Crytek Invades Homefront Sequel, Ousting Kaos

[DTWolfwood]

Crytek is german yes? If it is, you would think they'd have a more intimate knowledge of what occupation feels like from a communist regime than say Americans who were never occupied.

Just a thought.

I say sure y not. They are as good as any. Its not like there will be that much hype for the sequel anyways. Unless of course they use it to bust out the new cry engine XD

 

[draythefingerless]

Crytek is german yes? If it is, you would think they'd have a more intimate knowledge of what occupation feels like from a communist regime than say Americans who were never occupied.

Just a thought.

I say sure y not. They are as good as any. Its not like there will be that much hype for the sequel anyways. Unless of course they use it to bust out the new cry engine XD

This is a common and ignorant fact.

Crytek is made of people of all nations and nationalities.Its one of the most international game dev ive seen. Germans have very little, if any, more presence in the dev teams than other nations do.

 

[DTWolfwood]

Crytek is german yes? If it is, you would think they'd have a more intimate knowledge of what occupation feels like from a communist regime than say Americans who were never occupied.

Just a thought.

I say sure y not. They are as good as any. Its not like there will be that much hype for the sequel anyways. Unless of course they use it to bust out the new cry engine XD

This is a common and ignorant fact.

Crytek is made of people of all nations and nationalities. Its one of the most international game dev ive seen. Germans have very little, if any, more presence in the dev teams than other nations do.

Hmm thought it was weird that i believe them to be french some time ago. That explains a lot eh. Question is, where is their homefront? :trollface:

If Germany is their HQ or where they are founded, than one can gather they are a german company regardless of whether they have multinational staff. Fuck Blizzard has divisions in Europe and East Asia, but everyone still considers them American.

 

[Rad Party God]

If it involves nanosuits and aliens, I'm all for it.

 

[Tiamat666]

The world and story behind Homefront held a lot of promise.

Is that supposed to be a joke? Irony?

Because the world and story behind Homefront accomplishes the unthinkable of utterly pwning the Modern Warfare II plot to oblivion in delusional batshit insanity.

 

[Kae]

Can't Crytek just stop fooling around and get Crytek UK working on TimeSplitters 4?
Seriously who cares about Homefront just give me my TimeSplitters already!

 

[TheSapphireKnight]

I could actually see Crytek taking this and actually making something out of the original homefront.

However, even if the gameplay has been altered and made into the must play game of the year it won't matter, to me at least, if they keep around that obnoxious as hell marketing team for the original.

"terrifyingly plausible" *facedesk*

I would be perfectly fine if they took the freedom fighter against superior forces thing Homefront did, tossed out the plot of the original game and added that Crytek open design that would be great.

I could totally buy a game about South Korean freedom fighter if North Korea(even as they are now) managed a successful surprise attack. A game set in the brief occupational period that would likely take place before the North Koreans would be stomped on by NATO would be more interesting and believable.

I don't know if I could buy the game if they continue the completely batshit insane plot from the first game.

 

[Druyn]

I suppose it must be quite awful for Kaos to have their baby snatched away from them.

You know, if they weren't closed.

 

[The Random One]

Yeah, 'captivated' is not really the word I'd use. I'd probably use a longer phrase, containing the words 'morbid curiosity'.

Do you think that hiring Crytek to develop the next Homefront is a good move? I'm not sure that there is a much better candidate among THQ's studio partners, but the fact that Crytek is a European development house - based in Frankfurt with subsidiaries everywhere around the world except North America - makes me pause. I'm no purist, but a game that taps so much into American patriotism might be handled better by designers who actually live in the United States.

Particularly, I know have hope that this series might shine. Kaos obviously wanted to make something that said 'Someday the US might be poor and they might become the victims instead of the aggressors!' but they kept adding to it that 'but even if it happens WE'LL STILL KICK YOUR FUCKING ASS! U S A ! U S A !' A developer from outside the US might be able to capture the real fragility of the dwellers of a fallen empire, not about fighting for the last hope but rather fighting despite all hope being lost.

The rest of the world is bigger than the US, after all, so an outsider perspective is sure to resonate more.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Not sure. Crytech's games were all pretty much the same, but with other gimmicks hidden within them.

Like every FPS game ever. You aim and click, and things die. Different gimmicks is what differentiates every FPS from one another.

 

[twistedmic]

My biggest problem with the whole premise is the fact the North Koreans can barely feed their own people. The only way they could do that is if space aliens decided to sell the super-advanced weaponry for lulz.

I heard that complaint (or one similar) quite often when the game firs came out. But what many people didn't seem to remember or even realize was that it wasn't North Korea that invaded and occupied America. It was a United Korea. True, North Korea alone most likely wouldn't pose a threat, but with the added land and resources it is at least plausible that a United Korea could become a super-power, or at least a decent player in the world military game.

And I would like to see a Homefront sequel, either from an American point of view, a European point of view or a mix of the two (similar to how World at War was done).

 

[Oilerfan92]

Homefront would've been really god if it didn't decide to ditch it's interesting gureilla warfare style 20 minutes in and turn into a "grab an assault rifle and shoot everyone" game.

Seriouly. It boggles my mind to ink about how badly they abandoned the interesting parts to turn it into a generic FPS.

To be fair, I'm not a master and guerilla warfare. So maybe full frontal assaults, mowing down everyone in a base, and helicopter assaults on cities are part of the tactics.

 

[fozzy360]

I really did appreciate what Kaos tried to do with Homefront, and I did end up liking it a lot, so I am happy that a sequel is getting made. The history is already established, so now it's just a matter of trying to develop an interesting story that actually has an arc and doesn't last 7 hours in order make the game feel more substantial than the first.

As far as multiplayer goes, not a whole needs to be done, but it'll be interesting to see how Crytek puts their own spin on Ground Control.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

Personally, I like seeing a European developer trying their hands at crafting a story regarding American patriotism against foreign invaders.

Why? No bias. If you're an American developer and focusing on American patriotism, it's obviously going to be very one-sided and maybe have the occasional death to support the Heroic Sacrifice trope followed by some kind of climatic ass-kicking.

Having a third-party write and develop this is better, imo. The Koreans will seem more like humans than some monstrous war machine that looks human, and the American resistance won't look like some invincible freedom fighters who believe that the power of love and happiness and determination and all that bullcrap overcomes all.



btw, yes, I am American. I'm just sick and tired of seeing us being portrayed as some type of invincible gods while everything we fight looks like some emotionless demons. There's no better way to have me disinterested in a game than to forget that the people we're fighting against are also humans. Granted, we're supposed to be fighting AGAINST them, but you can have them show some emotion, guys. >.<

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Hmmm.... I can see this working.

Crysis 2 wasn't a bad game from what I saw, and a new take on the series could be what it needs to rise itself above a generic CoD clone.

It would honestly be more interesting if Crytek looks at this whole event from a European angle. The EU coming to invade the beaches of North Korean controlled America a la Normandy? Hell freaking yes!

As an American, that sounds fucking awesome.

They now have to do it.

 

[pyrokin]

To be honest, when I bought it, I expected it to be a thrilling and interesting first person shooter. The story (that is the prologue before the game) was fantastic, it actually showed some parts of the future that could be a possibility (not all of them) if we continue on the same path we are now in America.

 

[Jadak]

I know America is big but you wouldn't like it if you kept getting lumped in with the Canadians and Mexicans. "oh tacos? that's North American food" you dig?

On the other hand, I'm not bothered int the least if people refer to me as "North American" rather than specify Canadian, so your point falls flat with me.

 

[CrystalShadow]

I find the whole premise of the game pretty ridiculous anyway, I wouldn't touch it with a stick.

America is obsessed with getting invaded it seems, by aliens, by Germans, by Russians, by Koreans

I'm waiting for the one about the Chinese Communist Nazi Aliens

No offense but there are a heck of a lot of games out there about America being invaded by this that or the other.

It's as if Red Dawn was mandatory viewing for games designers.

and btw Crytek are GERMAN not European, Germany is a sovereign state, Europe is not. Europe is a continent made up of smaller Sovereign nations.

I know America is big but you wouldn't like it if you kept getting lumped in with the Canadians and Mexicans. "oh tacos? that's North American food" you dig?

I agree with everything you said, except those last two sentences. If you don't like being lumped in with the rest of your continent, then come to Australia, we don't have to share!

Lol. You do realise the Australian states used to be independent colonies/countries right? Same goes for the states that make up the united states of America.

And while I suspect national pride has a long way to go yet before anyone will admit it, the European union is looking more and more like a single entity...