Insomniac Took Fan Reaction To Resistance 2 Pretty Hard

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The developer's senior community manager James Stevenson tells Videogamer that it was the long-running fan reaction to Resistance 2 that weighed heavily on the team. Stevenson laments that "the overall opinion of it is that it was a failure by fans, that Resistance 2 was a failure, because maybe the expectations were so high for it."

Stevenson bemoaned that negative fan feedback to Resistance 2's design choices was "like your dog turned on you."

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The developer's senior community manager James Stevenson tells Videogamer that it was the long-running fan reaction to Resistance 2 that weighed heavily on the team. Stevenson laments that "the overall opinion of it is that it was a failure by fans, that Resistance 2 was a failure, because maybe the expectations were so high for it."

Stevenson bemoaned that negative fan feedback to Resistance 2's design choices was "like your dog turned on you."

gmastersexay

Didn't care much for the SP, but loved the co-op and MP.

it was not a bad game at all but far from the best

I've yet to play Resistance 2, for some reason none of my PS3 owning friends picked it up. I played the first one with my roomate in college a bit, thought it was a cool concept. what was supposedly so bad about the second outing? was it a gameplay thing or was it like the Gears 2 backlash were people just moaned about the plot?

Yep Mehsistance 2 was a pretty run of the mill shooter,with very few remarkable features imo.

Insomniac will have to try harder with number 3 for it to even be considered alongside greats such as the Halo and GeoW series.

Thank god, they really need to pick up the slack for the 3rd game

While i did enjoy R2, they took the series a whole step backwards from the first game. No co-op on the campaign? A boring, generic story? Nothing in R2 really set it apart from the billion other sci-fi shooters out there. lets get something fresh this time around, eh insomniac?

Did he actually compare the fans to dogs?! wow....Anyway, I thought the reaction was positive. If they werent happy with it, maybe they should spend more time on the next one...wolverine4262

Did he actually compare the fans to dogs?! wow....Anyway, I thought the reaction was positive. If they werent happy with it, maybe they should spend more time on the next one...wolverine4262

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Seriously though, the point of the comment wasn't to be derogatory.

I wouldn't call R2 a failure, its a good stepping stone to R3. Insomniac will become the first dev to create 3 exclusive PS3 games, they have to pull something out big in R3. Nonstop-Madness

I loved it :) never tried the on-line but the single player campaign was good

I liked R2 a lot, and the critics liked it, but I do feel like the competition improved from R1 to R2, and the fans didn't love R2 as much. Still, the 8 Player Co Op was bad arse, and the MP was fun. I had a blast with the SP, even though the ending was a bit sad.

That's interesting. I really enjoyed all the aspects of Resistance 2. About the only way they could have made the experience better was adding coop to the main campaign instead of just doing select missions. It was still great fun though... really need to return to it.

But if they took it hard and believe what some of the fans say, that is was a failure, well I can't wait to see what they pull out with Resistance 3. :)

They only failed by totally ruining the SP narrative and story telling style. They nailed the MP though, among the best I played on consoles last year.

yeai thought it was pretty crappy

even the mp wasnt doing it for me and every co-op game felt the same

It was ok. Just something i didnt like about it, couldnt put my finger on it tho. Just think i dont like FPS's to much, and for me to like one they need to be awesome

[QUOTE="Nonstop-Madness"]I wouldn't call R2 a failure, its a good stepping stone to R3. Insomniac will become the first dev to create 3 exclusive PS3 games, they have to pull something out big in R3. Nidget

I thought R2 was a pretty good game. The reason I don't play the MP is not Insomniac's fault. It that I couldn't stand the community on there

[QUOTE="Nidget"][QUOTE="Nonstop-Madness"]I wouldn't call R2 a failure, its a good stepping stone to R3. Insomniac will become the first dev to create 3 exclusive PS3 games, they have to pull something out big in R3. Nonstop-Madness

That's a little better. But, when A Crack in Time comes out, it'll be the third in the Ratchet & Clank Future series. Tools of Destruction, Quest for Booty(if you count that, which I do), and A Crack in Time. But I understand what you're getting at.

[QUOTE="wolverine4262"]Did he actually compare the fans to dogs?! wow....Anyway, I thought the reaction was positive. If they werent happy with it, maybe they should spend more time on the next one...TreeMoBMoney

I couldn't muster enough to finish R2..It's a good game…just something about it could not keep me playing...

I think the majority of the negative response comes from the fact that R2 was so different from not only the prequel, but most shooters out there as well. I personally wasn't too welcoming of the style at first, but eventually it just got to me. But I'm sure insomniac is now gonna ditch it and make something that sticks more to the norm if they do make an R3.

I wouldn't call R2 a failure, its a good stepping stone to R3. Insomniac will become the first dev to create 3 exclusive PS3 games, they have to pull something out big in R3. Nonstop-Madness

resistance 2 is one of my favorite fps and i belive their is a huge difference between thefirst and the second one, with lots of improvments and a lot funnier multiplayer (i loved it's co-op mode)

Hopefully this motivates them to do better.

I'm assuming the complaints center around regerative health and SP issues like that as the MP did offer a lot (though I was not really fond of it)

The two big Sony developers have traditionally been great. But Resistance series just does nothing at all for me. I finished the first one, but I just cant take any more first person shooters. Not to mention Naughty Dogs Uncharted series has just taken a whole cinematic leap that Insomniac really didnt do with Resistance. Theres just nothing about the series that stands out.

Oh and Uncharted 2 rock the hisouseeeee. I just wish it was a little harder.

They only failed by totally ruining the SP narrative and story telling style. They nailed the MP though, among the best I played on consoles last year.

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Wow nice dev. I like it that they dont equal huge profits from random people cuz of nice boxart and hype to sucess :D

This is how devs should be. Fans are the people that should guide them, not money....

Good work Insomniac

The two big Sony developers have traditionally been great. But Resistance series just does nothing at all for me. I finished the first one, but I just cant take any more first person shooters. Not to mention Naughty Dogs Uncharted series has just taken a whole cinematic leap that Insomniac really didnt do with Resistance. Theres just nothing about the series that stands out.

Oh and Uncharted 2 rock the hisouseeeee. I just wish it was a little harder.

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Wow really? My friend told me the game was great to play MP and co-op on. This will probably be one of the first games I get with my ps3.

Wow really? My friend told me the game was great to play MP and co-op on. This will probably be one of the first games I get with my ps3.

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The two big Sony developers have traditionally been great. But Resistance series just does nothing at all for me. I finished the first one, but I just cant take any more first person shooters. Not to mention Naughty Dogs Uncharted series has just taken a whole cinematic leap that Insomniac really didnt do with Resistance. Theres just nothing about the series that stands out.

Oh and Uncharted 2 rock the hisouseeeee. I just wish it was a little harder.

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Fans make no sense. R2 was an improvement over Fall of Man in every conceivable way, apart from the lack of campaign co-op. FAR superior guns (the augur actually works!), prettier visuals, an insane conclusion, some cool boss fights and a unique co-op mode really made it superior to the original. In my opinion.

I'm glad. The single player was one of my biggest disappointments. Fall of Man was sooo much better.

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Resistance lost its identity with R2. Resistance felt like its own world and everything, but R2 kinda threw that all away to follow popular trend, and it received quite the backlash from fans because of it. The atmosphere, the enemies, and everything, all felt much more oppressive in Fall of Man.

R2's story was mediocre, characters were mediocre, loss of weapon wheel sucked, boss fights were extremely underwhelming... especially after Insomniac's hype for 'em, and environments just weren't as good or cool. I still remember playing the snow level in Fall of Man for the first time.

The bosses were very typical and standard, even though Ted Price and crew hyped them up as otherwise. Hey, here's a rocket launcher laying on the ground in front of you. Hey, there's a boss walking under a bridge-like structure. Hmm, I wonder what I should do? And if I don't, what will happen? Very predictable and average. Then you have the other that crawled around the top of the building. Then the one where you're standing on the platform in the water and using the rocket launcher. Etc. Then the last floating squid-like main villain was a joke of a boss. The outcome was pretty awesome, because you go FORCE POWAZ! But yeah, the bosses were lame.

I loved Resistance 2. One of the better stories in a FPS that i've seen in awhile. Multiplayer and coop are excellent as well.

the multiplayer is awsome if you like either playing class based co-op or just large competative battles, but the single player just didnt do it for me, and i didnt even finish R1, they didnt flesh out the charaters at all, nor did it extend the story a whole lot by the end... just a string of reasons why you go from one place to the next fighting chimera, but atleast the multiplayer extended it legs alot