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[Xavier]

Thank god for no random encounters.

[Elcura]

Thank god for no random encounters.

frankly, I would play any RPG, with any battle system if this was the case. Random encounters make me so angry.

[Po]

Is Resistance still worth playing?

Those announcements about R2 have piqued my interest.

[Deejay]

Why play/buy resistance when wheres so many better FPS out there.

Hell, get Rainbow Six if you haven't played it.

[Xavier]

Thank god for no random encounters.

frankly, I would play any RPG, with any battle system if this was the case. Random encounters make me so angry.

Random encounters have the damning effect of absolutely killing any desire I would normally have to explore an environment, on top of just being flat out annoying when they occur every 5 steps.

If the developers want to pace their game where as long as I kill every 75% of the visible enemies I encounter I'll be of the proper level to proceed, fine by me. But don't make me spend 3 minutes fighting for every 3 feet I take.

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I enjoyed Resistance, but at this point I'd suggest renting it instead. You'll be able to beat the single-player campaign easily in a full day, and like it was already mentioned, there are better FPS games if you want to play online.

[GraveRobberX]

Is Resistance still worth playing?

Those announcements about R2 have piqued my interest.

The Resistance community is still strong, 2 Map Packs + updates, the game is still fun

Deejay is right that there are other FPS's that bring more to the table, but Resistance has been out for almost 1+ year

The Single campaign is fun, replay value of single campaign helps out the multiplayer aspect by giving exclusive skins for your character

The Godly Developer which is Insomniac Games, does regular play multiplayer with its playerbase every Friday @7pm PST

Insomniac Games even does promotional stuff like giving free codes to people who sign up with myresistance.net on hidden skins, or cross promotional skins of its other franchises (like Clank Backpack, Ratchet's Gravity Boots, Ratchet's Wrench)

Its fun playing as the Chimera ("Alien Race"), seeing through solid objects, or play with the kick ass weapons

You will literally laugh your ass off when you kill people with an Auger (the shots go through walls), especially in 1 hit Custom (Unranked) games,

If you think Resistance 2 looks good and want to try it, play through Resistance 1, the story isnt RPG lvl, but its not 1 liners/gruntss like say Gears of War/Unreal Tournament 3

Graphics wise, the game is not super top notch, but it was a good start, and 2 looks insane

[Xavier]

My impressions were that it was a fairly above average game all around, story, gameplay, etc. I never had the opportunity to play online so I can't really comment, but I think saying its "above average" does the game justice. I thought its story was actually fairly good and a lot of its environments and enemy encounters were quite large. The gameplay itself though was fairly standard FPS stuff.

[Po]

Thanks for the great responses guys.

I know there's a ton of other FPS out there. Mainly what I currently play of that genre is COD4 and Gears of War still, so I wanted to try something on the PS3 side of things.

I think I'll give it a GF.

[Po]

December NPDS!

December 2007 Hardware Sales
# PlayStation 2 -- 1,100,000
# PlayStation 3 -- 796,600
# PlayStation Portable -- 1,060,000
# Xbox 360 -- 1,260,000
# Wii -- 1,350,000
# Nintendo DS -- 2,470,000

December 2007 Software Sales
1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360) -- 1,470,000
2. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) -- 1,400,000
3. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PlayStation 2) -- 1,250,000
4. Wii Play w/ Remote (Wii) -- 1,080,000
5. Assassin's Creed (Xbox 360) -- 893,700
6. Halo 3 (Xbox 360) -- 742,700
7. Brain Age 2 (Nintendo DS) -- 659,500
8. Madden NFL 08 (PlayStation 2) -- 655,200
9. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Xbox 360) -- 624,600
10. Mario and Sonic: Olympic Games (Wii) -- 613,000

Numbers speak for themselves this month because of the holidays but great to see 2 excellent games at the top. Also lmao @ Wii Play still selling a shitton, and last and least I see no Rock Band :rocl:

[izembo]

doubt there was even 600k of them made to sell in that month though. also wii play will always be up there as its the #1 addon item for a wii.

[Mysterio]

Strong sales all around, DS is on crack.

[Exoduso]

Rock Band wasn't available in most places until after the holidays.

[Semitry]

Other numbers. GH3 on the Wii made it at 11, at 500kish.

Mass Effect (Xbox 360) 401,000
Mario Party DS (DS) 385,700
Uncharted (PS3) 206,000
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (Wii) 147,600
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (DS) 117,200
Half-Life 2: The Orange Box (PS3) 56,500
Nights: Journey of Dreams (Wii) 60,800
TimeShift (PS3) 25,000

[izembo]

we havent sold a single copy of nights other than the preorders we had. and we have tonnnnssssss of them sitting on the shelf, i think its the most of any wii game, followed closely by big brain academy.

[Mysterio]

rumour mill is reporting we'll see a Devil May Cry 4 demo on both the PSN and XBOX marketplace on Jan 31st.

Rumour mill is also bustling slightly with Crysis 1.5 on the PS3, and no version for the 360 citing "Technical reasons"
http://www.gamesradar.com/us/ps3/game/p ... 4752229059

console warz!

In before: "PS3 limitations", "Fuck you Fanboy!"

[Semitry]

Rumour mill is also bustling slightly with Crysis 1.5 on the PS3, and no version for the 360 citing "Technical reasons"
http://www.gamesradar.com/us/ps3/game/p ... 4752229059

That rumor comes from PlayStation World UK, and if they port it to consoles, it would be to make money, lose it. You do know Crytek is owned by EA right? lol Do you think they want to be owned like Epic with UT3?

[izembo]

even so, this wouldnt be the first time i heard about it coming to the ps3.

[Semitry]

Not saying it wouldn't, it probably well in some form, but exclusive? EA?

[Mysterio]

360 limitations, you heard it here first.

orz




oh and one more thing...

I doubt I'm the only one excited about CAPCOM remaking the original Bionic Commando NES classic?>

I'm not talking about the next-gen one where you're swinging in full 3D. This is a remake of the original with the classic 2D gameplay but now in stunning 3D. Oh and they added a little something called 2 player co-op. Hitting a PSN store and XBOX marketplace near you for probably pretty cheap.

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/01/17/bio ... -stunning/

[izembo]

technically the ps3 does have some hardware features the 360 doesnt, just nothing has really been made by a non-1st party developer to take advantage of it.

either way, guess we just wait and see.