Twin Tails
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Quick Look: Homefront: The Revolution
VIDEO ON MAY 18, 2016 06:00 AM
VIDEO ON MAY 18, 2016 06:00 AM
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Felix Lighter
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I just played Doom on my Rift and it was awesome. It was also the first time I started to feel queasy in VR. I played the first 3 Doom 2 maps and that was all I could handle. I'll have to munch on some ginger before trying it again.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Wait, does it have native VR support?
Felix Lighter
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You will need this:
http://rotatingpenguin.com/gz3doom/
Brad played some on UPF. He's more of a man than I am. He seemed unfazed, but I was definitely on the verge of getting ill.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Ah, you meant the original one. Though you were talking about the 2016 version.
This is why I kinda dislike this trend of sorta reboots just using the original name. Must be a nightmare for sorting systems.
This is why I kinda dislike this trend of sorta reboots just using the original name. Must be a nightmare for sorting systems.
Salty Catfish
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Gonna be interesting to see what Austin's review is like. Everything he's written for GB so far has been pretty positive (4-5 stars) and it sounds like this one is an absolute misery.
Twin Tails
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KillerDark
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That has been my problem with the other Uncharted games... Glad I held off on 4 cause it sounds like I would have been disappointed.
stump sock
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I mean the cool news is that the new devs kept the Homefront name true to brand
broncobuster
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Accurate to Philly.
avengers23
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TharpDaddy
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Homefront is one of those games that I have no idea how it got a sequel.
stump sock
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I'm sorry, I bought a copy of it off amazon for $2.99, I helped I think
Felix Lighter
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It's even weirder because both Crytek and ultimately Deep Silver said, we need that Homefront name to sell an FPS. In my mind, the name is an anchor.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
It sold over a million.
I played through the first few levels of the original Doom and had pretty much the same experience. It's the only thing that has bothered me in VR. I want to try again with a controller and see if it was just because I was flinging the mouse around too fast.
Still worth it even with a little motion sickness though.
MassiveNights
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Homefront was a big release at the time, it was fucking terrible though.
BUNTING1243
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you know what was a really good game? frontlines fuel of war. shame kaos got wrapped up in Danny Bilson's dream of beating call of duty
I will be your CEO.
TacticalHotdog
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I kinda liked Homefront's MP because of its lineage with the developers who made Desert Combat and Battlefield 2. The way it came together was an absolute mess and it seems like the franchise is cursed
It's called Dirty Bomb
Was it really though? It was received mostly as a joke well before it came out, reviews were bad, and it bombed pretty hard, THQ didn't exactly need help but they took a huge stock hit after it was released.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Did it bomb? I was always under the impression that it sold well.
THQ wanted it to be one, certainly.
Salty Catfish
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Even higher than that -- 2.6 mil. Not surprising they tried to cash in a sequel, even if it was obvious it was a bad idea with the first game's reception.
It had an interesting premise, and I like being backed against the wall for once, but yeah the campaign was mediocre at its very best.
ThreePiMatt
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Confession time! I kind of liked the multiplayer in Homefront. I liked the way the weapons felt, thought the vehicle purchase system was pretty good, I liked the weird bounty thing they did. Single player was pretty "meh" though.
gutted theres no Uncle Sam Space Jam breakdown
TurboButts
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You shouldn't tell lies, its not nice. Someone might believe you and go out and pick up a copy
BUNTING1243
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i mean granted i was like twelve but i remember you could shoot guys helmets and they would fly off their head really dumb and the walls were destructible. i was pretty into it
i remember it came out right next to Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, which I was also really excited about. maybe I was just a dumb kid.
BreezyLimbo
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Oh man this is gooood
Salty Catfish
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How about World of Fishing? It ticks off every box: free-to-play, fishing, MMO. We need Team Chod Rig to take a look once Jeff is back.
TurboButts
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I remember almost smashing my controller when the...
first showed up in Uncharted 3. I thought "whelp, I'm just not gonna be able to finish this game."
Never felt anything near that in U4.
fire people (???)
Never felt anything near that in U4.
BUNTING1243
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the thing that bothered me about uncharted 2 and 3's supernatural stuff was that they never committed to any of it.
like, i'm down to get weird with that kinda stuff, but they always stepped back from it at the last minute in a really weird way. so it just became an inconviencnce to the gameplay and a cheap narrative trick?
also remember when they killed scully and immediately retconned it? or how chloe and that other guy just disappear. uncharted 3 was really cool with set-pieces and the desert stuff but was sort of a mess otherwise
like, i'm down to get weird with that kinda stuff, but they always stepped back from it at the last minute in a really weird way. so it just became an inconviencnce to the gameplay and a cheap narrative trick?
also remember when they killed scully and immediately retconned it? or how chloe and that other guy just disappear. uncharted 3 was really cool with set-pieces and the desert stuff but was sort of a mess otherwise
stump sock
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haha nice
UC4 spoilers
Which is why I like Uncharted 4. I think it developed the lost city the best and it's downfall was made more interesting even without supernatural elements.
BUNTING1243
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it's the only game where the lost city actually had an interesting story for me, also the only one where you actually explored it without being shot at constantly. I really dug that.
Piston Hyundai
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i wonder if they spoke highly of it or not
TurboButts
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I don't remember which one Turning Point was, but man you're reminding me that I put up with some bad shooters in those early PS3/360 years. Frontline, Blacksite: Area 51, Timeshift, Clive Barker's Jericho, Turok, Legendary, Kane & Lynch, Saboteur. What the heck was going on back then?
BUNTING1243
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can't forget darkest days either!
i kinda miss that era. i think the cost of making a game like that now has effectively killed that tier of shooters.
say what you will about all of those games (they were all varying degrees of bad) but at least they all had really weird and cool premises. or were just different.
I tried playing HL2, and nearly threw up. :/
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