Chris Trottier on Nostr: I like exploring half-forgotten video game worlds. This one is from Homefront, a ...

I like exploring half-forgotten video game worlds.

This one is from Homefront, a 15-year-old game. It’s pretty much Call of Duty meets Red Dawn.

And it’s a relic of the Obama era—a game that cannot be made now. Basically, it’s a jingoistic power fantasy about North Korea invading USA, and how a grassroots band of rebels fights back to reclaim “freedom”.

There’s so many shots of American suburban neighbourhoods gone to seed, and how people search for normalcy through war. It’s almost idealized in a way.