Homefront: The Revolution - "This is Philadelphia" - General

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;49516876]I guess but something about it looks off to me. I was excited about the Crytek one, but this doesn't make even interested. maybe times change I guess[/QUOTE] It is still the same game. Still the Cryengine, and has some of the same developers.

[video]https://youtu.be/idoYCVLh2qI[/video] This makes the trailer less grating to watch

Lots of domestic terror games coming out this year with XCOM and this

The only way this game would actually interest me is if there are insurgency mechanics other than whether or not the given enemies in an area know you're one. Having to make and conceal weapons/supply caches, staging your forces, defending from counter-attack, retreating, avoiding security measures and enemy intelligence assets/infiltration etc. Basically a management game with an FPS component.

[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;49516651]It's called [sp]Killzone[/sp] [sp]Helghast did nothing wrong[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]They're both bad, but the Helghast are arguably less bad[/sp]

I was excited for this game from early footage and was on the fence with it on the gameplay. I'm still on the fence tbh. It looks like the delay they gave it just made it look more generic. I'm still gunna at least try it out cause i am really curious, Philadelphia is a neat choice for a setting that is often overlooked that aside from Heavy Rain, i've never seen in a video game. There's just one problem. I live in Philadelphia. This isn't Philadelphia. Unless they're showing like the SAME location over and over or the same neighborhood. Yeah we got colonial buildings and old fascias on buildings like that but most are them are in a concentrated area not all over like they are in this video. You see like the comcast building. You could have told me this was in Boston and i'd probably believe you more than you telling me this is Philly.

[QUOTE=seba079;49515887]Just because Battlefield 3 didn't have any rear iron sights in its trailer doesn't mean it's cool, stop doing that, videogames[/QUOTE] They didn't even have front sights: [t]http://www.whatz-hub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Battlefield-3-PC-Game-2.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=Viva;49518406]I was excited for this game from early footage and was on the fence with it on the gameplay. I'm still on the fence tbh. It looks like the delay they gave it just made it look more generic. I'm still gunna at least try it out cause i am really curious, Philadelphia is a neat choice for a setting that is often overlooked that aside from Heavy Rain, i've never seen in a video game. There's just one problem. I live in Philadelphia. This isn't Philadelphia. Unless they're showing like the SAME location over and over or the same neighborhood. Yeah we got colonial buildings and old fascias on buildings like that but most are them are in a concentrated area not all over like they are in this video. You see like the comcast building. You could have told me this was in Boston and i'd probably believe you more than you telling me this is Philly.[/QUOTE] I was about to say, it felt closer to Boston than Philly, unless they're near the Old Squares. I live in the Upper Darby area, this whole trailer, especially in the 'wastelands' felt nothing like Philly. Most of the immediate surroundings around Philly are closely crushed together townhouses or single houses in grid like patterns with smaller buildings. Hell, Office buildings aren't a thing unless you're by a major transportation hub like 69th Street or near/in center city proper. Its only once you start getting into Lancaster and West Chester counties that you get the big old houses and office complexes. [editline]12th January 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=OVACOBRA;49515867]ay mane as long as its still decriminalized i dont care bout no lil ho chi momma comin an takin philly it cant get much worse out here ynimean?[/QUOTE] You're mixing South Philly and Pittsburg yinzer, stop it.

I thought crytek was making this

[QUOTE=Morbo!!!;49518209]The only way this game would actually interest me is if there are insurgency mechanics other than whether or not the given enemies in an area know you're one. Having to make and conceal weapons/supply caches, staging your forces, defending from counter-attack, retreating, avoiding security measures and enemy intelligence assets/infiltration etc. Basically a management game with an FPS component.[/QUOTE] I think you're giving them too much credit.

The game looked interesting at first, but the open-world genre is really starting to be over-saturated with sub-par content. I would like to see this game prove me wrong but I'm not expecting it.

[QUOTE=Sharker;49518865]I think you're giving them too much credit.[/QUOTE] Oh no, what I'm effectively saying is I'm not interested because I sincerely doubt the game has anything resembling that. "Fight tha powa" has been milked dry as a theme in video games, and this doesn't seem to do anything particularly interesting with it.

[QUOTE=Lizzrd;49516564] Because america isn't an evil empire, it's chaotic good.[/QUOTE] I'd argue chaotic neutral, but I'd rather not get into that now. I don't know how they expect anyone to take this game seriously when it involves North Korea becoming a superpower and annexing Japan without a fight. Would losing the Chinese market really be such a massive hit to their profits that they can't go the route of having the Chinese as the invaders?

[QUOTE=milktree;49518841]I thought crytek was making this[/QUOTE] Crytek sold the rights to another company Their UK Studio was making Revolution. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Radical_Design#2014_financial_difficulties_and_layoffs[/url] Most of the staff working on Homefront were moved over to the current studio though.

[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;49518538]They didn't even have front sights: [t]http://www.whatz-hub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Battlefield-3-PC-Game-2.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] paint me like one of your french soldat

[QUOTE=simkas;49516700]You can't possibly be saying that this looks worse than the original Homefront. That's just crazy talk. And I'm not talking about the graphics. [editline]12th January 2016[/editline] And what the fuck does that even mean? A game trailer looks like a machinima. Okay yeah, that's basically what it is. No shit?[/QUOTE] This definitely looks way worse than the original Homefront for me, but sure i'm not talking about the graphics. I meant the overall design and the concept of the game look fucking retarded. I liked the original game for the dystopian yet kinda realistic background it managed to paint around a player, with all those concentration camps, mass graves and nice cinematic scenes here and there. It was pretty original in it's concept (not the gameplay tho). But this trailer shows one of the most tasteless, dumb looking and unoriginal settings i've seen in, like, years. Sci-fi norks? RC cars with bombs sticked to them? They missed the only thing that was good in the original Homefront. And by "machinimas" i sure meant all those countless, ugly looking amateur clips made by a couple of teenagers running around, shooting and filming themselves. Like, you can basically record some clips in cod multiplayer and they would look exactly the same as this trailer.

[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;49516651]It's called [sp]Killzone[/sp] [sp]Helghast did nothing wrong[/sp][/QUOTE] Holy shit you're right.

[QUOTE=OVACOBRA;49515867]ay mane as long as its still decriminalized i dont care bout no lil ho chi momma comin an takin philly it cant get much worse out here ynimean?[/QUOTE] i feel u fam

[QUOTE=1nfiniteseed;49519934]I'd argue chaotic neutral, but I'd rather not get into that now. I don't know how they expect anyone to take this game seriously when it involves North Korea becoming a superpower and annexing Japan without a fight. Would losing the Chinese market really be such a massive hit to their profits that they can't go the route of having the Chinese as the invaders?[/QUOTE] Having the Chinese invade America would be just as unrealistic as North Korea invading America, for a host of different reasons. Having ANY country invade America in the next half-century is flat-out fantasy. Any time I play a game where America is under military invasion, I just pretend the invaders are the Brotherhood of Nod.

[QUOTE=Yogkog;49517055]This is like the first time Philly has been used as a setting in a video game ever, may have to check it out for that reason alone[/QUOTE] [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_Philadelphia]At the bottom.[/url] I knew the Tony Hawk games had Philly, didn't expect Splinter Cell Blacklist or the sheer low number of games representing it though.

[QUOTE=RikohZX;49535144][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_Philadelphia]At the bottom.[/url] I knew the Tony Hawk games had Philly, didn't expect Splinter Cell Blacklist or the sheer low number of games representing it though.[/QUOTE] Philly is passed over constantly for New York even though we have 3 distinctive accents, 4 distinctive districts and a thriving close knit suburb. We're currently experiencing a large sustainable growth in tech companies within the city, this growth has been going on 5 years now to the point where we're getting called the Silicon Valley of the East. New York's basically stolen everything from us, the 'Brooklyn Accent', actually is a South/West Philadelphian Accent but its been so heavily put in Brooklyn areas. Our City is also has the 5th largest African American population in the United States, as such, a lot of hip hop, rap and other urban music got their start or expanded from Philly. [editline]16th January 2016[/editline] Philly has pulled off a lot firsts before New York, but because New York is so close by, we get passed over and instead treated like New York LiteTM

Can't wait for everyone to forget about this a month after it releases!

[QUOTE=Starlight 456;49556647]Can't wait for everyone to forget about this a month after it releases![/QUOTE] I'm actually consistently forgetting this is a thing [i]now[/i] without even trying to.

[QUOTE=snijboer;49516318]The previous Homefront wasn't maybe great, but the whole idea was good for me. It felt somehow cozy by all those barricaded huge concrete walls with barbed wires around. All taken over, captured by KPA's. So, basically, i look forward to this game.[/QUOTE] IIRC the last one was changed at the last second to replace China with North Korea. (The Red Dawn remake released a year before did the same thing)

-i was wrong-

Eh, I'm going to withhold my judgement until release. Some may dislike the trend of open-world games but personally I'm absolutely fine with them. Some more variety would be nice but otherwise I'm okay with it. All in all it's looking like a halfway-decent game. Definitely better then the original Homefront no matter which way you put it.