Price: Insomniac is done with Resistance, Sony isn't

@Slayer15

Well personally i welccome a new developer with open arms. The Resistance series is a decent fps series but it has one major flaw

It is extremly forgettable

Nothing in the Resistance games "wow"'ed me. I never got hooked or fell in love with them, they are just very decent first person shooter games. However, if you want to break out and sell the big numbers, that is no longer enough.

Look at CoD. The reason that sells so well is because of A) The insanely good multiplayer and B) the amazing singleplayer set pieces. Overall, CoDs gameplay and, more importantly, GUN-play is exactly the same as resistance or any other FPS game, but the set pieces and multiplayer really set it apart.

The Resistance games really needs some new blood to kickstart it and, hopefully, find its groove. Personally i hope they go down the Horror route. It has so much potential there.

@Slayer15 Based on their history, no.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilistic_Software

@Rasral

I should have said "Semi-Horror" route. I don't hope the next Resistance is a full on horror game. Im just saying theres been some moments in R3 and in R2 that really showed me the potential of some kind of semi-horror style.

@Slayer15 Retribution was developed by Bend and ended up pretty decent, as have the PSP Ratchet and Clank games. Sony's done a good job of maintaining Insomniac's franchises so far.

@tobz1000

Oh god i forgot about the PSP Ratchet & Clank. Size Matters was awesome! I really enjoyed that, it felt like a true R&C game.

@Slayer15

I don't know. Those guys are pretty full of themselves.

@King Johngie the Fourth

There was closure to the war. There were reports coming in over the radio that resistance fighters were winning shoot outs with much less difficulty since the hive mind was destroyed. (i.e. one battle saw 100 Cimeran deaths vs 7 human deaths)

@cjrosa6

Oh I know that, but what about the cloven? Grey tech? The race that drove the chimera from earth? Pure chimera? They haven't done ANYTHING worthwhile with those, with the exception of Resistance: Retribution and it's cloven. There's still so much potential...

@King Johngie the Fourth

All that stuff...unless people were devoted fans of Resistance, most of that stuff is junk that doesn't have a huge effect on the overall course of the story.

@kentuckyfried The Cloven? That was a major plot point. Tons of secret files on them and we never even got a good look at them.

@kentuckyfried

What Dcmac said. As well, the cloven supposedly have technology far more powerful than the chimera's. What's the point of introducing this mysterious, kind of scary, uber-powerful third party if nothing interesting happens with them?

As well, the entire story/setting of R2 is centered around the human vs. chimera race to collect grey tech. Apparently it can create mega powerful weapons, but again, NOTHING HAPPENS.

As for the pure chimera, they were one of the main threats of the wormhole in R3. They're only mentioned in one intel, but what's the point of it if NOTHING HAPPENS WITH THEM?

And then the old race that got rid of the chimera is just something I would like to know more about. I sound weird writing this rant thing, but all of these things are just off the top of my head from the games. I haven't read any books or wikis or anything. These are all things that Insomniac has made readily available in their products that will reach the most consumers, yet they have failed to capitalize on so much of it.

@King Johngie the Fourth
Exactly
Every single game was a side step of the story
Nothing developed well, to me Insomniac is unable to play with the Big Boys, and is only capable of producing skin deep games.

@McPo

No. They finished the story they began in a perfectly fine fashion. The only problem is that along the way, they opened some doors and didn't close them afterwards. I'm just expressing relief that the Resistance series isn't done with, as previously reported.

@Knives Chau perhaps Insomniac doesnt wish to be tied to a single platform any longer and chose to move on?

@Knives Chau cause you can't buy what isn't for sale & as long that Price retains a major share of stock & owns way more than 51% no one force him to sale.

@kmcroc
ooh so theyve stated that they dont want to be first party? didnt know o-o

@Knives Chau

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/704924/insomniac-ceo-ted-price-explains-why-his-studios-finally-going-multiplatform/

@SonyPS

We'll see how well it holds up when Burning Skies comes to the Vita.

Some people have mentioned it doesn't look that great (generic was the word) but I saw the previews on youtube and it seems ok to me.

Personally, I haven't finished Retribution yet (I actually have to replay through the whole thing again, my save's missing), but I'd like to see more of James Grayson's story story ( presuming it hasn't ended for him (no spoilers please).

@ozlacs

Maybe fans wanted more Ratchet games so they said we'll milk the franchise for all that it's worth. I hope a Ratchet collection can come out for PS3 having never played any of the PS2 games before only Tools of Destruction and A Crack In Time and the PSN game.

@Art84 Same actually..R&C ToD was the first game I loved on the PS3...I actually enjoy All 4 One with 4 people....it's an interesting multiplayer game but yeah...there's no excuse with a Sly AND Jak collection

@ozlacs

There's probably gonna be a Jak 4 since the Sly Collection had a trailer for Sly 4. At least I hope we get a Jak game on the PS3. I never played the Jak games to completion on PS2 so gonna get the collection next month. I could see a Ratchet Collection if we got another Ratchet and Clank 4 game on the PS3.

@baby sea tuna

It's a good game on par with the original game.

@baby sea tuna

Don't give up tuna!

@Mustang Fanboy

R2 was agreeably, absolutely terrible. R3 shouldn't have been Insomniac's swan song for the series, but it is. =(

@kentuckyfried
I think R2 failed more due to requests from Sony to try and push the multiplayer aspect more. It's classic meddling from the higher ups that do this in every franchise on every system. I think they tried to make Resistance something that everyone with the system should want and they did that with the first game but the problem is that it's hard to do that and compete with multiplatform games like COD. Halo hit big on xbox because it was one of the few worthwhile exclusive titles, but the PS3 had all these other games (both exclusive and multipletform) to compete with by the time the second game came out that it wasnt as important not to mention the reports that the single player campaign was short took a lot of excitement out of it for some people. The 3rd game should have improved... I dont know the numbers but they're still going up against COD,Killzone3 and Battlefield 3 for peoples FPS dollars so it couldn't have been easy for them. ANd seeing the money they could make on a multiplatform title with a smaller effort would appeal to anyone logically (Granted I'm not ready to say Overstrike is any less of a game then anything else they've ever made but the potential for twice the sales between two or 3 platforms, if they go for PC, is very easy to get on board with as opposed to hoping that the majority of people on a single platform buy in.)