DarkGemini24601
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I think he just means a playthrough.
X-COM/XSDF RP THINK TANK (part3)
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Frostlich1228
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It would be cool though, right?
DarkGemini24601
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I guess, not really interested myself though.
DarkGemini24601
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I'm just a war story buff though, so while a homefront story is interesting, it would get kind of dull potentially, especially since you have to remember you only have 3 people starting out in This War of Mine, so I seriously doubt he'd do a RP based on it.
Anyone else hyped for Homefront 2?
Frostlich1228
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A darkest dungeon rp would be cool too. Buuuut... You go through people like wet tissue paper and one of the most cost effective strategies is to kick people out of your roster because sometimes actually curing them of their mental ailments is too expensive.
Plus, your character will gain personality quirks that you didn't choose. Example: Great, I guess my warrior of light went crazy and now has kleptomania, going to have to rp with that in mind from now on.
Plus, your character will gain personality quirks that you didn't choose. Example: Great, I guess my warrior of light went crazy and now has kleptomania, going to have to rp with that in mind from now on.
Um... n-no, if I'm being honest. If you liked the first one, more power to you. Personally... I though it had generic, run of the mill, and non-innovative gameplay, a bare-bones and... kinda stupid story, and was incredibly mean spirited, from the soldiers murdering that kid's parents in front of him then leaving the child (seen in the first two minutes of the game), to the mass soldier grave you have to hide in.
Sorry... not a fan.
I liked it at least. Not all gruffness and explosions 24/7 but shows the darker sides of an occupation, though I wish the story took more of a red dawn approach. (Liked the movies both original and remake.)
That's fair.
Adrammalech
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Kind of an absurd premise, North Korea managing several successful wars and occupations up to ~7,000 miles from home when their average working citizen gets 0.3 pounds of food a day.
But we're roleplaying a game about psychic aliens so I guess I don't have much high ground there.
DarkGemini24601
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The difference is XCOM is meant to have things that would otherwise be unreasonable. Judging by the description of Homefront that I got from Marine and Zombie, it sounds like its meant to be taken seriously, not be a satire. And that's why it's unreasonable there.
DarkGemini24601
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It sounds like lazy storywriting of "We don't want to offend anyone by selecting a country that might play our game, so let's do the country that is free reign to rag on!" Blegh. Have some guts.
Adrammalech
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China would have an occupation just as bad, although maybe more insidious than just mowing down people cuz "we're evil lol." It could take place in a mining camp or something, you and a bunch of lads going through "re-education," go all Red Faction Guerrilla with a pickaxe. It would be pretty sweet. It wouldn't sell in China, but then you wouldn't need to produce a second hyper-censored version for China 
I would have gone with Russia. Just... not the way North Korea was portrayed.
DarkGemini24601
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As long as you're invading the western seaboard and not the... eastern seaboard. Stupid COD...
That was one of my biggest problems with Homefront. The North Korean military wasn't simply portrayed as the bad guys. They were portrayed as monsters.
DarkGemini24601
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At least give them a motivation to be assholes, don't just say "Alright they're apparently all demons that don't value human life and actually enjoy taking it away." That's almost never true for any military, be it the U.S. military, the Soviet Union, North Korea, Uganda, ecetera.
Adrammalech
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Well, they are assholes, and the idea that they're randomly malicious about it would be our moral scales imposing upon theirs. They're raised and trained to be assholes (and by extension, merciless) by their government that operates in the same way. It could be argued that they need a reason (no point in killing an obedient adult when they can be forced to work instead), but honestly, if NK actually had the resources to occupy somewhere, that's how hardline soldiers might act initially. They are fanatically nationalist, especially against Americans and South Koreans, because the Kims have been saying that every ounce of suffering in Korea is because of America and SK for decades, and the layman has no way of knowing otherwise. However, while occupying places, the soldiers would be exposed to different cultures, information, and ideas, and dissent would flow within the ranks within months, even faster than within the Nazis.
Hmm... good point. Guess I'm just soft.
Adrammalech
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Some might say "soft"...some might say "lucky enough not to have a deeply controlled and limited mindset" Sorry if I'm thinking about this too much I spent a fair amount of my life in a polisim MMO....got used to interacting with and predicting people from a lot of different countries.
Sorry if I'm thinking about this too much I spent a fair amount of my life in a polisim MMO....got used to interacting with and predicting people from a lot of different countries.