Homefront

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » March 11, 2011, 1:44 am

I'm about an hour into the game.

Rough estimate, but I'll say this game is about tenfold better than Dragon Age 2. (Character models, animations, voice acting)

As Modern Warfare type FPS games go, this has the best story so far. Well actual story is ridiculous (Korea invading the U.S.) but the intensity of the game is good. Lotta baby crying. Game shows kid's parents getting gunned down in front of the 4-5 year old. Crying babies while you're trying to get through areas. To the developers credit, one of your team keeps telling them to shut the damn kid up. I haven't tried to shoot a baby but I doubt you can.

Kinda starts out like that other game where you're in a vehicle and can move the camera a little but not much else so there's a good chance you'll miss some things happening out the window if you're looking the wrong way.

Your guns are powerful but so are the enemies. There's nothing to level up, just grab guns, C4, Grenades, etc and go. You tend to run low on ammo but there's a lot of guns to grab of dead Koreans.

Someone said that the single player game is only 5 hours. Seems pretty short if that's correct. They still gave it a 9/10. With the single player being on the short side, a lot will depend on how well the multiplayer is for most of you.

Worst part of the game so far: very first image you see is Hillary Clinton's mug.

Best part so far: seems to be well scripted. So far, the terrain/areas traveled through have been interesting and detailed with crap.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » March 11, 2011, 9:29 am

It is a shame that the Homefront devs won't see a dime from you even tough you like their product so much..

http://store.steampowered.com/app/55100/

Hint: Look for a green button..

miir · Post by **miir** » March 11, 2011, 11:02 am

Great, another 1 hour review of a game that winnow stole.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » March 11, 2011, 11:10 am

If I seriously can't read this forum without having winnow go on a fucking tirade where he brings up his distaste for a game in the next 20 threads he posts in, I'm going to go elsewhere for my video game forums, this is getting well beyond obnoxious.

Here's a clue winnow, these little campaigns of yours are childish, unnecessary, and unwelcome.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » March 11, 2011, 1:26 pm

[Show]: Developers do see money from me in the form of investments. I buy stock in gaming companies to support them from time to time. The last one was Majesco this week.

Now, based off that trade alone, I've got $2,500 more to invest in the gaming industry to help out. I was supporting Kinect with that last trade. Majesco made some dancing/workout Kinect game called Zumba. Nice work!

BTW, I downloaded the game and tried it out before buying their stock. Amazingly, their stock skyrocketed anyway!

You know...the reason PS3 has been doing well lately is because it was jailbroken. Same with most entertainment. The easier it is to pirate movies, the higher the box office totals have gone in the movie industry.

If I hadn't "sampled" Majesco's product, I never would have picked up 2500 shares, supporting the company, helping their stock go up, in turn helping them get more financing for more games.

Your welcome!

If I was going to buy one of the games, I'd buy Homefront twice before buying Dragon Age 2. Next game I'm buying is Yakuza 4. Now excuse me while I go do my Zumba workout. I don't have to work on Fridays. Gotta love 4 day week schedules.

Spoilered up the non Homefront related info to clean up the thread some. 360 > PS3

miir · Post by **miir** » March 11, 2011, 2:12 pm

Why do you waste everbody's time with garbage like this?

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » March 11, 2011, 3:17 pm

Why do you waste time constantly derailing threads? Is your willpower so low that you can't ignore a Dragon Age 2 comment? It was a direct comparison in order to give relevance to my thoughts about Homefront. I always mention how much time I've played a game. Anyone reading the post can take that into account. If you see my post on a game not yet released...here's an idea...ignore the thread.

Keep on derailing. Check any of these threads. Its always you that goes off on tangents to start with. Until you stop, STFU.

Maybe go buy some Sony stock.

miir · Post by **miir** » March 11, 2011, 5:15 pm

You faggot up your own thread with inane ramblings about kinect, majesco and post pictures of dancing retards, but I'm the one derailing?

You're a fucking clown.

Do us a favor and play a game for more than an hour before attempting to 'review' it. The signal to noise ratio in this forum is already pretty high without your half assed 'reviews'

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » March 11, 2011, 6:05 pm

miir wrote:You faggot up your own thread with inane ramblings about kinect, majesco and post pictures of dancing retards, but I'm the one derailing?

You're a fucking clown.

Do us a favor and play a game for more than an hour before attempting to 'review' it. The signal to noise ratio in this forum is already pretty high without your half assed 'reviews'

Do you think I would have put off topic comments about piracy and investing in gaming if you didn't open your hole? Of course not. You dwell on piracy and other crap that doesn't deal with the game topic. Plain and simple, you're an idiot. Other people that hardly ever post, have taken the time in the past to tell you that they don't give a shit if I pirated a game, or a movie, or a song. You can't fucking stop yapping about off topic shit. For the first time in a long time, you weren't the first to respond so I took the time to offer up how I contribute to gaming companies. I design my responses to have maximum irritability toward you because it's fun to watch you blow up every fucking thread I create. lol.

People are well aware how long I play most games. I don't hide it. It's the first thing I mention. I don't talk about the end game or multiplayer if I haven't experienced it. I talk about what I have observed. Pretty straight forward. Let me know if you even see the words "review" in just about all of my posts, much less claiming a complete review of a game. Dumbass. You get your panties all twisted over the same thing over and over. Your perception that I trash up a thread is a direct result of your inability to see that it's you, every time, that goes off track first. Are you autistic or do you have special needs? Keep responding with the same off topic shit and I'll keep enjoying watching you implode and go about my business posting about the next game I feel like commenting on. Don't read my threads. It's not like we get paid for number of views or anything.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » March 11, 2011, 6:14 pm

I believe that an hour is plenty of time to get the gist of almost every single game out there. You see the graphics, hear the voice acting/music, play with the controls/battle systems, and within that amount of time you pretty much know the overall quality of the game and if you'll be continuing it. Sure, MMOs and long ass RPGs have a whole other elements to them in the mid-late game, but overall an hour is fine for initial impressions.

miir · Post by **miir** » March 11, 2011, 6:36 pm

Do you think I would have put off topic comments about piracy and investing in gaming if you didn't open your hole? Of course not. You dwell on piracy and other crap that doesn't deal with the game topic. Plain and simple, you're an idiot. Other people that hardly ever post, have taken the time in the past to tell you that they don't give a shit if I pirated a game, or a movie, or a song. You can't fucking stop yapping about off topic shit. For the first time in a long time, you weren't the first to respond so I took the time to offer up how I contribute to gaming companies. I design my responses to have maximum irritability toward you because it's fun to watch you blow up every fucking thread I create. lol.

I'm amazed that you get so butthurt over my 10 word response.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » March 11, 2011, 10:32 pm

Fairweather Pure wrote:I believe that an hour is plenty of time to get the gist of almost every single game out there. You see the graphics, hear the voice acting/music, play with the controls/battle systems, and within that amount of time you pretty much know the overall quality of the game and if you'll be continuing it. Sure, MMOs and long ass RPGs have a whole other elements to them in the mid-late game, but overall an hour is fine for initial impressions.

Quit enabling!

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » March 11, 2011, 11:32 pm

An hour could be enough time to form an opinion for yourself whether a game is decent or not for yourself. It is not enough to tell everyone else how much it sucks. For me, it took exactly 2 games of Crysis 2 to determine that I would never play it, even if it were free.

Second point....Winnow is a complete toolbag. I stop reading anything he posts in here the moment he starts in on his endless trashing of another game while reviewing one. He has a one track mind and that track is definitely hosting the Special Olympics 100m drool and drag relay.

Third, Homefront would be a pretty nice concept if it was more of a single player campaign than yet another 5 hour tutorial for multiplayer.

Fourth, WWE All Stars is coming out in 18 days and I won't be playing much of anything else for a while after that hits.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » March 17, 2011, 12:35 pm

a spitter, a shooter and a canadian , oh my! A full scale attack!

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/15/thq-s ... nt-launch/

THQ stock drops 25 percent in one day on Homefront launch

Not so good.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » March 17, 2011, 12:40 pm

I will absolutely buy this eventually.

Kluden · Post by **Kluden** » March 17, 2011, 1:40 pm

this is a 100% buy for me as well. Not sure the stock drop was related to the game, or the overall drop in the market? Don't care either way. It will be 20 bucks on steam soon enough.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » March 17, 2011, 1:43 pm

The stock drop was related to the horrible reviews this shit heap of a game is getting, nothing more and nothing less. With all the other quality FPS games out, and more coming out this summer/fall I can't imagine why you would actually want to buy this game, especially at full price.

The campaign is just as short as any other FPS game, and the multiplayer won't have nearly as many people playing it, and I'm sure it will die off fairly quick. But hey, to each their own I guess.

Kluden · Post by **Kluden** » March 17, 2011, 10:26 pm

It just looks fun and interesting to me. Its not like a 75 on metacritic is disaster. I'm not defending the game though, I don't own it. I just so happen to like shooting and killing north koreans.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » March 18, 2011, 10:59 am

It's getting good player reviews, especially the online which sounds like a mash up of Battlefield and CoD.

miir · Post by **miir** » March 18, 2011, 11:37 am

Kilmoll the Sexy wrote:Third, Homefront would be a pretty nice concept if it was more of a single player campaign than yet another 5 hour tutorial for multiplayer.

I'm starting to miss good single player shooters.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » March 18, 2011, 11:45 am

Part of the issue is the big time marketing campaign. You better have a quality game to back up that kind of hype.

Single Player isn't bad. It's just not amazing. A solid first person shooter that's pretty short.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » March 18, 2011, 12:10 pm

Winnow wrote:Part of the issue is the big time marketing campaign. You better have a quality game to back up that kind of hype.

Single Player isn't bad. It's just not amazing. A solid first person shooter that's pretty short.

I was just going to say the same thing. They spent a ton of money on marketing, then got met with mediocre reviews (and I'm guessing mediocre sales too).

Kluden · Post by **Kluden** » March 18, 2011, 1:02 pm

Yeah, its unfortunate nowadays when a game gets lots of hype, I know assume it will not be that good. There's another game that came out recently that I like, but its no where near where it should have been based on hype.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » March 19, 2011, 5:02 am

The last good single player shooter I played was Call of Duty 2. Online multiplayer is boring as shit to me after a day or two. Spawn.. Kill someone (maybe).. Get killed.. Repeat for hours. But I guess with the success of Modern Warfare and Black Ops, and even Halo I suppose, single player campaigns are becoming an afterthought for the most part these days.

miir · Post by **miir** » April 12, 2011, 10:22 am

Well, this one didn't do too terribly in sales.... 1.5m in a month is decent.
But from what I hear the multiplayer is pretty dead.

I got a chance to play a couple hours of the single player and it's a well done game. Good scripting/writing and the story is easy to get into. The set pieces are as good as anything COD has put out.
The biggest problem for me is that the game felt exactly like Call of Duty. The way you are hand-held down a very linear path from set piece to set piece.

It does what it sets out to do very well, but do we really need more cookie-cutter shooters like this?

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