is amazing, if we get a season 2 of Secret Level i hope we get one set in this unvierse the leve of detail on the environment like the radio brodcast , it is scary just the way the chimera look , the fact that was a person and set during an alien invasion in those years its an amazing concept.Imagine if any studio made a new ip without context just some aliens fighting not a mention of humans and via an ARG we learn its concected to the resistance series . Speaking of ARG i kinda love that Kate has at least some lowkey part in some sci fi worlds and a big one in others Also props for giving a moment for mental health
I only recently finished Resistance 2 for the first time, and still have very mixed feelings about it. On the positive side, it’s a really unique game and setting that somehow combines both a gritty WW2-esque setting with true Lovecraftian horror, and what feels like a truly insurmountable enemy. The Chimera cannot be stopped no matter how many of them you kill. On the negative side, they removed the weapon wheel. Your ‘squad’ is pretty much forgettable (I just remember the Major, the token black guy, and the token big angry guy with the chain-gun), and most importantly it feels like a truly astounding amount of essential story material is missing. What happened in the 2 years between Iceland and San Francisco? Who is Daedalus, the main antagonist of the game? What is the Liberty Defence Perimeter.? Where is the rest of the United States Army? What is the status of the war? Who is in charge? Who are the Cloven? How did the Chimera wipe out upwards of 168 million Americans in the space of about 2 months of fighting? I know all these questions have answers, but barely any of them are in the campaign. And those that are told rather than shown. Seeing Daedalus’s fleet physically breaching the LDP from multiple sides then launching thousands of spire missiles all across the southern states where 80 million or so Americans were packed into refugee camps should definitely have been something we physically saw and experienced, rather then just heard in a blink and you’ll miss it but of dialogue. We should have had commentary between missions from a Rachael Parker like character explaining how the Chimeras invasion of the USA was progressing like the first game had. As things stand, this game surprisingly felt like it had no stakes. The campaign didn’t like a war involving 14 million human combatants fighting tooth and nail to protect tens of millions of civilians against a much larger enemy swarming them from all sides. It felt like that battle happened months ago, and we’re being left to puck over the bones with a small remnant of very well equipped survivors. I actually read Resistance Gathering Storm before I played this game, and there were parts of the novel that definitely should have formed part of this game’s narrative. We should have seen President Noah Grace attempt to sell out the rest of humanity to preserve is little tinpot dictatorial rump state in the south before Daedalus tore him limb from limb. We should have seen ordinary civilians fleeing the Chimera in mass through cities like San Francisco, Chicago and Washington. And we should have actually seen the US attempt to use everything at its disposal from tanks and artillery to surface ships and nukes to beat the Chimera back, only fail spectacularly as the Chimera overrun the US Coasts, the LDP, and break the back the the last human resistance to their global dominance. And maybe somehow find a way to bring us into contact with the Cloven, while also setting up an organisation like Grace’s Domestic Security Agency as a foil and potential enemy of the Sentinels when Grace tries to sell them out to hold onto his power at all cost.
Bit of an ask, but if you get the chance to, you should really try out Resistance: Retribution. It's the spin-off set between Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2 and features a campaign set in the European mainland and primarily France, where you'll be helping the French Maquis instead. You also get to play as the British soldier James Grayson, who has quite a bit more personality than the stoic Hale.
I only know about this series because of the Fall of Men cover. When I looked at it I felt like I had to play it but never did. Hopefully I'll feel like trying them this year. Anyways, great video!
Hey thanks again for playing these games, I really wish playstation would come back to this and kill zone. Hell brink jak and daxter back. They have so many good abandoned I.P.s
I’m not sure if you like “Darksouls-like” games, but have you heard of Shattered: Tales of the Forgotten King? It’s a game with a beautiful art style and a fairly interesting lore with multiple endings.
I have returned to enjoy lore from games i havent had the chance to play Also Capely (spelling sucks) may also believe he's basically been served a death sentence by not taking the inhibitor so his outburst can also have that angle
I never played Resistance 1 and 2, but your videos were a very enjoyable recap. Assuming the third game is next I was wondering if you were planning to go through stories of the InFamous games at any point? From what I'm aware you quite like that series, so was wondering about your takes on their stories., well, at least the Cole McGrath duology, as I never really cared for Second Son.
I recently played a game called to get even without spoiling anything you the main protagonist is Cole black who's an abandon the same Asylum to get "treatment" so that he can remember why he was even here in the first place you must go through his memories trying to put the pieces together towards the end of the game it actually made me want to yell at one of the characters because they were blaming everyone else for their own faults without even acknowledging but everything could have been prevented
I'm not sure if you'll continue to do this, but thank you for not using the comedic music throughout this video. I love your voice and content, but the "funny music" activates me like a sleeper agent and I cant concentrate on the video anymore. Thats why I love some of your more serious (if incredibly dark and sobering) videos.
Fun video and congratulations on getting 50k subscribers. The game's story of alien bio-conversation reminds me of Star Trek: Resurgence. Starfleet goes up against an ancient species that wants to repopulate just like how the Chimera do it. You might want to check it out for a compare/contrast.
Love your videos on the resistance series mate, as a kid the awesome cover art freaked me tf out so I didn't buy them, but then 5 years ago I saw that only the third one was on playstation 4's weird retro service, I played it, I loved it, and I wondered what the fuck was going on, glad to finallu find out😂
Seeing Dickbutt again after so many years was kinda eye opening. I forgot how dumb as a concept dickbutt was and yet it was still ironically funny to us back in the day..............Suddenly Skibbidi toilet makes complete sense to me :/
The lore of resistance is one of the few pieces of media where they truly didnt need to go so hard, and yet they did anyway
It’s a pity so much of it gets relegated to side materials outside the main trilogy of PS3 games. Having just finished Resistance 2, while I enjoyed the game, so much essential story elements felt like they were missing.
@@timhare9867 That's exactly what gets me. All of this is out there in ARGs and books, it's the epitome of unnecessary effort. Like I appreciate it but Resistance was never such a big deal that it was outright mandated. They must relaly have had something going on there
"Can you hear them? They're calling to us, it's beautiful." Is still haunting to hear till this day and the opening scene of San Franciso being invaded by the Chimera fleet is still my favourite backdrop in gaming to date.
I need to replay the games now.
I can still clearly _feel_ that scene. I said it on her other video but that was, for me, the first time that a game really nailed a sense of scale. Everything just felt so much bigger than me.
@@TheChronozoan SAME!
@@DoctorKrain the line has stuck in my head all these years, I used to play these games with my dad and im almost afraid to play them without him, RIP
@@Timeothy Play them again, in memory of him.
"Which I understand is more realistic, but have you considered you're a killjoy?"
That got a good cackle out of me.
anytime you utter any variation of the phrase "obscene amount of bullshit" it fills my heart with joy
@@isaacmaya1915 RELTABLEE
Something i always thought was neat, is that during Resistance 1 Hayle has an almost, Religious fixation with using good old Human Weaponry, But then in Resistance 2, Once the line between pure humanity and chimera-subserviance is crossed, he starts appearing in cutscene with the bullseye, more and more and more and more, until its his exclusive weapon, Almost twisting into a preference for chimeran tech as his mind and body alike are converted.
@chibipotate it's an amazing touch in the menu when you see him convert more and more and the carbine switches to a bullseye
YES! More Resistance game videos! If they do Resistance 3 I can die happily
"He wasn't special he was just luckier than the other guy." That quote hits hard
Henry Stillman is one of my absolute favorite side characters ever. You only ever hear him over the radio and only if you choose to stick around and listen, but if you do, you get one of the most memorable, heart wrenching performances and stories. Listening to his mental state get worse and worse over the course of the game really made me feel for the guy, and that moment about the boy gave me chills. So glad you got to 2, hope to see 3 next!
major blake was actually voiced by troy baker .i don't know why little errors like that bug me so much. sorry for being that person.
oh and the books are an amazing read if you can pick them up. i am definitely one of those people who tore into the lore of this series. oh and yes a comic book series too that was a limited run.
First time I've heard there's books ?! Hell yeah
Resistance books?! Let's goooooo
@TheChronozoan yes they are Resistance the gathering storm and resistance a hole in the sky. the first takes place in a time skip between the first mission and the second in resistance 2. the second takes place sometime after resistance 2 and a couple of years before the third game.
Not mistaking Matthew Mercer and Troy Baker for each other Challenge: Impossible 😭😭
@khanlusa i would've definitely made that mistake if i wasn't such a nerd and dug into everyone about this series that I could get my grubby little hands on😭
one thing i really love about the chimera is there combination of mechanical parts with flesh, its a design style i been messing with with people having basically jet engines in there bodys to move at horrifying fast speed.
MINOR SPOILERS FOR THE GATHERING STORM NOVEL!
Reading the tie-in novel provides great insight into Daedalus' character. He still maintains most of his memories and emotions as a Chimera, including his love for his wife, Hannah. When the government kidnaps and tortures her in order to lure Daedalus into an ambush, he personally leads a contingent of Chimera to rescue her without hesitation. The two converse, and rather than be disgusted by him, Hannah feels only sympathy and pity for what her husband has become.
The way he thinks and acts...it's almost as if his service to the Chimera is a choice, rather than subjugation by the hive mind. He views them as something greater and is proud to be a part of it (hence the "it is beautiful" line when hearing the Pure Forms speaking to him). Whether that devotion is the hive mind twisting his desires or he actually believes that after being forcefully connected to it is anyone's guess.
He can also transfer his consciousness into any other Chimera unit on Earth instantaneously and control them. I remember a scene of him swapping bodies across continents while in confinement, for no other reason than boredom.
So that's what happened to Nathan at the end there... he got body snatched
@@insertedgynamehere___969 Or he came to the same "conclusion" Shepherd did: that the Chimera are something wonderous.
Ah yes the hivemind is truly the right goal trope sci fi authors love this trope
@@ricpreganz2772 He does have a point, though. Man touches Daedalus' corpse and suddenly receives a massive surge of *something* and some fancy new telekinesis powers, and then quotes the same damn line from the intro in that final cutscene. They're even the same strain, I could definitely see some kind of partial or complete mind transference going down in that sequence.
@@rhyssuy8361 Really? It's usually "Hivemind bad"
I mean, you can argue it's a design flaw, but if an auto-turret doesn't have any sort of proper IFF system and is just firing at anything that moves within a certain set of parameters, a limited range of motion helps cut friendly-fire incidents down to mostly those who didn't get the "don't cross this line if you want to continue existing" memo.
"Which I understand is more realistic, but have you considered your a killjoy" is entering my lexicon immediately.
Never forget, the "chimera" are just a mutated bio weapon of an alien race we never saw, mankind was almost erased by the alien equivalent of dropping smallpox blankets on earth. Mankind in this verse is utterly fucked
On a Saturday morning, this is some great coffee.
Khanlusa, your Resistance and Crysis videos have been some of my favorite content here. They have been such a nostalgia trip for me as I grew up playing those games and loved the alien invasion themes they played with.
Keep up the good work! you are the best and I cant wait for the Resistance 3 video :D
i really hope this isnt a Crysis 3 situation where my memories of the third game are better than the game itself
I don't think so. I mean, Khanlusa's like of the series hasn't been quite in line with mine, so bias is likely playing. Anyways, for what it's worth, Resistance got better with every iteration.
For me that is underlined by the fact rhat the first game is fully in the Sepia Generation of stylistic theming, the second starts adding more vibrancy to the world, and man Resistance 3 to me felt like suddenly be able to see all the colours. Plus with R3, to this day is much less common to be playing on the side of the defeated.
Can you hear them? It is beautiful.
WOOPWOOPWOOPWOOPWOOPWOOPWOOP
Forgive me sir, it was an honour
Bro the hard cut to credits from the split second of Hale's head being blow is such an gut punch
"You should've ducked" okay, listen, I was lying PRONE and still got mulched by a friendly turret in HD2. It rotated, tilted DOWN at me, and tore me /many/ new ones.
Clearly it sensed treason.
@@Skwiyhedd have you tried being more democratic?
Your lack of democracy disturbed it
@@thronezwei4412 I'm the most democratic!
@@naitor2594 or maybe your democracy just wasn't managed enough.
Hale in the end looked so possessed with that smile and yet you can see through his eyes and body language that he wants to be shot, he knows there is no coming back
I played the coop multiplayer mode of Resistance 2 quite a lot. I'm usually more interested in single player campaigns because they serve more lore, but in htis case the multiplayer had the welcome element that it took place before the single player and rewarded success by providing additional lore documents specifically tailored to putting the game's events in perspective.
before and along side as well. it really adds a lot to the story and i loved the additions to the story.
Resistance 2 was just something else and i was one of the very few who played and liked Resistance 3 and playing multi-player too back in the day, time flies.
I only just recently discovered your channel, but I love how you are reviewing this series. Definitely one of the better FPS series that released at the time. I'm looking forward to how you tackle Resistance 3!
I don’t know why all these videos about my favorite video game series ever are all coming out but I’m here for it
Omg you always release vids during my roughest shifts and honestly you rlly help me get through them! Thanksssss 💜
Hey now talk about a pleasant surprise! Just finished watching part 1 (finally) yesterday! Can't wait to sink my teeth into this one! Thanks for another update. Always a highlight of my day
Stories where the character you follow knows they have a shorter time left to live i feel are the biggest test of who they are as a person. When you know you have so little time left you spend it on the MAXIMUM priorities, making it clear what you hold above everything else.
idk why but the section where Hale can use The Psychic Powers from Daedalus reminds me of The Section In Half-Life 2 where u can use the Blue Gravity Gun
I remember thinking 'Well shit." when I saw the ending to this game. I was pretty convinced the setting was gonna be a "rocks fall everyone dies" kinda thing.
@@WTFisTingispingis It nearly ended like that in Resistance 3 and I like how it shows the struggles to crawl back from the brink and now even in the depths of despair, good people with extraordinary effort can still prevail.
It's not entirely _unlike_ that.
The Chimera fleet gets obliterated with a nuke, but no real remains of human civilization stand. The Chimera are still overwhelmingly stronger and more numerous. The human leaders and best soldiers are dead. The Chimeran home world is now connected to Earth, meaning Daedalus' plan ultimately worked.
I dont know why but i always headcanoned that the race they were at war were the Ceph,it just fit in a way i cant explain.
To recommend games for you to check out Golden Treasure the Great Green, Fear and Hunger, Pathologic
Hope you like them
This is one of my favourite new channels. They really give me the comfy old school vibes that you don't really get on this platform any more. Thank you for the entertainment, I hope your work reaches the audience it deserves.
This is the closest content Resistance fans can get to a remake.
Edit: all the radio broadcasts by Henry can be found here on youtube just in case they were missed during gameplay. Unfortunately the same can not be said for Freddie Valmore's broadcasts in Resistance 3.
The Resistance series is a series that should have been turned into an open world game after the third game, especially considering how amazing and interesting the world became in the third game, much like Killzone or Red Faction, this series just seems to end without much satisfaction and yet has so much to explore.
6:11 I know that seeing American cities in disarray is a trope but that moment when you walk out and see massive Chimeran ships over San Fran and the Golden Gate Bridge, bathed in an almost hellish sunset...it's just beautiful. It's a triumph of art direction that no amount of extra pixels or extra horsepower will ever replicate. Ever since I saw this scene at the age of 10 in a review for the game, it lived rent-free in my head.
I swear this game was sooo under rated for lore and i really wish it had a remake because that is desperately needed
This game honestly looks way better than I thought it would, usually when you remember an older game looking good there's a fair amount of rose-tinted nostalgia involved.
You deliver amazing gameplay, poignant critique, epic amounts of sass, and pinpoint skewering.
15/10
I’m so happy you did a Resistance 2 video! I remember reading a Game Informer article about Resistance 2 and being enthralled by these 4-5 paragraphs describing the desperate position of the soldiers fighting the Chimera. I’m excited to see how you present the game!
The Resistance series is so fascinating. I remember playing it when younger, and don't think I've played a shooter like it since. Hope we get a review of the third!
Yoooo I originally watched a friend play through this game when it first came out. That ending floored me. Watching your take on the game brings back memories
Can you hear Khanlusa talking about Resistance 2? It's beautiful.
Me: What did you do Capelli!!?
Capelli: I went for the head.
God I wish PlayStation would give this series another shot
I recognize that NBC broadcast tune from the 1930s-1940s. Especially from the Glenn Miller Radio shows. Very good.
Thank you for your awesome videos! Cant wait to binge watch more! Keep it up!
Resistance 3 is my fave of the series, I look forward to your video covering it.
yayy new videooo les goo
Edit: i also loved how you make sure to point out ways some can seek help whenever a game shows us deep issues that can lie within us. Respect for caring so much about people you wont even meet :) there arent many like you in our world so its a nice change of pace stay healthy :)
Remember playing this as a kid. The forest section scared the shit out of me. I absolutely hate chameleons.
I’ve been really excited for this one. I haven’t played the games since they first came out, so fun to revisit the series! Excited to see you cover 3. Your videos are awesome by the way!
The "we'll be right back" absolutely sent me (straight to the subscribe button)
This series and your points on it actually serve an interesting comparison point to Crysis, with the Chimera becoming increasingly eldritch, but in a less generic or mishandled way. Also just a hint of Dying Light (especially The Following) with the protagonist trying fighting the foe before he becomes the foe (heck, Hale's hands when he gets telekinesis are 'held' very very similarly to how Crane holds his almost-volatile claws, that animalistic pose that conveys raw power).
Now that I think about it, there could be a really interesting set of videos comparing the themes of games you have already looked at with each other, how they create similar vibes.
I loved the PvE operations for resistance 2, very underrated game mode.
I wonder if Goliaths *_not_* launching swarmer missles is part of the change to how humans are converted
Just the thing I needed to brighten up, thank you Khan.
This was a fun trip down memory lane. I played this game so long ago.
It is kind of funny to see all the parallels between Crysis and Resistance. Probably not intentional on the writers' parts, but still extremely coincidental.
By God you did it, much love to ya dude
Instant subscribe, this video was amazing and exactly the type on content I enjoy the most
Just bought a resistance 2 shirt recently. Love it and the games, can’t wait for your video on Resistance 3❗️
Literally just stumbled on your channel and watched the video on the first resistance game and then you upload this what a treat
Another great video as always! Some context from the time though: Retribution wasn't considered "forced" onto the PSP so much as an outstandingly great third-person shooter for it, with an active multiplayer community, and even a cool bonus feature that uses Resistance 2. If you have Retribution on a PSP and connect it to your PS3 with a copy of Resistance 2 in the disc drive, you can "infect" Retribution, adding second analog stick aiming, upscaled resolution, and regenerating health. It was pretty neat! Some of those features have been patched into the PS4/PS5 re-release, but I swear they left less ammo lying around than in the original PSP version.
There was also a (not very good) tie-in novel trying to bridge Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2, FWIW. It was, unfortunately, written by the same writer who buggered up the Mass Effect 3 tie-in novel so bad that BioWare publicly apologized about (and has basically treated as apocrypha at best since).
I don't think you'll be quite happy with how Resistance 3 resolves the dangling threads of 2, but I do think you'll find the gameplay much more to your liking. As someone who used to be a huge Killzone player, even I found the Resistance 1-2 controls pretty damn awful, but 3 is quite smooth. You get the sense some of the folks from the Ratchet & Clank games stepped in and went "Okay, let me show you how a camera system works."
Aw hell yeah! Another perfectly timed upload from Khanlusa!
Nathan walked so Humanity could run
Hey any chance (if posible) of you taking a look at Killzone series?
Yes please
eyo, new khanlusa video dropped
Young me was not a fan of the Grim sections, complete dread each playthrough.
I did become a huge fan of the Kraken. I still love its design, wonderful mix of water monster and deadly machinery.
Been waiting for this! I’ve also been avoiding other videos for this game that have been recommended since I watched your first video😂
Another Khanlusa vid!
Your sarcastic humour and overal video set up is amazing. Always looking forward to seeing you post a video, makes my day!
Just a small point, but it could just be me:
The whole radio segment... I could only pick up part of it, because of the audio effects placed on it. I don't know the proper terms, but I think it's the reverb(?) or the echo part, that makes it very difficult to make out certain words.
If the game didn't have subtitles for it, maybe some subtitles can be added for these sections?
Otherwise, despite me not having played quite some games, all your videos this far I have really enjoyed watching!
Hope you keep making more 😁
I remember sinking hours into the Co-op Campaign for this. I remember making it to one mission and nobody seemed to play right at a certain part resulting in a failure.
8:25 , wait wait i can what???, the Resistance lore and setting is amazing, if we get a season 2 of Secret Level i hope we get one set in this unvierse the leve of detail on the environment like the radio brodcast , it is scary just the way the chimera look , the fact that was a person and set during an alien invasion in those years its an amazing concept.Imagine if any studio made a new ip without context just some aliens fighting not a mention of humans and via an ARG we learn its concected to the resistance series .
Speaking of ARG i kinda love that Kate has at least some lowkey part in some sci fi worlds and a big one in others
Also props for giving a moment for mental health
You deserve the 50k and more
More Resistance please and thanks, love your content
Insomniac screw spiderman , remake resistance and my money is urs
I only recently finished Resistance 2 for the first time, and still have very mixed feelings about it. On the positive side, it’s a really unique game and setting that somehow combines both a gritty WW2-esque setting with true Lovecraftian horror, and what feels like a truly insurmountable enemy. The Chimera cannot be stopped no matter how many of them you kill.
On the negative side, they removed the weapon wheel. Your ‘squad’ is pretty much forgettable (I just remember the Major, the token black guy, and the token big angry guy with the chain-gun), and most importantly it feels like a truly astounding amount of essential story material is missing. What happened in the 2 years between Iceland and San Francisco? Who is Daedalus, the main antagonist of the game? What is the Liberty Defence Perimeter.? Where is the rest of the United States Army? What is the status of the war? Who is in charge? Who are the Cloven? How did the Chimera wipe out upwards of 168 million Americans in the space of about 2 months of fighting?
I know all these questions have answers, but barely any of them are in the campaign. And those that are told rather than shown. Seeing Daedalus’s fleet physically breaching the LDP from multiple sides then launching thousands of spire missiles all across the southern states where 80 million or so Americans were packed into refugee camps should definitely have been something we physically saw and experienced, rather then just heard in a blink and you’ll miss it but of dialogue. We should have had commentary between missions from a Rachael Parker like character explaining how the Chimeras invasion of the USA was progressing like the first game had. As things stand, this game surprisingly felt like it had no stakes. The campaign didn’t like a war involving 14 million human combatants fighting tooth and nail to protect tens of millions of civilians against a much larger enemy swarming them from all sides. It felt like that battle happened months ago, and we’re being left to puck over the bones with a small remnant of very well equipped survivors.
I actually read Resistance Gathering Storm before I played this game, and there were parts of the novel that definitely should have formed part of this game’s narrative. We should have seen President Noah Grace attempt to sell out the rest of humanity to preserve is little tinpot dictatorial rump state in the south before Daedalus tore him limb from limb. We should have seen ordinary civilians fleeing the Chimera in mass through cities like San Francisco, Chicago and Washington. And we should have actually seen the US attempt to use everything at its disposal from tanks and artillery to surface ships and nukes to beat the Chimera back, only fail spectacularly as the Chimera overrun the US Coasts, the LDP, and break the back the the last human resistance to their global dominance. And maybe somehow find a way to bring us into contact with the Cloven, while also setting up an organisation like Grace’s Domestic Security Agency as a foil and potential enemy of the Sentinels when Grace tries to sell them out to hold onto his power at all cost.
Man i would love to see a series about the whole chimeran invasion of the USA
I still feel.... awful that Hale had to die. I get it. I do but man.... I wish he lived.
Humanity is in such a dire and depressing situation, I hope they don't pull in the third game some sort of "destroy one thing and you win"
Awesome video ❤
Bit of an ask, but if you get the chance to, you should really try out Resistance: Retribution. It's the spin-off set between Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2 and features a campaign set in the European mainland and primarily France, where you'll be helping the French Maquis instead. You also get to play as the British soldier James Grayson, who has quite a bit more personality than the stoic Hale.
I only know about this series because of the Fall of Men cover. When I looked at it I felt like I had to play it but never did.
Hopefully I'll feel like trying them this year.
Anyways, great video!
Thank you so much Khan
The multiplayer of resistance 2 was fkn sick. It was helldivers and space marines 2 with a yellow filter
Iv been waiting for this one ❤❤❤ your awesome!!
I played the multiplayer of this a lot back in the day. Not so much the campaign.
Suggested games? I would really love it if you could cover the old PS2 game Run Like Hell. But I say that to people a lot lol, so no pressure.
Hey thanks again for playing these games, I really wish playstation would come back to this and kill zone. Hell brink jak and daxter back. They have so many good abandoned I.P.s
You used my favorite song from the DX:HR soundtrack at 19:00. Pleasent surprise on an already fantastic video!
I’m not sure if you like “Darksouls-like” games, but have you heard of Shattered: Tales of the Forgotten King? It’s a game with a beautiful art style and a fairly interesting lore with multiple endings.
I have returned to enjoy lore from games i havent had the chance to play
Also Capely (spelling sucks) may also believe he's basically been served a death sentence by not taking the inhibitor so his outburst can also have that angle
Oh hell yeah we love a sequel video
Who? "Let's dive in, shall we?" I've heard that before... "Go away now"
I never played Resistance 1 and 2, but your videos were a very enjoyable recap. Assuming the third game is next I was wondering if you were planning to go through stories of the InFamous games at any point? From what I'm aware you quite like that series, so was wondering about your takes on their stories., well, at least the Cole McGrath duology, as I never really cared for Second Son.
The duology will be a special for hitting 100K subscribers ✨✨
You're the best
I recently played a game called to get even without spoiling anything you the main protagonist is Cole black who's an abandon the same Asylum to get "treatment" so that he can remember why he was even here in the first place you must go through his memories trying to put the pieces together towards the end of the game it actually made me want to yell at one of the characters because they were blaming everyone else for their own faults without even acknowledging but everything could have been prevented
I'm not sure if you'll continue to do this, but thank you for not using the comedic music throughout this video. I love your voice and content, but the "funny music" activates me like a sleeper agent and I cant concentrate on the video anymore. Thats why I love some of your more serious (if incredibly dark and sobering) videos.
don't pretend we didn't see how you named the Daedalus chapter
UwU
Please do Resistance 3!
Fun video and congratulations on getting 50k subscribers. The game's story of alien bio-conversation reminds me of Star Trek: Resurgence. Starfleet goes up against an ancient species that wants to repopulate just like how the Chimera do it. You might want to check it out for a compare/contrast.
Love your videos on the resistance series mate, as a kid the awesome cover art freaked me tf out so I didn't buy them, but then 5 years ago I saw that only the third one was on playstation 4's weird retro service, I played it, I loved it, and I wondered what the fuck was going on, glad to finallu find out😂
My god the FOV. It's like wearing blinders. I feel claustrophobic.
Unfortunately that's 7th gen console games for you.
Seeing Dickbutt again after so many years was kinda eye opening. I forgot how dumb as a concept dickbutt was and yet it was still ironically funny to us back in the day..............Suddenly Skibbidi toilet makes complete sense to me :/
None of us are free of sin lmao