Dangit Ronpaul posted:

Going head to head with TF2 was always going to be tough sledding, but they didn't do themselves any favors by going full retard on catering to the competitive TFC community, which at that point consisted of like 3 people.

Dr_Amazing posted:

They really did. They had a FAQ on their site and one of the questions was something like "Will you be doing something to stop all the insane rocket-jumping that completely unbalanced TFC and turned it into a completely different game?" and the answer was "No. We're going to put in more!!"

There was a Red Dawn style game 5 or 6 years ago and the developers were bragging about how they hired all these political experts to give them a really compelling story that rationally sets up a situation where North Korea pulls off a land invasion of the United States." Then later they revealed the story and it was just garbage. Which no one would have really cared about if they hadn't made such a big deal out of it in the first place.

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Homefront is set in a dystopic United States, in the year 2027. The game's backstory dates back to the 2010s, where there are high tensions between North Korea and the global powers due to the country's military aggression, including its successful nuclear weapons test and the sinking of a South Korean ship.[5]

In the year 2013, one year after the death of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-il, his son and successor, Kim Jong-un, reunites North and South Korea to form the Greater Korean Republic (GKR), a technological and economic global power that utilizes the military strength of the North and the economic strength of the South. By the year 2015, a war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, both becoming nuclear-armed states, devastated the global oil supply, causing gas prices to skyrocket to $19.99 per gallon,[5] leaving many countries in debt and causing mass hysteria. This precipitates extreme economic turmoil and massive social unrest in the United States. Subsequently, in 2017, the U.S. military recalls much of its overseas presence, particularly in the Pacific. A year later, Japan, significantly weakened due to the diminishing of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, is easily conquered by the GKR and is annexed shortly thereafter.[5]

In 2022, conditions in the United States get worse, with the collapse of the financial system and an Asian bird flu epidemic that claims six million lives, forcing the Mexican government to quarantine the country by setting up immigration quotas as the Asian bird flu continues throughout North America. By 2024, Korea's annexation has continued throughout Southeast Asia, including its emerging economic powers, giving the GKR an empire reminiscent of Imperial Japan.[5] Finally, in 2025, the Greater Korean Republic launched a supposed advanced GPS satellite that would be a signal of peace, but is actually an orbital weapon that detonated a high-altitude nuclear device over the U.S., creating an EMP burst that wipes out much of the nation's electrical infrastructure. In the ensuing chaos, the Korean People's Army (KPA) launches an instant amphibious invasion that seizes control of Hawaii and much of the U.S. Pacific Coast. Korean paratroopers are deployed over the Midwestern United States, and with the military severely crippled and scattered, launches a final offensive to take control of the remaining states. However, the Americans were able to counterattack, leaving the Eastern States free, and effectively dividing the nation at the irradiated Mississippi River, with the Western states under GKR occupation, known as the 'New Korean Federation of Occupied America,' a puppet state of the GKR

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The antagonists in Homefront were originally intended to be communist Chinese, but were later replaced by a unified Korea for two reasons: the risk of a possible backlash by the Chinese Ministry of Culture and the reality of economic interdependence between America and China that made the Chinese "not that scary," according to Tae Kim, a former CIA field agent and consultant on the game's backstory.[12] Kim said, "We went to a very rigorous, academic research process to make sure to not only look at North Korea's current state but to look at historical examples how things could parallel and turn events. History repeats itself. From today to the day the invasion starts in the game, if you combine everything, the odds are very very slim this becomes true. But when you look at the storyline step by step, every step is a coin flip but a plausible step. So once you get there, it's plausible. And from there the next step is plausible as well. Even though the whole thing is fictional, it comes with plausible baby steps."[13] While the story was billed as being written by John Milius, Gamasutra reported "most former employees credit Kaos writer C.J. Kershner with Homefront's script", claiming that Milius wrote not a single word.[14]

pentyne posted:

Homefront.

The hilarious part was the story was originally going to feature China but they switched to NK after they were told China's feelings would be hurt.

Here's the "ground breaking realistic story"


FYI the most conservative estimates of the cost of a Korean unification are in the trillions and would take decades. Nope, not according to our polysci experts, NK's AWESOME AMAZING MILITARY is seamlessly integrated into SK's economy with literally no negative effects or costs.

Oh, and the money shot

Decrepus posted:

Videogames love to handwave the logistics of mounting an invasion from thousands and thousands of miles away.

bunnyofdoom posted:

Wasn't it changed again in Asian countries so it was Canada invading? Cause, um, sure, that's more reasonable.

Precambrian posted:

Homefront opened the gate for ludicrously impossible "Invasion of the US" scenarios, and fiction writers have yet to deliver. I want to read "URUGUAY IS COMING FOR US" or "Do you know where Lichtenstein is? YOUR FRONT DOOR, FUCKERS!" paperbacks and play "Mozambique Rising." Serious disappointment, all around.

pookel posted:

You could use the plotline of the original Red Dawn and it'd still be much more plausible.

oldman posted:

Didn't one of the Call of Duty games have the opposing force as a federation of Latin American countries?

Grey Fox posted:

Holy poo poo, something even stupider than the pistol grip stick shift:



http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-cellphone-case-gun-20150701-htmlstory.html

Precambrian posted:

Homefront opened the gate for ludicrously impossible "Invasion of the US" scenarios, and fiction writers have yet to deliver. I want to read "URUGUAY IS COMING FOR US" or "Do you know where Lichtenstein is? YOUR FRONT DOOR, FUCKERS!" paperbacks and play "Mozambique Rising." Serious disappointment, all around.

Avenging_Mikon posted:

As a Canadian, I want a game about us invading the US, but with every goddamned stereotype played straight. Hockey players riding battle-moose using week old Tim Bits as ammo. I don't care who I play as. I just wanna play.

Grey Fox posted:

Holy poo poo, something even stupider than the pistol grip stick shift:



http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-cellphone-case-gun-20150701-htmlstory.html

22 Eargesplitten posted:

Things Only White People Can Buy for $500, Alex.

Strudel Man posted:

How much do non-white people have to pay?

UraniumFuelElement posted:

At least it will make stealing your phone way easier for pickpockets.

Tunicate posted:

Yeah bu it'll give the cops an easier time with the paperwork.

canyoneer posted:

http://forums.officer.com/t200370/

At least one out there is excited at the idea

canyoneer posted:

http://forums.officer.com/t200370/

At least one out there is excited at the idea

quote:

Shooting guaranteed. Unless the carrier is black, then it's a racist shooting, hate crime. Would have been funnier if her screen saver was a confederate flag...

princecoo posted:

Welp, so now I know for a fact American cops are just "Just shoot everything, all the time, for any reason, it'll be fine".

loving hell.

princecoo posted:

Welp, so now I know for a fact American cops are just "Just shoot everything, all the time, for any reason, it'll be fine".

loving hell.

IShallRiseAgain posted:

It wouldn't surprise me if the vast majority of people who post on that forum are Paul Blart: Mall Cop fans.

C.M. Kruger posted:

Endymion FRS MK1 posted:

Canadian Red Dawn: The Video Game? Don't make me want to play Homefront.

davidspackage posted:

I work in sort of a mom & pop store in a street with lots of such stores, and we just got a proposal from a few other shopkeepers to all start accepting bitcoin. Aside from the fact that everything I know about bitcoin is ridiculous and related to anonymous drugs purchasing, I cannot imagine why someone would want to spend bitcoins around here (despite the proposal claiming they've had a whole bunch of clothing webshop sales from bitcoin).

Crow Jane posted:

There's a really junky, smelly little computer store near me with a "Bitcoin accepted here" decal in the window. The owner looks pretty much exactly how you'd expect someone into Bitcoin to look.