Homefront: The Revolution Gameplay [PAX Prime 2015] - General

I don't mind the Far Cry similarities, I've always wanted a FC2/3/4 type game in an urban setting.

[QUOTE=Tuskin;48574676]I don't mind the Far Cry similarities, I've always wanted a FC2/3/4 type game in an urban setting.[/QUOTE] Same here. I thought playing GTA V in First Person would scratch that itch, but it didn't.

Same mission as Gamespot but by someone who actually knows how to play. [video=youtube;VVSE9Y6F3Vo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVSE9Y6F3Vo&feature=youtu.be[/video]

[QUOTE=elowin;48573939]Mercenaries did it pretty well.[/QUOTE] Yeah, because in that game NK is invaded and can't do shit about it. And would be finished off for good if not for other factions constantly screwing each other over. In Homefront, you instead have a fantasy-fairytale superpower North Korea that managed to eat everyone because fuck you.

Yeah, I can't help but think about how cool this would be if it were the Chinese instead of NK and you had a bit with American equivalent being rare with foreign equivalent being more prevalent- like, make the resistance feel well and truly small instead of an all american band of freedom fighters with modern american military tech that don't afraid of anything like this. I dunno, having the North Koreans become this technologically advanced invincible superpower just feels so utterly ridiculous.

Graphically the game does not look bad at all. But eesh gunplay and combat felt really [i]weak.[/i] Also the guy playing was terrible at playing it.

They probably chose the DPRoK because they were worried about the Chinese kicking up a stink about being cast as 'the bad guys'. Nobody cares if Best Korea whines because they have no power to do anything and I sincerely doubt it'll affect profits too much if Glorious Leader doesn't buy it. The whole idea of it being the DPRoK isn't really that unreasonable when you consider the whole story, except perhaps for the timeframe. The idea is that the North and South re-unite, forming one big Korean nation, and the fanatical nationalists come into power (likely by some slightly dubious means) and basically go nuts with re-arming and annexing South-East Asia. It is of course notable that they would get stomped by America and the UN if anybody noticed, which is why I say the timeframe is the big issue, it all happens a bit too fast to be really believable. Even then, though, they could fall back on the old 'economic downturn and oil crisis means everybody except the bad guys can't do anything' idea.

[QUOTE=elowin;48573939]Mercenaries did it pretty well.[/QUOTE] Well I'm reffering more to the idea that North Korea has the capacity, the money, and the compentcy to legit Invide and overwhelm The United States of America, it's military branches, and it's government without pissing off the rest of the western world.

I really wish this was just a brand new IP

It looks like it can be fun, in that casual, bland, and homogenized way that these kinds of games tend to be. [QUOTE=cdr248;48570421]I'm cool with it. Ever since those brick urban areas in Fallout 3, I've been itching for a proper open world urban combat guerilla simulator.[/QUOTE] And you're not going to get it here. [QUOTE=Simplemac3;48574996]Yeah, I can't help but think about how cool this would be if it were the Chinese instead of NK and you had a bit with American equivalent being rare with foreign equivalent being more prevalent- like, make the resistance feel well and truly small instead of an all american band of freedom fighters with modern american military tech that don't afraid of anything like this. I dunno, having the North Koreans become this technologically advanced invincible superpower just feels so utterly ridiculous.[/QUOTE] Having it be the Chinese instead would be completely ludicrous for a host of different reasons. Really, any scenario that involves the US being occupied by a foreign military power would have to be straight-up sci-fi to make any sense in the first place. In some alternate dimension, the Homefront IP was sold to a developer that was determined to make something really special out of it. That Homefront would ditch the Super North Korea but keep the fight to reclaim a conquered America. It would try to get people talking about it, and it would take creative risks with it's gameplay and story, knowing how much it might alienate people. Combat would be very lethal, and it would compel you to fight dirty, but more than that, it would be about the human side of guerrilla warfare, all of the collaborators and extremists and shadowy foreign third parties that make guerrilla warfare ugly and complicated. But you can't afford to be brave with a multi-million dollar project like this, so it'll be a Ubisoft-style open world shoot-n-loot with skill trees and side quests, that'll promise nothing except to dutifully occupy your time.

Was there a single person that wanted a Homefront sequel other than the developers of Homefront? It was such a great concept but executed so so badly, so miserably and so.. boring-ly, I can't believe they're making another.

[QUOTE=srobins;48580163]Was there a single person that wanted a Homefront sequel other than the developers of Homefront? It was such a great concept but executed so so badly, so miserably and so.. boring-ly, I can't believe they're making another.[/QUOTE] I kinda did :boxhide:

[QUOTE=srobins;48580163]Was there a single person that wanted a Homefront sequel other than the developers of Homefront? It was such a great concept but executed so so badly, so miserably and so.. boring-ly, I can't believe they're making another.[/QUOTE] Apparently Crytek or their publishers did. They're the ones who started this one.

The M4 looks gigantic

[QUOTE=RichyZ;48587406]infact crytek hopped on pretty quickly to do it, even after the catastrophe it turned out to be[/QUOTE] It seems to me Crytek just have a thing for North Koreans.