Anyone else waiting for Homefront?

[gorobei]

their previous game was Frontlines: fuel of war. that one came and went pretty fast(glitchy and bugs from the start, not many players, slow to patch)

part of kaos studios problem is that they are stuck in "reality mode" and keep trying to relive the bf42:desertcombat days. They spend a lot of effort making real life weapon games with some future tech bits thrown in, while wrapping the whole thing in some retcon alternate future premise.

The things that made DC and bf2 popular was that it was current day weapons in real settings, i.e. very familiar and recognizable. Frontlines setting was too unfamiliar and the gameplay didnt capture anyone's imagination. They seem to be overcompensating this time by setting it in usa.
I'm part of the gameplay > artwork side of the debate, but they are seriously abusing suspension of disbelief if they are trying to make North Korea the enemy. NORTH friken KOREA ?????!!!!!

 

[Genx87]

Maybe not such a big stretch- you do realize that North Korea has the fourth largest standing army in the world?

Iraq had the 3rd largest army before Desert Storm. Size doesnt matter any more. This game would interest me more if it was China doing the invading. That makes much more sense than a country that cant even feed its own citizens developing the capability of taking over SK, Japan, most of SE asia then invading the United States.

 

[marmasatt]

No it really wasn't.

Fallout 3 sucked. Too bad. The atmosphere was pretty cool. Fighting 8 foot high scorpions and spending 15 minutes a pop talking to random strangers in an apocalyptic setting doesn't do it for me.

Edit: Holy Off Topic post, Batman. Yes, I've got my eye on this game.

 

[natsfan99]

Fallout 3 sucked. Too bad. The atmosphere was pretty cool. Fighting 8 foot high scorpions and spending 15 minutes a pop talking to random strangers in an apocalyptic setting doesn't do it for me.

Edit: Holy Off Topic post, Batman. Yes, I've got my eye on this game.

Well we can agree to disagree that's cool but let's let it go. Zargon was right this is pathetic. Not only are we just pointlessly going back and forth but we hijacked this guys thread...not cool.

I am actually looking for a new game to play and went and checked out the info on Homefront. It looks very cool. I may give it a try.

 

[imaheadcase]

Many games get very high scores that don't deserve them like Bioshock. My biggest problems with the game was the horrible voice acting, terrible main storyline, ridiculously low level, reaching highest level made game too easy, and no real thought put into making every "dungeon" feel unique since they reused the same textures for everything. Sure the freedom was very fun but everything else about the game was meh. Not to mention how buggy it was.

True that, look at Black Ops. The game is largely considered terrible by online players. But game reviews give it huge scores.

 

[simonizor]

Iraq had the 3rd largest army before Desert Storm. Size doesnt matter any more. This game would interest me more if it was China doing the invading. That makes much more sense than a country that cant even feed its own citizens developing the capability of taking over SK, Japan, most of SE asia then invading the United States.

You are correct, size doesn't matter. It hasn't really since WWI when we started to see a boom in armed forces' technology. They stared out the war with a bunch of guys in trenches and ended with tank domination. Now the issue is who is more technologically advanced. Iraq might have had a huge army, but how technologically advanced to you honestly think it was? I'm willing to bet that North Korea has way more fighter jets, tanks, ships, etc than Iraq ever dreamed of having. You can have 80 million ground troops, all it takes is a few bombs from the sky to wipe them out.

Now that I think about it, though, they don't really need to be that technologically advanced. North Korea already withdrew from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, so for all we know, they might just be waiting until they've got enough stored up and then they blow up all of our major bases along with all of the tech that we've got in them. Sure, we'd might nuke them back, but we are still a part of the NPT so we would have to either withdraw or clear it with the other members of the NPT, which would take a long time. By the time that happens, we could be in very hot water already. The US keeps getting involved in more and more foreign affairs, spreading it's armed forces more and more thinly. Eventually, we won't have enough people here to fight if something like this happens.

TL;DR: It's really not that unrealistic if you think about it.

 

[wuliheron]

Underestimating low tech approaches to warfare has undone more then one country. What you might lack in resources and technology can sometimes be compensated for with a little cleverness. It's proven especially effective for insurgencies, but it also sometimes wins the day for invading armies (the Trojan Horse comes to mind).

 

[Baasha]

I'm getting it for multiplayer. Dont really care if the other team is Korean, Vietnamese, Russian, unnamed middle eastern country, etc. I just want something new to play.

LOL...

 

[Puffnstuff]

Back in the real world NK is digging new tunnels for another nuke test. Also if you'll recall Rome before it fell corruption was widespread and we've followed in their footsteps. That scenario isn't that far fetched.

 

[BHetrick]

Bit the bullet and pre ordered it today through D2D. They had a President's Day sale with 20% off of everything so Homefront was only $39.96 plus it comes with Metro 2033 for free (to use or gift).

Sale ends today (Tuesday).
http://www.direct2drive.com/

 

[sticks435]

Joystiq just did a another preview and said they fixed pretty much every issue that made it Meh the first time.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/22/homefront-preview/

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Joystiq just did a another preview and said they fixed pretty much every issue that made it Meh the first time.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/22/homefront-preview/

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/02/22/hands-on-preview-homefront/

They said pretty much the opposite. The shooter market is getting far to saturated and I need to actually start not buying the turds. Crysis 2 will have to suffice until BF3. I didn't buy MW2 till it was on sale and I will probably pan on mw3 this fall as well.

 

[Redshirt 24]

Joystiq apparently got to play with an X360 build, while RPS presumably got the PC version. I suppose they balanced each other out and we're stuck at "meh."

 

[marmasatt]

Doesn't this game release today? No early adopters?

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

Next tuesday right? That would be the normal release day for most games.

 

[skace]

I wouldn't pre-order this, where is the proven track record? However, the trailers are really fun and I give them kudos to the setup.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I'm considering preordering this on Steam, since it comes with a free copy of Metro 2033, which I've been wanting to play anyway. Not that I'll get to either game anytime soon - I have about 10 other games to beat first.

 

[BHetrick]

I'm considering preordering this on Steam, since it comes with a free copy of Metro 2033, which I've been wanting to play anyway. Not that I'll get to either game anytime soon - I have about 10 other games to beat first.

If you want to hurry and preorder to get the free copy of Metro, consider preordering through Direct2Drive instead of Steam.

D2D also has the free copy of Metro plus they're having a 20% off sale on all games. I normally use Steam myself but opted for D2D so Homefront w/Metro ended up only costing $40.

 

[Texashiker]

If you want to hurry and preorder to get the free copy of Metro, consider preordering through Direct2Drive instead of Steam.

Steam has the same special, pre-order homefront and get a copy of metro2033 for free

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Steam has the same special, pre-order homefront and get a copy of metro2033 for free

plus a hat!

 

[BHetrick]

Steam has the same special, pre-order homefront and get a copy of metro2033 for free

You just repeated what I already quoted. The point I was making was that Steam doesn't have the 20% off whereas D2D does.

 

[sticks435]

Well the 360 reviews are positive so far. Really good single player story but far to short. 5-7 hours. Really good multiplayer, some saying better and fresher than COD.

 

[BHetrick]

Well the 360 reviews are positive so far.

I've read plenty of complaints about graphics from console players, but that's about it. (Naturally that won't apply to pc players.)

 

[Texashiker]

hat Steam doesn't have the 20% off whereas D2D does.

Forget the 20%, I want my hat in TF2.

plus a hat!

Yea, I want a hat.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I give up on D2D. I've been trying to order from my iPhone for like a half hour and it just won't work.