Hi Friends,

I’ve been replaying Homefront lately. Its a great game, but has a very short storyline.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/55100/Homefront/

What I like most:

  • intense firefights, giant explosions
  • good storyline
  • genuinely horrifying atmosphere with mass graves, rubble everywhere, a horrifying police state with North Koreans occupying the US. It’s not hard to feel like a resistance fighter protecting your homeland
  • linear gameplay with a balance of brute force and tactics, skewed towards making things go boom
  • not set too far in the future, no giant humanoid mech robots
  • abundant ammo
  • runs on Linux with no stupid sign-ins or subscriptions beyond Steam

I’ve done some poking around online and it sounds like Ghost Recon: Wildlands hits a few of those points and might suit me.

I can search for alternatives myself, but I’m really looking for some recommendations from real people

Hardware requirements shouldn’t be an issue, and I don’t object to slightly older games either, especially if they’re just old enough that I can scoop up the game and DLC in one bundle.

Other games I liked:

  • Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl
  • Blood and Bacon
  • Crysis

I appreciate any recommendations you give me.

  • Hond@piefed.socialEnglish
    13·
    1 month ago

    The new Wolfenstein trilogy is probably my favourite shooty explody experience i had in the last decade. Hits similar story beats by having also an alternative history setup. Old Blood -> New Order -> New Collosus would be the best order to play them. Old Blood is IMHO the weakest title but its still good. Also that way the story gets told chronologically.

    • njordomir@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      That’s what AI told me, but I trust it more coming from a real player. Thanks for the tip on the order as storyline is important to me. I speak fluent German, so I might find some of the obscure jokes and references others miss. Looking forward to playing it through.

      • Hond@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        Some of the german Nazi NPC chatter you can overhear is way better than it needs to be. Its really fun if you can understand german.

        • njordomir@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          Just overheard the bad guy who killed me say “Ich pisse auf deine Leiche.” (I piss on your corpse) 🤣

  • mrfriki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    Terminator Resistance strikes me as very similar to Homefront, played it a while after finishing the Homefront series and there were lots of similarities.

    • njordomir@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      This looks really cool. Can’t believe I haven’t heard of it before. I’m a bit of a casual and I play mostly sandbox games like Minecraft and Cities Skylines. Thanks for helping me scratch my once or twice a year FPS itch.

      • goreverminski@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Absolutely second Singularity - it’s a game very much in the vein of Half-Life 2 and BioShock. Almost as good, if not quite, but rather quite forgotten. Loved it when it came out.

    • njordomir@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      I forgot about Farcry! I loved the original and replayed it many times, but Farcry 2 wasn’t my jam. Maybe 3 could make me love the franchise again.

      • goreverminski@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        You could go straight for, too, 5 if you like the setting at all compared to the others. There’s a sidequel called New Dawn for 5, too. It’s nice.

    • njordomir@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I may pick up the newer Homefront. It sounded different, but it’s old enough I can probably grab it on sale for peanuts.

      No issues running with max graphics on a laptop with a 20xx series card, though it started as such a tiny window I could barely read the menu to make it full screen. Same deal on the desktop and over steamplay.

      It definitely had that early 2000s vibe, but I actually prefer the controls over many modern games. Nowadays games are like “press E to sneak”, “press E to kill the guard”, “press E to climb to safety”, “press E really quick to overpower the attacker”.

      My favorite part is “Do you want to exit to Windows?” Windows. Yes, that’s definitely what I’m playing this on. :-P /s

  • glitching@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    Far Cry 5 - blaspheme your way across beautiful Montana killing and pillaging to a kickass soundtrack

    • njordomir@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      You got me interested now. 5-10 years ago I drove out to Seattle and set up camp outside of Bozeman, MT for the night to save on hotel costs. Slept on top of my car under the open star filled sky. I still think Montana is one of my top 5 most beautiful states. I’m curious to see it represented in a video game.

      5 years ago or so I also stayed in Montrose, CO where much of Homefront takes place. They captured the vibe fairly well.

      • glitching@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        I envy you - I wish I could wipe my memory and replay it for the first time

        “keep your rifle by your side…”

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    I have only vague memories of that game, but the way you describe it immediately makes me think of the Metro series.

    Maybe some of the Far Cry games, though they’re more open-world.

    Half-life sort of fits. Just a bit of tech. A bit dystopian. Mostly linear story shooters.

    The Darkness sort of fits. Just a bit of grim magic. WoD style awfulness. Mostly linear story shooters.