{"id":3577,"date":"2011-03-09T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T19:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2011-03-09T11:19:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T19:19:19","slug":"will-earth-defense-force-sequel-be-buggy-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/03\/09\/will-earth-defense-force-sequel-be-buggy-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Earth Defense Force sequel be buggy enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"3577\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/EDF_IA_DLC.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/EDF_IA_DLC.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"EDF_IA_DLC\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/EDF_IA_DLC.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/EDF_IA_DLC-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publisher D3 announced some pre-order doo-dads for Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon today, along with new screenshots of the game to supposedly get you excited.  However, none of the screenshots shows more than ten bugs onscreen at a time.  What kind of Earth Defense Force fights fewer than a dozen bugs?  That would hardly be worth their time.  Your local mall security or neighborhood watch should be able to handle that just fine. <\/p>\n<p>The above screenshot was the most crowded.  Let&#8217;s take a closer look:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"3577\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/EDF_IA_DLC_bug-count1.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/EDF_IA_DLC_bug-count1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"EDF_IA_DLC_bug count\" width=\"600\" height=\"254\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/EDF_IA_DLC_bug-count1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/EDF_IA_DLC_bug-count1-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I count six.  Maybe seven.  At least the price of gas is suitably nightmarish.  Remember the gas station in the original Deus Ex?  In that version of dystopia, gas cost $4 a gallon!<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Earth Defense Force: Insect Armaggedon doesn&#8217;t come out until July 5th.  Hopefully, they&#8217;ll add more bugs by then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Will Earth Defense Force sequel be buggy enough? - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/03\/09\/will-earth-defense-force-sequel-be-buggy-enough\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Will Earth Defense Force sequel be buggy enough? 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