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.
There is the sequel to Homefront. It’s a bit different gameplay wise but it’s the same world. It does have some jank though and I haven’t tried it on Linux. Frankly I forgot about the series and I might actually scoop them both up to replay on the spring sale. Only a few dollars each.
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