The sad part is I didn't even play through the whole game to find this blatant contradiction. They just didn't feel like keeping a consistent character throughout the game. This isn't art by art's standards.Dr. McD said:
THQ: Homefront Is Not a 71
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I haven't played Homefront but I have seen bits of it and it just looks like a melodramatic power fantasy capitalising on Obama Era paranoia. Hardly the sort of stuff I'd classify as art. Seeing two people getting shot in front of their child is shocking and disturbing but I get the feeling it was done mainly as a CCC (Controversy Creates Cash) ploy and its hard to hold it up as art under those circumstances. But again I haven't played it myself so I'm not really the guy to ask.
Case and point SOCOM. Although not released reviewers are already giving it an average of 70 +/-. Veterans are apparently disillusioned by this version seeing it as a wanna be third person COD and while I've never played a SOCOM game but it does bear several similarities to COD games when I was hoping it'd play more like Uncharted given that its third person and has a cover system.Scrumpmonkey said:
No, Homefront is not a 71, it's one of the worst games I've ever played and It's more a 31, and No, Homefront is not art.
You're absolutely right THQ.
Homefront isn't a 71; it's worse than that.
Why? Because critics have been handing out 7s to average games for a long, long time now.
Of course, this is somewhat arbitrary; it's difficult, even futile to quantify subjective matter (and part of why I hold incredibly buggy games much lower regard than most).
But hey, if you want to talk numbers, try this: It's a 4 hour long game.
Four. Fucking. Hours.
Homefront isn't a 71; it's worse than that.
Why? Because critics have been handing out 7s to average games for a long, long time now.
Of course, this is somewhat arbitrary; it's difficult, even futile to quantify subjective matter (and part of why I hold incredibly buggy games much lower regard than most).
But hey, if you want to talk numbers, try this: It's a 4 hour long game.
Four. Fucking. Hours.
yeah, you can't apply math to art, but was homefront art then?
adn this is what i really hate about reviews these days. when the game is meh, its get a 7. when i was school and got a 7 (didn't work with letters) i was f-ing happy, or technaly: had 70% of the test good. that is great. but when a game gets 7 its ok. what the hell?
adn this is what i really hate about reviews these days. when the game is meh, its get a 7. when i was school and got a 7 (didn't work with letters) i was f-ing happy, or technaly: had 70% of the test good. that is great. but when a game gets 7 its ok. what the hell?
I'm pretty glad it got mediocre scores, means it'll be in the bargain bin sooner rather than later and I can pick myself up a copy for £10-15. =D
1 - 70% shouldn't be a bad thing
2 - If this game was any more bland and average, it would taste like vanilla flavoured meat and potato.
3 - Contrary to popular belief, not all videogames are art. In the same way that not all movies are art.
4 - Fuck you. Go and study some Bioware games and maybe come up with an innovative "door opening button".
2 - If this game was any more bland and average, it would taste like vanilla flavoured meat and potato.
3 - Contrary to popular belief, not all videogames are art. In the same way that not all movies are art.
4 - Fuck you. Go and study some Bioware games and maybe come up with an innovative "door opening button".
oh cry me a river, it's an overhyped mediocre game that only sells because the genre is hip nowadays. Can't apply math to art? Ever heard of Fibonacci's numbers boyo
I never look at Metacritic. I am not buying Homefront based on every person I've heard talking about it calling it a giant steaming pile of shit.
Hasn't it already been established that most of those sales were from preorders based on promises they never followed through on?
Hasn't it already been established that most of those sales were from preorders based on promises they never followed through on?
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That fine with me.It makes for better tactical play.Assassin Xaero said:
Although this game it probably shit anyway,so i'm gonna save up for something like battlefeild 3 or portal 2.
Understandable, but it ruined it for me. I grew up playing games online where you die after a few bullets, and on Call of Duty 4/5, all I ever played was hardcore mode. So, them nurfing it really ruined the fun I had with it the first week.hecticpicnic said: