xxnevmorexx Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Im gonna buy it day one, i loved Frontlines:Fuel of War, i still play it from time to time. If your lookin into dont expect it to be the most beautiful realistic hey lets beat off to the graphics game, the gameplay made up for it in frontlines for me. The biggest thing that i see is getting interest to it is the story, what better way to promote a game then by having people argue over its plausability? anywho yea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 The plausibility of the story, however unlikely it may be, is pretty unsettling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxnevmorexx Posted December 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 I guess im one of the crazy few people who dont see this as being completely implausible, NK currently has the 4th largest military in the world and with the storyline they also take over japan which would deffinatly upgrade their technology. Also the US and europe are trying to recover from the money crunch and the fact that the oil supply is running critically low. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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King Jimmeh Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 This is definitely a game I'm interested in having a go at when it's released. I imagine I'll only bother renting it, but it's piqued my interest a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 I'm definitely interested in this. Saw some "leaked" gameplay footage a while back and I got a kind of Crysis vibe from it. Probably the near-future sci-fi aspect of it, I guess. Also Koreans, probably. This is actually one of the top 5 games on my Steam wishlist in case, by some miracle, I happen to win one of the sweepstakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForgetfulBrain Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 The story is too much a turn off for me to consider the game, even though it has pretty visuals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Yeah, I've definitely got my eye on this. The story is too much a turn off for me to consider the game Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForgetfulBrain Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 The story is too much a turn off for me to consider the game Why? Ah, the speculative fiction aspect along with the apparently heightened 'America, Fuck Yeah' nature just isn't my digs. I prefer my politics in gaming to look like the intro to the Black Ops Nazi zombies - with mortal enemies palling about and cracking jokes. [EDIT] Well that's not exactly true. I'm all up for edgy politics in gaming, just not when it's riffing off of something that is certainly one possibility for the near future, and when it seems, if Kotaku's impressions were any indication, to make the player 'pissed off' at North Korea. It's just not something that it sounds like I would enjoy playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Hahahaha Getting pissed off at a country irl because they were the bad guys in a game you played is pretty much the most retarded thing ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Is it weird that I was more bothered by the signs selling gas at 15 bucks a gallon in the trailer more than the whole "America invaded by Korea" thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalCaveman Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 I'm interested in this game, the story sounds cool, and it also reminds me of Freedom Fighters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForgetfulBrain Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Hahahaha Getting pissed off at a country irl because they were the bad guys in a game you played is pretty much the most retarded thing ever. Buuuuuut it's gonna happen to lots of the folks that play it. Just watch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brida Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 But every game functions as 'America, fuck yeah' if you're playing as Americans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrifeROKs Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Edit: Wait...I get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 From what I've seen this game is WAY less "America Fuck Yeah" than like any other military shooter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brida Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Having a foreign country invade you is like 10000000% reason to go America fuck yeah. It's the entire reason you're fighting, to preserve America. Also I find it stupid that they're focusing so damn much on the pseudo politics/premise on the game to advertise it and make buzz when they've also said they're not intending to say a message or address actual politic in the game. Why not just advertise pew pew then I mean it's a shooter we're used to that superficial kind of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Having a foreign country invade you is like 10000000% reason to go America fuck yeah. It's the entire reason you're fighting, to preserve America. Sure, based on the premise you could make the game that way, but from what I've seen it's not presented in that manner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brida Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Watch some videos of the devs talking about the game. I believe their HQ is like stereotypical american suburbs, even. For the imagery and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 I have. Maybe we have different definitions of "America Fuck Yeah"... To me it means "AMERICA IS SO AWESOME AND WE'RE THE BEST AND NO ONE CAN EVER DEFEAT US AND SHIT!!!!!!!1!!!111!!" Whereas Homefront more just uses it as something the player probably cares about, but doesn't beat you over the head with how awesome the US is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brida Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 America fuck yeah to me is the implication that we are awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Okay, and it doesn't seem like Homefront especially does that, it's more like "look how fucked up America is." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brida Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 I dunno I see it as a nuanced thing. I mean especially in today's times...before if you wanted to play to the patriotism you'd show America big n strong, now it seems the flavor of the decade to show us or highlight vulnerability (terrorists! look at how many americans they've killed! look at this footage of baby kittens crying!!!!), this seems like an extention of that as a means of stirring up that patriotism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxnevmorexx Posted December 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Yea its really not hey look man I'm from the US watch me blow shit up. its more hey I'm sick of being pushed around so ima take my grandfathers shotgun and try to make things right. The fact that its in the suburbs is to just try to get you a connection to the game and get you immersed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 I dunno I see it as a nuanced thing. I mean especially in today's times...before if you wanted to play to the patriotism you'd show America big n strong, now it seems the flavor of the decade to show us or highlight vulnerability (terrorists! look at how many americans they've killed! look at this footage of baby kittens crying!!!!), this seems like an extention of that as a means of stirring up that patriotism. Oh, they're certainly using patriotic feelings of caring about the country and stuff to motivate the player, it just doesn't seem to me like they're trying to make America seem so "awesome". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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