Killzone 2

The move to Megalights this generation, it just feels, it reminds me a little bit, though obviously less influential, as to when there was that sudden shift to do deferred rendering during the PS3 era.

Like I think everybody saw like, wait, Killzone 2, they have all these lights everywhere.

And I mean, developers were digging into deferred rendering already and it had existed.

I think the first deferred rendering game was like Shrek on the original Xbox.

You know what I mean? Go back to the '08s and the '09s and all that shit when I only had one or the other at first.

You know what I'm saying? Oh, that Killzone 2 out? Damn, that joint look good.

You know what?[chuckles] Let me go ahead and get that motherfucking PS3 40 gig.

You know, I wanna play that Killzone 2, and that's what I did.

[chuckles] You know what I'm saying? Like, that's what I do, man.

I'm wherever the, I'm wherever the games at.

And by the way, the, the people acting like this isn't a big deal, the porting of PlayStation exclusives to PC using AI, are out of their minds.

I mean, imagine if the p- during the PS3 era, Killzone 2 comes out, and a week later it's on PC.

[laughs] I mean, Sony would be freaking out.

Yeah.

And then I had...

I ain't have the PlayStation until Killzone 2 came out.

Once Killzone 2 came out in '09 and my homie was playing and he kept talking about it, that's when I was like, "All right." I had got a 40 gig fucking PS3, and we used to be on that Killzone 2 heavy.

That Killzone 2 used to be popping.

[laughs] Killzone 2 used to be hitting.

Damn, 40 gigs.

That was, that was a lot at the time.

Yeah.

Mm.

And then the last one is Killzone 2.

God, fucking Jill.

[laughs]

Dude, Borderlands is a pretty 2009 game.

Killzone 2, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Bayonetta, The Saboteur.

Plants vs. Zombies was 2009.

I'm not gonna lie-

Oh, yeah.

I know Motor Storm got a little bit of a kick in because I think there were some CGI trailers at launch where you're like, "Oh, really?" It and Killzone 2 got an absolute kick in at an E3.

Um, but Resistance...

And then Resistance was held up as like, hang on a minute, they're saying that Killzone 2 is gonna look like that, but Resistance looks like this, sort of thing.

Mm.

Uh, and I think that when you play Motor Storm, which is a bit off topic, in that first person view, it gets very close to that CGI-

But if you focus on a point and you run towards it, it never feels like the detail is swapping or changing as you move, which is really, really, really impressive, I think.

and it makes it feel much more solid as a whole, especially when you consider all the destructible bits, which make it not just feel like a static box that doesn't change, but it's something that does sort of react to you, which ironically is the kind of thing that I loved in something like Killzone 2 back in the day, but that kind of stuff wasn't big.

Now I feel like they've done a better job here, and it really does feel convincing.

They even went so far as to fix that thing we complained about in the demo where...

They sold 2 million units.

And then I'll ignore the like PlayStation Portable and PS Vita ones, but like Killzone 2 sold one million units.

Killzone 3 sold about almost three million units, which is actually probably the one that we remember the most.

And then Killzone Shadowfall, which I think Shells is referencing on the PS4 in 2013, sold less, but it did pretty well.