[QUOTE=JohnFisher89;45545883]Yeah I don't really get why people will bash a game that is "highly improbably and pretty generic"
They can be fun if the story, characters, atmosphere, and gameplay at least try something creative. It's a video game, it's not meant to be real life.[/QUOTE]
yeah, and the first Homefront tried none of these.
[QUOTE=seano12;45545475]North Korea invading the U.S. is the most silly plot ever.[/QUOTE]
NK invading South Korea or Japan would be very interesting imo.
A built-up unified Korea controlling much of the economic interest of the far East invading an economically-crippled militarily-weakened United States was more plausible than Modern Warfare's idea of Russians going nationalist overnight and somehow winning against the contemporary US military.
[QUOTE=kiloy;45546045]In the book it explains that NK invaded Hawaii and had a nuclear bomb on it which they threatened to detonate or something plus the satellite which EMP'd the entire US kind of ruined a lot of stuff. I don't remember a lot of the details though.
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Also poisoning the Mississipi river with highly radioactive materials which sort of split the US in half[/QUOTE]
The EMP did that, after it shut down a bunch of the US Nuclear Power Plants.
I think its much better for suspension of disbelief to have just handful of unrealistic assumptions than a shoehorned chain of somewhat plausible events just to make give us a reason to be invaded by someone no more interesting than turrorists and comies. I mean why not have the US invaded by a neo-British Empire or maybe some kind of now theocratic China.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;45546907]I think its much better for suspension of disbelief to have just handful of unrealistic assumptions than a shoehorned chain of somewhat plausible events just to make give us a reason to be invaded by someone no more interesting than turrorists and comies. I mean why not have the US invaded by a [B]neo-British Empire or maybe some kind of now theocratic China[/B].[/QUOTE]
Or both.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;45546907]I think its much better for suspension of disbelief to have just handful of unrealistic assumptions than a shoehorned chain of somewhat plausible events just to make give us a reason to be invaded by someone no more interesting than turrorists and comies. I mean why not have the US invaded by a neo-British Empire or maybe some kind of now theocratic China.[/QUOTE]
If I remember correctly they originally did have the enemy be an expansionist China, but they were afraid of political fallout so they changed the villain to the one country that nobody would care if they bitch about it or not.
Although rather humorously, the way they altered things in the Japanese version of the game it's not clear who the hostiles are but they way they tried to imply makes it sound like they're Canadians.
Oh and at the end [sp]it's said that the EU is prepping to declare war on Korea and launch an offensive into their occupied territories in the US, so in a way they do get invaded by a neo-British empire,[/sp] but it doesn't appear anyone's going to make a game of that part yet.
[QUOTE=JohnFisher89;45545468]Welp, there goes much of my hope for the game.[/QUOTE]
The same devs are making it!
[QUOTE=Cabbage;45545535]The whole point is that it wasn't really, NK also unified/took over South Korea, Japan, and iirc pretty much all of Eastern Asia
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That's still silly but not as silly as NK invading the US alone[/QUOTE]
There was also the whole global economic collapse preceding it.
[QUOTE=catbarf;45546795]A built-up unified Korea controlling much of the economic interest of the far East invading an economically-crippled militarily-weakened United States was more plausible than Modern Warfare's idea of Russians going nationalist overnight and somehow winning against the contemporary US military.[/QUOTE]
Mind you, the russians were also busy invading Europe during the whole time. Which makes it even more hilarious.
[QUOTE=ExplosiveCheese;45545678]The multiplayer was kinda fun, though.[/QUOTE]
I actually reinstalled it the other day to take a second look at this. Just hopped onto the multiplayer today, turns out there's still a couple servers up, at least one is populated, and it is actually a really fun game in that regard. The gameplay is pretty arcadey, but with vehicles, drones, and large maps, it's a fun experience as long as you don't get stuck with some guy who bought the shotgun.
It also looks and runs really nice.
[QUOTE=seano12;45545475]North Korea invading the U.S. is the most silly plot ever.[/QUOTE]
The plot for Homefront was originally China invading the US instead
[QUOTE=Maxjes;45545514]Game Informer is saying that's only the tip of the Iceberg.
Crytek USA (Austin, former Vigil Devs) is being downsized as Hunt: Horrors of the Guilded Age is being transferred to Crytek Frankfurt (Core Crysis Studio). Crytek USA will continue to exist only to provide CryEngine 3 licensing support to North American devs.
Crytek Seoul and Shanghai are also being 'put under review', so take from that what you will.
Source: [url]http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/07/30/deep-silver-now-owns-homefront-new-studio-handling-development.aspx?utm_content=buffer39c40&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer[/url][/QUOTE]
UK is being shuttered. Deep Sliver wants them however.
[QUOTE=J!NX;45545487]as if there ever was hope[/QUOTE]
Whatever we saw at e3 or whenever it was looked interesting enough if it was real
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i just hope it stays that way
[QUOTE=kiloy;45546045]In the book it explains that NK invaded Hawaii and had a nuclear bomb on it which they threatened to detonate or something plus the satellite which EMP'd the entire US kind of ruined a lot of stuff. I don't remember a lot of the details though.
[editline]30th July 2014[/editline]
Also poisoning the Mississipi river with highly radioactive materials which sort of split the US in half[/QUOTE]
I really liked the book
[QUOTE=wraithcat;45547160]Mind you, the russians were also busy invading Europe during the whole time. Which makes it even more hilarious.[/QUOTE]
Don't you know the Russian army has like 5 billion people?
Still a shit game.
I wish crytek would of made an anniversary edition of crysis and warhead instead. Although their graphics are still not considered dated at all, it would be cool to see how they would look on the newest version of cryengine. Sorta like the xbox 360 version of crysis 1 but on pc as well.
North korea taking over america is literally the dumbest plot I've ever heard
what the fuck were they thinking?
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[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;45547479]Whatever we saw at e3 or whenever it was looked interesting enough if it was real
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i just hope it stays that way[/QUOTE]
I do too
but I'm never happy when they take a bad idea and try and remake it
reviving an IP is great but when they do it again and fail it's like "Come on"
[QUOTE=Raidyr;45545699]Actually the first Homefront sold extremely well. It was THQ's most preordered title.[/QUOTE]
Sadly means nothing though.
It was a pretty fun game. The second should be even more fun.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/zMFJ3rE.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Grimhound;45549563][img]http://i.imgur.com/zMFJ3rE.png[/img][/QUOTE]
I would be okay with this.
[QUOTE=darth-veger;45546746]NK invading South Korea or Japan would be very interesting imo.[/QUOTE] This would have been much better because it would have been believable.
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