Kim Jung Il Left Out of Japanese Homefront

[Vykrel]

thats ridiculous. the story is BASED on North Korea, Japan and other asian countries invading the US. without NK mentioned, it just ruins the whole plot

i dont remember Russia complaining about the movie SALT. seems like basically the same thing to me

its fiction, people

 

[brainslurper]

I Could see why they would do this. To Japan, N. Korea is a much bigger threat then it is to the US, and most US citizens dont see the gravity and magnitude that the country's rather... eccentric... actions has on countries closer to it.

One man's joke is another man's serious business.

america has so much militaristic presence in south korea that north korea cant really do much. problem is, if they did, then wed have to invade another country we shouldn't be involved in. and that would make us look baaad

 

[Mrsoupcup]

...he will be the ruler of "A Certain Country to the North".

So... Canada?

For the Glorious Peoples Republic ehhh!!!!

 

[Asuka Soryu]

...he will be the ruler of "A Certain Country to the North".

So... Canada?

Damnit! I knew a Canadian invasion was inevitable!

To the syrup-proof bunker!

Reminds me of that time you Yanks tryed to take over Canada.



Wait... American's can fit into bunker's? Must be pretty big bunkers.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

As many others have no doubt said elsewhere, I too find it amusing that they have problems name-dropping a real life dictator, but are tots cool with graphically depicting a teenaged girl getting all of her orifices stuffed with gooey tentacles. Oh well.

As far as it being "realistic" goes, I've sat through less likely scenarios in movies and games before. Plus I'm still holding out some mild hope that the in-game fiction does a better job of explaining the invasion than their PR and trailers do.

Tentacle porn came from Japan's rule against showing genitalia.

 

[icyneesan]

...he will be the ruler of "A Certain Country to the North".

So... Canada?

Oh man a FPS about Canada invading the US would be so awesome

 

[Soviet Heavy]

...he will be the ruler of "A Certain Country to the North".

So... Canada?

Canada invading the US would make my day. We oop north would force the Americans to drink our maple syrup.

 

[reciprocal]

"A Certain Western Superpower?"

Sounds like some kind of anime. That country probably has railguns.

Also, what exactly are the CERO guidelines depicting living people and real countries?

That and Magical Indexes (you beat me to the railguns). Detecting a pattern here, eh?

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Thats like making a World War 2 game/movie and replacing all mentions of Nazis and Hitler to Puppies and Chocolate.

Don't they already do that in Germany?

No, in Germany, they replace the Swastika with a three pronged triangle, set the Nazis in space, call them Helghast, and name the game Killzone.

I'm surprised that Guerilla Games (A German developer no less) was able to get away with it.

 

[Mortons4ck]

Not a huge surprise. Since when has Japan ever acknowledged the Koreans [http://www.uchinanchu.org/about/comfort_women_press_release.htm]?

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

This game is set in the "near future," yes? Then it's totally Alaska. The state splinters off from the U.S. and uses its dog sleds to overcome the entire U.S. military. And because Alaska can see Russia, taking over Asia was (somehow) a breeze. And the Iditarod? Really just one big reconnaissance mission. All of which was funded through saved up loans and past funding stored under a bunch of mattresses. Wait, why does this now sounds more entertaining...

Jokes aside, I can see how Japan would want to lessen what could be perceived as "flagrantly anti-North Korean propaganda!" After all, look at the country we're dealing with here. Personally, I don't see a "Country of the North" or whatever they want to call it as much of a distraction.

I would take that more seriously than North Korea, so count me in the group that would find China more believable of an adversary.

 

[6unn3r]

Err...right? Ok whatever, glad that we dont have crazy censors in the UK who do this kind of thing....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2006/aug/21/timetosmokeoutthiscrazyc

oh wait a minute.

 

[Loonerinoes]

Eh...so much for the whole "We're not doing a game about actual events, this is liek...totally theoretical!" argument from the developer. If you reference people who exist as of right now, you will be treated in such a manner too on one level or another around the globe.

Still silly policy. But I suppose it's probably that whole repression thing from the Japanese culture that makes little sense to Westerners, like censoring private parts in hentai. If you practically have everything given to you by the context of the product, why not just throw in the core and call it what it is? Everyone that experiences will, no matter if you name your fictional country "Bavaria" or just plain "Germany".

 

[duchaked]

...he will be the ruler of "A Certain Country to the North".

So... Canada?

...ooooh good one! lol dang shoulda built that wall up at the unprotected US/Canada border instead of down with Mexico!

I wil laugh if they do all this and he dies the day before the release in Japan.

man I would too...as bad as it would be hahaha

funny how the Japanese are like "nooo!" to this while they're totally chill with a sex'd up culture (little girl fetish) that makes the U.S. go "erm..."
gotta love culture!

 

[MadCapMunchkin]

...he will be the ruler of "A Certain Country to the North".

So... Canada?

Canada was secretly North Korea all along.

Those cunning devils!

 

[felixader]

Homefront being a game concerned with North Korea's invasion of the United States after the death of Kim Jung Il

You've gotta be kidding me... This is a million times more ridiculous than the Modern Warfare II plot.

Look, if you americans are so keen on being invaded, please stick to the aliens. That is a thousand times more plausible than the Russia or North Korea scenario.

There is also a part in that scenario where a worldwide Financial Crisis has made big damage.

 

[Exort]

And yet rape games are allowed.

I maintain there is a minimum level of drugs that must be present in your system before you are allowed into Japanese politics and lawmaking.

Because those aren't real live event (shown in games)?

Homefront being a game concerned with North Korea's invasion of the United States after the death of Kim Jung Il

You've gotta be kidding me... This is a million times more ridiculous than the Modern Warfare II plot.

Look, if you americans are so keen on being invaded, please stick to the aliens. That is a thousand times more plausible than the Russia or North Korea scenario.

they explain it in logical steps

Ah, I see. So the North Koreans have allied themselves with the aliens and are using their advanced technology to infiltrate the U.S.?
I guess that would make sense. I see no other way how one of the piss-poorest nations on this planet could otherwise get even a single troop carrier over the pacific without hitting an iceberg on the way.

They use a space station to launch a massive EMP wave on America.
Also in the game they are not a piss poor country, they unit the whole asia.

 

[tomtom94]

And yet rape games are allowed.

I maintain there is a minimum level of drugs that must be present in your system before you are allowed into Japanese politics and lawmaking.

Because those aren't real live event (shown in games)?

There's a difference between libelling someone's name and encouraging interactive rape.

EDIT: What I'm saying is the former is better than the latter, yet the latter is allowed and the former is not.