Hunt Down The Freeman

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History nerd here. This video game has one of the most unfortunate titles I've ever come across, in years of gaming. I clicked on the thread title honestly expecting it to be a racist troll about catching free blacks and selling them down South (which, unfortunately, was actually a real practice in America at one time) that we could make fun of in one of our "bad videogames" threads. This is why you need to run your game titles past other people before publishing them.
 
This is gonna be the 2nd big game flop of the year (the first being Metal Gear Survive).

So apparently they had the debugger for Source 2013 in the game. Which is a big fuckin no no or some shit

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This was posted in this bug discussion part in the official HDTF discord. For those who don't know apparently the left is a HL2 traffic cone, vs one from the glorified mod. The reason why the one on the left is so low poly is because its older and cuz you don't need that many polygons for a fucking traffic cone. The one of the right is fucking insane. That is a lot of polygons and resources to waste in a fucking cone. Now scale that up to an entire shitty game.
 
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:late: me if you must, but I just got done watching the on-demand VNN stream. Jesus was that painful, even though it was a little fun watching Tyler spiral into madness, everything else just left me bewildered. Hunt Down the Freeman is another example that Steam Direct is far more exploitable than Greenlight could ever have been.

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Pop-Tart said:
So apparently they had the debugger for Source 2013 in the game. Which is a big fuckin no no or some shit
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From what I know, that means that dataminers pretty much have access to the Source engine. Which may mean they can also access the asset databases, which might contain evidence of canceled or in-development projects internally at Valve that they'd like to keep out of public knowledge
 
Watching this game's horrendously bad cutscenes reminds me of one thing. And i'm sure i'm not the only one.
Especially with the OC being Adrian Shepard's brother.

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Moritsune said:
Watching this game's horrendously bad cutscenes reminds me of one thing. And i'm sure i'm not the only one.
Especially with the OC being Adrian Shepard's brother.

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Having spent some money just so I can have something in my library once its removed from the store, I gave the game a quick run. The opening cutscene may as well scream donut steele past. The main character, who may as well be called Jack Stryker due to getting Donut Steele and ParkourDude91 OC vibes, loses a family member to suicide while his son/brother/whoever the child is suppose to be gets taken away. Next scene has the main character drunk in an alley and joining the marines after seeing a conveniently placed recruitment poster. And then this whole quest for vengeance all comes from getting attacked by a helmeted guy in a hazmat suit wielding a crowbar.
 
Strange with all these Youtube people involved with the game. I bet this game may have something to do with money laundering.

:thinking:

Edit IHE made a video about the game:

 
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Quijibo69 said:
Strange with all these Youtube people involved with the game. I bet this game may have something to do with money laundering.

:thinking:

Edit IHE made a video about the game:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VMw5XohHkPs
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Why am I not surprised about the lack of voice direction?

I mean it'd go a long way to explaining why Keemstar still sounds like he's just doing a Drama Alert episode (complete with terrible audio quality) than a game. I feel kind of sorry for IHE having to appear in such a shitty game made by shitty people.

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This was posted in this bug discussion part in the official HDTF discord. For those who don't know apparently the left is a HL2 traffic cone, vs one from the glorified mod. The reason why the one on the left is so low poly is because its older and cuz you don't need that many polygons for a fucking traffic cone. The one of the right is fucking insane. That is a lot of polygons and resources to waste in a fucking cone. Now scale that up to an entire shitty game.
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That the kind of shit that'd fit better in an animated feature, and they still wouldn't have used that many polys. It would have been easier just to steal the HL2 asset and call it a day. Not like everything else isn't stolen.
 
I'm listening in on the VNN stream. This is some nightmarish shit bruh. I kinda feel we should into the devs of this and at the very least compile salt from the devs still trying to justify this.
 
Quijibo69 said:
Strange with all these Youtube people involved with the game. I bet this game may have something to do with money laundering.

:thinking:

Edit IHE made a video about the game:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VMw5XohHkPs
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don't these big youtubers have journalistic and artistic integrity, or they that desparate for money (which is ironic since none of VAs actually got paid for working on this """game""")
 
fartsnstuf said:
don't these big youtubers have journalistic and artistic integrity, or they that desparate for money (which is ironic since none of VAs actually got paid for working on this """game""")
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I think in the IHE video, Alex showed a screenshot of him refusing payment because "You guys are gonna have enough on your plate soon."
 
Johnny Bravo said:
I adore the protagonist. He's supposed to be a hardass but he's got hippie hair, enormous puppy dog eyes, and the dude who voices him sounds on the verge of tears most of the time. What is character design!?
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Not to mention the cartoonishly pointy chin.
 
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