What was it like to be a Resistance fan back when the series was still active?
I've been going through the Resistance series recently — Fall of Man, Resistance 2, Retribution, and eventually Resistance 3 and Burning Skies — and one thing I obviously can't recreate is what it actually felt like to experience these games when they were new.
So I'd love to hear from people who were there at the time.
What do you remember about Resistance during the PS3/PSP era?
How did you first hear about the series? Was Fall of Man considered a big deal when the PS3 launched? Did people around you actually talk about Resistance, or did it always feel like a more niche series compared to things like Halo, Call of Duty, Killzone, etc.?
I'd especially love to hear memories about things that are difficult to reconstruct today:
- playing the games for the first time
- launch-day impressions
- magazines, trailers, demos or advertising you remember
- playing Resistance online when the servers were populated
- clans, friends or people you met through multiplayer
- the huge matches in Resistance 2
- reactions to the changes between Fall of Man, Resistance 2 and Resistance 3
- how Retribution was received by PSP players
- what people thought the future of the series would be at the time
And even little things are interesting to me: seeing a Resistance box in a game store, getting a PS3 with Fall of Man, talking about it at school, discovering some strange piece of lore online, whatever stuck with you.
I'm particularly interested in how the series felt at the time, rather than how we evaluate it retrospectively now.
Today we already know where Resistance ultimately ended up. Back then, you didn't.
So: what do you remember? What did Resistance mean to you when it was still a living series?