Japanese gamers are aghast at the decision to rob upcoming shooter Homefront of all its references to North Korea in the name of kowtowing to censors and North Korea’s substantial fifth column within Japan.
“Homefront” depicts the America of 2027, finally invaded by the evil yellow races – in this case the faintly ridiculous scenario of North Korea invading Japan and its other Asian neighbours and then occupying a moribund USA.
The enemy was originally supposed to be China, but the American publisher apparently proved rather yellow themselves – they changed it to North Korea out of fear of China throwing another fit.
Surprisingly, the game was announced as having a Japanese language release, which greatly excited many Japanese Internet denizens, for whom hatred of all things Korean is an even more major pastime than rubbishing China.
However, some time after the release was announced, translator Spike conceded that they would remove all references to Korea from the game and instead adopt the pathetic ruse of having all the dialogue refer to “A Certain Northern Country.”
The game’s references to Korean dictator Kim Jong-il have also been deleted from the game and are replaced with “The Leader of the North” and his homeland’s name with “a country in the north.”
Needless to say, the response to these changes from the game’s primary audience has been caustic – Spike has been derided for ruining yet another Japanese localisation (such games are frequently butchered), and for displaying unusually pronounced cowardice even for a Japanese company, as well as for removing the game’s only selling point.
Spike claims the reason is that Japan’s “voluntary” CERO game censorship regime’s regulations on “prohibited expression” forbid the use of existing countries and peoples – CERO regulations do in fact seem to presume even adult gamers must be protected like small children, and ban games from featuring any edgy political, violent or sexual content.
However, the existence of plenty of games featuring the USA and other nations as cruel opponents rather suggests they are simply too spineless to endure a few complaints from North Koreans in Japan, a shady and influential bunch.
i wonder when will game developer get to make good games freely without all this politic bullshit
i mean, if you dont like playing certain game, then dont play it. why bothering looking up to it.
Wouldn’t mind a game where you get invaded by America or even a Call of duty WW2 game where you are the germans
I hate games like this.
This may come over as “original” in the beginning, but in the end it´s still going to be another AMERICA FUCK YEAH FPS.
I´m just gonna start out and say that this game´s concept is RETARDED AS FUCK.
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT NK IS NOT GOING TO DO JACK SHIT UNTIL HELL FREEZES OVER OR AMERICA LEARNS TO SHUT UP ABOUT THINGS
Well, China would´ve been at least somewhat believable but America likes to bring politics and shit into their media and stuff, so yeah.
This game is a greatest insult to North Korea.
No one will cry when someone makes a game about a certain Middle Eastern country invading USA, however unrealistic it may be, amirite?
STFU.
HA!! I WAS WONDERING when you would report on this!
1: How do you know that it was China first??? This was in NONE of even the earliest reports on Homefront.
2: Lol, we’re getting invaded by Canada now.
Why couldn’t the American publisher have localised it properly?
So when do we have a game which a campaign which involves the Asians uniting together against the White oppressors? That makes an interesting game.
It could be America with it’s high technology and (somewhat) numbers invades Asia, but the protagonist is a leader of the Resistance, and your mission is to take out the American leadership. That makes a good game.
TO ARU NORTHERN COUNTRY
Without reading any other post, I can’t accept North Korea as having the tech they showed in the clip. You can say that the jump in technology comes from the invasion of Japan and other Asian nations but… there are too many things I’d have to accept to believe the story enough to enjoy it.
Eh well figures. Japan is within nuking distance from North Korea. And that the game went from China to North Korea shows the original game makers are just the same, except they aren’t within nuking distance from North Korea. And you never know when a rabid dog might bite
A certain Northern Country?
とある北の国?!
I smell an anime!
I want a game mod where the “northern country” is actually Canada. That would be awesome and hilarious.
I for one, welcome our new Molson drinking, ice hockey playing Canadian overlords…
And forget not your Canadian female Overlords.
www .jonco48.com/blog/tallest_20building_small. jpg
Yes, you may worship her. 😛
The mere idea of North Korea invading the United States is ridiculous beyond belief.
Cowards
I guess i’ll go back to killing Koreans in Crysis.
Even an united Korea wouldn’t be shit.
Or rather, they would be shit, literally.
Spike claims the reason is that Japan’s “voluntary” CERO game censorship regime’s regulations on “prohibited expression” forbid the use of existing countries and peoples – CERO regulations do in fact seem to presume even adult gamers must be protected like small children, and ban games from featuring any edgy political, violent or sexual content.
really? what about those hentai anime’s and manga’s?
“The enemy was originally supposed to be China, but the American publisher apparently proved rather yellow themselves – they changed it to North Korea out of fear of China throwing another fit.”
The developers already stated that they were thinking of China, but threw the idea out because it’s been done a million times before, and because EVERYONE WE OWN IS MADE IN CHINA, so the thought of them going to war with us doesn’t sound very scary.
You should work for fucking Fox News, with the amount of bullshitting you do, Artefact.
Edit: *EveryTHING we own, hahah.
>>the American publisher apparently proved rather yellow themselves – they changed it to North Korea out of fear of China throwing another fit.
It amazes me that Westerners cower and simper for fear of offending those sadistic bloodthirsty communist maggots, yet they can (tacitly) insult western heads of state at a state dinner. Why do we put up with this shit?
Doug Macarthur had it right 60 years ago.. we should have turned China into glass in the 1950s when we had the chance. The Cginese have no morals, no compunctions and no reservations about insulting or demeaning us, poisoning our pets, our food, our children’s toys.. Hitler had the right method, just the wrong group. Why kill 6 million Jews where there are a BILLION Chinese to make soap from?
One lame word…”Lame”
A Certain Dictatorship in the North
It’s not entirely impossible numbers-wise. The English had colonies set up everywhere and governed them despite never having had a large population. The Sun never sets on the British Empire was what they once said.
But that was a different time, and I really don’t see North Korea being able to do that in modern times without some sort of technology that no one else had or could use as efficiently.
3 nukes on north korea and its gg – .- where the fk would they work up the courage to go out and try to fuck up the world with out a revival of the soviet russia or the backing of china? and beside invading armies usually lose as their ships would be detected and defenses would be mobilized and once they land on the beaches its spray and pray from their on in 🙂
LOL if china been the enemy they would over run half the world before their stopped
and now their to scared to call it any Asian country ROFL
Still does sound like a fun game may get it lol
China would have been more believable storyline. North Korea couldn’t touch the US.
Why fear China throwing a fit. Fallout 3 pulled one of China.
The graphics looks kinda old.
You’re whining about japan pussing out over the same thing america pussed out over?
We pussed out instead of calling out china because of it’s political connections to america…now japans pussing out for the korean population…
So how is japan the bigger coward when they’re equal?
The media of all sorts have played on war scenarios between conflicting nations for decades. War games constructed by the military both sides often choose the other as the adversary in exercise. So why can’t this game be untainted? Japan has seriously become more submissive than any dog.
Battlefield 2 already displayed China as an adversary in a non-nuclear WWIII scenario. Though to avoid backlash from any particular country of the middle east, they renamed another faction the Middle East Coalition.
I think the game’s creator could have succeeded in avoiding such tension by just naming the adversary the East Asian Coalition.
Man, what spinelessness. Japan sucks now.
Lol’d hard at plot. Alien invasion would be more realistic than this.
Just import the Singaporean/Hong Kong NTSC-J edition. Problem solved.
South Korean here. Homefront is the ‘WTF game’ in the PC room community.
Weird fact – The biggest public teachers’ union in South Korea is in fact pro-DPRK.
Forgive my ignorance, but…
…I didn’t know Japanese people played FPS. From all the Xbox bashing & western barbarian “gaijin” name calling, I thought they weren’t really into this kind of games.
The story surprising makes alot of sense.
A reunified Korea full of warmongers which doesn’t have to be a crappy communist state any more. 20 years in the future and they invade the new failed state: USA which has no more effective army.
The story does make sense, you just have to ignore the fact it pissed the fan-boys off that America could ever be invaded.
The story goes:
1. North Korea occupies South Korea and Japan. It suddenly become powerful in economy, military, and technology in the world.
2. North Korea invades China and then South East Asia.
3. North Korea invades USA that has a collapsed government and society.
The story really makes sense.
are idiots really arguing the plausibility of a plot of a FUCKING VIDEO GAME? am i really reading this shit?
Im looking forward to this game. I to dont believe North Korea can rule the world, but who cares to be honest. Just be happy it isn’t reality.
please realize that “modern Japanese person” and “courage” tend to not go hand in hand.
Hm sounds like fun, and damn I hate controversy we have all these games that show Americans killing each other but noooo if we put some other race in it they take it as an offense and start hating on it. Its freaking fiction its not like they will ever actually take control. *sigh*
Funny how no one complained when the whole Fallout series put China as the main enemy.
I mean you get a bloody 20 metre tall robot, throwing nukes like footballs and spouting anti-communist propaganda and promoting the idea of eradicating the “red” Chinese off of American soil. The game even has Chinese modders working on it.So what’s the deal with this sudden political correctness faggotry? -.-
Yeah, in Fallout 3 they took out the mininukes, and the mission to detonate the bomb in Megaton is gone.
In Japan they took the nukes out of Fallout.
“they changed it to North Korea out of fear of China throwing another fit.”
You make me laugh.
if gaming companies want to make a fortune on the world-wide market, let them make a game where the player is to “bring democracy” to america, festively blowing it up into tiny little pieces along the way. I’d buy 3 copies and a console just to play that.
“However, the existence of plenty of games featuring the USA as cruel opponents”
SHOW ME! Show me the unearthly plentiness of those anti-USA games. I beg you!
I am just waiting for the China unofficial mods to pop up. North Korea being the antagonist is just way too silly.
Sounds like code geass… but without gundams!!
I don’t think its cowardice, but rather being sensible. There’s no reason to antagonize the DPRK like this when relations are dicy at it is. As mentioned before, the probability of the DPRK being able to occupy the US is extremely slim, and the prereqs the backstory mentions are even slimmer. It would have been better to just make it a generic country, for both believability and to avoid expensive embarassments like this.
In real life North Korea would be curbstomped by US, Europe, Australia, and the rest of asia should they do anything stupid.
So the Japanese version of Crysis (PC) didn’t have Koreans as the enemy? I thought Crysis really was released in Japan.
Sounds like the movie(book) Tomorrow, When the War Began
An asian country taking over
Australians, who the fuck cares?
Why can’t we have a game in which US is the bad guy for once ?
We eurofags/asiafags need to have our fun too
I’m bored to kill nazis every times
Them denizens want to have the pleasure of “North Korean” as they’re kill targets, not “some uptight hicks from the North” title.
Oh ffffss, the only selling point of this game was the way an unlikely invasion would happen under a prediction that relies on Americas’ economic decline being an advantage even for North Korea. timeline within the game and the perspective of America being invaded. The timeline is as follows:
2010: The South Korean corvette ROKS Cheonan was sunk by North Korea.
2011: North Korea faces another UN sanction over its latest nuclear test.
2012: Kim Jong-il passes away, succeeded by his son Kim Jong-un.
2013: Kim Jong-un is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and featured on the cover of Time magazine for his accomplishment of Korean reunification.
2014: American military withdraws from the Korean Peninsula. A major US auto maker declares bankrupty for the second time.
2015: The effects of peak oil are felt as gas prices reach up to 20 dollars a gallon. Survivalist literature becomes best seller. China’s influences diminishes.
2016: America withdraws its military from Japan and overseas, focusing on its instability back home. Texas separatism begins, border bloodshed takes place as refugees from other states attempt to enter the southern state.
2017: Martial law is declared in the United States as its infrastructure crumbles due financial difficulties.
2018: Korea occupies Japan. The UN is powerless to act.
2019: The UN is defunct.
2020: Canada closes its borders to Americans.
2021: Korean forces succeeded in annexing the countries of Malaysia, Brunei,Burma, Indonesia, Phillipines, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. A new pandemic known as the Knoxville Cough begins to spread in the United States.
2022: Mexico closes its borders to Americans.
2023: The new flu ravages the American public. The Korean People’s Army reaches 20 million.
2024: The Greater Korean Republic starts launching their own satellites, claiming to replace the collapsing GPS system originally launched by America.
2025: A Korean satellite decimates the American power grid through the use of EMP. This is followed by the Korean seizure of Hawaii and landings in San Francisco.
2026: The United States is split into two as Korean occupiers irradiate the entire Mississippi River and occupies the Western side.
2027: Homefront takes place.
Why the biggest growing power in the world would attack a decaying half dead country in the brink of civil war, only the writers know. Glad I didn’t buy that piece of shit Homeworld, the story doesn’t make any sense.
2022: Mexico closes its borders to Americans.
Lol.
First Russia invades America
Then North Korea invades America
Whos next? Canada invades America!?
Oh god their maple syrup missiles are jamming up our tanks and weapons
Mounties would probably baffle US infantry for about half a second, after which they’d just shoot the fucking horse.
my thoughts exactly
ANd ths war with united korea war in the usa lasted intill thq come up an ending.
personliy i give 89 years top to hell from above.
How the hell did they actually manage to conquer much of Asia in the 1930’s?
CERO didn’t keep Metal Wolf Chaos from depicting the Vice-President of the United States as a crazy dictator type that overthrew the president, forcing him to use an awesome mech to demolish the US military forces…
do they even care? sure i get there hatred towards North Korea, but does that mean it will sell anyhow? I highly doubt it. The publishers made a huge mistake by selling it in Japan. It’s one thing to have Gears of War become a surprise hit, but those surprise hits are few and far in between. Honestly, even if they did leave in the North Korean themes in the game, it would probably sell poor as with Mass Effect 2.
Why would North Koreans care about this game? The ones who aren’t in North Korea know that its one of the worst places to live in the world and the ones who still are in NK aren’t going to have a chance to play games any time soon.
They pitched a fit about Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and Ghost Recon 2 as well though.
Something about painting them in a bad light.
As if their own actions do not do this as well, only by a factor of 10.
North Koreans would never hear of this game anyways because of censorship.
The North Koreans in Japan go to special schools and are brainwashed to think it is a worker’s paradise or something.
Could you remind me why are North Koreans in Japan again, please? No really…
WHY ARE THEY THERE?!
To send the trinkets of decadent capitalism back to DEAR LEADER as TRIBUTE!!!
North Korea invade US story is ridiculous. At least give the invaders a fighting chance. It won’t be an interesting story if the invaders get wiped out, at sea on their way to America. The only way they could make this story interesting is either to simply rename both countries into fictional names or to give North Korea a technological boost far beyond that of the USA
I believe on the games website, there’s a trailer about how that NK acquired an EMP and detonated it above the US. Combined with America in an economic recession and loss of communication it allowed NK to invade.
Which is still ridiculous. Unless they pull something out of their ass like Americans are so fat they couldn’t fit inside their tanks/aircraft/fit their fingers inside the trigger guards, even the most American hating Al Qaeda terrorist would just laugh at the idea.
Well, we’re talking about a country that forbids explicit genitalia content, right?
North Korea Invades China and USA: Yep, you know the game is crap already… talk about plot hole… Like NK can invade two big powers.
I think China would be more insulted by the notion that North Korea could conquer it than with the idea that it might attack the US…
Where does it actually say that China was invaded by Korea? I never got that from any of the trailers or material. Japas surrendered and the Philipines, but where was China mentioned?
“In 2014 China’s influence diminishes” – Which is code word for “they are crap now”. The makers didnt want to upset the Chinese with a game where NK invades their country, so instead they made their country not worth invading… which I would assume its worst.
Japan, make gundams…
…the pilots will come
please use Sweden as a country that dominates the world. We wouldn’t mind at all ;-P
caramelldansen mania and they’re Swedes too
No way they are just little bitch just nuke em and they are finished but China got a big chunk of land and a real BIG FAT ASS BITCH is difficult to Nuke em.
You DO realize how many nukes the US has, right?
Madness? this is MANKIND
Except China’s nukes fall apart before they’re even launched.
Are we firing them at eachother then?! Madness!
You DO realize how many nukes China has right?
I would actually be impressed if the Swiss took over their world.
Who knows what terrible war machines they are coming up with in their alpine citadels?
They already have. The superweapon of the Swiss is the Bank and Finance industry. 🙂
I’ll go check this week end
Swiss stuff would not breakdown in action their stuff is very well made.
guys Sweden=/= swiss
one is up north with norway (where the vikings where) the other is mister neutrality, and is already taking over the world with its finances and banks already, the others are just bidding their time….
WTF?! China is the real Invader, although North Korea is just a Bully I don’t think they have the guts to rule the world. China is one who claiming almost all the sea faring region in the china sea filled with oil and land including Hongkong, Tibet and Taiwan.
Knee jerk reaction much? You act as if China is the only one trying to invade/take over other countries…
Talking of invasion, Artefact are you going to do an article on Russia trying to “claim back” some islands from Japan that they apparently owned during the war? Though I guess you probably won’t since nobody here gives a fuck unless it was either China or Korea instead. Ignorance sure is fun.
No, not China, US.
Considering that all this ‘molehill-into-a-mountain’ politicking is over a game with absolutely no basis in reality (except by names of countries), not a single fuck is given on my part over this matter.
The only beef I have is with what those mealy-mouthed fucks did in the name of political correctness.
And yes, I realize I’m contradicting myself.
welcome to Sankaku the king of sensationalism
the whole premise of the game is halrious to begin with, an invasion on conteantial US is ridiculous it worked in the 80’s because the USSR was a falsifiable military force who had real experience in war, China is not im sorry but China would be decimeated by uncle sam and theres no doubt that good ol Nippon would join in on the fun as would the Russians, historicly China sucks China has always sucked they’v always been an economic whore this paronoria is just stupid not to mention that the American people are armed to the teeth and American military might has yet to wane
good luck faggots
USA USA USA USA USA!
yea uh no u know nothin of warfare so why dont you just stfu and go jerk off at hentai or sumthing.
Its funny theres still ppl believe in warfare being decided by experiences of soldiers…which in reality plays big role in a battle but not in a war.
Can’t believe what a crazy reach all the Chinese governmental whining actually has. Damn shame.
Every US company in this position looking to pursue business in China is likely to be censoring things in the US as a result of these kinds of concerns.
The battle could have been set on a fictitious island in the pacific.
China may be a bully but they are not stupid enough to attack the continental US with an invasion force.
There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass and the supply lines would be impossible to maintain.
They would have nothing gain but everything to loose.
Victory would be remote at best and the attack would reunify the factions in the US and likely the rest of the countries in the Americas against a common enemy.
Casualties for the Chinese would pretty much be 100%.
The only ones who’d survive would be those who desert and go to Mexico to hide.
At least Fallout had them attack Alaska which is harder to defend,has a small population and is resource rich.
Wouldn’t the US just nuke them the moment it looked like they were going to take over China?
The scenario is just pathetic – it would be more credible with aliens or something.
no dumbass the US cannot “just nuke” them because, one, the US are not China, or N.Korea, they’re democrats, which means there are alot alot of regulations and laws about nuclear use, plus they have to be concern about what the public think, to complicate the matter further, They cannot just go around nuking whenever they please. Two, N.Korea have just as much nukes as the US, nuking them while they taking over china (another country that possess nuke) will risk a nuclear war that would threaten to destroy the world for good and three, the US aint exactly friend with china, as you know, and they still own china some 895.6 billion dollars so in many case they might just be happy about it, much less help.
oh, and in regard to how much of a threat N.Korea actually is, they’re the country that “estimated” to be possess the third largest nuclear weaponry in the world (real number believe to be much larger, according to the number of nuclear tests they had been doing recently), their army is the fourth-largest, at an estimated 1.21 million armed personnel, they also has violated and withdraw from the NNPT(Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty)a treaty to limit the spread (proliferation) of nuclear weapons, of which US, Russia and China belong to; what is means is that they can use nuke whenever they fucking wanted.
The only thing that keep them from taking over the world is that their leader is an idiot selfish greedy prick who only care about his own well being, now if that was to change, say his son takeover the command and turn out to be a pure communist leader who wanted “Glories for the homeland” (which is pretty much the setting for the game) and start to seriously invest in warfare technologies and give his soldiers proper military training……we’re pretty much screw. So yeah, they’re potentially very fucking dangerous.
Thinking that just because your country has nuke, you’re invincible is just pure stupidity
@Char
the warthog!!!!!!!!!!! 😮
True the B2s would be all over the place and Russia would get involved no matter what went down.
I also don’t see any invasion of the CONUS even being remotely successful without some sorta wonder weapon as a plot device.
All I seen in the video was canned meat driving around as that’s what they’d be in those type of tanks,APCs, and helicopters.
I call them canned meat because that’s what they’ll be when the can opener comes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCqXbfGEPMI
The plot to this game has the be the most idiotic thing I’ve ever seen.
Even if the main enemy was China the plot is still complete shit.
Censorship (99.9% of the time) runs everything…
Be it anime, manga, games, movies, or even shows on regular channels…
The reasons make for said bans make me lose faith to the rest of humanity who adhere to them because of a bunch of high-ranking, insecure, paranoid, and fossil-faced individuals who made them…
If you’re going to comment, at least know the actual plot. The game is based that both north and south korea become united
Considering what Germany accomplished with they relatively small population in comparison to all that they conquered in WW2, this is very much a believable plot if it’s handled well, and if I remember correctly, it’s written by a published author, popular in this type of genre.
And I love how people are all like ‘the plot’s all this game has.’ It warms my heart to hear people finally admitting that games like this are the same game over and over if they don’t have an engrossing plot. Maybe more people will catch on and realize that good plot and writing is the salvation of games. They should have caught on back when everyone kept saying “This feels like unreal” to every game built on that engine.
a few points:
1st germany wasnt superior in technology (at least in the begining, and later they exteded only in some fields, and ws more of the impresion they cause that an actual difference in the war), they had better commanders and adopted the principle of independent tank division which allow for better movility of it (france instead give tanks to infantry division), france somua or british matilda tanks where actually better than german tanks, and mark III where few and far between (a good example of this read about african campaing before the american weight of production and men took effect (meaning before el alamein)).
Great britain AA guns where at the same level as the germans 88, the difference they never use as an anti tank weapon.
also the maginot line was attacked and breached in a few ours, it was obsole by the time of the war.
to the anon above me, please dont sound like an ignorant and read some books.
Germany did have far more advanced weapons then the countries they managed to overpower many such as the USSR were not ready.
France simply made an incorrect prediction of the future of war and assumed it was going to be like WWI.
The Germans went around the Maginot line.
The weapons used by the NK forces in this game look exactly like the junk Saddam had and we all know how that went down.
@10:26
According to the trailers, the US economy collapses near the end of the 2010s. All US military forces in east Asia are withdrawn. Japan (which has no standing army and are cowards anyway according to this article) gives up in fear of an actual armed confrontation. United Korea then proceeds to take over most of east Asia, most-likely through fear. By 2027, Korea has enough military technology and conscripts to launch an invasion against the US.
The plot is somewhat plausible except the glaring plot hole in the form of China sitting in the middle of the room. A united Korea would get as far as threatening Japan before China puts a stop to it. Then probably invade both countries themselves if the US had pulled out all military forces.
I’m not even going to get into the EMP shooting satellite.
It’s unrealistic in the sense that the United states was fully occupied by an enemy nation. Something I find very hard to believe would happen without the complete nuclear destruction of the U.S. in which case the opposing enemies home country would also probably be smoldering ruins. Or possibly some sort of new civil war where an outside force to advantage of the situation.
Not to say I’m not looking forward to playing this game though.
No, just no. North & South Korea are not at all comparable to Germany. First of all, China would never allow it, and I assure you China is not run by Neville Chamberlains.
This plot is completely ridiculous. Then again, that’s what you have to expect from the CoD crowd. Japan would be better served with more Stalker games.
Germany did´nt accomplished shit, almost all their major wins were against unready enemies, and almost every time they fought against a prepared force they got they ass kicked.
Yupp and its even worse that they were so afraid that they changed it twice…
The plot writer and developers didn’t change it. The publisher did.
A lot of foreigners hate American’s. This isn’t a new concept.
What so its ok for the US to be mentioned in the game but not north korea?
The translators had probably seen the Moe Moe North Korea book, and think the country is full of cute lolis with a lovable Tomoki-esque leader.
Why can’t we have America invade China?
Because americans are the good guys they would never invade another coun…oh wait
They did invade Iraq and said that the Iraqis had weapons of mass destruction, but nobody could find them, except Saddam who’s in his pajama.
so what was the benefit for america?, destruction of irak infrastracture, terrorist cells, weak government, a lot of dead irakis, what was the benefit for irak? o yeah take down a dictator (something the could have done WHEN THEY INVANDED THE FIRST FUCKING TIME, but they didnt….)
I aint gonna complain, it got rid of Saddam.
This was the most epic comment ever. +10
Well the certain northern country of Canada just invaded USA, and as we know Canada would never invade another country without being invited in first.
An inverse relation with reality, sort of like how Canada perceives itself as being liked by most of the world.
What’s this aboot eh???
I thought Canadian’s only had torches and pitchforks which would explain how they managed to burn down the white house.
too bad Canada’s already burned down the white house. Just sayin bros.
That actually makes it hilarious, you’re fighting Canadians!
This is the perfect opportunity for people to imagine Canada as the new threat to the world! Think about it…
OT: Japan seriously needs to stop bending over to people like this. It’s just a video game for goodness’ sake!!
[quote]The enemy was originally supposed to be China, [b]but the American publisher apparently proved rather yellow themselves – they changed it to North Korea[/b] out of fear of China throwing another fit.[/quote]
perhaps they changed it because it was “made in china”? hmm?
that’s ’cause they don’t want to piss china off…
they fuckin’ own the U.S. now anyway…
ah, everywhere you look, everybody’s acting like nothing but a bunch of little bitches, and not even the good kind either…
well that is true…. but big china would own small china
just goes to show how many the chinese are lol
When you are strong, you are the bitch. If you look at history, US was the bitch. It’s PRC’s turn to be the bitch now. Please, stop using China, there are two China. The bitch and the small island country.
Probably Americans have no balls at all like their president is been play by that China quality pianist who play a theme deemed to insult US.
yep they got no balls musta lost it when they went all over the place being shitheads
If guns are outlawed, then only outlaws would have guns.
He probably found out later, just like you would have had you been in his position. It’s not really his job to know every spiteful folk song from every twisted nation that hates the US (more numerous now thanks to ole GW).
Although he prolly got it from a more reputable source than Sankaku Complex.
oh, you couldn’t fuck it up any worse that what the current clown is doing…
he’s a shining example of why american citizens have guns…
Did the president even know he was hearing a song of insult?
If I were the president and had been made aware, I would have said something like “what a lackluster performance, I would have used Miku at least”.
Then again… that’s why I’m not the prez of a nation… I guess.
i am piss hearing this from the japs jesus i feel like shooting every damn japs
It’s a clusterfuck of cowardice all around.
‘China invades US’ would have made a interesting game, using NK as a placeholder is absurd, and disrespectful to both the original writers and the US military.
Japan is just gilding the lily on this one.
They should have did America invading the world and you are one of the Resistance battling the invaders. Later, you could be detained as a war criminal, but then you break out Wolfenstein style and wage war once more.
Shame that the game industry and the idea of what gaming consumers want is based on the US, for it means that in 90% of wargames you “get” to fight for the American imperialist cause.
How very tea party of you to think that anyone against the American imperialist hegemony is “a liberal”. There is more to the world and to politics than the US and its silly political parties.
Also the British Empire lay in ruins, so no point talking to them.
I like playing as the bad guys, so fighting for the U.S. works out.
awww whats that you dont like how uncle sam opperates booooo hooooo…..please give me a break you dont know jack shit about imperialism go talk to the Britts
bad guys my ass…we’re not perfect far from it but bad guys? i think not
pretentious liberal hipster fuck
That’s just one hell of a cowardry.
I hate such stuff. Don’t go join a gam group if you can’t handle it, mofo. Gaming isn’t a club!
>:V
This is Advanced D&D. ADVANCED!
not gonna be a popular game 100% guarantee
It’s ridiculous to think North Korea as being able to occupy the majority of asia and then invade the US. China, I could buy, not North Korea. So any plausibility of the plot is immediately compromised right there.
It kinda is believable. Hitler proved it. Took over a country while he was in jail, then took over damn near all of Europe. Jong-il could do so too kinda not really. Only hitler can do that, cause it’s Hitler.
and because, deutschland had better technology, industrial strength, a good population of 60M (given time), allies, weak/no opposition, nice cool looking uniforms and quality weapons. neither north-korea or china have all of that
They also completely forgot about the EU and India.
India actually has a fairly capable navy which in someways is better equipped to project power then the PLA Navy.
The North Koreans would have to fight the Indian Navy to conquer Malaysia and Indonesia.
Of course the EU would get involved as well.
The EU collectively may be as powerful as the present US in conventional warfare.
Even with China they may never leave the region.
You would have to watch the “World of Homefront” trailer on the main site to see how they get to that point. It would explain how this situation would be more plausible. It’s a more “What if North Korea unified with South Korea which gave them the economic and advanced military power” situation.
lets see… NK has crap economy and in total war with china or south would be completely annihilated in zerg vs more zergs scenario.
the SK is somewhat significant economically because of US support and money all those decades, it could win NK but against China or without US support, not a slightest chance.
lets also consider the fact the korea has no military history, isolated people that lived like aborigines until japanese occupation in the XX century…
Exactly. Zerg vs more Zerg scenario, and SK has Jaedong 😉
~”and to This Day” has not yet recovered! Because of the lack of spending %20 percent of their GDP on Military needs, they like all of eurotrash-land have poured it all into their socialism fantasy land AND NOW are suffering economic Melt Downs. UK – frency – spain – etc. are bleeding RED INK without stopping.
Economic Melt Downs, caused by a certain nation’s lack of faith in proper Oversight of their businesses.
Because bless the Holy Market and the Suits who are the Apostles for they will bring forth wealth and prosperity. Course, they then forget to tell folks the small print, namely: only for themselves.
You Yanks are silly like that, you distrust your own government more than you distrust Big Business who’d like nothing more than to have the lot of you working as indentured servants again.
The song Sixteen Tons (to name but one example) wasn’t just fantasy, it was the way of life for a lot of folks, until those Pinko Commie Unions helped put a stop to it.
But you just wave your little flag, and hate on others and console yourself with the idea that this makes you so superior. There will come a time when Karoshi becomes as standard in the US as it’s in Japan, but whereas in Japan it’s an issue of misused feelings of loyalty.
In the US it’ll simply be an issue of trying to survive, paying for the roof over your head and putting food on the table and that being the only way to do so.
Not sure who to feel more sorry for, to be honest. The one betrayed, or the one who has chosen blind ignorance as his way of life.
Watched it and couldn’t stop LAUGHING! What happened when W & E Germany united? W got caught in the CRIPPLING Debt and Destroyed infrastructure of the E and to This Day~ We know how nk is now as well as china. They be both FUCKED because nk destroyed its economy and china is pissing off its population who’ve grown to know what its like outside now.
FF and monster hunter aren’t realistic, but they are credible, in their own paradigms.
That, isn’t.
This fucked up scenario would have been plausible if had they build up the story of Homefront’s world as far back as WWI or WWII…
Then, maybe they could have had a chance of Japan destroying much of China and the US defeating Japan still. That could set precedent to Korea being…
Oh, I give up.. this is just some excuse to justify the creation of another shooter.
The concept of North Korea taking over much of the United States, Japan and other countries is completely absurd, even given the game’s suggestion that the US was already weakened by disease and internal instability.
Them changing the aggressor to a vaguely defined “Northern Country” in the translation at least makes the scenario somewhat more believable. I’d rather they did something similar for the western release.
The plot sounds something like a Teaparty rightwing nut ranting:”If those damn lie-berals let the godless communists do as they liek, soon they’ll be at our doorstep, invadin’ us.”
You know, I hate to point this out… But it’s a game. It’s like saying Final Fantasy/Monster Hunter/what-have-you is unrealistic. The point of the game is to make a scenario plausible. Even if it’s the most ridicules story you’ve heard.
How a unified Korea with 70 million people would overpower the neighbouring 1.5 billion people and then sail around the world to conquer a further 320 million gun crazed Americans instantly destroys the credibility of even the most generous “great general unifies the land” scenario.
Really it just doesn’t work without China – had their feted author tried this with “Red Dawn” and “Apocalypse Now” I rather doubt his reputation would be intact…
Safe to assume various nations would have stepped in before that ever happens.
But totally plausible in an alternate universe :3
You forgot “Peak Oil”…
I enjoyed Milius work on ‘Red Dawn’ but this “EMP” magic bomb tickled me to death.
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That goes along with Global Freezing[’70s], DDT[’70s], Population Explosion[’70s], Nuclear detonations[’80s], acid rain[’80s], Freon ozone horrors[’90s] and gowbal wamings[’90s]as the new monster in the closet of the libertard fantasy.
with a moding community, china will be written back in, but to preserve all the voice data, korea will be a china alli and they will be the invading force, because lets be honest, china has more people, but america has far more tech, hell we are getting close to snipers that can aim themselves.
With those shit tanks and helicopters they could not even invade South Korea.
Even with China the plot would not work like that.
There’s holes in that plot you could fly a star destroyer through.
For it to even be remotely plausible some sorta wonder weapon that could down ICBMs and a Chinese and Russian Alliance would be necessary.
The EMP weapon would have only sealed the fate of the attackers as it would cause a full nuclear response from the US.
Plus a single device in LEO would not do much damage and military systems tend to be hardened.
Invasion of CONUS would be pretty much suicide and no one is that stupid so the setting would have to happen somewhere like Alaska or Hawaii.
i give some credit to china, they have people, who are brain washed.
they have a competent enough military to stage an attack.
an ak47, while may not be the best weapon, is a good all rounder for any given situation, and can be bought extremely cheap.
you could probably get 1-150 paratrooper in a plain, get 10 of them and you have 1000-1500 people on ground almost, especially if its a non military area.
and lets be honest, a rail gun is REALLY easy to build. however accuracy at a distance is what we go for, if they just want to hit america, they dont need accuracy.
if china wanted to piss us off, they easily could put up a fight. they have numbers, we have tech. and tech can thin numbers fairly fast.
And America already DETONATED a low orbit NUCLEAR BOMB back in the ’70s! To see how it would effect the ships and land bases. People in Hawaii could even see the explosion! Guess what happened~ NOTHING! Facts are a bitch aint it?
Keep in mind that was a 1.44MT nuke and it’s EMP effects were limited.
Interestingly it also suggests an Orion pulsed nuclear propulsion vehicle may not be so disruptive after all as it uses tiny sub 1KT bombs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29
Don’t think he’s interested in facts, Artefact.
After all, he seems to think that DDT is harmless to humans as well.
“The Starfish Prime electromagnetic pulse also made those effects known to the public by causing electrical damage in Hawaii, about 1,445 kilometres (898 mi) away from the detonation point, knocking out about 300 streetlights, setting off numerous burglar alarms and damaging a telephone company microwave link. The EMP-damaged microwave link shut down telephone calls from Kauai to the other Hawaiian islands.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime
I like that Star Destroyer metaphor.
Just another Fps that will die fast under the next CoD, they aint missing out on anything other than killing koreans.
I don’t know if the koreans should be delighted or butthurt about this.
Yes, the game’s about killing Koreans, but meanwhile they’re the strongest empire on earth (referring to the game of course.)
I certainly do not want this version of Homefront. Stupid censorship.
Aside of the fact, that someone was bored at scenario scripts creation room, I don’t see anything wrong with that move from Japanese side.
I mean, that’s pretty politically correct.
Which is good, seeing how ‘some’ of the nations from Asia cultivate the sport of blantant meat throwing on everyone around that doesn’t wear same shirts.
Sure it might not be the boldest and bravest move…but it doesn’t put them on same level with other socially introverted imbeciles that manage foreign relations on the block.
Nor Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Who cares? All of them are the same, and since they are yellow, they are below white man in the evolutionary scale 😉
Communism is going to end some day but not anywhere near now.
It’s bot like North Korea would have shit on the US anyway, even with the EMP attack supposedly in the plot. And no China? Oh well, I guess we’ll have to make do with Russians, Muslim terrorists and Nazis for our bad guys.
So, now japs are also spineless.
I don’t get why it couldn’t have been China – it’s not like it’s an unprecedented idea in gaming. Fallout’s universe has the war against the Chinese. It’s actually much more plausible than the beleaguered North Korea anyway…
More probable than Russia invading US in MW2 =/
I didn’t know about that.
All I’m going to say is this: FUCK North Korea!