Comments on: RPS At E3: Homefront

By: Merc

Merc — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:17:11 +0000

The drama engine sounds…interesting.

So what happens if one of my resistance buddies is taking a piss…?

By: Moonracer

Moonracer — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:55:55 +0000

Oooh! this sounds rather nice, other than the everything happens to you idea. Assuming the maps are detailed and not too linear it could be fun.

One of the major problems I had with Far Cry 2 was that you were supposedly dropped in the middle of a civil war, only I never saw NPCs fighting each other, they just constantly attacked me kamikaze style. While that certainly kept the action around ME, it felt pretty stupid, which is part of why I didn’t play it much.

By: Shoe

Shoe — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:05:08 +0000

my guess is that it was slated to be the Chinese but they chickened out

By: Captain Haplo

Captain Haplo — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:36:17 +0000

Presumably, this will be followed by a prequel in which the United States was occupied by Saddam’s Iraq.

Still, it looks like an interesting game. I’ll have to keep an eye out for it. The Drama engine sounds fairly neat, too.

By: Snuffy (the Evil)

Snuffy (the Evil) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:30:18 +0000

First Crysis, now Homefront.

Are North Koreans the new Terrorists?

By: Happy Wlad

Happy Wlad — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:49:37 +0000

In the immortal words of Rick Blaine, “Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn’t advise you to try to invade..”

If John Milius wrote it, Im there. Wolverines!

By: jalf

jalf — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:05:33 +0000

@Jetsetlemming: I don’t follow your logic. First you talk about the US being large geographically (which is a valid point. It’s hard to hold down such a big area). But then you throw that away and start talking about NYC. Geographical size is hardly a problem there. According to Wiki, we’re talking about 460 square miles, and a population of 8 million. Why couldn’t 1.2 million armed soldiers hold that?

By: Jetsetlemming

Jetsetlemming — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:53:36 +0000

The entire North Korean army, teleported into the US, with all the US soldiers simultaneously teleported outside, still could not hold more than a single US state. A small one, at that. America’s is tied with China for the third largest country on earth, with 3.7 million square miles. North Korea just barely makes it into the top 100, with 46,000. To put that into RPS perspective, North Korea is half the size of the UK. The state of Pennsylvania is equal in size to North Korea, and it’s only the 33rd biggest US state.
Hell, I doubt the entire NK army could even hold all of New York City. Maybe in the alternate timeline for Homefront “North Korea” is a conglomerate military power of all East Asian states, with all the peoples of them, or something. In that case, though, it doesn’t make much sense to call it North Korea, as opposed to “Korea” or “East Asian Military Bloc” or some shit.

By: james

james — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:02:25 +0000

Sorry, that wasn’t directed entirely at you, but at quotes such as the below;

It’s games like this that make me sort of embarrassed to be an American.

By: Ashurbanipal

Ashurbanipal — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:52:21 +0000

As for Ashurbanipal’s comment about americans being the only ones who are patriotic…

Whoa, whoa,

That’s exactly what I didn’t say.

I’m sorry I don’t find that “nauseating” or “embarrassing”, just spouting off that citizen of the world cack doesn’t actually raise your IQ or prove you’re an independent thinker

Er, what? You sound like you thought of a good zinger for some entirely different debate in the distant past. I’m not sure what you’re on about.

By: james

james — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:45:27 +0000

I think it looks excellent, as long as the environments are as complex as they look, there should be a huge amount of tactical options.

As for Ashurbanipal’s comment about americans being the only ones who are patriotic, I’m English and I care about my country; I’m sorry I don’t find that “nauseating” or “embarrassing”, just spouting off that citizen of the world cack doesn’t actually raise your IQ or prove you’re an independent thinker.

By: drygear

drygear — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:27:14 +0000

@ Ashurbanipal
It probably will be exactly that. The original screenplay for Apocalypse Now was different in tone from how the movie turned out; it was pro-war. John Milius is known for being conservative.