BRO HARDER!!!
June 18, 2015 8:34 PM Subscribe
BROFORCE is a multiplayer patriotism simulator. Defeat bad guys, devil-horned dudes, giant saw blades, and other... things... while paying homage to your favorite sweaty, bandana-wearing, minigun-totin', chaw-chewin, salty-talkin' action heroes and heroines from the 80's!
Tons of levels! Tons of heroes and heroines to unlock! Plays on shitty old computers (like mine!) Good ol' 'Merican, tough-guy, Die Hard mentality! Tons of explosions, geysers of blood! Multiplayer up to 4, everything is destructible, make and share your own levels. What's not to love?
COME ON, BROS!
In case it needs saying: I have no financial connection with this thingy. I just think it's a ton of fun.
Tons of levels! Tons of heroes and heroines to unlock! Plays on shitty old computers (like mine!) Good ol' 'Merican, tough-guy, Die Hard mentality! Tons of explosions, geysers of blood! Multiplayer up to 4, everything is destructible, make and share your own levels. What's not to love?
COME ON, BROS!
In case it needs saying: I have no financial connection with this thingy. I just think it's a ton of fun.
You didn't mention The Expendabros, which is free yet delivers the essential Broforce experience.
posted by neckro23 at 8:53 PM on June 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by neckro23 at 8:53 PM on June 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
Nuclear Throne remains my go-to adrenaline stimulator of choice.
YES! Nuclear Throne is so great. It's everything I love about other roguelike-likes, without any of the needless frustration. I usually main Plant and pull the Oasis skip, because it's better to die by running into a Scorpion on 1-1 than to crow firing squad on 2-2.
posted by brecc at 9:12 PM on June 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
YES! Nuclear Throne is so great. It's everything I love about other roguelike-likes, without any of the needless frustration. I usually main Plant and pull the Oasis skip, because it's better to die by running into a Scorpion on 1-1 than to crow firing squad on 2-2.
posted by brecc at 9:12 PM on June 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
my bad. check out the expendabros!
posted by mrbigmuscles at 9:12 PM on June 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by mrbigmuscles at 9:12 PM on June 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
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posted by shakespeherian at 9:28 PM on June 18, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by shakespeherian at 9:28 PM on June 18, 2015 [6 favorites]
In almost any game, why is it when one aquires the chain-gun, full auto is full finger auto. Like, fuq it, spray that puppy down because I do not want to worry about what I shoot. VvhhZzzannnnnNN duv duv duv Repeat.
Like Aquaman with SeaWizz.
posted by clavdivs at 9:40 PM on June 18, 2015
Like Aquaman with SeaWizz.
posted by clavdivs at 9:40 PM on June 18, 2015
BROFORCE, do you even lift ?
posted by the webmistress at 9:40 PM on June 18, 2015
posted by the webmistress at 9:40 PM on June 18, 2015
Double :(
Broforce is goddam amazing tho so maybe it needs to be a double because you can never have too much america
posted by Sebmojo at 10:20 PM on June 18, 2015
Broforce is goddam amazing tho so maybe it needs to be a double because you can never have too much america
posted by Sebmojo at 10:20 PM on June 18, 2015
unless you live in Iraq, I guess
posted by Sebmojo at 10:20 PM on June 18, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by Sebmojo at 10:20 PM on June 18, 2015 [7 favorites]
This is sort of a double, but wasn't Broforce just a free pototype thing, while now it's pretty far along the path towards become a real thing?
posted by Going To Maine at 10:40 PM on June 18, 2015
posted by Going To Maine at 10:40 PM on June 18, 2015
I think you mean "brototype," GTM.
posted by notyou at 10:54 PM on June 18, 2015 [9 favorites]
posted by notyou at 10:54 PM on June 18, 2015 [9 favorites]
Listening to someone play this is like some weird sort of performance art, for what it's worth. Like a cross between spoken word, porn, and a villain's monologue.
"Fuck, fuck, FUCK YES, oh god, oh wait, no what the fuck who the fuck why the fuck is it Macguyver you piece of shit you were terrible even in your own show you stupid asshole who the fuck does this to a person I'm going to fucking kill you, who the fuck thought this was oh wait no it's okay we can do this, oh no, yes, no, no no no no no, yes, YES, YES, YES, FUCK YES.
*heavy breathing*
Yay I beat the boss!"
posted by geek anachronism at 10:58 PM on June 18, 2015 [6 favorites]
"Fuck, fuck, FUCK YES, oh god, oh wait, no what the fuck who the fuck why the fuck is it Macguyver you piece of shit you were terrible even in your own show you stupid asshole who the fuck does this to a person I'm going to fucking kill you, who the fuck thought this was oh wait no it's okay we can do this, oh no, yes, no, no no no no no, yes, YES, YES, YES, FUCK YES.
*heavy breathing*
Yay I beat the boss!"
posted by geek anachronism at 10:58 PM on June 18, 2015 [6 favorites]
Here's a demo of each of the many, many Brotaganists. After a while you'll probably just skip through to see what they look like. And the bro doing the narration seems to have a bit of vocal brocal fry at times.
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 12:36 AM on June 19, 2015
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 12:36 AM on June 19, 2015
Looks like fun. Checks Steam. No Linux version. Boo hiss. Me hates it.
posted by KaizenSoze at 3:55 AM on June 19, 2015
posted by KaizenSoze at 3:55 AM on June 19, 2015
I have to say the phrase 'patriotism simulator' really made me stop and try to think what that meant.
Please explain.
posted by MtDewd at 4:44 AM on June 19, 2015
Please explain.
posted by MtDewd at 4:44 AM on June 19, 2015
I backed this game a whiiile back. It's a lot of fun. It's very over the top.
There's a strong single player campaign, but there's also a local multiplayer component which I have not yet been able to explore at all because, well, I have no locals to multiplayer with. There seems to be a bit of an indie renaissance with local multiplayer games lately (Mount Your Friends, Towerfall, Gang Beasts, Nidhogg, Magicka...) but I can't play any of them because my friends are too lazy to walk over and sit on my couch.
posted by backseatpilot at 5:16 AM on June 19, 2015
There's a strong single player campaign, but there's also a local multiplayer component which I have not yet been able to explore at all because, well, I have no locals to multiplayer with. There seems to be a bit of an indie renaissance with local multiplayer games lately (Mount Your Friends, Towerfall, Gang Beasts, Nidhogg, Magicka...) but I can't play any of them because my friends are too lazy to walk over and sit on my couch.
posted by backseatpilot at 5:16 AM on June 19, 2015
It's a neat game, but just to nitpick, are these characters really 'bros'? I guess the word is kind of like 'hipster' now and can apply to almost anyone...
posted by Drexen at 5:32 AM on June 19, 2015
posted by Drexen at 5:32 AM on June 19, 2015
Russian or Arab players need not apply. We got you covered in NPC henchmen.
posted by clvrmnky at 6:07 AM on June 19, 2015
posted by clvrmnky at 6:07 AM on June 19, 2015
The bonus unlock character looked a lot like Chuck Brorris.
posted by Nanukthedog at 6:13 AM on June 19, 2015
posted by Nanukthedog at 6:13 AM on June 19, 2015
There's a strong single player campaign, but there's also a local multiplayer component which I have not yet been able to explore at all because, well, I have no locals to multiplayer with.
It's great. It's really great. I've played a couple long sessions with mefites on my couch and I haven't laughed that hard while gaming in a while. Just a glorious, complicated mess, with none of us such clean and attentive players that we don't end up taking turns being the dead one(s) while whoever's still around scrambles to either find a rescue cage or just finish it up on their own.
One of the best dumb little things about the game, for multiplayer, is that at the end of the level, as soon as you kill the last whatever (usually this is, I guess, literal Satan in a three-piece suit), a helicopter appears with a rope ladder hanging down.
Now, in single player this happens as well. And you jump on the ladder, and the helicopter flies away, and it's all very 80s action film denouement.
In multiplayer, you jump on the rope ladder too. And then the helicopter flies away. Immediately. Which means that if more than one bro is alive at that point, and you don't all jump at exactly the same time, what happens is one of you just takes off and leaves everyone else behind.
There's no actual negative game consequences for that, it's just an end-of-level animation, but it's hard to convey how much of a OH MY GOD YOU DIDN'T JUST DO THAT feeling it produces. And yet, the gameplay is so frantic, so much a sense of everybody trying to go go go go kill that robot, blow up that sawblade dispenser, get above the helicopter boss, do it fast now quick do it do it, that it's really hard to collectively put on the brakes instead of just rolling urgently into GET TO DA CHOPPAH mode as soon as that ladder appears.
Getting four people to all just suddenly chill out and get zen and arrange a synchronized "do we jump on three or on go?" hop onto the ladder is more difficult than it might sound. And it's glorious.
posted by cortex at 6:18 AM on June 19, 2015 [9 favorites]
It's great. It's really great. I've played a couple long sessions with mefites on my couch and I haven't laughed that hard while gaming in a while. Just a glorious, complicated mess, with none of us such clean and attentive players that we don't end up taking turns being the dead one(s) while whoever's still around scrambles to either find a rescue cage or just finish it up on their own.
One of the best dumb little things about the game, for multiplayer, is that at the end of the level, as soon as you kill the last whatever (usually this is, I guess, literal Satan in a three-piece suit), a helicopter appears with a rope ladder hanging down.
Now, in single player this happens as well. And you jump on the ladder, and the helicopter flies away, and it's all very 80s action film denouement.
In multiplayer, you jump on the rope ladder too. And then the helicopter flies away. Immediately. Which means that if more than one bro is alive at that point, and you don't all jump at exactly the same time, what happens is one of you just takes off and leaves everyone else behind.
There's no actual negative game consequences for that, it's just an end-of-level animation, but it's hard to convey how much of a OH MY GOD YOU DIDN'T JUST DO THAT feeling it produces. And yet, the gameplay is so frantic, so much a sense of everybody trying to go go go go kill that robot, blow up that sawblade dispenser, get above the helicopter boss, do it fast now quick do it do it, that it's really hard to collectively put on the brakes instead of just rolling urgently into GET TO DA CHOPPAH mode as soon as that ladder appears.
Getting four people to all just suddenly chill out and get zen and arrange a synchronized "do we jump on three or on go?" hop onto the ladder is more difficult than it might sound. And it's glorious.
posted by cortex at 6:18 AM on June 19, 2015 [9 favorites]
This game got me through winter in Boston. I am now its king.
posted by jhc at 6:27 AM on June 19, 2015
posted by jhc at 6:27 AM on June 19, 2015
are these characters really 'bros'?
DUDE, DO YOU EVEN BRO?
posted by aramaic at 6:38 AM on June 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
DUDE, DO YOU EVEN BRO?
posted by aramaic at 6:38 AM on June 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
You can also blow up the helicopter ( they send another one).
posted by mrbigmuscles at 6:51 AM on June 19, 2015
posted by mrbigmuscles at 6:51 AM on June 19, 2015
are these characters really 'bros'?
They are now.
posted by daniel_charms at 6:59 AM on June 19, 2015
They are now.
posted by daniel_charms at 6:59 AM on June 19, 2015
I think of them as bros in the sense of, not contemporary "bro" bro culture, but muscled action fellows so busy causing and navigating explosions that they don't have time to (a) bleed or (b) fully enunciate the word "brother" when e.g. communicating an idea like "it's just you and me, brother" in their characteristic deep growl.
They are guys for whom this constitutes a fond greeting after years apart. They are strange muppets swirling in the vortex of the 80s action genre, insensible in any other context.
posted by cortex at 7:21 AM on June 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
They are guys for whom this constitutes a fond greeting after years apart. They are strange muppets swirling in the vortex of the 80s action genre, insensible in any other context.
posted by cortex at 7:21 AM on June 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
This would be awesome to play on a retropie arcade cabinet. Is there any chance of running the game on that platform?
posted by Zigurana at 7:31 AM on June 19, 2015
posted by Zigurana at 7:31 AM on June 19, 2015
I think it's more that the characters are the types to be especially popular among bros? Or characters that bros wish they could be?
And I think "Brohn McLean" would've worked better than "Bro Hard."
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 9:15 AM on June 19, 2015
And I think "Brohn McLean" would've worked better than "Bro Hard."
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 9:15 AM on June 19, 2015
I have to say the phrase 'patriotism simulator' really made me stop and try to think what that meant.
Please explain.
It´s like the last refuge of a scoundrel, only you have unlimited ammo and you´re assaulting that scoundrel´s said refuge. The game is a simulation thereof.
posted by ersatz at 1:14 PM on June 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
Please explain.
It´s like the last refuge of a scoundrel, only you have unlimited ammo and you´re assaulting that scoundrel´s said refuge. The game is a simulation thereof.
posted by ersatz at 1:14 PM on June 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
It's a neat game, but just to nitpick, are these characters really 'bros'? I guess the word is kind of like 'hipster' now and can apply to almost anyone...
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posted by Sebmojo at 10:12 PM on June 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
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posted by Sebmojo at 10:12 PM on June 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
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