How did everything go so wrong? It looked promising but turned out to be complete shit. Why did they go down the boring Ubisoft open world route?
They probably felt it was the safest route.
>>337968270
>It looked promising but turned out to be complete shit.
I must have missed something because the original Homefront was exactly that. Why would anyone expect this reboot to be different.
>>337968270
D E N U V O
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U
V
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What's wrong with it?
>>337969805
Nevermind, just looked at those steam reviews. So it's performance issues. But everyone on Steam has performance issues these days and I never do, so whatever.
>>337968270
Literally who?
I haven't seen an inch of marketing about this game. It is an "all of a sudden, heres this video game" appearance.
The best thing about home front 1 was the mp. I loved the mp. but this doesn't even have that. whats the fucking point
It should've been a story intensive, linear shooter campaign like the older Call of Duty titles. The first game tried to be like Modern Warfare 2 but ended up being shit and too short
>>337969805
It's just a generic shooter for which nobody ever asked a third game about it.
I worked at Gamestop when the first came out. So many people returned it.
>>337970468
Doesn't look that generic. It looks fun.
>>337970238
>mfw arkham knight ran fine since day one for me
>>337968270
I've seen this mentioned like 2 times in the past week or 2 on /v/ i have no interest in it my self but, Has it even had any marketing? like at all? beyond those 2 times i have not seen it outside of /v/
Then again, this is deep silver we're talking about
>>337968270
>It looked promising
No. Stop. It never did.
The first game was hot garbage, and there was never even a sliver of an indication that the second game wouldn't be.
This man thought that the game is incredible, what's your excuse?
>>337971595
Need to upgrade that toaster, anon
>>337971039
The original Homefront had an utterly disgusting marketing budget. Hell, the entire development process was a complete fucking mess. And the game turned out to be dogshit. Bad enough to kill Kaos Studios.
I'm still baffled as to how a sequel was greenlit, but it was. I'm guessing they toned down on the marketing budget this time which is why it's flown under the radar.
>>337972512
Don't forget the godawful soundtrack they made for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV8Z3nmckNk
>>337968270
The original Homefront "looked promising" too.
But in all actuality people were blinded by one gimmick and thought that the idea around that could do not wrong. They were completely wrong.
Just like how a generic shooter focused around the chinese invading america played like shit.
So too shall a Generic FPS about Korea with a open world play like shit.
>>337969805
Literally the only thing you need to know is that they use an apostrophe when pluralizing things.
You can't expect any competence from a group that thinks that is correct.
>>337972835
>alternate history korean war
>metal version of "it ain't me starts playing"
I'm actually slightly interested in this after reading the RPS review. I was stupid enough to buy the first Homefront day one, but at least it had good multiplayer.
I'll wishlist this and buy it in 6 months when it's 75% off.
the open world gimmick has official died. They probably made less than $100,000
>It looked promising
>>337970265
>all of a sudden
Suddenly. There is no time unit called a 'sudden'. You say 'suddenly'.
>>337968270
The first game was fucking shit, only freedomburgers with diabetes liked it.
What did you expect?
>>337970265
There's been mulitple commercials for it during every stanley cup playoff game
>>337975512
>it aint me
Love this meme
>>337975671
Idiom, idiot.
>>337975329
What if they belong to Molotov?
>>337975554
jesus, that's much worse than I would've expected. I'll be surprised if this breaks 50k.
>>337972835
HOLY.FUCK.
Please, tell me that isn't real.
It can't be.
IT MUST NOT BE.
>>337976046
Or you can use the grammatically correct word and save time and effort. Why type 3 words when you can type 1?
>People whining they can't hold 60fps on Ultra.
>For some reason, the fact the original Crysis can't hold 60fps on modern hardware isn't a problem.
>People whining an open world game has bugs.
>Somehow, Stalker and VTMB and Fallout: New Vegas being bug riddled up the ass isn't a problem.
>People with SLI forgetting that SLI tends to break things and whining because it broke things.
I'm buying it next week. Hopefully reviews stabilise because it does look like a genuinely ambitious game with some neat ideas. There are basically ZERO games directly competing with it. C'mon, count the open world urban FPS games with good graphics.
I kind of feel like doing drive bys in co op could be really fun but idk
>>337968845
Wasn't the only thing wrong with Homefront the campaign? I remember hearing great things about the multiplayer.
RIP 2 advncd 4 its tim
>>337976224
Why type several replies to correct a widely used and easily understood idiom, then? By your own logic, you're a worse offender than the other guy for wasting words on something no one else cares about or even notices, save for your autistic self.
>>337976340
Deep silver, please go.
>>337976389
nvm there are no cars dropped
>>337974708
>So too shall a Generic FPS about Korea with a open world play like shit.
How is this "generic". What does that even MEAN anymore?
Doom 4? That's generic. A cookie cutter iD Software FPS game that does basically nothing new, innovative, or original, treading ground, mechanics, and themes done over and over before.
But Homefront 2? Eh... There aren't a lot of games in this particular genre with this sort of vibe.
>>337976595
But I'm not claiming anything to the contrary anon. I am autistic, thanks for telling me something I already know.
>>337976392
So no argument but
>m-m-uh idiom
So, essentially, you can say and do whatever you want? Fuck grammar? Okay, cool, that's a much better argument, should just say that next time anon.
>>337976879
Doom isn't really a good example since the fanbase flipped its shit at the thought of change in their ip.
>open world singleplayer first person shooter
I literally cannot think of a more boring combination of genres, first game was shit too and only sold because people wanted an alternative to COD4 so I'm surprised they even considered making a sequel
>>337977280
Homefront 2 was originally a linear FPS game, but when they moved publisher from Crytek to Deep Silver, the lead developer decided to rework the game to be open world.
If he'd left the game linear, people would whine that it was a Call of Duty clone. But if he goes open world, it's accused of being a "generic" "Far Cry clone".
>I literally cannot think of a more boring combination of genres, first game was shit too and only sold because people wanted an alternative to COD4 so I'm surprised they even considered making a sequel
Killzone only sold because people wanted Halo on PS2. Look how many sequels that's gotten.
>>337977005
Ah, well, that's about it, I guess. Don't let anybody stop you from being a language pedant, anon; I do it too all the time.
>>337977005
I agree that you are super autistic, but you're also wrong about word usage.
All of a sudden, an idiom, is found in most modern dictionaries (if not all) and considered correct because acceptable and known phrases take precedence in language before grammar.
Language is not math, so it's no surprise that autists don't understand it. It is fluid.
>>337976175
Oh it's real.
>>337976117
That would still be wrong
"Molotov's" acts as a conjunction of "Molotov is"
>people actually shitting on Homefront 1's multiplayer
it was fast paced and legitimate fun, and the point buy system for vehicles and tools was good in its day
Has anyone in this thread actually played the game on PC? And by "played" I don't mean "booted, played 30 mins, refunded".
Nice OP, probably the best looking indie game I've seen in years......
>>337978110
No, because I'm rest of the world.
>2011
holy shit
>>337978290
>No, because I'm rest of the world.
Same here. I'm quite interested to see whether the game resonates better with people outside America. Especially people in the UK.
>>337968270
so exactly as expected?
>>337978430
It's funny because the Game is actually made and published by non-Americans iirc.
>>337968270
>it looked promising
When? Everyone thought the beta was shit and the "non comp multiplayer had everyone forgetting about it
Fuck, it had some of the coolest concept art I've seen in years
>>337977792
Or indication of ownership
As in, molotov's cocktails are tasty and extremely painful
>>337978706
That looks fairly generic to me desu
>>337968270
fuck
i was looking forward to this too
the weapon system seemed neat
>>337978808
>generic
Will this become a new meme?
Or is this a meme already?
>>337968270
The original Homefront was just a shitty CoD clone with product placement for Rockstar energy drinks placed fucking EVERYWHERE. No surprise this is a flop.
>>337978682
>When?
Gameplay footage looks decent. It's like Crysis 2, but open world.
>Everyone thought the beta was shit
Beta was MP-only. Everyone thought the Doom 4 beta was shit, too, and look how that turned out.
Also, a lot of people simply liked the first Homefront's campaign, short as it was. A lot of people like Free Radical games.
>>337978968
Killzone was a Halo clone.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was a Delta Force: Black Hawk Down clone. (The fact Delta Force: Black Hawk Down developers have made everything from Homefront to Call of Duty to Medal of Honor to Battlefield probably plays a role, too.)
>>337978949
I mean it. All war games of concept art like that.
>>337979139
what about advanced warfare? blops 3? infinite warframe?
>>337978998
I like the new Doom but they were right. The beta was shit and the multiplayer aspect is shit.
>>337978918
>the weapon system seemed neat
It's actually laughable in execution. Literally everything is magic clip on shit, including receivers.
You have a magic stock you can slap AR, LMG, and grenade launcher receivers on with no effort that somehow stay together even though it takes you zero effort to pull them off.
>>337978998
>look how that turned out
You're talking about single player? That's the only thing going for doom and the snap map shit. The multiplayer is still shit.
>the gameplay looked decent
But since they proved that to be wrong in the beta, the gameplay was pretty fuckin bad and uninspiring. You could kill an armored car with an M4 Carbine. The movement was sluggish so the only way to get around was a dirt bike. With no comp multiplayer that game is DOA
>>337979315
they could be using slides i guess?
>>337968270
>It looked promising
>>337979184
>what about advanced warfare? blops 3? infinite warframe?
Black Ops 3 = lead engineers are Delta Force people, along with scripters. Ghosts had Delta Force people working on it (basically every Infinity Ward CoD going back to CoD1, CoD2 had Delta Force people working on it.) So I imagine there are Delta Force people working on Infinite Warfare.
Novalogic people, especially Black Hawk Down people, are fucking everywhere. Like rats in the FPS walls. Basically the entire lead audio department at Blizzard is Delta Force: Black Hawk Down people.
Shame. Was quite looking forward to this one. I enjoyed the first game. Will probably still play it as soon as fps is better and not locked?. Singelplayer sounds decent.
>>337979315
>You have a magic stock you can slap AR, LMG, and grenade launcher receivers on with no effort that somehow stay together even though it takes you zero effort to pull them off.
This is an alternate universe where North Korea became a weapon/tech making superpower. Maybe the clever Norks figured out how to do it?
>>337979429
You're talking about single player? That's the only thing going for doom and the snap map shit. The multiplayer is still shit.
Who cares about MP in an FPS game?
>>337970937
>ran fine
It was missing graphical effects for everyone for almost a month. Not to mention the optimization was so shit that it could have been running a lot better than fine for you but obviously you don't give a shit. Might as well play on consoles if your standards are that low.
>>337968270
What are you talking about? The game always looked like shit and a doomed project. The only reason I even knew it existed is because of all the times it was passed around between publishers like it was some kind of super hot IP, which everyone in this board and elsewhere knew it wasn't. This was completely expected, lack of marketing and hype included.
Online Co-Op sounded pretty neat. Wonder how it works.
>>337979487
>Will probably still play it as soon as fps is better and not locked?
The FPS is not locked, to my knowledge. It just has trouble staying at 60. The irony here is that the first Crysis can't hold 60 on modern hardware, and people still jizz all over it.
>>337979665
it doesn't have co-op in the campaign
just a few mission things
>>337979661
>The game always looked like shit and a doomed project.
No, it always looked like a promising Crytek FPS from the developers of TimeSplitters.
>The only reason I even knew it existed is because of all the times it was passed around between publishers like it was some kind of super hot IP, which everyone in this board and elsewhere knew it wasn't.
The game itself changed hands exactly once.
Is the FoV really 65 by default?
lel
>>337978949
It's literally generic you stupid fuck.
>>337979778
bummer. not enough games do co op campaign (ala saints row)
>It looked promising
>Homefront
>looked promising
>There were actually people hyped for a sequel to fucking Homefront
What the fuck is wrong with you?
>>337979665
There was a beta for it on xbone. It's absolute shit.
But will it suck as much as the Division?
>>337979857
>Is the FoV really 65 by default?
CryEngine games use Vertical FOV. For some reason, people seem to think everything uses Horizontal FOV. The max FOV in Homefront 2 is theoretically around 90 Horizontal.
>>337976117
Molotov's 3/10s?
>>337979859
i suggest black ops 3 if you want a neat co-op game
one of the newest games i played with a decent rewarding co-op system
>>337979858
>It's literally generic you stupid fuck.
How is it generic, anon?
>>337979943
The original Homefront was a decent game. You may not like it, but a lot of people did, and it sold around 3 million copies, which is very good for a new FPS IP.
>Want the game just to play timesplitters 2
>Denuvo
>>337980139
The trailer though all live action and cgi was pretty cool, especially that last shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkAYv-ay4Bc
>>337980139
q
>>337980139
Not him, but it does look like dog shit. I could probably just put in one or two key words on google and find something similar.
I know it runs like shit on consoles, and has some severe downgrade on console platforms, but are we pretending that this isn't the best looking open world FPS set in an urban environment on PC? The game looks bloody amazing in places. The lighting and rain effects are especially good.
>>337980481
>I could probably just put in one or two key words on google and find something similar.
Prove it, then.
>>337980682
>Prove it, then.
see >>337980286 and >>337980427
>>337980682
>this entire post
No, it looks bad on PC too. What is wrong with you?
>>337980805
What has concept art got to do with anything? I'm talking about actual games that exist. Show me the FPS games that look and play just like Homefront. Show me how "generic" the game is.
>>337980682
>open world FPS set in an urban environment on PC
I'm really not against this game, but this is just too specific. Change the fps and you get the Division for example. Which is a shit game to bh, but with amazing graphics.
>>337980682
>but are we pretending that this isn't the best looking open world FPS set in an urban environment on PC? The game looks bloody amazing in places. The lighting and rain effects are especially good.
Just stop.
>>337980903
>No, it looks bad on PC too.
No, it doesn't. Are you blind? Name a single open world FPS with better graphics.
>What is wrong with you?
Have you even played the game?
>>337980959
>What has concept art got to do with anything?
You brought it up in the first place. Can you not even follow a simple conversation?
>>337980682
>are we pretending that this isn't the best looking open world FPS set in an urban environment on PC? The game looks bloody amazing in places. The lighting and rain effects are especially good.\
I usually don't like faggots that scream shill at the drop of a hat, but holy shit anon, you're making me reconsider my feelings here.
>>337981065
>Have you even played the game?
I played the beta on xbone. Even ignoring the terrible performance, the underlying gameplay was godawful. As for graphics, I have functioning eyes. The Division looks better than this if graphics are all you care about.
>>337979715
Older games running like shit on modern systems is different than newer games running like shit, it usually happens for different reasons. Also Crysis is notorious for having shit AA, either mod it or force your own settings with your GPU settings and it should run fine.
>>337981847
>Older games running like shit on modern systems is different than newer games running like shit, it usually happens for different reasons.
Sure. But Homefront and Crysis are both, obviously, CryEngine games.
> Also Crysis is notorious for having shit AA, either mod it or force your own settings with your GPU settings and it should run fine.
No, the problem with Crysis is it doesn't have multithreading. A 4Ghz i7 is incapable of keeping the game at 60fps.
I mean, this *is* pretty decent looking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-DHO7Mpju0
I'm not sure where people are getting the idea this game has "bad" graphics.
>>337979715
Yeah but Crysis also invented graphics technology that has been refined and is used in basically every game.
>>337977792
Possessive 's derives from English's Germanic roots. It used to be -es, hence the same shortened form.
They changed developers like 3 times, same thing is going to happen to Dead Island 2.
>>337978949
"Freedom" is spray painted on a side of a building it's fucking generic. So badd
>>337970468
What the fuck there was another Homefront sequel before this?
>>337986860
No, but Frontlines: Fuel of War was a spiritual predecessor.
>>337978335
God damn it if I didn't have a shitty gaming laptop at the time and an actual PC, I would have actually stuck to playing this game to the bitter end. I felt no remorse as my clan friends were saying it was shit and they went back to strictly BC2.
F
>>337975853
>Still watching TV
Why? There's literally no point. You can get everything with less ads and more conveniently online.
>>337968270
>It looked promising
How so?
It's just another boring (semi) open world shooter
>>337972835
>soundtrack literally lists it aint me
Wooooow
>>337975554
>doing worse than Battleborn
Now that's just depressing.
>>337975853
>hockey
>>337977551
>If he'd left the game linear, people would whine that it was a Call of Duty clone. But if he goes open world, it's accused of being a "generic" "Far Cry clone".
Shit it's almost as if there's some mystical middle ground between open world and ridiculously linear people desire or something.
>>337972835
>plebs think this is an awful soundtrack
I might get the game for that alone bitches
>>337977280
>first game was shit too and only sold because people wanted an alternative to COD4
But the first Homefront was released in 2011...
>>337977005
You act like no one has ever said all of a sudden
>>337991370
bacause they dont idiet
You know I'm still morbidly curious about this thing but I think i'll wait till it gets some performance tweaks and has a major price cut. This looks like the kind of game worth $20 something dollars.
>>337979601
Not him, but to this day, it looks the same to me as it did day one of release: perfectly fine. The "missing graphical effects" you're talking about were so negligible it's preposterous and hilarious you even mention them.
>They managed to make it even worse than the first Homefront
>They managed to make it even worse than fucking Haze
I'd trust you shitters about this game if you all also didn't think Dying Light was bad. That game was great, so I'm 99% positive you're all fucking wrong about this one too.
>>337975554
>the open world gimmick has official died
What is the official's name?
>>337978949
It does look generic, retard. You are a meme of yourself
>>337978949
>become
It already is one. People's senses are so dull, that just featuring even a tiny shred of something they aren't very familiar with but see more than once makes them feel like it's oversaturated. "It's generic" is about as verifiable as "it's fun"
![Timesplitters[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/xuLTqMl.jpg "Timesplitters[1].jpg")
>Reminder that Dambuster developed this shit instead of making a Timesplitters sequel
Deep Silver has the rights to it now, and they even put a few levels from 2 in this. Which is probably the biggest slap in the face in history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N8sKvPwEfo
I really hope it's hinting they're AT LEAST making HD remasters of the trilogy, because what the fuck. Who even asked for a Homefront sequel?
>>337970238
why is it that 8 out 10 games using denuvo have performance issues?
>>337972835
>that fucking video
literally the cover no one ever asked for, for the game sequel no one ever asked for
>>337972835
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pCu8r1Vzrc
holy shit, this is physically painful to hear
if they wanted a cover of this shit they might have pick faith no more's version... i'm sure patton would let it go for a fair price
seeing this makes me want to play Freedom Fighters.
Maybe if it drops to like 15 bucks in the winter sale I'll snag it.
>>337993652
>Defending_my_shitty_purchase:_the_post.jpeg
>>337995060
Pretty sure the hd remake isn't happening since there's the one fan remake being made that has the endorsement of the original team so that will probably be as close as we get
>>337997995
That makes no sense.
>>337972835
This is the worst fucking cover I have ever heard, I thought Disturbed cover of Genesis Land of Confusion on top with the meaningless EDGELORD video that accompany was the worst musical abortion I had to endure.
If we could only mix it with Sonic Chronicles soundtrack on a vaporwave style it would be a supreme work of ironic art.
>>337968270
>It looked promising
I'll be honest. This is the first time I've heard about this game.
>>337995060
>Easter Egg
>It's two levels from TS2 in their entirety
A little more than an easter egg.
>>337999395
PC PORT SOON BOIS
Did Timesplitters 2 have online? I played the shit out of Timesplitters Future Perfect online.
>>337972835
Periphery's good tho
>>337975329
O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREEEEE
AND THE HOME OF THE BRAAAAAAAAAVE
>>337999030
Oh god you hated that shit too? Fuck I hope a republican doesn't get elected simply for the fact it would keep green day and System of a derp out of business.
>>337972835
>metal cover of For What It's Worth
