Dr. McD said:
Blind Sight said:
Yes, because alternative history is always politically motivated. Clearly Harry Turtledove both supports slavery and is a Nazi for writing novels where the Confederacy and the Third Reich won their respective wars.
But this ISN'T alternate history, and even North Korea's nukes wouldn't be enough to allow the country's military to even GET to American soil to invade anyway, and how does the "Greater Korean Republic" even have enough soldiers in the other countries to even keep a heavy enough military presence in nearly every fucking country in Europe and Asia to keep them from fighting back WHILE STILL BEING ABLE TO INVADE AMERICA?!
The creators could have tried a story about another country being invaded for once but instead they went with what everyone else was doing.
Even without the "neo-con" in "masturbatory neo-con bullshit" you still have the "masturbatory" and "bullshit" and the sheer amount of it is enough to make George Lucas blush.
Honestly, I'm really getting sick of this 'it's unrealistic' argument. What games do you play? Are they absolutely accurate to the political atmosphere of the modern day? Of course not. I could pick apart any game sent it in the modern or near future on this premise. It's called fiction for a reason, it doesn't always have to be realistic. Also, you're completely ignoring major plot elements as well, such as the use of strontium to poison the Mississipi (which would severely damaged America IN REALITY, since that seems to be your obsession) or the use of the EMP. Also, North and South Korea have two of the largest armies in the world by U.N. estimates, and the industrial capacities of Japan would help as well. I personally still don't think it's a realistic scenario, but I'm willing to suspend my disbelief to have a little fun, not nitpick every detail to death. If I nitpicked games, I'd never actually enjoy myself.
Also, I find it hilarious that people call it 'masturbatory bullshit', and it's clear they're only doing so because it's American. If a Canadian developer, such as, say, Relic, made a game about resistance fighting in Canada against a foe, such as, say, the Somalis, no one would call it that. It just shows the classic anti-American attitude some people have. Hell, no one seems to even notice the fact that all the things that occur to the Americans in this game, such as the slave camps and mass graves, ARE OCCURING IN NORTH KOREA RIGHT NOW. This game could serve to spread awareness over these issues, because showing Americans these events happening in their own backyard puts it into perspective. Milius did exactly this in his movie Red Dawn in the 1980s for the mujahideen in Afghanistan, by replacing Afghani teenagers in Kandahar with American teenagers in Colorado. It's set in America because the audience for the game would be primarily American to begin with it, it allows them to see current events in a context they understand. If anything, this game could actually be trying to make American gamers more aware of international events.
Where did you get the full plot details for the game? Have you played it yet? Of course not, so everything so far (including my own comments) are assumptions.