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They sold Homefront 2 to Deep Silver in case you guys weren't aware, so it's got a decent chance of being made. Unrelated, The Stomping Land, an Early Access game we all thought was a cut and run operation, is apparently not, and changing to UE4. 
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PantsBandit posted:Pretty sure with Homefront 2 it's just them saying "wow, you guys sure did gently caress up a decent concept through extreme levels of stupidity! I guess we'll try again and maybe not do that!" It's not a decent concept. A deadly serious portrayal of North Korea invading and occupying the US is just ridiculous. There was never anything tongue-in-cheek about the scenario from the start--just take it all with a straight face and then press A to hide in the mass grave.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:07
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For some reason I thought it was China, not "Hey guys remember the T34/MiG15" North Korea.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:09
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It was hilarious how serious they were about the story's plausibility. They really wanted you to think that North Korea could actually stage a full invasion of the US and win. It's a terrible idea for a game that was executed terribly and I don't know why people try to defend any aspect of it. Fun fact, the game was originally written with the Chinese as the antagonists but their CIA consultant decided the prospects of a chinese invasion wasn't as scary as a North Korean one. 
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Aug 6, 2014 06:12
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Would that also get the game banned in China? I mean, Wargame: Red Dragon has a completely neutral depiction of the Chinese as participants of WW3, since it's just a modern RTS, and that still got the game banned in China because it just had the country available.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:20
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:It was hilarious how serious they were about the story's plausibility. They really wanted you to think that North Korea could actually stage a full invasion of the US and win. It's a terrible idea for a game that was executed terribly and I don't know why people try to defend any aspect of it. 
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Aug 6, 2014 06:20
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Azran posted:Would that also get the game banned in China? I mean, Wargame: Red Dragon has a completely neutral depiction of the Chinese as participants of WW3, since it's just a modern RTS, and that still got the game banned in China because it just had the country available. Yeah, that's probably the actual reason why they changed the antagonists to koreans, but it's still fun to read about their justifications.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:22
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Isn't a ludicrous Korean invasion the premise of that Red Dawn remake they've been bandying about, too?
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Aug 6, 2014 06:22
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Bieeardo posted:Isn't a ludicrous Korean invasion the premise of that Red Dawn remake they've been bandying about, too? Yeah, they did release that, but it bombed so badly that it's understandable that you'd think it hasn't been released yet. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234719/
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Aug 6, 2014 06:25
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One of my favorites parts of Homefront's backstory was that Kim Jong Un was just so darn charismatic that he convinced South Korea to give up their autonomy to North Korea.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:27
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folgore posted:It's not a decent concept. A deadly serious portrayal of North Korea invading and occupying the US is just ridiculous. There was never anything tongue-in-cheek about the scenario from the start--just take it all with a straight face and then press A to hide in the mass grave. What made that quick-time event even more massively stupid was there was tons of other places to hide in that area too. A proper openish-world Red Dawn would be pretty cool to play  Freedom Fighters was super fun but still linear in the end.What I'm saying is Homefront 2 sounds like it could be pretty awesome, don't ruin the chance of a diamond being found in a turdpile dammit. Just as long as they don't add super mutants into the end-game.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:27
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:It's almost like turning Crysis into straight-forward CoD inspired shooters was a bad idea.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:28
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PostNouveau posted:Yeah, they did release that, but it bombed so badly that it's understandable that you'd think it hasn't been released yet. That and none of the theatres in this drat city bother with their outdoor marquees. Man, that's about as terrible as what I thought it was going to be.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:30
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Palpek posted:Isn't Ryse what killed them and not Crysis 3 though?
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Aug 6, 2014 06:34
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Anyone else playing Road Not Taken? By the makers of Triple Town, a pretty neato puzzle game. Mixes the object-matching gameplay of Triple Town with a sort of roguelike-like quest to rescue people lost in a blizzard.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:37
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Accordion Man posted:One of my favorites parts of Homefront's backstory was that Kim Jong Un was just so darn charismatic that he convinced South Korea to give up their autonomy to North Korea. The backstory is described by its writers as a series of coin flips that could have gone either way. DPRK peacefully incorporating South Korea? Eh, a 50/50 chance of actually happening, sounds about right.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:40
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PostNouveau posted:Yeah, they did release that, but it bombed so badly that it's understandable that you'd think it hasn't been released yet. uber_stoat posted:Anyone else playing Road Not Taken? By the makers of Triple Town, a pretty neato puzzle game. Mixes the object-matching gameplay of Triple Town with a sort of roguelike-like quest to rescue people lost in a blizzard.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:53
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Crawl hits early access tomorrow. For those who don't remember, Crawl is the game that had this trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH1BhKN9gEc Giant Bomb did a preview of an early build awhile back. It looks interesting, but seems like it needs a fair amount of rebalancing. Not sure how similar it is to the build they sent them, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iutgq3Poab4
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Aug 6, 2014 07:11
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Played through the first hour of Tomb Raider. I haven't seen this many pratfalls since George of the Jungle. This is a comedy right?
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Aug 6, 2014 07:15
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Mokinokaro posted:Yeah OMD 2 is beatable on easy but really balanced around co-op.  ), but some maps are indeed obviously more co-op orientated and you really need to know what to expect.
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Aug 6, 2014 07:16
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Quest For Glory II posted:Played through the first hour of Tomb Raider. I haven't seen this many pratfalls since George of the Jungle. This is a comedy right? Ehhh. As others have said, it stops being so "Look, she's a real person and gets hurt, too, you guys!" after about two hours in.
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Aug 6, 2014 07:26
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Accordion Man posted:One of my favorites parts of Homefront's backstory was that Kim Jong Un was just so darn charismatic that he convinced South Korea to give up their autonomy to North Korea. Have you seen Kim Jong Un? Such a dream boat.  I thought it was funnier that they later managed to take over Japan and no one did anything to stop them. But I enjoyed the Single Player even if it was a weird mess. Then I sank 50+ hours into the multiplayer, so I'm only into Homefront 2 for the multiplayer.
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Aug 6, 2014 07:43
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No, Homefront 2 has to fulfill the prophecy of being a proper open-world TPS that reminds us all of Freedom Fighters.
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Aug 6, 2014 07:47
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Poopinstein posted:You should check out 8BitBoy the next time it shows up in a bundle. Total Maria style 2d platformer, but really challenging and packed full of secrets and stuff. I've enjoyed it a lot, especially since I had no idea what I was in for when I grabbed it. It's actually $1.54 right now, close enough. E: $1.34 if you link your profile from the IndieGala bundles and spend some Galapoints. So THAT'S what those are for! MonkeyforaHead fucked around with this message at 09:10 on Aug 6, 2014 |
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Aug 6, 2014 09:00
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I tried to enjoy Crysis 2, but it was killed for me by the extreme distance between checkpoints. I had a lot of fun sneaking around and loving people up on the hardest difficulty, doing a lot of experimenting. But the game is also pretty hard unless you play it as a straight-forward shooter leading to a lot of deaths on my part. After replaying the same section and killing the same 10 guys only to get killed by the 11th or 12th guy a bunch of times I just said gently caress it. What I'm trying to say is every game needs quicksaves. I'll savescum I don't give a gently caress. I fail to see the shame in savescumming.
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Aug 6, 2014 09:19
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So, am I mis-remembering but were the Megarace games cheesy FMV racing fun? I was noticing there is a Groupee's bundle with the games in there and I'm wondering if it's worth getting for some 90's nonsense: https://groupees.com/remute2
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Aug 6, 2014 09:48
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Crysis 2 did not have maximum mangrab and is therefor a failure. A failure which I actually really enjoyed the multiplayer for, but nonetheless.
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Niggurath posted:So, am I mis-remembering but were the Megarace games cheesy FMV racing fun? I was noticing there is a Groupee's bundle with the games in there and I'm wondering if it's worth getting for some 90's nonsense: https://groupees.com/remute2 From memory, yes. They had a Max Headroom kind of guy in them.
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Aug 6, 2014 09:52
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Orv posted:Crysis 2 did not have maximum mangrab and is therefor a failure. A failure which I actually really enjoyed the multiplayer for, but nonetheless. When it released, you could also edit an ini file in one of the game's folders to give you godmode powers in multiplayer, if I remember right.
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Aug 6, 2014 09:55
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I had fun with Crysis 2. It was a bit ridiculous that you could stealth through levels using cloak and just enter the next level without firing a single round though.
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folgore posted:When it released, you could also edit an ini file in one of the game's folders to give you godmode powers in multiplayer, if I remember right. I would not be shocked if that were the case, but it was still really fun to cloak around toting a minigun you tore off a pintle mount.
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Hey all, I've got a quick question about Divinity: Original Sin: I just read that in the beta there were only two companions you could get in the game, but is that still the case? Since I recruited Jahan because I needed a mage, but I thought I would hold off with the other ex-Source Hunter (can't remember her name) since from what I heard/read she was probably forcibly retired for a reason! So I held off in the hopes that I'd get more choices later on, although if that's not the case I suppose I'd better go and get her, before there's too big an exp gap for her to be useful. Thanks (and sorry for any typos; writing this on my phone)
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Aug 6, 2014 12:25
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There are other party members. They just don't have quests or conversations. You get them after finding two star stones.
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Yeah there's only 2 story companions at the moment, otherwise you can fill in your empty spots with whoever you want from the Hall of Heroes.
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Aug 6, 2014 12:51
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Niggurath posted:So, am I mis-remembering but were the Megarace games cheesy FMV racing fun? I was noticing there is a Groupee's bundle with the games in there and I'm wondering if it's worth getting for some 90's nonsense: https://groupees.com/remute2
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VodeAndreas posted:Yeah there's only 2 story companions at the moment, otherwise you can fill in your empty spots with whoever you want from the Hall of Heroes. Really? I've found like 5 star stones but my hall of heroes is always empty.
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Aug 6, 2014 14:23
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folgore posted:It's not a decent concept. A deadly serious portrayal of North Korea invading and occupying the US is just ridiculous. There was never anything tongue-in-cheek about the scenario from the start--just take it all with a straight face and then press A to hide in the mass grave. Yeah, the direction they went in with it was stupid. The concept (invasion and takeover of the US by a foreign power) has potential. That is what I was saying in the first place.
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GreenNight posted:Really? I've found like 5 star stones but my hall of heroes is always empty. There's an npc in there. He summons them for set fees. Lower level ones will get matched to your leader but start with less skills.
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Palpek posted:Isn't Ryse what killed them and not Crysis 3 though? Crysis 3 and Homefront weren't well received, and Homefront in particular didn't sell well, although neither achieved the sales figures they were expecting given Crytek's expansion. Ryse was the straw that broke the camel's back because they had an entire two year development cycle sitting on the back of those sales, with Homefront II being the next out of the gate, had they paid their bills on time. It's vaguely surprising because I thought Cryengine was solid, although I haven't seen that many things that leveraged it. I shed a small tear for Mechwarrior: Living Legends at this point. PantsBandit posted:Yeah, the direction they went in with it was stupid. The concept (invasion and takeover of the US by a foreign power) has potential. That is what I was saying in the first place. Only in terms of the wish-fulfillment. Even the original Red Dawn stretched credibility by introducing the Cuban/Mexican alliance to annexe the Rockies. Large countries tend to be difficult to invade in the modern world for gently caress all strategic gains. We just tend to send someone in with a contract now. Hav fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Aug 6, 2014 |
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Hav posted:Crysis 3 and Homefront weren't well received, and Homefront in particular didn't sell well, although neither achieved the sales figures they were expecting given Crytek's expansion. Ryse was the straw that broke the camel's back because they had an entire two year development cycle sitting on the back of those sales, with Homefront II being the next out of the gate, had they paid their bills on time. Crytek had nothing to do with the first Homefront, that was Kaos and THQ and there's a million reasons why it failed. If you want to read a really good piece of video game writing and a great postmortem on the game and company, check this out: http://www.polygon.com/2012/11/1/3560318/homefront-kaos-studios-thq
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