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Yeah, Crytek had nothing to do with Homefront at all so I didn't read the rest of the post as I'm assuming you're pulling info out of thin air.
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Fix your goddamn avatar Palpek.
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Aug 6, 2014 15:27
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Hav posted: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. Dude, it's a video game. That's the flimsiest argument I've ever heard.
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Orv posted:Fix your goddamn avatar Palpek.
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Palpek posted:nnnnoooooo I'll do it man! I'll fuckin' do it! 
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Palpek posted:Yeah, Crytek had nothing to do with Homefront at all so I didn't read the rest of the post as I'm assuming you're pulling info out of thin air. I conflated the problems with Homefront with something else that I heard about. The second part that you ignored, being noted thread personality 'Palpek', is documented here; http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/06/26/report-ryse-2-cancelled-amid-financial-woes-at-crytek.aspx PantsBandit posted:Dude, it's a video game. That's the flimsiest argument I've ever heard. Not nearly as flimsy as any plotline that involves an invasion of the US mainland. Edit: World in Conflict's actually wasn't that bad, unless you know something about logistics.
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Can this be played on Windows or do I need a mobile platform? http://lonewolfthegame.com/ Looks pretty sweet, I loving love choose-your-own-adventure books!
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Hav posted:I conflated the problems with Homefront with something else that I heard about. The second part that you ignored, being noted thread personality 'Palpek', is documented here; Why should realism get in the way of an entertaining storyline though? In the game I am currently playing, Nazis take over the USA by dropping an atom bomb on NYC and invading with giant robots. Nobody (except you I guess) is going to care if it's something that would ever really happen.
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PantsBandit posted:Why should realism get in the way of an entertaining storyline though? In the game I am currently playing, Nazis take over the USA by dropping an atom bomb on NYC and invading with giant robots.
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Aug 6, 2014 17:36
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It's easier to accept my ability to reload weapons magically, fire shotguns from the hip and walk off bullet wounds when writers of escapist fantasy respect the sanctity of my land and don't represent geopolitically unlikely situations. It would have been fine if we'd been shooting communists or muslims in their own country, but here?
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MooCowlian posted:It's easier to accept my ability to reload weapons magically, fire shotguns from the hip and walk off bullet wounds when writers of escapist fantasy respect the sanctity of my land and don't represent geopolitically unlikely situations. It would have been fine if we'd been shooting communists or muslims in their own country, but here? You're an idiot who's completely missing the point.
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tripwood posted:Can this be played on Windows or do I need a mobile platform? It literally tells you what platforms it's available on. Just the mobile bits. I think you'd need a developer thing to run android stuff on a Windows PC platform. It's through Unity, which would make porting it to Win7/PC less difficult, but it doesn't sound like he's done that yet, or will. That seems cool from the trailer, but I would not have guessed it was a CYOA book game.
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tripwood posted:Can this be played on Windows or do I need a mobile platform? Looks mobile-only. You could try Bluestacks, which is an 'app-player' for Windows.
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folgore posted:You're an idiot who's completely missing the point. What exactly is the point? I'm sure a bunch of the poo poo that happens in CoD would never happen in real life. There's really no way they could hand-wave some sort of justification for an invasion of US soil? You guys are acting like every Tom Clancy book that's ever had a little bit of an unrealistic storyline has no right to be serious in tone.
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Hav posted:I conflated the problems with Homefront with something else that I heard about. The second part that you ignored, being noted thread personality 'Palpek', is documented here; I think Homefront failed mainly because the game was just really boring and bad and the level design was too corridor-like even for the genre. I can't even counnt how many times the game had you open doors and your teammates went always first so it was like you were just in their way all the time etc. I don't think people would care about the villain being North Korea if the game itself wasn't garbage.
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Drifter posted:It literally tells you what platforms it's available on. Just the mobile bits. I think you'd need a developer thing to run android stuff on a Windows PC platform. You could just install BlueStacks, the free Android platform for Windows. You should be able to log in to your Humble Bundle App and download the game from there.
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PantsBandit posted:What exactly is the point? I'm sure a bunch of the poo poo that happens in CoD would never happen in real life. There's really no way they could hand-wave some sort of justification for an invasion of US soil? You guys are acting like every Tom Clancy book that's ever had a little bit of an unrealistic storyline has no right to be serious in tone. I honestly don't get why people just can't get over that. If they need to  it's an alternate history science fiction timeline game where situations were similar but certain changes have led to whatever weird poo poo is required to make the game start.These people aren't complaining about Wolfenstein or fuckin' Deadspace or Crysis. Buncha    
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PantsBandit posted:What exactly is the point? I'm sure a bunch of the poo poo that happens in CoD would never happen in real life. There's really no way they could hand-wave some sort of justification for an invasion of US soil? You guys are acting like every Tom Clancy book that's ever had a little bit of an unrealistic storyline has no right to be serious in tone. I don't even disagree with you. Homefront is bad because it emphasizes narrative over gameplay but the story it has to tell is utter poo poo. No one arguing here even thinks it's a decent game so whatever.
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The setting is one of the least bad things about homefront. It's okay to take things seriously even if they aren't factual or even feasible in the real world as we know it, and it's okay for some parts of a book/game/concept album/fetish drawing to be more realistic than other parts.
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Aug 6, 2014 18:12
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The correct way to do Homefront is to have turbo Kim-Jong Un come roaring out of the sun and crush the Empire State building with one blow of his massive hairdo.
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Gort posted:The correct way to do Homefront is to have turbo Kim-Jong Un come roaring out of the sun and crush the Empire State building with one blow of his massive hairdo. So it'd be like Ghostbusters but with Korean dictators instead of the Stay-Puft man? I'm in.
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We need a metal wolf chaos port so the modders can get on top of bringing me Mecha Kim Il Sung.
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PantsBandit posted:So it'd be like Ghostbusters but with Korean dictators instead of the Stay-Puft man? I'm in. No Dana, only Dear Leader.
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PantsBandit posted:So it'd be like Ghostbusters but with Korean dictators instead of the Stay-Puft man? I'm in. You'd be missing those dog guardians, though. They wouldn't...ah, they wouldn't be around. 
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tripwood posted:Can this be played on Windows or do I need a mobile platform? http://www.projectaon.org/staff/david/index.php is a PC alternative.
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Gort posted:The correct way to do Homefront is to have turbo Kim-Jong Un come roaring out of the sun and crush the Empire State building with one blow of his massive hairdo. This would've been a good game. They really should've just stuck to the big bad guy being China, because, you know, that makes sense. Searching Google you get "...THQ forced the change in order to protect its future investments in China or with Chinese partners," a real reason but bad for the game, and the bullshit reasoning after the fact that "China isn't scary! It's america's factory  " that nobody buys.
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In case you guys didn't hear the news (I believe the NuSimCity thread is dead by now, I hope), Sim City 2013 now offers a 4 hour free trial, almost exactly how long it takes to fill a city and realize that's the extent of the game. 
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KoldPT posted:http://www.projectaon.org/staff/david/index.php is a PC alternative. Sweet, hope it works at least half as well as it sounds.
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KoldPT posted:http://www.projectaon.org/staff/david/index.php is a PC alternative. It's not really, though - the Lone Wolf mobile game is a completely new thing, whereas that program just allows you to play the books. That said, the books are probably better anyway...
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Gort posted:The correct way to do Homefront is to have turbo Kim-Jong Un come roaring out of the sun and crush the Empire State building with one blow of his massive hairdo. Whoa, there was a Stalin vs. Martians sequel kickstarter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3wsR7khWzo Croccers fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Aug 6, 2014 |
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Games Workshop's catalog is today's daily deal. http://store.steampowered.com/sale/gamesworkshopsale On that note, lately I've been playing a lot of Talisman: Digital Edition when I just need something chill to do and it's pretty fun. I thought about snagging a couple copies for friends from the sale but according to Steam forums it has a lot of stability issues online.
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Hmm let's see what's new on Steam
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Palpek posted:Hmm let's see what's new on Steam gently caress yo poo poo, nigga that bear looks fabulous. Whatcha got back there let's see: I'm seeing a raver pirate, a uhh...plant, a faerie bear princess, an astronaut, some Little Rascals Dennis the Menace poindexter motherfucker. My mind is blown. Drifter fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Aug 6, 2014 |
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it's a mmo for kids (and inevitably furries who tell us about how deep the themes in the game are)
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Accordion Man posted:These bears mean business. Is this from a cutscene? This is amazing. I mean, I'm sure the game itself fuckign sucks, but good lord this is lovely.
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PantsBandit posted:What exactly is the point? I'm sure a bunch of the poo poo that happens in CoD would never happen in real life. There's really no way they could hand-wave some sort of justification for an invasion of US soil? You guys are acting like every Tom Clancy book that's ever had a little bit of an unrealistic storyline has no right to be serious in tone. There are degrees of realism and believability. Homefront blows past Tom Clancy and CoD levels and is exponentially more absurd than either, all while wanting you to take it totally seriously. It's fun to laugh at that stuff and I don't really get what's hard to understand about that. If only the game was as fun to play. Tom Clancy books and the CoD stories are all unenjoyable poo poo, too, though, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say by bringing those up.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:There are degrees of realism and believability. Homefront blows past Tom Clancy and CoD levels and is exponentially more absurd than either, all while wanting you to take it totally seriously. It's fun to laugh at that stuff and I don't really get what's hard to understand about that. If only the game was as fun to play. What if I told you there are a lot of people that actually really enjoy Tom Clancy books  You seem to believe that everyone needs to like the same things as you.
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PantsBandit posted:What if I told you there are a lot of people that actually really enjoy Tom Clancy books Well, in fairness- people liked his first 3-4 books before he went off the Mary Sue deep-end with his crazy politics and such forth. Red Storm Rising was his best IMHO
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